Bouncing back from a close-but-no-Olympics call in her first race, Regan Smith set a world record in the women's 100-meter backstroke at the U.S. swimming trials on Tuesday.
This world record was five years in the making for Regan Smith.What an up-and-down journey it's been.Bouncing back from a close-but-no- Olympics call in her first race, Smith set a world record in the women's 100-meter backstroke at the U.S. swimming trials on Tuesday night.The 22-year-old Minnesota native touched in 57.13 seconds, easily beating the mark of 57.33 set a year ago by Australia's Kaylee McKeown.
Finke had to work hard to get to the wall ahead of 18-year-old Indiana phenom Luke Whitlock, who set a national age-group record at 7:45.19 and will likely head to his first Olympics with the second U.S. spot.No one else was within 4 seconds of the top two."I find I need pressure to do well, at least in my eyes," Finke said. "So I feel like the more pressure I feel, then the more likely I am to do well. Happy with the time we got.
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