Oceania

Pan Pacific Championships, Day 3 Finals: Sam Williamson Edges Michael Houlie, Van Mathias in 50 Breast; Third Individual Gold of Summer For the seventh time in three days of racing at Pan Pacs, an Australian swimmer has won gold after previously topping the same event on the other side of the Atlant...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night Three Finals: Team USA Snares Gold in 400 Freestyle Relay as Legendary WR Survives Older fans of the sport can typically recall where they viewed. Younger fans have gone the digital route to watch the race. Regardless of age, the legend of the United States' 400-mete...

Pan Pacific Championships, Day 3 Finals: Amid 'Rocky' Meet, Regan Smith Pulls Away From Claire Curzan for 200 Back Gold Puzzling might be the best description for the collection of performances Regan Smith has put together at the Pan Pacific Championships. First came a 100 backstroke performance tha...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night Three Finals: Matthew Temple, Ben Armbruster 1-2 in 100 Fly The summer has been good to Australian butterfliers. All three medalists at the Commonwealth Games in the 50 were Aussies. They took both minor medals in the 100 and 200. Two of them belonged to Ben Armbrust...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night Three Finals: Sam Short Takes Down Ian Thorpe Championship Record in 400 Freestyle The feeling of invincibility is a sense all athletes dream of experiencing at some point in their careers. In that moment, they exude unmatched confidence and enter competition with th...

Pan Pacific Championships: Yumeki Kojima Wins Men’s 200 Backstroke; Canada Takes Two Medals Japan’s Yumeki Kojima powered away from a competitive field to win the men’s 200-meter backstroke Friday night at the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships. Kojima touched in 1:55.38 at the William Woollett Jr. Aqua...

Pan Pacific Championships, Day 3 Finals: Lani Pallister Holds Off Katie Ledecky in 400 Free, Continues Stretch of Gold Medals When this summer championship season concludes, Lani Pallister will end up among the most decorated performers from this stretch of regional competition. Pallister captured f...

Pan Pacific Championships: Night Three Heat Sheets; Ledecky vs. Pallister - Part II The third night of finals at the Pan Pacific Championships will get underway with Round Two of Katie Ledecky vs. Lani Pallister, this time in the 400-meter freestyle. On Night One, Ledecky edged Pallister in the 1500...

Pan Pacific Championships: Day Three Heat Sheets; Battle Brewing in Women's 400 Freestyle The third morning session at the Pan Pacific Championships will start with the can't-miss women's 400-meter freestyle, as world-record holder Summer McIntosh lines up with Katie Ledecky and Lani Pallister. All ...

Pan Pacific Championships, Day Two Finals: Gabriel Jett Anchors U.S. to 800 Freestyle Relay Crown Seventeen years ago, Rome was the site of a world-record blitz during the World Championships. At the height of the super-suit era, 43 global standards were set in "The Eternal City," and while just a h...

Pan Pacific Championships, Day Two Finals: Quintin McCarty Wins 50 Backstroke in Record 24.51 Quintin McCarty delivered a championship-record performance in the men’s 50-meter backstroke at the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships, charging to victory from Lane Six in 24.51 on Thursday night. McCarty edge...

Pan Pacific Championships, Day Two Finals: Jack Alexy Mines Gold in 100 Freestyle; USA Set for 400n Freestyle Relay A little more than two weeks ago, Jack Alexy walked away from the 100-meter freestyle at the United States National Championships with a seventh-place finish. The performance he logged...

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...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night Two Finals: Tomoyuki Matsushita Holds Off Surging Carson Foster for 400 IM Title Two of the three medalists from the Paris Olympics highlighted the Pan Pacs final of the men's 400 IM, and both delivered sterling performances in a showdown that came down to the wire. ...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night Two Finals: Summer McIntosh Extends Long Winning Streak in 400 IM With 10th-Best Time Ever Following a narrow loss to Lani Pallister in the 200 freestyle, Summer McIntosh set her sights on a gold medal in one of her signature events. And as expected, no one came clos...

Pan Pacific Championships: Night Two Heat Sheets; Can USA Take Down WR in Men's 800 Freestyle Relay? The second night session of the Pan Pacific Championships will end with the men's 800-meter freestyle relay, where the United States will take aim at the world record that has endured for 17 years. A...

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 Heat Sheets; Kate Douglass Opts for 100 Breaststroke After the first night of the Pan Pacific Championships delivered a world record in the mixed 400-meter medley relay and victories from Katie Ledecky (1500 freestyle) and Lani Pallister (200 freestyle), expectatio...

Pan Pacific Championships: Australia Goes 1-2 in Women's 200 Fly Behind Brittany Castelluzzo The Commonwealth Games brought a wholesale reconfiguration of best times for Brittany Castelluzzo. The Australian kept the good times rolling in Irvine Wednesday night. Castelluzzo won the women’s 200 fly at...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night One Finals: Katie Ledecky Adds to Legacy in 1500 Freestyle A pair of Olympic titles. Six world championships. Three Pan Pacific crowns. Those are the international credentials for the United States' Katie Ledecky in the 1500-meter freestyle, an event the 29-year-old ...