PARIS (Reuters) – 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.
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.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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