American Regan Smith smashes world file in ladies’s 100-meter backstroke at US Olympic swimming trials

Team USA is already making a splash forward of the Summer Games. 

Three-time Olympic medalist Regan Smith is heading to her second 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 file within the ladies’s 100-meter backstroke last in the course of the U.S. Olympic Team Swimming Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium on June 18, 2024, in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

But she’ll be displaying up with some well-earned bragging rights. 

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Smith, 22, smashed the world file together with her first place end, touching the wall in 57.13 seconds. During the semifinals the evening earlier than, Smith broke her personal American file 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 battle again like this and get that again means rather a lot.” 

Smith made it look straightforward, beating Australian Kaylee McKeown’s file of 57.33 set final yr. 

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Regan Smith in the course of the ladies’s 100-meter backstroke last medal ceremony on the U.S. Olympic Team Swimming Trials on June 18, 2024, in Indianapolis. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

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 yr for the Minnesota native, who set the world file 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 in the course of the U.S. Olympic Team Swimming Trials on June 17, 2024. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

“This is extremely rewarding,” Smith stated Tuesday. “When I used to be an adolescent, I had not carried out a lot. There was no stress on me. I used to be at all times the youngest. No one anticipated a lot from me. I might go into it fearless.”

“It’s about time,” she added. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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