Gretchen Walsh breaks 100m Butterfly World Record for fourth time

The American swimmer Gretchen Walsh once again broke her own 100m butterfly world record for the fourth time.

She has scored 54.33 sec spark in the women’s 100-meter butterfly to lower her own world record for the fourth time at the Fort Lauderdale Open in Florida, the United States.

Winner of three world titles in Singapore last year, Walsh is now more than a second faster than the second-fastest woman in the history of the event, with Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom at her best of 55.48 seconds.

Walsh on Saturday sliced 27 hundredths of a second off the previous world record of 54.60 she set in the same pool at a Pro Swim event last May. She broke the record twice in one day at last year’s meeting and has now broken the record four times.

The 23 years joked about making the world record an “annual thing” as she took to social media soon after her feat.

“Could not be more grateful for the WR, the crowd, and the pool,” she said in a post on Instagram.

Walsh now owns more than a third of the sub-56-second swims in the event’s history.

France’s Olympic hero Leon Marchand captured two titles to take his tally for the week to four.

The four-time Olympic gold medalist on Saturday won the 200 metres breaststroke in 2 minutes 9.04 seconds, his best time of the season, and followed up with a victory in the 200m individual medley in 1:57.28.