FILE PHOTO: Sjostrom, 32, returned to competition at a home meet last month but has focused on the 50m freestyle and butterfly as she builds towards the European championships in Paris in July-August. | Photo Credit: REUTERS
FILE PHOTO: Sjostrom, 32, returned to competition at a home meet last month but has focused on the 50m freestyle and butterfly as she builds towards the European championships in Paris in July-August. | Photo Credit: REUTERS
Olympic champion Sarah Sjostrom’s 100 metres freestyle world record appears on shaky ground as Dutch dynamo Marrit Steenbergen and young American Anna Moesch shake up the women’s all-time rankings.
Moesch, a 20-year-old from the University of Virginia, clocked 51.94 seconds in her win at the AP Race London International this week, only the third sub-52 swim in history.
FILE PHOTO: For U.S. swimming, Moesch’s rise may be a game-changer for a nation that has been foiled repeatedly by Australia’s women in the Olympic 4x100 relays. | Photo Credit: Getty Images
FILE PHOTO: For U.S. swimming, Moesch’s rise may be a game-changer for a nation that has been foiled repeatedly by Australia’s women in the Olympic 4x100 relays. | Photo Credit: Getty Images
It was briefly the second-fastest ever, behind only Sjostrom’s world record of 51.71, set with the leadoff leg of the 4x100m relay at the 2017 world championships in Budapest.
On Wednesday, though, Moesch’s mark was bettered by world champion Steenbergen, who clocked 51.86 on the south coast of France at the Canet stop of the Mare Nostrum series.
Steenbergen finished seventh, behind Sjostrom in the 100 final at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but has been setting the standards since the Swede went on maternity leave.
Marrit Steenbergen of Netherlands competes in the women’s 100-metre freestyle final at the World Aquatics Championships. | Photo Credit: AP
Marrit Steenbergen of Netherlands competes in the women’s 100-metre freestyle final at the World Aquatics Championships. | Photo Credit: AP
She brushed off her Paris disappointment by successfully defending her world title in Singapore last year, edging Australia’s former world champion Mollie O’Callaghan.
Sjostrom, 32, returned to competition at a home meet last month but has focused on the 50m freestyle and butterfly as she builds towards the European championships in Paris in July-August.
For U.S. swimming, Moesch’s rise may be a game-changer for a nation that has been foiled repeatedly by Australia’s women in the Olympic 4x100 relays.
The Americans were runners-up at Paris as Australia won a fourth successive gold medal in the event.
New Jersey native Moesch adds another weapon to a formidable U.S. programme boasting the versatile Kate Douglass and Torri Huske, the individual 100m silver medallist at Paris.
Moesch swam a heat in the 100 relay at last year’s world championships but was dropped for the final as Simone Manuel, Douglass, Erin Gemmell and Huske finished second to Australia.
Australia’s women will provide a glimpse of their form midway through the Olympic cycle when they compete at national trials next month for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games starting on July 23.
Published on May 28, 2026
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