Workforce USA is already making a splash forward of the Summer season Video games.
Three-time Olympic medalist Regan Smith is heading to her second Video games subsequent month after her dominating win within the ladies’s 100-meter backstroke on the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Indianapolis on Tuesday evening.
Regan Smith reacts after setting the phrase document within the ladies’s 100-meter backstroke closing through the U.S. Olympic Workforce Swimming Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium on June 18, 2024, in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Pictures)
However she’ll be exhibiting up with some well-earned bragging rights.
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Smith, 22, smashed the world document together with her first place end, touching the wall in 57.13 seconds. Through the semifinals the evening earlier than, Smith broke her personal American document with a time of 57.47.
“It was a part of the plan,” Smith stated after the race. “I’m so pleased with myself. Backstroke is tough for me generally, however to struggle again like this and get that again means lots.”
Smith made it look straightforward, beating Australian Kaylee McKeown’s document of 57.33 set final 12 months.
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Regan Smith through the ladies’s 100-meter backstroke closing medal ceremony on the U.S. Olympic Workforce Swimming Trials on June 18, 2024, in Indianapolis. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Pictures)
Smith’s first Olympics in Tokyo noticed the previous Stanford swimmer win bronze within the ladies’s 100-meter and silver within the ladies’s 200-meter butterfly. She additionally gained silver within the ladies’s 4×100-meter relay.
This adopted a breakout 12 months for the Minnesota native, who set the world document within the 100-meter backstroke on the 2019 world championships when she was simply 17.
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Regan Smith competes within the ladies’s 100-meter backstroke semifinal through the U.S. Olympic Workforce Swimming Trials on June 17, 2024. (Sarah Stier/Getty Pictures)
“That is extremely rewarding,” Smith stated Tuesday. “After I was a young person, I had not performed a lot. There was no stress on me. I used to be all the time the youngest. Nobody anticipated a lot from me. I may go into it fearless.”
“It is about time,” she added.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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