By Alan Baldwin
PARIS (Reuters) -Torri Huske beat U.S. teammate and world record holder Gretchen Walsh by 0.04 of a second to win the women’s 100 metres butterfly gold at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
The 2022 world champion touched out in 55.59 to secure the U.S. team’s first individual swimming gold of the 2024 Games, with Walsh taking silver in 55.63 after leading at the turn on world record pace.
China’s Zhang Yufei took the bronze.
The gold was just reward for Huske, who missed out on a butterfly medal in the same event in Tokyo three years ago by a mere 0.01 of a second, and she did it here with a storming finish from third to first in the closing quarter.
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.
Walsh had set an Olympic record of 55.38 in Saturday’s semi-final, a time that would have comfortably won gold on Sunday.
(Additional reporting by Rohith Nair, Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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