UVA swimmer Alex Walsh won gold in the 200-meter individual medley at the FINA World Championships.
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00:00 [crowd cheering]
00:02 >> And Jason, I'm trying to figure out a weakness.
00:06 Maybe it's the start.
00:08 She dead last off the blocks.
00:10 .75.
00:12 But that's the only weakness you're going to see from Alex Swaft, I think, in this race.
00:17 I thought at one point, I said in the semifinals, it's the butterfly.
00:21 She had the fastest split last night in the semis.
00:24 >> She may have been last off the blocks, Rowdy, but she looks like she might be first to the wall here to start.
00:29 And she is by two tenths of Romoto.
00:32 Kim there, right now in third.
00:34 >> 27.2 on the way out.
00:36 And then, boy, this middle 100 for Alex Swaft is just -- just sit back and enjoy this.
00:42 I think you're going to see it.
00:43 Look at that stroke right there.
00:45 Look at her head position.
00:46 Beautifully still.
00:48 You could put literally a giant big golf on the top of her head right now, and it would not spill.
00:54 Look at that backstroke.
00:56 Remember, the best backstroke in the world is in there.
00:59 And she just outsplit her.
01:02 She's 32 flat.
01:03 The cue is 32.2.
01:05 A full second behind her.
01:07 >> Alex Walsh with a stranglehold at the halfway point here in the women's 200 IM.
01:12 She told us the nerves were so powerful in her Olympic debut last summer, but able to calm down and settle in.
01:20 A better grasp of what was at stake here at these long course worlds.
01:25 And showing it right now with another powerhouse swim.
01:28 >> And believe it or not, she's ahead of American record pace, and she has the best breaststroke and freestyle in the field.
01:35 136.6 is the -- excuse me, 136.3 is the American record pace, and she's ahead of it.
01:43 >> Don't forget Leah Hayes, the young American trying to close fast here in freestyle.
01:47 She was in third and looking to take over second spot here.
01:51 >> Hayes has a great freestyle.
01:54 Alex Walsh in the lead.
01:56 Hayes charging alongside in lane number five to try to help the Americans go one-two.
02:02 Alex Walsh going to rocket her way to gold here in the women's 200 IM in Budapest.
02:08 It will be McEwen with silver, and Leah Hayes with a world junior record in taking bronze.
02:16 >> Wow.
02:22 Holy smokes.
02:26 That is the fifth fastest performer in history.