Omaha, NE -- (Sports Network) - Dara Torres culminated her amazing push at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials by winning the 50-meter freestyle Sunday night.

Torres won the race in 24.25 seconds, eclipsing her American record of 24.38 set the previous night in the semifinals.

Jessica Hardy (24.82) was second.

On Friday night, the 41-year-old Torres, mother of a two-year-old daughter, clinched a spot in her fifth Olympics by winning the 100-meter freestyle.

It's been an incredible Olympic run for Torres, winner of nine medals, starting with a relay gold in 1984 in her current home city of Los Angeles, and most recently capturing four medals in 2000 -- this after coming out of a seven-year retirement.

Not only that, but last November Torres had surgery to remove a bone spur responsible for a partial rotator cuff tear in her right shoulder. She also had surgery on her knee in January.