Huske takes 100m butterfly gold in US one-two at Paris Olympics
Torri Huske beat U.S. teammate and world record holder Gretchen Walsh to win the women's 100 metres butterfly gold at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
The 2022 world champion touched out in 55.59 seconds to secure the first individual gold of the 2024 Games for a U.S. female swimmer, with Walsh taking silver in 55.63.
China's Zhang Yufei took the bronze.
The gold was just reward for Huske, who missed out on a butterfly medal in the same event in Tokyo three years ago by a mere 0.01 of a second, and she did it here with a storming finish from third to first in the closing quarter.
Huske's win continued a sequence of the event never having had a repeat winner since it was first held in 1956. Canada's reigning champion Maggie Mac Neil finished fifth.
Walsh had set an Olympic record of 55.38 in Saturday's semi-final, a time that would have comfortably won gold on Sunday.
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