{"id":256419,"date":"2026-05-03T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256419\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:39:15","slug":"gretchen-walsh-breaks-world-record-at-the-speedo-fort-lauderdale-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256419\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Walsh Breaks World Record at the Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2013 Fifteen members of the Virginia men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving teams and pro training group competed at the 2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open, Wednesday through Saturday, April 29-May 2, at the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>The event, formerly a stop on USA Swimming&#8217;s Pro Swim Series, has a field loaded with Olympic medalists and world champions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/virginiasports.com\/sports\/swimming\/roster\/player\/gretchen-walsh\" title=\"Gretchen Walsh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gretchen Walsh<\/a> had the swim of the meet, breaking her own world record in the 100 Fly on Saturday night, going 54.33.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2013 Fifteen members of the Virginia men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving teams and pro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-256419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}