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2025 women's swimming rankings going into Toyota U.S. Championships
In yet another sign of Gretchen Walsh's progression, she goes into next week's Toyota U.S. Swimming Championships ranked No. 1 in the country in four different events. The top two finishers per event — plus up to the top six in the 100m and 200m freestyles for relay purposes — make the team for the World Championships in Singapore in July and August, should they meet a minimum qualifying time and the total roster not exceed 26 swimmers per gender. Walsh followed her first Olympics and first world record in 2024 by again breaking the 100m butterfly world record at her most recent meet — twice in one day at the Tyr Pro Series stop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is the fastest woman in the world this year in the 50m and 100m freestyle and 50m and 100m butterfly, according to World Aquatics rankings. Katie Ledecky is the only American woman to win four events at a single spring or summer nationals in the last decade — taking the 200m through 1500m frees at the last two Olympic Trials. The 50m butterfly, which makes its Olympic debut in 2028, hasn't been contested at all of those nationals, though. Nick Zaccardi, Ledecky again tops the seeds in the 400m, 800 and 1500m frees. She hasn't lost any of those three events at nationals since 2012. She's also expected to swim the 200m free to earn a place on the 4x200m free relay at worlds. Regan Smith, an eight-time Olympic medalist, is the No. 1 seed in the 100m and 200m backstrokes and the 200m butterfly and No. 2 in the 50m back and 200m individual medley. 2025 U.S. Women's Swimming Rankings Times taken from USA Swimming's database. Not all swimmers are entered in the U.S. Championships. The late entry deadline is the end of Sunday. 50m Freestyle 1. Gretchen Walsh -- 24.33 2. Torri Huske -- 24.47 3. Simone Manuel -- 24.54 4. Kate Douglass -- 24.62 5. Julia Dennis -- 24.79 100m Freestyle 1. Gretchen Walsh — 52.90 2. Torri Huske -- 52.95 3. Simone Manuel -- 53.11 4. Kate Douglass -- 53.61 5. Rylee Erisman -- 53.78 200m Freestyle 1. Claire Weinstein -- 1:54.93 2. Katie Ledecky -- 1:55.51 3. Erin Gemmell -- 1:56.41 4. Simone Manuel -- 1:57.34 5. Torri Huske -- 1:57.71 400m Freestyle 1. Katie Ledecky — 3:56.81 2. Claire Weinstein -- 4:01.26 3. Jillian Cox -- 4:07.34 4. Erin Gemmell -- 4:09.31 5. Emma Weyant -- 4:09.75 800m Freestyle 1. Katie Ledecky — 8:04.12 2. Jillian Cox -- 8:23.58 3. Claire Weinstein -- 8:26.06 4. Kate Hurst -- 8:30.35 5. Michaela Mattes -- 8:34.76 1500m Freestyle 1. Katie Ledecky — 15:24.51 2. Jillian Cox -- 16:04.13 3. Kate Hurst -- 16:14.26 4. Michaela Mattes -- 16:21.06 5. Kayla Han -- 16:28.92 50m Backstroke 1. Katharine Berkoff -- 27.34 2. Regan Smith -- 27.43 3. Rhyan White -- 27.75 4. Claire Curzan -- 27.86 5. Leah Shackley -- 28.24 100m Backstroke 1. Regan Smith — 57.46 2. Leah Shackley -- 58.53 3. Katharine Berkoff -- 58.79 4. Claire Curzan -- 59.46 5. Kennedy Noble -- 59.63 200m Backstroke 1. Regan Smith — 2:06.32 2. Audrey Derivaux -- 2:06.68 3. Leah Shackley -- 2:08.14 4. Claire Curzan -- 2:08.20 5. Rhyan White -- 2:08.83 50m Breaststroke 1. Skyler Smith -- 30.49 2. Lilly King -- 30.55 3. Emma Weber -- 30.57 4. Alex Walsh -- 30.90 5. Lucy Thomas -- 31.10 100m Breaststroke 1. Kate Douglass -- 1:06.51 2. Emma Weber -- 1:06.63 3. Lilly King -- 1:06.67 4. Alex Walsh -- 1:07.36 5. Skyler Smith -- 1:07.85 200m Breaststroke 1. Kate Douglass -- 2:20.78 2. Alex Walsh -- 2:22.91 3. Leah Hayes -- 2:27.60 4. Isabelle Odgers -- 2:28.89 5. Sarah Zhang -- 2:29.51 50m Butterfly 1. Gretchen Walsh — 24.93 2. Kate Douglass -- 25.39 3. Regan Smith -- 25.63 4. Beata Nelson -- 26.21 5. Torri Huske -- 26.23 100m Butterfly 1. Gretchen Walsh -- 54.60 2. Torri Huske -- 56.59 3. Regan Smith -- 56.85 4. Alex Shackell -- 57.31 5. Leah Shackley -- 57.92 200m Butterfly 1. Regan Smith -- 2:05.38 2. Alex Shackell -- 2:06.13 3. Audrey Derivaux -- 2:06.46 4. Lindsay Looney -- 2:08.59 5. Caroline Bricker -- 2:09.39 200m Individual Medley 1. Alex Walsh -- 2:08.84 2. Regan Smith -- 2:10.25 3. Leah Hayes -- 2:11.12 4. Audrey Derivaux -- 2:11.53 5. Isabel Ivey -- 2:12.52 400m Individual Medley 1. Emma Weyant -- 4:33.95 2. Leah Hayes -- 4:38.78 3. Kayla Han -- 4:40.58 4. Audrey Derivaux -- 4:41.48 5. Katie Grimes -- 4:42.48
NBC Sports
5 days ago
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2025 Toyota U.S. Swimming Championships TV, live stream schedule
The Toyota U.S. Swimming Championships, the meet that determines the team for this summer's World Championships, airs live on Peacock from June 3-7. The top two finishers per event — plus up to the top six in the 100m and 200m freestyles for relay purposes — make the team for worlds in Singapore in July and August, should they meet a minimum qualifying time and the total roster not exceed 26 swimmers per gender. Headliners include all four U.S. swimmers who won individual gold at the Paris Olympics — Katie Ledecky, Kate Douglass, Torri Huske and Bobby Finke. Plus individual gold medalists from the 2016 Rio Games Simone Manuel and Lilly King and world record holders Regan Smith and Gretchen Walsh. Already this season, Ledecky and Walsh broke world records in the 800m free and 100m butterfly, respectively, at a Tyr Pro Series meet in Fort Lauderdale. The U.S. Championships will be followed by rival Australia's trials from June 9-14. 2025 U.S. Swimming Championships Schedule *Highlights show Nick Zaccardi,
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6 days ago
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Katie Ledecky rides world record wave into Toyota U.S. Swimming Championships
Just how good was Katie Ledecky's most recent swim meet? 'I would kind of put Rio (the 2016 Olympics) and Fort Lauderdale (the Tyr Pro Series meet four weeks ago) maybe as 1A and 1B now,' she said. 'I don't want to compare the two of them, because they're two different meets. They're two different slates of events.' From April 30-May 3, Ledecky swam the second-fastest time in history in the 1500m freestyle, her second-fastest time ever in the 400m free and, to cap it off, her first world record in the 800m free, her trademark event, since those Rio Games. 'It was certainly the best meet I probably had in a long while,' she said Tuesday. Ledecky has spent nearly 13 years at the top of her sport — from her first Olympic gold at age 15 in 2012 to winning five titles each at the World Championships in 2015 and 2017 to breaking the record for most Olympic golds for a U.S. woman in any sport last summer. Yet Ledecky placed the 2025 Tyr Pro Swim Series at Fort Lauderdale in the same sentence as the meet she is arguably most known for: the 2016 Rio Olympics. In Brazil, Ledecky became the second swimmer to sweep golds in three individual freestyle events at one Games after Debbie Meyer, who won the same 200m, 400m and 800m events in 1968. Next for Ledecky: the Toyota U.S. Championships from June 3-7 in Indianapolis (live nightly at 7 ET on Peacock). She plans to swim her usual slate — the 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m frees, with the 200m included to earn a place on the 4x200m free relay at the World Championships in July and August in Singapore. Over the next two months, Ledecky can add to her 30 career national titles (including Olympic Trials) and her 21 World Championships titles (five shy of Michael Phelps' record). But she is sticking to her mindset from a month ago — 'It's almost like, if the season was over now, I'd be happy,' she said during the Fort Lauderdale meet, one day before the 800m free world record. 'I'm keeping the pressure off,' she said Tuesday. 'I was kind of just reminding myself over and over ... I need to continue to just stay level-headed with my approach going to these meets and recognize that there's still going to be ups and downs. That's sport.' Ledecky's Fort Lauderdale feats were a product of her offseason training. She changed coaches after the Olympics in 2012 (Yuri Suguiyama left her D.C. area club for Cal), 2016 (she matriculated at Stanford) and 2021 (she moved to the University of Florida). After the 2024 Games, she stayed put with Anthony Nesty's group of professional Gators, including fellow Olympic distance champion Bobby Finke. 'That allowed me to have a nice kind of mental break right after Paris,' she said. 'I didn't have the stress of the change.' Ledecky took a month of vacation in the early fall, visiting her native Maryland, Salt Lake City, Palo Alto and San Diego and lifting in hotel gyms. 'It was kind of a fun activity on the plane rides, googling lap-swimming hours at various schools,' to find pools for training, she said. She resumed her routine in Gainesville in late October and 'quickly got back in shape.' The next months were a contrast from late 2023 and early 2024, when a non-serious but lingering upper respiratory illness interrupted training. But not enough to affect her performance in Paris several months later, when she won another four Olympic medals, including two golds, bringing her totals to nine and 14. 'Reflecting on what's been going well this year,' she said of her recent training, 'that's just one piece of it that I felt was substantial in Fort Lauderdale.' Yet Ledecky had no lofty goals for that Tyr Pro Series meet, which many used as a tune-up for the U.S. Championships. FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - MAY 01: Katie Ledecky reacts after winning the 400m freestyle in 3 minutes, 56.81 seconds at a Tyr Pro Series meet in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It's her second-best time ever behind her 2016 Olympic swim of 3:56.46, which stood as the world record until 2022, on May 01, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo by) Getty Images 'There was no special preparation for it,' she said when asked how tapered she was. Ledecky still wasn't expecting a colossal week when she touched the wall after her first race, winning the 1500m free by nearly 40 seconds. She thought she swam well enough that her time would be between 15:29 and 15:35 — faster than any other woman in history, but outside her five fastest times ever. Then she caught sight of the scoreboard at the outdoor pool next to the International Swimming Hall of Fame. It read 15:24.51, the second-best time ever behind her world record of 15:20.48 from 2018. Ledecky owns the 22 fastest times in history in the event, which she hasn't lost in 15 years. In the next day's 400m free, she was nearly a body length behind Canadian Summer McIntosh with 100 meters to go. Then Ledecky zoomed past the 18-year-old, triple gold medalist from Paris, outsplitting her by 2.32 seconds over the last lap. Those two races, plus the months of work before it in Gainesville, gave Ledecky confidence when she typed out the now-famous note in her phone going into the 800m free, her final race of the meet. 'Something I do often, actually,' she said of what she called 'a doodle.' 'Sometimes, when I'm just sitting in my hotel room before a race, it's almost like visualizing, I would say. I just kind of think through what splits I think I could hold, or how I want to swim the race. It kind of helps me visualize it to write out splits.' In her first visualization, Ledecky saw herself swimming around 8:05.5. A spectacular time to be sure, but she also knew it was just shy of her 8:04.79 world record from the Rio Olympics. So she decided to shave a tenth of a second off here or there among her estimated 50-meter split times. The Stanford psychology graduate did the math. It spit out 8:04.6. A few hours later, she swam 8:04.12 to break her first long-course world record in any event in seven years. Ledecky didn't think back to the prophetic note until the next day. She took a screenshot, added the word 'Believe' and shared it on Instagram. Katie Ledecky 'I had a lot of belief in myself going into that (race),' she said. 'I wasn't going to be disappointed if I didn't go that time. I mean, I'm realistic. I wasn't setting expectations on myself, even as the week was progressing. But I kind of knew I had something good in me for that last race.' By excelling past her 25th birthday, Ledecky had already reached the longevity that none of her distance-swimming predecessors did. Now 28, she quelled her own doubts about challenging her best times from her teens. 'I don't know if I ever thought I was going to be 3:56 again,' she said moments after her 3:56.81 in the 400m free in Fort Lauderdale. Her 3:56.46 at the Rio Olympics was the world record until 2022. She is now up to 15 career individual world records in long-course pools, tying the U.S. female record. The first 13 of them came from 2013-16. 'When I was kind of on that world record tear for those few years, it just felt like every race, I kind of went into it with the idea that I could break a record,' she said. 'I don't think I completely lost that mindset, but it's been seven years since I've broken one. It's been nine years since the 800m one. I came to an OK place with the fact that those are just really hard records that I set for myself, and it's not like I'm going to break them every single meet now. I just kind of stopped putting that pressure on myself, or stopped putting that expectation on myself. I just kind of swim a little more free and just try to improve in different areas, improve off of the previous year or the previous two years or whatever it is rather than always comparing myself to my 19-year-old self or whatever it may be.' Nick Zaccardi,
Forbes
05-05-2025
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Ledecky Closes Pro Swim Series With 800 Free World Record
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - MAY 01: Katie Ledecky reacts after winning the 400m freestyle in 3 ... More minutes, 56.81 seconds at a Tyr Pro Series meet in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It's her second-best time ever behind her 2016 Olympic swim of 3:56.46, which stood as the world record until 2022, on May 01, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo by) Katie Ledecky has done it again. Just a day after clocking the second-fastest 1500 freestyle of her career at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Fort Lauderdale (15:24.51), the 28-year-old followed up with her fastest 400 freestyle since the 2016 Rio Olympics. She posted a time of 3:56.81—the seventh-fastest in history and just shy of her lifetime best of 3:56.46. This swim now holds the record as the fastest 400 freestyle ever recorded by a woman on American soil. Ledecky came from behind in the race, trailing three-time Olympic champion Summer McIntosh until the final stretch. The two were neck and neck at the last flip turn, but Ledecky pulled ahead with a strong final 50 meters to secure the win. At the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, Australian Ariarne Titmus won the 400 freestyle with a time of 3:57.49, followed by Summer McIntosh in 3:58.37, and Katie Ledecky, who took bronze with a time of 4:00.86. That being said, Ledecky's performance at the Pro Swim Series would have been fast enough to win gold in Paris. FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - MAY 03: Katie Ledecky sets a World Record in the Women's 800m Freestyle ... More Final at Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center on May 03, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo by) But that wasn't the only highlight of Ledecky's performance in Fort Lauderdale. She closed the meet by breaking her own world record in the 800 freestyle—a time that had stood since the 2016 Rio Olympics. Ledecky lowered the nine-year-old record from 8:04.79 to 8:04.12, a performance that reaffirmed she's still going strong at 28. Jillian Cox finished second in 8:23.58. It was Ledecky's first world record in a long course event since 2018, when she set her lifetime best in the 1500 freestyle. Throughout her career, she has now broken 15 individual long course world records. Ledecky currently holds the 10 fastest times in history in the 800 freestyle. The next closest performer is Canada's Summer McIntosh, who posted a personal best of 8:09.86 earlier in 2025. No other woman has ever broken the 8:10 barrier. FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - MAY 03: Gretchen Walsh wins the Women's 100m Butterfly Final A with a ... More World Record at Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center on May 03, 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo by) To top it off, Olympic gold medalist and recent 2025 NCAA champion Gretchen Walsh—fresh off helping the University of Virginia secure its fifth consecutive team title—lowered her own world record in the 100 butterfly, becoming the first woman to break 55 seconds. Her previous world record was 55.18, set during the semifinals of the U.S. Olympic Trials last June. In Fort Lauderdale, Walsh posted a 55.09 in the prelims lowering it to 54.60 in the finals. Walsh also holds the NCAA record in the 100 fly with a time of 46.97, set at the 2025 NCAA Championships, becoming the first woman to break 47 seconds in the event. Ledecky expressed her excitement for Walsh's achievement. Ledecky's training partner, Bobby Finke, also had strong performances at the Pro Swim Series. Finke won both the 800 free and 1500 free, and finished first in the 400 IM, out-touching France's Leon Marchand, who holds the world record in that event. Looking ahead, the U.S. National Championships, which will determine the team for the World Championships, are set to take place in Indianapolis, Indiana, from June 3-7.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
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Katie Ledecky outraces Summer McIntosh with best 400-meter time in 9 years
Katie Ledecky is having quite the week in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A day after posting the second-fastest women's 1500-meter time in history, the nine-time Olympic gold medalist posted her best swim in nine years in the 400-meter freestyle, a 3:56.81 at the Tyr Pro Series meet. It was her first major appearance since the Paris Olympics last year. Significantly, she did it with a comeback win on the last lap in the final, overtaking Summer McIntosh, the Canadian who broke out in Paris. — Media Sports (@medialogfix) May 1, 2025 Ledecky's time is a new American record, the seventh-best time in history and her second-best ever, behind only a 3:56.46, the one-time world record that won her the gold medal in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Thursday's impressive win was an accomplishment she didn't see coming, via NBC Sports: 'I don't know if I ever thought I was going to be 3:56 again,' Ledecky said on Peacock. The race was a partial rematch in one of the more disappointing events in Ledecky's Paris program. Ledecky took bronze and McIntosh took silver in the 400-meter behind gold medal winner Ariarne Titmus, who led from wire to wire. Ledecky's time on Thursday would have won the gold medal in Paris (Titmus swam a 3:57.49), though that was in a different pool with different conditions. Titmus, the world-record holder in the event, has said she will sit out most major events this year, setting up a clash between Ledecky and McIntosh at the world championships in Singapore later this year. With wins in the 1500-meter and 400-meter freestyle already in hand, Ledecky is set to compete in both the 200-meter freestyle and 400-meter individual medley Friday. Neither event is a specialty for her, though she still has the 800-meter freestyle remaining on the program.
