World Championships: Farida Osman Reclaims African Record in 100 Fly

Farida Osman of Egypt reacts after compete in the 100m Butterfly Women semifinals during the FINA 19th World Championships Budapest 2022 at Duna Arena, Budapest (Hungary), June 18th, 2022. Farida Osman placed 8th and qualified for the final. Photo Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
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World Championships: Farida Osman Reclaims African Record in 100 Fly

Egypt’s Farida Osman reclaimed the African record in the women’s 100 fly Sunday at the 2022 FINA World Championships.

Osman finished seventh in the event with a time of 57.66 seconds. That clips one hundredths of a second off the African record set in 2019 by South Africa’s Erin Gallagher (57.67). Gallagher set that mark at Durban’s Kings Park Aquatic Centre at Nationals, downing Osman’s continental record of 57.83.

Osman was seventh in the final on Sunday. She turned fourth at the wall and faded back to the field, falling between Australia’s Brianna Throssell and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Lana Pudar. Osman qualified sixth from prelims in 57.76 seconds, buzzing within a tenth of Gallagher’s mark. She went 57.91 in semifinals to nip into the final by 0.02 seconds.

The 27-year-old, who was born in the United States and raised in Cairo, trains at the University of California in Berkeley, where she was an NCAA champion.

Osman also owns the African record in the 50 fly and 50 free, both dating to the 2017 World Championships. She possesses the continental records in those three events in short-course meters as well. Osman is the lone Egyptian woman with an African record and the lone Egyptian individual record-holder. (Egypt men set a pair of medley relay continental records at 2021 Short-Course Worlds.)

Osman’s is the second African record set in 2022, joining South African breaststroker Lara van Niekerk in the 50 breast. Osman will compete in the women’s 50 fly and 50 free in Budapest.

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