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Battle for LA28: U.S. Women Facing Epic Challenge for Qualification in Sprint Freestyle and Backstroke The group of women representing the United States in international swimming over the past few years represents one of the greatest shows of depth in the sport's history. At the 2025 World Champions...

Absent American Swimmers Who Could Have Boosted Pan Pacs Medal Haul As expected, the Pan Pacific Championships featured most of the top times recorded by American swimmers in 2026, but there were numerous exceptions. In some cases, swimmers posted their best times at mid-season competitions while ot...

Isabelle Stadden Continues Stellar Year With 2:04.76 200 Backstroke for National Title One year ago, Isabelle Stadden was outside of the championship finals in the 100 and 200 backstroke at U.S. Nationals, having not swum a best time in four years. Now, she has moved to the forefront of the world ba...

The 2019 Speedo Winter Junior Nationals West continued Thursday night from Federal Way, Washington, at the King County Aquatic Center. It is the first full finals session with individual events and the top junior swimmers from the West were on display. SPEEDO WINTER JUNIOR NATIONALS WEST DETAILS ...

U.S. Nationals, Day Two Women's Prelims: Virginia Upstarts Madi Mintenko, Sophia Umstead Claim Top Seeds Day Two of the USA Swimming 2026 Toyota National Championships have kicked off from Irvine, California. The women's events for the Day Two prelims include the 200 freestyle, 200 breaststroke, 200...

Pro Swim Series Westmont, Day 3 Finals: Summer McIntosh Crushes 1:53.80 200 Free; Gretchen Walsh Impressive in 100 Fly Semis The first three events on the program Friday evening at the USA Swimming Pro Swim Series in Westmont, Ill., featured world-record holders racing in their respective events. Ka...

TYR Pro Swim Series Mission Viejo: Abbey Weitzeil Swims Season-Best Time to Dominate Strong 100 Free Field (Women's Recap) With many of the top sprinters in the country converging in the women's 100 freestyle final, Abbey Weitzeil claimed a dominant victory to start out the Thursday night finals ses...

Pro Swim Series, Day 3 Prelims: Caeleb Dressel Delivers Fastest 50 Free Since Paris Caeleb Dressel had an eventful morning in prelims of the TYR Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis Friday. The nine-time Olympic gold medalist was a pedestrian 15th in prelims of the 50 freestyle with a time of 22.48. But ...

The 2026 USA Swimming TYR Pro Swim Series kicked off its Indianapolis stop on Wednesday, July 17, from the Indiana Natatorium. The events for Day 1's prelims session is the women's and men's 200 IM, 50 breaststroke, 100 backstroke and 200 freestyle. Here is a look at what happened in the session: Li...

By Grace Nordquist, Swimming World College Intern. Night two of the 2019 NCSA (National Club Swimming Association) Junior National Swimming Championship meet completed with more top swims. Tonight’s events included: Men and Women’s 200 Backstroke, Women’s 100 Freestyle, Men’s 500 Freestyle, Men and ...

The TYR Pro Swim Series stop in Irvine, California, continued with several of the top swimmers in the country putting together strong performances. Friday's final session started with a dominating performance from Emma Weyant. After getting disqualified during U.S. Nationals and missing a chance for...

Day Two of the 2019 TYR Pro Swim Series Bloomington was perhaps one of the most climactic nights of the long course season, as Lilly King entered as the underdog and Nathan Adrian rounded out his first full day of competition since his testicular cancer diagnosis. Some of the top names in the sport ...

The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault Non-subscribers can download this issue here - only $.99 for a limited time! In this issue of SW Biweekly, check out our full recap of all the biggest stories from the U.S. Nationals held July 2...

Isabelle Stadden competed at her first NCAA Championships with no crowd and no expectations. With no dual meets during the regular season, there was little opportunity to race prior to the Pac-12 Championships. The then-freshman at Cal performed well, winning the Pac-12 title in the 200 backstroke a...

Pro Swim Series Indianapolis, Day 3 Finals: Katie Ledecky Goes Sub-4:00 in 400 Free for 35th Time The third finals session of USA Swimming's Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis featured women's and men's finals in the 200 butterfly, 50 freestyle, 200 backstroke and 400 freestyle. The swim of the night b...

Fort Lauderdale Open, Day 3 Prelims: Katie Ledecky, Summer McIntosh to Joust Again in 200 Free The first full night session of the Fort Lauderdale Open on Thursday night hosted the latest dual between Katie Ledecky and Summer McIntosh. Friday night, we’ll get a battle over a distance that is becomin...

Jack Alexy Drops 21.94 50 Free; Ilya Kharun, Leah Polonsky Impress at Speedo Grand Challenge Jack Alexy produced a fast time in the men’s 50 freestyle, and Leah Polonsky and Ilya Kharun both were quick over the weekend at the Speedo Grand Challenge. Alexy may have supplied the most impressive swim o...

5 Female Swimmers Staring at Breakout Summers: Isabelle Stadden Ready to Continue Rise Over the next few months, stretching through the Asian Games in September, several of the biggest names in the sport will add to their legacies. It could be Summer McIntosh and Katie Ledecky starring at the Pan Pa...

Pro Swim Series Indy, Day 2 Prelims: Katharine Berkoff Fires Meet Record in 50 Back Katharine Berkoff was ready to go for Thursday’s prelims session of the TYR Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis, popping a meet record in the women’s 50 backstroke. Her time of 27.05 downs the series mark of 27.13 set by...

A big session for the University of Virginia is expected on Night Four of the United States National Championships in Irvine, California. The Cavaliers claimed the top seed in all three events that will be contested on Friday night at the William Woollett Aquatics Center, including Isabelle Stadden ...