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