Torri Huske finished 4th in the 100 fly at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. A year later, she won the world title in the same event. At the next year’s world championships after taking on an extreme course load at Stanford, still managed a bronze in the event. And finally, in Paris, Huske topped the podium once again… plus much, much more.
It’s no exaggeration to say the Paris Olympics was Torri’s best international competition to date. Not only did she score gold in the 100 fly (55.5), but she also won silver in the 100 free (52.2) and as a part of the 400 free relay (52.0) as well as gold in the mixed 400 medley relay (Free, 51.8) and 400 medley relay (Free, 52.4). Huske breaks down the training she did leading into the Games, how her less-than-ideal experience last summer helped her learn moving into this year, and what she did to improve her relay starts.
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Torri anchored both the Mixed 4×100 Medley Relay and World record-breaking 4×100 medley relay. In the mixed she swam 51:88 an incredible swim to hold of China. In the women’s medley Regan Smith led off with the Olympic record for the 100 back! That race also sealed the US overall medal win over Australia.
What I would like to know what does she think when she looks back at those races, videos and wild crazy on-deck celebrations. The camera is capturing the other 3 swimmers and incredible joy and accomplishment while Torri is coughing up a lung hanging on to the side of the pool after delivering two great performances. I kept thinking – hello there is a 4th… Read more »
Great interview. Torri made a great decision to redshirt and go all in with her training for the Olympics. The results speak for themselves. I hope she has an amazing season this year. She is such a bright and kind young woman.
So proud of her! Has improved a lot these past few years!
I’m really surprised that Torri Huske is still getting a lot of hate in the comments section after her stellar meet in Paris.
She was honest about her failures at last year’s World Championships, and put in the hard work necessary to set herself up for huge meet in Paris. What more can you ask of her?
shes getting no hate….her relay starts are improved, not good. And shes swimming great. Where do you see hate?
Her relay starts are now average
Her swimming is best in world
She’s a top 5 swimmer in world. Not best in world.
But her relay exchanges are not good enough for DIII championships
Best in the world?….is this her mom or dad talking?
she won gold in an individual event…makes a strong claim to be best in world…how would you quantify it?
Summer won 3
Torri had an incredible Olympic Games. She crushed it in the 100 fly and was outstanding in the 100 free
I have tremendous respect for Torri addressing her weakness in her relay starts. USA swimming needs athletes to be able to compete in relays. Torri’s relay exchanges hurt her. Massive respect to address it.
She still has some work to do. 52.2 flat start should be 50.9-51.5 flying start. Hopefully, she will continue to work on this and reach her full potential come LA ’28. I’d love to see America reclaim the top of to podium in all relays.
Torri further improving her relay start is step 1 to this process
52.2 to 50.9 would be a ridiculous differential. I think 51.4 is about as fast as anyone should reasonably expect (if her flat start stays a 52.2, of course)
Tell that to Jason Lezak. He follows your rules of start physics, and America is at least a full second slower in the 2008 4×100 free relay, which causes them to get second. Phelps does not get his 8th gold, and only Dr. Brown can predict how the world changes going from that point forward
Thank God Jason didn’t consult you in the training camp heading into the Olympics
I… am having trouble wrapping my head around why you are expecting everyone to match Jason Lezak in perhaps the most incredible swimming performance of all time. I stand by my statement that 52.2 to 50.9 would be a ridiculous differential, 47.5 to 46.0 was ridiculous too! An otherworldly performance that shouldn’t be the standard all of team USA is held to
I thought Ian Thorpe, a 17 year 400 free swimmer, who just won the 400 earlier in the evening, mowing down Gary Hall Jr, a sprinter in the last 50 metres of the 4x 100 in Sydney was better.
Thorpie did without drafting or a supersuit.
I mean… Thorpe did have a supersuit tho. It was just before supersuits were a thing. He had textile covering everything but his head and toesies
Coleman, you know that was not a supersuit, yes he had a textile suit on, but it was year 2000.
The Supersuits were in 2008/09.
I know you love Lezak, but lets keep with facts.
Lezak’s start wasn’t the difference. It was his finish.
or was it the relay hype machine? Hunter Armstrong threw a massive swim in the 4×100 free relay. Dropping 1.0 seconds is very realistic. Perfect swim (Jason Lezak) anything is possible
That was a drafting masterclass just like Scott in 2019.
Um wut? A good relay exchange should give 0.5 and that’s it. 0.6 flat start to 0.1 relay start.
The reaction time is only a portion of the equation. Depending on the person, the ability to use momentum to replace a lack of explosiveness can matter too.
A good start is made up of two things: reaction time AND power off the blocks. Generating power from a rolling start should, in theory, require less athleticism than generating power from a flat start.
You’re seriously expecting her to drop 1.3 seconds with a relay exchange?
expecting? No…possible, yes
I think Torri often gets underestimated. She has been very solid for team USA except for maybe one meet. So happy she did so well in Paris. Always a good interview.
I Am grateful that Torri “Terrific” Huske finally silenced Relay Names Guy about Greg Meehan
Feel like this is less about Meehan not failing and more about Torri being great
So it’s just a coincidence that the US’ only 52 low freestylers were both coached by Meehan?
If Douglass focuses on 100 she’s 51.9
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