{"id":257415,"date":"2026-05-04T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257415\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:39:08","slug":"gretchen-walsh-shatters-100m-butterfly-world-record-again-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257415\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Walsh Shatters 100m Butterfly World Record Again in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI: American Gretchen Walsh lowered the 100m butterfly world record again on Saturday, winning in 54.33 seconds at the Fort Lauderdale Open. Walsh sliced 27-hundredths of a second off the previous world record of 54.60 she set in the same Florida pool at a Pro <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/assam-swimmers-make-waves-with-six-medals-at-singapore-open-national-swimming-championship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Swim <\/a>meeting last May.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, she broke the record twice in one day at last year\u2019s meeting and has now broken the record four times.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh, winner of three world titles in Singapore last year, is now more than a second faster than the second-fastest woman in the history in the event, Sweden\u2019s Sarah Sjostrom, who owns a best of 55.48. France\u2019s Olympic hero Leon Marchand captured two titles to take his tally for the week to four. <\/p>\n<p>Agencies<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:    <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/assam-swimmers-make-waves-with-six-medals-at-singapore-open-national-swimming-championship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Assam Swimmers Make Waves with Six Medals at Singapore Open National Swimming Championship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI: American Gretchen Walsh lowered the 100m butterfly world record again on Saturday, winning in 54.33 seconds at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[111739,249,251,250,99888,65594],"class_list":["post-257415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-100m-butterfly-world-record","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-fort-lauderdale-open","tag-gretchen-walsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257415","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=257415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}