Team USA won gold and silver in the women's 100-meter butterfly with Torri Huske edging out Gretchen Walsh for the win, just one day after Walsh set an Olympic record in the event. American Luke Hobson also took home a gold medal in Paris on Sunday.
Rachel DeSantis is a staff writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in Entertainment Weekly and the New York Daily News., Americans Torri Huske and Luke Hobson beat the competition for a first-place spot atop the podium, with Huske even edging out Team USA teammate Gretchen Walsh just one day after her record-setting swim.
The wins — which mark the first time in 40 years that Team USA has gone one and two in the women’s 100-meter butterfly — came just one day after Walsh broke the Olympic record in the same event’s semifinals with a time of 55.38 seconds .The duo, along with Kate Douglass and Simone Manuel, won silver in the women’s 4x100-meter freestyle relay on Saturday, and Huske previously won a silver medal in Tokyo in the 4x100-meter medley relay.
“Going into the final, I know it’s going to be a great race, and I think I thrive on that and I’m really excited for it,” he told reporters after his big win. “It’s my favorite part of swimming, is just racing.”Carson Foster, 22, also took home win, snagging bronze in the men’s 400-meter individual medley final in his first-ever Games.to get the biggest stories from the Games delivered straight to your inbox. Watch the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, beginning July 26, on NBC and Peacock.
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