﻿{"id":507052,"date":"2022-06-20T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T17:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=507052"},"modified":"2022-06-20T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T21:22:00","slug":"world-championships-farida-osman-reclaims-african-record-in-100-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-farida-osman-reclaims-african-record-in-100-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships: Farida Osman Reclaims African Record in 100 Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Championships: Farida Osman Reclaims African Record in 100 Fly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Egypt\u2019s <strong>Farida Osman<\/strong> reclaimed <a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContentP\/6\/468230\/Sports\/Swimming-Egypt%E2%80%99s-Farida-Osman-sets-African-record-.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the African record<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-torri-huske-dominates-100-fly-for-first-world-title-clips-american-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">women\u2019s 100 fly Sunday<\/a> at the 2022 FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Osman finished seventh in the event with a time of 57.66 seconds. That clips one hundredths of a second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/chad-le-clos-adds-another-world-cut-erin-gallagher-breaks-african-record-at-south-african-nationals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">off the African record set in 2019<\/a> by South Africa\u2019s <strong>Erin Gallagher<\/strong> (57.67). Gallagher set that mark at Durban\u2019s Kings Park Aquatic Centre at Nationals, downing Osman\u2019s continental record of 57.83.<\/p>\n<p>Osman was seventh in the final on Sunday. She turned fourth at the wall and faded back to the field, falling between Australia\u2019s <strong>Brianna Throssell<\/strong> and Bosnia and Herzegovina\u2019s <strong>Lana Pudar.<\/strong> Osman qualified sixth from prelims in 57.76 seconds, buzzing within a tenth of Gallagher\u2019s mark. She went 57.91 in semifinals to nip into the final by 0.02 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old, who was born in the United States and raised in Cairo, trains at the University of California in Berkeley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/farida-osman-steals-100-fly-ncaa-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">where she was an NCAA champion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.)<\/p>\n<p>Osman\u2019s is the second African record set in 2022, joining South African breaststroker <strong>Lara van Niekerk<\/strong> in the 50 breast. 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