By Annabella Ramirez
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Victoria “Torri” Huske (/ˈtɔːriː ˈhʌsk/ TOR-ee HUSK; Chinese given name: 简爱, pinyin: Jiǎn’ài, born December 7, 2002) is an American competitive swimmer and the reigning Olympic champion in the 100-meter butterfly. She holds world records in two relays: the 4×100-meter medley and 4×100-meter mixed medley. She is the former American record holder in the 50- and 100-meter butterfly.
At 18, she competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay, swimming the butterfly leg of the relay in the final. At the 2022 Fina World Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Huske won three gold and three bronze medals, joining just three other American women in winning six medals at a World Championships. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Huske won three gold and two silver medals.
At the 2024 Olympic Games, Huske won three gold medals and two silver medals. After missing the 100-meter butterfly podium by 0.01 at the previous Olympics, she won the 2024 race in 55.59, out-touching her teammate and world record holder Gretchen Walsh by 0.04. She also won a surprise silver in the 100-meter freestyle with a personal best of 52.29 behind Sarah Sjostrom. Huske, Walsh, Kate Douglass, and Simone Manuel took silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay, setting an American record of 3:30.20; Huske swam the fastest American split of 52.06. She 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. In the final swimming event of the Games, Huske anchored the women’s 4x100m medley relay to another world-record first-place finish with Regan Smith, Lilly King, and Walsh.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
What kind of Christmas tree is most popular?
The top-selling Christmas trees, as reported by growers across the United States, are the Fraser fir, Douglas fir, balsam fir, and silver fir, in that order.
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Born
- Willa Cather (author) –
- Harry Chapin (musician) –
- Johnny Bench (baseball player) –
- Ron Hynes (Canadian singer-songwriter) –
- Larry Bird (basketball player) –
- Terrell Owens (football player) –
- Aaron Carter (singer) –
- Emily Browning (actress) –
- Torri Huske (Olympic swimmer) –
Died
- Rube Goldberg (cartoonist) –
- Thornton Wilder (playwright) –
- Jerry Scoggins (sang “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” which introduced the Clampett clan on The Beverly Hillbillies) –
- Harry Morgan (actor) –
Events
- The steam locomotive was used for the first time in Germany when a railroad opened from Nuremberg to Furth –
- The first Christmas postage stamp was released in Canada –
- Christmas seals sold for the first time –
- The crew of Apollo 17, while on their way to the Moon, took the famous “Blue Marble” photo of Earth from approximately 28,000 miles away, –
- Hockey player Gordie Howe scored his 1,000th professional goal –
Weather
- The Connecticut and Merrimack rivers in New England flooded after a great rainstorm –
- An ice storm in Nashville, Tennessee, cut electricity to 40,000 houses for several wintry hours –
- Denver, Colorado’s temperature plunged to 0 degrees F –
- Gunnison, Colorado, experienced a frigid temperature of -24 degrees F –
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