Tori Husk swam the third-fastest 100-meter butterfly in U.S. women's history and won the final Tier Pro Series meet before the Olympic Trials in June.
Haske set a time of 55.68 seconds, four-hundredths of the American record, in San Antonio on Friday, cementing his status as the favorite to win the June trials.
In 2021, Hasuke missed out on a medal in the 100m fly by one-hundredth of a point in his Olympic debut as an 18-year-old.
She then won the title at the 2022 World Championships and placed third behind China's Zhang Yufei and Canada's Maggie McNeil at the 2023 World Championships. These two are two of only three people in history to set a personal best faster than Husk.
swimming: complete results
Friday's field included the four fastest American women in this year's event, a prelude to a trial in which the top two will be selected to represent Paris.
On Friday, Gretchen Walsh took second place, shaving two tenths off her personal best and becoming the third American to do so, behind Husk and retired 2012 Olympic gold medalist Dana Vollmer.walsh After a historic NCAA seasonher first Olympics are just around the corner this summer.
Also on Friday, Kaleb Dressel won the men's 100-meter fly in a time of 50.84 seconds, tying Hungary's Hubert Koss. This was Dressel's highest total since returning from several months of competitive action last spring.
Dressel, a Tokyo Olympic gold medalist and world record holder, was the fastest American in the 100m fly this year by a margin of 56 tenths of a second.
Regan Smith won the 200-meter backstroke final, which included the five fastest Americans from last year, who were also the second through sixth fastest at the 2023 women's world.
Smith is the second-fastest woman in history, behind Olympic and world champion Kayleigh McCune of Australia, with a time of 2:05.46, edging out Tokyo Olympian Phoebe Bacon by 1.78 seconds.
In the women's 200m freestyle, world champion Siobhan Haughey (Hong Kong) won with a time of 1:54.52, and Katie Ledecky took second place with a time of 1:54.97, her best time since March 2023. became.
Ledecky won the 200m free at the 2016 Olympics and placed fifth in Tokyo, but dropped the event from her 2022 and 2023 world championship program to focus on distance.
Ledecky hasn't said whether he wants to swim the 200-meter free in Paris, but he expects to race at the trials and compete in the 4×200 free relay at the Olympics.
Frenchman Leon Marchand defeated American Chase Kalish in a match between the reigning world and Olympic champions in the men's 400m individual medley.
Marchand ran a time of 4:11.21, and Kalish set a time of 4:12.45, the best time by an American athlete this year.
Pro Series competition concludes on Saturday.
