2021 TYR Pro Swim Series April - (Tag)

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...

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...

31-year-old Bruno Fratus out-touched Caeleb Dressel in the 50 freestyle at Mission Viejo at the TYR Pro Swim Series as the gold and silver medalist from the last two Worlds lined up alongside each other in southern California in a battle of the titans. Fratus won the matchup with a 21.80 to Dressel'...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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....

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 ...

Alabama's Rhyan White swam a very impressive 2:07.24 in the finals of the 200 backstroke on Sunday at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mission Viejo as she is now leading the national rankings thus far in 2021. White just wrapped up her junior year at the University of Alabama where she was runner-up at t...

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...

Michael Andrew blasted the front half of the 200 IM turning at 53.85 as he was less than a second off world record pace, but did not have the back half speed, swimming a 1:57.98, which is the fastest an American has been in 2021. Andrew was a 1:27.5 at the 150 and was well in front of the rest of th...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...