1. Victoria Huske is an American competitive swimmer and the reigning Olympic champion in the 100-meter butterfly.
49 Facts About Torri Huske
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Torri Huske holds world records in two relays: the 4x100-meter medley and 4x100-meter mixed medley.
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Torri Huske is the former American record holder in the 50- and 100-meter butterfly.
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At the 2022 Fina World Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Torri Huske won three gold and three bronze medals, joining just three other American women in winning six medals at a World Championships.
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At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Torri Huske won three gold and two silver medals.
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Torri Huske's mother, Ying, is an IT professional who was an architect in Guangzhou, China, before immigrating to the United States in 1991.
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Torri Huske was later coached by AAC's Evan Stiles who said she was one of their most committed members and that she did not shirk arduous training exercises.
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At the VHSL State Championship Meet during her senior year Torri Huske set the national high school record in the 200 Short Course Yards Individual Medley with a time of 1:53.73, shaving a tenth of a second from the record held by Dagney Knutson since 2009.
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In 2022, Torri Huske became the youngest member ever inducted into the Yorktown High School Hall of Fame.
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The next day, Torri Huske won a silver medal in the 100m freestyle with a time of 54.54 seconds in the final that was 8-tenths of a second behind gold medalist and fellow American Gretchen Walsh.
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The day before she turned sixteen, Torri Huske won LC 100M Butterfly at the Toyota US Open Winter National Championships in Atlanta, GA with a LCM time of 57.48.
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Torri Huske committed to swim for Stanford University in June 2020 and started attending in autumn 2021, competing collegiately as part of the Stanford Cardinal.
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On day three of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Torri Huske competed in the 100m butterfly final.
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In mid-August 2021, Torri Huske became the first collegiate swimmer to sign a sponsorship deal, with swimwear company TYR Sport.
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The next day, Torri Huske helped her relay place second in the 4x50-yard medley relay, won the 100-yard butterfly in 50.30 seconds, and helped her relay win the 4x200-yard freestyle relay event by splitting a 1:42.59 lead-off leg.
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The third and final day of competition, Torri Huske brought her tally of event wins to six and tally of first or second place finishes to eight by winning the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 47.39 seconds and helping win the 4x100-yard freestyle relay, splitting a 46.27 for the fourth leg of the relay.
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On October 28, Torri Huske was named to the 2021 World Short Course Championships team for the United States in four individual events, while the announcement of the team, including Torri Huske, was ranked by Swimming World as number two for the week's "The Week That Was" honor.
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Torri Huske entered to compete in the 100 meter freestyle, 50 meter butterfly, and 100 meter butterfly individual events.
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The next day, Torri Huske finished third in her heat of the prelims in the 100m freestyle with a 53.34 and qualified for the semifinals ranked eighth overall.
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The next day against Arizona Torri Huske finished 3rd in the 200 free before swimming exhibition races in the 100 freestyle and the 100 butterfly.
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Torri Huske finished 2nd in the 200 freestyle, the 100 free and the 200 individual medley.
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Torri Huske achieved her first win of the fourth and final day in the 100 yard freestyle, finishing 0.27 seconds head of the second-place finisher with a time of 47.07 seconds.
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Just a little over three weeks before the meet Torri Huske contracted COVID, forcing her out of the pool, requiring rest, and putting her participation at the Trials at risk.
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Fortunately, Torri Huske recovered quickly and participated fully at the meet.
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Later that day in finals, Torri Huske secured a spot on the Team USA's World Championship team by winning the 100M freestyle with a time of 53.35 ahead of Claire Curzan who placed second with a time of 53.58.
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In prelims on day two of the competition Torri Huske finished 10th in the 200M freestyle with a time of 1:59.14.
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In finals, Torri Huske won her second final of the competition by winning the 100M butterfly with a time of 56.28 to finish ahead of Claire Curzan who placed 2nd with a time of 56.25.
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Torri Huske won her first bronze of the meet when US placed 3rd in this race with an overall time of 3:32.58.
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The next day, the second of the meet, Torri Huske won her first gold medal of the meet by placing 1st in the 100m butterfly with a time of 55.64, a half a second in front of second place finisher Marie Wattel of France.
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On day five of the competition Torri Huske started off swimming in the mornings prelim session by finishing 3rd in the 100M freestyle with a time of 53.72.
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Torri Huske finished 10th in prelims with a time of 26.10 making it through to semi-finals.
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Torri Huske started off swimming prelims in the morning session of day seven when she swam the 50m freestyle, finishing 8th with a time of 24.91.
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Torri Huske earned her third gold medal when she helped the US team by splitting 56.67 on the butterfly leg.
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Torri Huske started her sophomore competition season on October 13,2022, in a home dual meet against Utah.
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Torri Huske started off the meet by swimming freestyle anchor as part of a winning 4x50 y medley relay team which went 1:39.93.
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Torri Huske capped off the competition by swimming the third leg of the winning 4x100 freestyle relay team where she split 51.29 and the team swam 3:20.46.
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Torri Huske followed up the relay by finishing second in the 200y freestyle with a time of 1:48.80 before winning the 100y butterfly with a time of 53.72.
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Later in the second day of finals Torri Huske swam won the 100y butterfly with a time of 49.25.
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Torri Huske earned a B cut in the individual 200 freestyle of the NCAA Championship meet.
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On October 19, Torri Huske was named to the US team for the 2022 World Swimming Short Course Championships team for the United States in 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly, and 100m butterfly.
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Later that morning, Torri Huske anchored the women's 4x100m freestyle relay with a time of 52.74.
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Later, Torri Huske earned her first medal of the meet when she led off in the finals of the women's 4x100m freestyle relay with a time of 51.73, the fastest leadoff split in the race.
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On Saturday morning, the fifth day of the competition, Torri Huske finished second in prelims of the 100m butterfly with a time of 56.01.
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That night, Torri Huske won a silver medal, her fifth medal of the competition, when she swam the butterfly leg of the women's 4x50m medley relay in a time of 24.94.
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Torri Huske won her heat and finished first overall in the 100m butterfly with a time of 55.23.
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On Sunday, the sixth and last day of the competition, Torri Huske was in the first race of the evening session, the 100m butterfly.
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At the 2024 Olympic Games, Torri Huske won three gold medals and two silver medals.
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Torri Huske won a surprise silver in the 100-meter freestyle with a personal best of 52.29 behind Sarah Sjostrom.
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Torri Huske won another gold and set the world record in the 4x100m mixed medley relay with Walsh, Ryan Murphy, and Nic Fink, anchoring with a freestyle split of 51.88, the fastest in the field.