{"id":507501,"date":"2022-06-23T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=507501"},"modified":"2022-06-23T10:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:33:39","slug":"world-championships-torri-huske-blasts-american-record-in-50-butterfly-just-behind-sarah-sjostrom-in-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-torri-huske-blasts-american-record-in-50-butterfly-just-behind-sarah-sjostrom-in-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships: Torri Huske Blasts American Record in 50 Butterfly; Just Behind Sarah Sjostrom in Semis"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Championships: Torri Huske Blasts American Record in 50 Butterfly; Just Behind Sarah Sjostrom in Semis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The chase for a record fourth consecutive world championship in the 50 butterfly continues for Sweden\u2019s Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong>, but this year’s final might be the most challenging yet with Torri Huske<\/strong> in the mix at record pace.<\/p>\n

After cruising to the top seed in prelims, the 28-year-old Sjostrom did the same in the semifinals, touching the wall in 25.13 to hold off the field by two tenths.<\/p>\n

But right on her heels was Torri Huske<\/strong>, who broke the American record in the event to touch the wall in 25.38, well within striking distance heading into the finals. Kelsi Dahlia<\/strong> held the record at 25.48.<\/p>\n

It was not the first American record for Huske, who claimed the 100 butterfly mark at the Olympic Trials in 2021. She is proving to be a world force in the butterfly at different distances, not to mention her other events, mainly freestyle, which are among the world’s elite as well.<\/p>\n

Huske claimed the world title in the 100 butterfly earlier in the meet and this showdown looks to be one of the most intriguing events of the World Championships.<\/p>\n

Sjostrom won her first world title in the event at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, then repeated in 2017 in Budapest and again in 2019 in Gwangju.<\/p>\n

Will it be her fourth in a row or Huske\u2019s second of the meet?<\/p>\n

The rest of the field will have something to say about it as well.<\/p>\n

France\u2019s Melanie Henique<\/strong> took the third seed in 25.41, followed by Egypt\u2019s Farida Osman<\/strong> (24.46), China\u2019s Zhang Yufei<\/strong> (25.54), France\u2019s Marie Wattel<\/strong> (25.56), USA\u2019s Claire Curzan<\/strong> (25.67) and Maaike de Waard<\/strong> of the Netherlands (25.75) rounded out the finalists.<\/p>\n