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- Updated: May 21, 2016
Cast back through the history book and the moment at USA Olympic Trials in 1972 when Mark Spitz took the 100m butterfly world record below 55sec for the first time. It was the fifth of seven global standards he would set over two laps – and that was just the heats; in the final he shaved it down to 54.72.
And then in Munich at the Olympic Games in the midst of a seven-gold record setting week that would stand the test of time until Michael Phelps in 2008, Spitz claimed the crown in 54.27.
If that summer back in 1972 you’d have suggested a woman could match him, Spitz might have been forgiven for laughing. After all, the ladies had just celebrated their first moment inside 1min 04.
Rattle on down the years and we find Sarah Sjostrom on a 55.64 world record, one that she was not far shy of this week on 55.89 for the European title in London eight years after lifting that prize for the first time when she was 14. The World champion’s sights are set on Olympic gold – and the sub-55 she thinks she can get down to 44 years after Spitz opened the gate for men.
Speaking in the Casa Arena this morning Sjostrom, 22, coached by Carl Jenner in Stockholm, and the owner of a staggering set of statistics in the 100m butterfly, said:
“I think I can beat the world record, I have been …
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