Torri Huske on Bouncing Back from COVID to Make World Champs Team

2022 U.S. WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TRIALS

Reported by Anne Lepesant.

WOMEN’S 100 METER BUTTERFLY – FINALS

  • World Record: 55.48 – Sarah Sjostrom (2016)
  • American Record: 55.66 – Torri Huske (2021)
  • US Open Record: 55.66 – Torri Huske (2021)
  • Jr World Record: 56.46 – Penny Oleksiak (2016)
  • FINA “A” Cut: 58.33
  • SwimSwam Preview – W100 Fly

Podium:

  1. Torri Huske, Unattached – 56.28
  2. Claire Curzan, TAC Titans – 56.35
  3. Kelsi Dahlia, Cardinal Aquatics – 57.58
  4. Kate Douglass, Virginia – 58.14
  5. Gabi Albiero, University of Louisville – 58.25
  6. Beata Nelson, Wisconsin Aquatics – 58.34
  7. Natalie Hinds, Unattached – 58.45
  8. Emma Sticklen, Texas – 58.86

In a repeat of the 2020 Olympic Trials final, Torri Huske and Claire Curzan went 1-2 in the 100 fly to qualify for the U.S. squad in their signature event. This year’s finish was much closer than at Trials last summer, with Huske winning by a mere .07 with 56.28.

Curzan led at the halfway mark, turning in 26.24, sixteen-hundredths ahead of Huske. Huske finished in 29.88, though, outsplitting Curzan by .23 over the second half of the race.

Splits:

Huske – 26.40/29.88
Curzan – 26.24/30.11

Kelsi Dahlia led the next wave of finishers, running about a body length behind the leaders. Dahlia stopped the clock at 57.58, finishing half a second in front of Kate Douglass (58.14).

At this point in the 2021-22 season, Huske and Curzan rank second and third in the world, with only Zhang Yufei going faster – a 56.24 from September.

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