Meet Torri Huske, American swimmer who won 100m butterfly title aged 19 and is now going for gold at Paris 2024 Olympics

TORRI Huske is one of the fastest female swimmers on the planet, achieving world records and titles before turning 20.

Here's everything you need to know about the American, who's competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Who is Torri Huske?

Victoria ‘Torri’ Huske seems to produce her best performances on the biggest stages, but the current 100m butterfly world champion didn’t really like swimming as a youngster.

Torri preferred soccer, ice skating and taekwondo, and as a six-year-old even had to wear a wetsuit to deal with the cold water.

She told : “I was always really cold all the time, and I feel like that was a big factor. Probably for the first like two years …

"I didn’t really care for it, but I feel like I just kind of stuck with it anyway.

"I’m not really exactly sure why, but it eventually did start to grow on me and I really liked it.”

Torri was one of 11 teenagers who competed for Team USA at Tokyo 2020 (held in 2021 due to the pandemic) when she was just 18, having broken the USA women’s 100m butterfly record twice at trials.

In Japan she helped her nation win silver in the women’s 4x100 medley relay, and also finished fourth in the 100m fly by one-hundredth of a second.

Coming so close to an individual medal at her first Olympics motivated the top athlete to improve even further.

And a year later, at the Budapest 2022 World Championships, she became the 100m butterfly world champion, breaking her own USA record yet again.

She took home additional gold medals in the 4x100 medley and the 4x100 mixed medley relay races.