Laura Lahtinen Smashes Finnish Record En Route To 100 Fly Victory – 55.58

2024 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP-SHANGHAI

• Friday, October 18th – Sunday, October 20th
• Shanghai, China
• Prelims at 9:30 am local (9:30 pm ET previous night)/Finals at 6:30 pm local (6:30 am ET)
• SCM (25m)
• Meet Central
• Event Schedule
• Entries Book
• Day 1 Prelims/Day 1 Finals
• Day 2 Prelims/Day 2 Finals
• Day 3 Finals
• Live Results

The women’s 100m butterfly was among the final night’s events at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup stop in Shanghai, China.

21-year-old Laura Lahtinen pulled off the mild upset, getting to the wall in a time of 55.58 for a huge new lifetime best and Finnish national record.

China’s Yu Yiting settled for silver less than half a second back this evening and in the only other sub-56-second effort of the field. Yu produced 55.94 for silver and Sweden’s Louise Hansson also landed on the podium in 56.07 for bronze.

This morning, Lahtinen turned in a time of 55.82, crushing her previous Finnish standard of 56.88 turned in during the heats of the 2022 Short Course World Championships.

Tonight, the Olympian split 12.06/14.09/14.36/15.07 to get under the 56-second threshold for the 2nd time of her career, posting 55.58. That positions Lahtinen just outside the list of top 20 performers of all time in this event.

WOMEN’S 100 FLY – FINAL

• World Record: 54.05 – Maggie MacNeil (CAN), 2022
• World Cup Record: 54.78 – Maggie MacNeil (CAN), 2022
• World Junior Record: 55.39 – Claire Curzan (USA), 2021

GOLD – Laura Lahtinen (FIN), 55.58
SILVER – Yu Yiting (CHN), 55.94
BRONZE – Louise Hansson (SWE), 56.07

Lahtinen already earned 200m fly bronze last night, establishing a new Finnish record of 2:03.13 in that longer event.