American swimmer Gretchen Walsh has broken her own world record in the 100-meter butterfly for the fourth time.
She scored a spark of 54.33 seconds in the women’s 100m butterfly to lower her own world record for the fourth time at the Fort Lauderdale Open in Florida, the United States.
Walsh won three world titles in Singapore last year and is now over a second faster than the second-fastest woman in the event’s history, with Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom at her best of 55.48 seconds.
Walsh on Saturday shaved 27 hundredths of a second off the previous world record of 54.60, which she set in the same pool at a Pro Swim event last May. Last year she broke the record twice in one day at the meet and has now broken the record four times.
The 23-year-old joked about the world record being an “annual thing” as she took to social media shortly after her achievement.
“I couldn’t be more grateful to the WR, the crowd and the pool,” she said in a post on Instagram.
Walsh now owns more than a third of the sub-56 second swims in the event’s history.
French Olympic hero Leon Marchand captured two titles and brought his weekly total to four.
The four-time Olympic gold medalist won the 200-meter breaststroke in 2 minutes, 9.04 seconds on Saturday, his best time of the season, and followed with a victory in the 200-meter individual medley in 1:57.28.
