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Pan Pacific Championships, Day Three Prelims: Van Mathias Chasing 50 Breast Crown Fresh off his win in the 100 breaststroke and near miss of his American record, Van Mathias will be in the pool again on Friday morning at the Pan Pacific Championships in the 50 breast. Mathias was the top seed in the...

Pan Pacs: After PB, Gretchen Walsh ‘Might Like’ 100 Free Again It’s unusual, given Gretchen Walsh’s all-conquering abilities in the sprints, to hear the American express her shortcomings in an event. But the 100 freestyle is that for the former Virginia superstar. Or, maybe she hopes, it was. Walsh ...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night Two Finals: Van Mathias .01 off AR in 100 Breast The 100 is Van Mathias’ world, and everyone else is just breaststroking in it. Not bad for an event he maintains wasn't a priority at the beginning of the year. Mathias went 58.02 on Thursday night to win gold at the P...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night Two Finals: Women's 100 free For not the first time in this Olympic quad, a women’s race broke cleanly along American vs. Australian lines. In the sprint freestyle, it’s advantage Aussies this time around. Meg Harris picked up the win in 52.60 seconds, outtouching Gr...

Florent Manaudou Confirms Retirement from Swimming Florent Manaudou, one of the sport’s great sprinters and one of France’s all-time greatest swimmers, has confirmed his retirement from the sport. Manaudou, 35, hasn’t competed since the 2024 Olympics in Paris, in which he won bronze in the 50 freest...

Pan Pacific Championships: Asaki Nishikawa, Fan Yaqi Win Swim-Offs The second morning of preliminaries at the Pan Pacific Championships included not one but two swim-offs, with Japan’s Asaki Nishikawa and Fan Yaqi of China securing A final spots. Nishikawa broke a tie with countryman Yumeki Kojima f...

Pan Pacific Championships, Day Two Men’s Prelims: Tomoyuki Matsushita Scares 400 IM Meet Record Tomoyuki Matsushita started the morning strong at the Pan Pacific Championships Thursday, nearly taking down the meet record in the 400 individual medley. Matsushita went 4:07.61, which is .02 off the com...

Pan Pacific Championships Night One Finals: Sam Short Adds 800 Free Gold Sam Short is putting together another outstanding summer. He added to it with one more gold medal Wednesday night. Short went 7:37.02 Wednesday night to win the men’s 800 free at the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, Califor...

Pan Pacific Championships Night One Finals: Luke Hobson Holds off Gabriel Jett in 200 Free Luke Hobson looked amazing early. Gabriel Jett closed like crazy. In between, the U.S. has two pretty impressive swims in the men’s 200 free. Hobson just held off Jett by .11 seconds to win gold on the first n...

Pan Pacific Championships Night One Finals: Ben Armbruster Wins 50 Fly Three swimmers swapped the meet record in prelims at the Pan Pacific Championships on Wednesday morning. There was little separating them again at night. Ben Armbruster led the way with a time of 22.75 seconds, a meet record. He ...

Pan Pacific Championships, Day 1 Men's Prelims: Three Trade Meet Marks in 50 Fly The morning session at the Pan Pacific Championships was going to have guaranteed racing in at least one dimension. With only two finalists for each county allowed in locked finals and up to five participants per countr...

Sight of SoFi Gives Summer McIntosh Chills as She Preps Program for Pan Pacs Summer McIntosh’s training has long been geared to be in Los Angeles in 2028. She’s in Southern California this week for a dry run. The four-day Pan Pacific Championships will present different challenges and opportunities ...

Hawaii Hires NCAA Champ QiongJie Drew as Head Diving Coach The University of Hawaii this week announced the hiring of QiongJie Drew as the program’s head diving coach. Drew, who competed under her maiden name QiongJie Huang, was an eight-time All-American who won 1-meter springboard at the NCAA Cham...

Pan Pacific Championships: Moesha Johnson Swims Away with Open Water Crown Australia’s Moesha Johnson went to the front early in Monday’s 10-kilometer swim at the Pan Pacific Championships. She made a mockery of it late. The Olympic silver medalist was in control most of the way, then made a move wi...

Pan Pacific Championships: Florian Wellbrock Adds Another Title in Men's Open Water Different continent, different field, same result for Florian Wellbrock. The impervious German made his flight to Los Angeles worthwhile, adding a gold medal in the Pan Pacific Championships in the men’s 10-kilometer...

Lafayette Coach Jim Dailey to Retire after 32 Seasons Lafayette College head swimming and diving coach Jim Dailey announced on Friday that he will retire before the 2026-27 season, ending 32 seasons at the helm of the program. Mike Rinde will take over as interim head coach. He has been an assistant...

Japan’s Tomoru Honda Out of Pan Pacs, Asian Games after Driving Charge Japan’s Tomoru Honda will not participate in the Pan Pacific Championships and Asian Games after a charge of reckless driving. The Japanese aquatic federation announced the news on Friday. It said that Honda, the silver medalist ...

Olympic Medalist Gabriele Detti Announces Retirement Italian Olympic medalist Gabriele Detti announced his retirement from the sport on Wednesday, a decade after he won a pair of medals at the Rio Olympics. Detti, 31, won bronze in the 400 free and 1,500 free at the Rio Olympics in 2016. He was at t...

Olympian Jordan Wilimovsky Inducted to Northwestern Athletics Hall of Fame Olympic swimmer Jordan Wilimovsky was announced last week as a member of the 2026 Northwestern Athletics Hall of Fame Class. The class will be inducted on Oct. 23, with an on-field recognition during the Oct. 24 football game...

Texas Inducts Amy Shaw, Garrett Weber-Gale to Hall of Honor Swimmers Garrett Weber-Gale and Amy Shaw were announced this week in the Hall of Honor 2026 Class by the University of Texas. Members of the Hall will get a special salute during the Longhorn’s Sept. 19 football game against UTSA. Weber-Gal...