2021 TYR Pro Swim Series April - (Tag)

TYR Pro Series: Caeleb Dressel Grabs Top Seed in Prelims of 100 Freestyle; Michael Andrew Strong in 200 IM Based on the first two days, the last session of preliminaries at the TYR Pro Series stop in Mission Viejo is expected to produce additional quick times. USA Swimming’s decision to go with a To...

Any meet featuring a large collection of the country’s best swimmers just two months out from the Olympic Trials can provide a large swath of information regarding the eventual makeup of the Olympic team. Even if few swimmers are swimming close to their best times at this point in the season, the TY...

USA Swimming announced today that the next leg of the 2021 TYR Pro Swim Series will return to San Antonio March 3-6. The long-course meet will take place at the Bill Walker Pool & Josh Davis Natatorium, which hosted one of the two January multi-venue TYR Pro Series competition sites. This competiti....

The 2021 TYR Pro Swim Series stop in Mission Viejo is not only an important meet because of the return to racing for many swimmers, but also a chance to feel the reverse schedule for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The meet is prelims in the evening with finals the morning after, something that will mirror...

Olivia Smoliga swam an impressive 59.04 in winning the 100 back on Saturday morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mission Viejo as her time is the fastest any American has been this year, as she won ahead of Kathleen Baker (59.50). Smoliga and Baker were the two representatives for the United States...

Katie Ledecky and Her Unbeatable Mystique Pushing Toward Tokyo Katie Ledecky is not “back.” That would imply she was ever anything but history’s most dominant freestyler and the world’s best female swimmer, which is simply not the case. But at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mission Viejo, fans have saw ...

Nathan Adrian won the men's 100 freestyle on Sunday morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series with a 48.74 as the only swimmer to break 49 seconds in the heat. Reigning world champ Caeleb Dressel was noticeably absent from the heat as he had scratched this and the 200 IM, but his Florida teammate Eric Frie...

Caeleb Dressel took his second win of the 2021 TYR Pro Swim Series in Mission Viejo with a 51.61 in the 100 butterfly from lane 1 as he held off Luis Martinez (51.77) from the middle of the pool. Dressel earlier won the 200 freestyle ahead of Andrew Seliskar, who was also in this 100 fly field. Seli...

The 2021 TYR Pro Swim Series from Mission Viejo kicked off Thursday morning from southern California as USA Swimming is using this as a tune-up and prep meet for the Olympic Games by holding finals in the morning 107 days from the start of the Games. Leah Smith, who made the final in the 800 at the ...

Lack of Fans Could Be Factor For Slower Times at TYR Pro Series With less than 100 days until the United States Olympic Trials and 138 days until the Olympic Games, the Olympic fever is starting to heat up as we inch closer and closer to Tokyo. It was this week last year when the world was put on pa...

Katie Ledecky, Caeleb Dressel Set to Headline Next Pro Series Stop; Morning Finals Planned In two weeks, all eyes will turn from the college swimming to pro swimming world as the 2021 Pro Swim Series continues with its Mission Viejo stop. The meet will take place from April 8-11 at Marguerite Aquati...

Katie Ledecky swam the world's fastest time in the 1500 freestyle with a 15:40.55 on Sunday morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mission Viejo in a dress rehearsal for the Tokyo Olympics with finals being held in the morning. Ledecky improved on her 15:42 season best from March as she is looking to...

USA Swimming Reduces TYR Pro Series to Two Sites Due to SoCal COVID Restrictions USA Swimming has announced that the upcoming TYR Pro Series event, scheduled for Jan. 14-17, has been reduced from a three-site competition to a two-site meet. While the meet will still take place with fields in San Ant...

Lilly King swam a solid 2:22.38 in winning the 200 breaststroke on Saturday morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mission Viejo as she was a 2:22.1 in March at Speedo Sectionals to sit fourth in the world currently. King was out quickly at 1:07.97 and held off teammate Annie Lazor (2:22.73) for seco...

Caeleb Dressel once again proved he can bring his best no matter what the situation. It didn’t matter that finals were in the morning, or that he had a double within a half hour. Or that there haven’t been many races at all in 2021, let alone against world class competition. But all of those factors...

Five Races to Watch at the TYR Pro Swim Series Mission Viejo The TYR Pro Swim Series from Mission Viejo will be this weekend in southern California as the countdown continues to the Omaha Olympic Trials and Tokyo Olympic Games. With countries like Russia and Japan holding their selection meets for t...

Melanie Margalis swam a season best in the 400 IM on Friday morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mission Viejo with a 4:35.18, which is right up there with Yui Ohashi's world leading swim of 4:35.14 from earlier this week in Japan. Margalis is now second in the world rankings ahead of this summer's...

Katie Ledecky, the reigning Olympic champ in the 200 freestyle, swam a lifetime season best of 1:54.40 in the 200 freestyle on Friday morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mission Viejo, California as she broke her own meet record of 1:54.43 from 2016. Ledecky's time is the top time in the world for...

Katie Ledecky continued to make distance swimming look easy as she swam a 3:59.25 in the 400 freestyle on Saturday morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series in April, which is her 20th time under the 4:00 mark. Ledecky finished well in front of the reigning Olympic bronze medalist Leah Smith at 4:06.37, wh...

Nick Albiero followed up his first NCAA title in March with a 1:57.86 to win the 200 butterfly on Saturday morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mission Viejo, holding off Chase Kalisz in the process, who was second at 1:58.16. Albiero led from the front, splitting a 55.76 and 1:26.37 at the second ...