NANTERRE, France —In a battle of the fastest women’s butterfly swimmers in history, Americans Torri Huske won the gold medal in 55.59 seconds and American Gretchen Walsh won the silver in 55.63.
Huske and Walsh both won silver medals Saturday night as part of the U.S. women’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay team.
Zhang Yufei took the bronze with a time of 56.21. Yufei, 26, the 2021 Olympic silver medalist in the 100 butterfly, is one of the 11 swimmers from China whose positive drug tests in 2021 were never revealed by the World Anti-Doping Agency or Chinese officials.
For Huske, a 21-year-old former U.S. record holder taking a gap year from Stanford, this was a chance to perfect her performance in a race she nearly won three years ago. She ended up finishing fourth in the 100 butterfly in Tokyo after appearing to take the lead 10 meters from the finish. Huske did win a silver medal in the women’s 4×100 medley relay in 2021.
For Walsh, a 21-year-old University of Virginia standout who broke the world record in the 100 butterfly at last month’s U.S. trials, her performance is a story of redemption after she failed to make the U.S. Olympic team three years ago.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske win gold, silver in women’s 100 butterfly
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