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Women’s 100 butterfly – Swimming News REPORTED BY JARED ANDERSON

Canadian Katerine Savard continued her domination from the prelims, finished as the only butterflyer under 59 for the second time today. Savard went 58.50, a few tenths faster than her dominant prelims effort, to take the win. Fellow Canadian Audrey Lacroix took second in 59.27, moving up to pass American Olympian Claire Donahue, who took third in 59.60.

Fourth was 15-year-old Lauren Case of Chattahoochee. She dropped nearly another second to go 1:00.37, ahead of a pair of big names: Amanda Kendall, coming out of retirement with T2 Aquatics, and SwimMAC’s Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace.

18-year-old Sara Joo, another member of a tough Hungarian contingent at this meet, won the B final in 1:02.06, touching out another Hungarian, Eszter Darra by just .11.

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About Gold Medal Mel Stewart

Gold Medal Mel Stewart

MEL STEWART Jr., aka Gold Medal Mel, won three Olympic medals at the 1992 Olympic Games. Mel's best event was the 200 butterfly. He is a former World, American, and NCAA Record holder in the 200 butterfly. As a writer/producer and sports columnist, Mel has contributed to Yahoo Sports, Universal Sports, …

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