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Claire Curzan Goes 56.20 in the 100 Fly; Passes Dahlia for #2 American All-time

2021 TAC TITANS LONG COURSE PREMIER MEET

16-year-old Claire Curzan, who last set the Girls 15-16 National Age Group Record in the 100 meter butterfly with 56.61 at 2020 U.S. Open last November, lowered her mark to 56.20 in the final at TAC Titans Long Course Premier Invitational on Saturday. Curzan was out in 26.21 and home in 29.99, improving her second half by .62 while easing up .21 on the front end. Curzan also broke the World Junior Record and become the second-fastest American in history.

Canada’s Penny Oleksiak has been in the FINA record-books as the owner of the ratified 100 fly World Junior Record since 2016 when she went 56.46 to win the silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. 15-year-old Sarah Sjostrom went 56.05 at 13th FINA World Championships in Rome (2009) in the supersuit era, but that swim remains unratified.

Some comparative splits:

Curzan, 2020 U.S. Open Oleksiak, 2016 Olympics Dahlia, 2017 Worlds Curzan, March 2021 Vollmer, 2012 Olympics
26.00 26.37 26.48 26.21 26.39
30.61 30.09 29.89 29.99 29.59
56.61 56.46 56.37 56.20 55.98

Swimming next to Curzan in lane 5, Torri Huske dropped an eye-popping 56.69 to finish in second place with a new 17-18 National Age Group Record. That erases Regan Smith’s mark of 57.34 from last year’s Pro Swim Series Des Moines. Huske, with splits of 26.21-30.48, moved to #4 on the all-time list of American performers.

Curzan remains #2 in the world for the 2020-21 LCM season while Huske takes over at #4.

2020-2021 LCM Women 100 Fly

2Zhang
Yufei
CHN55.6209/29
3Torri
Huske
USA55.6606/14
4Emma
McKeon
AUS55.7207/25
5Marie
Wattel
FRA56.1607/24
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ALL-TIME TOP U.S. PERFORMERS

  1. Dana Vollmer, PC CAL: 55.98 – 2012 Olympic Games 7/27/2012 London
  2. Claire Curzan, NC TAC: 56.20 – 2021 TAC Titans Premier Invite 4/10/2021
  3. Kelsi Dahlia (Worrell), KY UN: 56.37 – 2017 World Championships 7/22/2017 Budapest
  4. Torri Huske, PV AAC: 56.69 – 2021 TAC Titans Premier Invite 4/10/2021
  5. Christine Magnuson, US TENN: 57.08 – 2008 Olympic Games 8/8/2008 Beijing

Curzan jumped to the #8 spot in history worldwide.

ALL-TIME TOP WORLD PERFORMERS

  1. Sarah Sjostrom, SWE: 55.48 – 2016 Olympic Games 8/5/2016 Rio
  2. Zhang Yufei, CHN: 55.62 – 2020 Chinese Champs 9/25/2020 Qingdao
  3. Maggie MacNeil, CAN: 55.83 – 2019 World Champs 7/21/2019 Gwangju
  4. Dana Vollmer, USA: 55.98 – 2012 Olympic Games 7/27/2012 London
  5. Liu Zige, CHN: 56.07 – 2009 CHN Open 10/17/2009 Jinan
  6. Rikako Ikee, JPN: 56.08 – 2018 Pan Pacific Champs 8/8/2018 Tokyo
  7. Emma McKeon, AUS: 56.18 – 2017 World Champs 7/22/2017 Budapest
  8. Claire Curzan, USA: 56.20 – 2021 TAC Titans Premier Invite 4/10/2021
  9. Jessicah Schipper, AUS: 56.23 – 2009 World Champs 7/25/2009 Rome
  10. Kelsi Dahlia (Worrell), USA: 56.37 – 2017 World Champs 7/22/2017 Budapest
  11. Penny Oleksiak, CAN: 56.46 – 2016 Olympic Games 8/5/2016 Rio
  12. Jeanette Ottesen, DEN: 56.51 – 2014 European Championships 8/17/2014 Berlin
  13. (tie 12) Inge De Bruijn, NED: 56.61 – 2000 Olympic Games 9/16/2000 Sydney
  14. (tie 12) Chen Xinyi, CHN: 56.61 – 9/20/2014 INCHEON

 

 

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Swimfan
3 years ago

Let’s not forget that her performance is now a US OPEN records (fastest time on American soil)

swimfast
3 years ago

Is this the first time we’ve had two Americans go 56- at the same time?

Swimfan
Reply to  swimfast
3 years ago

Dana vollmer and kelsi dahlia both did at the olympics but it’s separate prelims heats (vollmer heat 4 and dahlia heat 5) dahlia was 9th overall and just missed the finals..

So to answer your question yes that’s the first time the American had 2 56sec flyers in the same race

Swimmerj
3 years ago

Holy F

NCmom
3 years ago

And, can’t speak for Huske but Claire wasn’t rested or tapered… just saying…

Svird
Reply to  NCmom
3 years ago

Ok. I look forward to Claire’s 53 at trials.

Swimfan
Reply to  NCmom
3 years ago

Either way there performance was WOW

Samesame
3 years ago

Thorpe’s age records are just crazy . Poor kids now have no chance.

1011
3 years ago

Besides this race today, there was also an impressive 4:32.13 from 15 Y/O Bella Sims. That makes her the second fastest 15/16 year old in history. Another swimmer who has a big chance of making the Tokyo Team this year. Sims could challenge L. Smith in that 400 or 800.

Nenen
3 years ago

Like if Huske makes the Olympic team
Dislike if she doesn’t

Nenen
3 years ago

Like if Curzan makes the Olympic team.
Dislike if she doesnt

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