Women's 100m Butterfly

Torri Huske (USA)

Torri Huske, 19 years old, can become the third teenager representing United States to win the women's 100m butterfly, after Joan Pennington (1978) and Mary T. Meagher (1982).

United States has won this event a record five times, but not since Dana Vollmer triumphed in 2011.


Zhang Yufei (CHN)

Zhang Yufei can become the third Chinese winner of the women's 100m butterfly, after Qian Hong (1991) and Liu Limin (1994) won this event at back-to-back world aquatics championships.

Swimmers representing China have won seven medals in the women's 100m butterfly at the world aquatics championships. Only in the women's 200m individual medley (8) and the women's 50m backstroke (8) have Chinese swimmers claimed more medals.


Other contenders

The winners of the last four editions of this event, Sarah Sjöström (SWE, 3) and Maggie MacNeil (CAN) will both not participate in the women's 100m butterfly at the 2022 FINA World Championships.

Katerine Savard (CAN) can become the second Canadian swimmer to win the women's 100m butterfly at the world aquatics championships, after Maggie MacNeil at the most recent edition in 2019.

It would be the second time Canada wins more than one gold medal in a single swimming event at the world aquatics championships, after the women's 100m backstroke (Kylie Masse 2017 & 2019).

Women's 200m Individual Medley

Alex Walsh (USA)

Alex Walsh can become the first swimmer representing United States to win the women's 200m individual medley since Ariana Kukors in 2009.

USA has won a record 13 medals in this event, but only one in the last 11 years - bronze for Madisyn Cox in 2017.


Katinka Hosszú (HUN)

Katinka Hosszú has won the women's 200m individual medley in each of the last four world aquatics championships: 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019.

Only two swimmers have won a specific individual event at least five times at the world aquatics championships: Michael Phelps (USA) in the men's 200m butterfly (5) and Hosszú herself in the women's 400m individual medley (5).

Hosszú (9) can become the second woman to win at least 10 individual gold medals at the world aquatics championships, after Katie Ledecky (USA, 11).

Hosszú won the women's 200m individual medley and women's 400m individual medley at the world aquatics championships in Budapest in 2017. She can become the third swimmer to win a gold medal in her home country in multiple editions of the world aquatics championships, after Australians Michael Klim and Matt Welsh both won gold medals in Perth in 1998 and in Melbourne in 2007.

At the Gwangju 2019 FINA World Championships, host nation Republic of Korea did not win any medal.


Other contenders

Kaylee McKeown (AUS) could win her first gold medal at the world aquatics championships (G0-S3-B0). McKeown did win three gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

The women's 200m individual medley is the event Australia (G0-S4-B3) has won the most medals in without ever claiming gold.

Yui Ohashi (JPN) won this event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Ohashi can become the third Japanese woman to win an event at the world aquatics championships, after Natsumi Hoshi (200m butterfly) and Kanako Watanabe (200m breaststroke) who both won their gold medal at the Kazan 2015 FINA World Championships.

Anastasya Gorbenko (ISR) won the European title in this event in Budapest in 2021. She could become the first athlete representing Israel to win a medal in swimming at the world aquatics championships.

Louise Hansson (SWE) can become the fourth Swedish female swimmer to win a gold medal at the world aquatics championships, after Sjöström (8), Therese Alshammar (2) and Jennie Johansson (1). Sjöström won four of her gold medals in this event.

Six of the last seven editions of the women's 100m butterfly at the world aquatics championships were won by swimmers with alliterative names: Libby Lenton (AUS, 2007, now Libby Trickett), Sarah Sjöström (SWE, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017) and Maggie MacNeil (CAN, 2019). Claire Curzan (USA) could add her name to this list.