A “fragile” Gretchen Walsh shook off a stomach bug to power to a dominant victory in the 100m butterfly final at the world championships in Singapore on Monday.<\/p>\n
World record holder Walsh took gold in 54.73sec — the second-fastest time in history — ahead of Belgium’s Roos Vanotterdijk (55.84) and Alexandria Perkins of Australia (56.33).<\/p>\n
The United States team has been hit with a bout of acute gastroenteritis and Walsh said she had been laid low heading into the race.<\/p>\n
“The last couple of days my body has been fragile,” said the 22-year-old.<\/p>\n
“I’ve needed to give myself grace and luckily I had the morning to recover and rest and I used that.<\/p>\n
“That helped me enormously going into tonight.”<\/p>\n
Walsh set the world record of 54.60sec in May.<\/p>\n
She said she had to “reevaluate my expectations” for the world championships after her battle with illness but surprised herself with her performance.<\/p>\n
“I’m over the moon,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I’m really happy that when it mattered, I was able to do that and get my hands on the wall.”<\/p>\n
This is Walsh’s first long course individual world title and the Olympic silver medallist was clear favourite.<\/p>\n
She won two relay golds at the Paris Olympics but was pipped to gold in the 100m butterfly final by team-mate Torri Huske in an upset.<\/p>\n
Huske decided against racing in the 100m butterfly in Singapore due to the gastroenteritis outbreak.<\/p>\n
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