Swimming Discussion | Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Road to LA 2028

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4 minutes ago, Epic Failure said:

Hanlon is the most unlucky, in my opinion. Aside from relay cover, she's the 50m champ and they made a point of including consideration for those events being in LA for the other discretionary picks. Essentially she has the same case for selection as Max Morgan (albeit without the trajectory right now).

 

Blocksidge's form was way off this week (compared to her previous bests). Obviously being still young you could put that down to relative inexperience. Still, she has World and European Juniors that she could still be selected for this summer. There's an argument that performing well at those might be as beneficial as going to Singapore.

 

That said, I'm happy that they did take a bunch of discretionary picks. That's not always been the case.

Yeah, we have such a strong crop of Juniors, that we can’t take them all. They all have exciting trajectories but to predict what Junior swimmers will is always difficult. Better to let them all swim together at Juniors than rocketing them all up to seniors and swimming a prelim and going home.

[Topicmaster1010 6,614]

At the pro swim series today, Katie Ledecky swam 15:24.51 in the 1500m freestyle. That's the 2ND FASTEST performance of all time only trailing her world record from 2018.

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European Record in men's 800m Freestyle at the German National Championships in Berlin. Sven Schwarz  7:38,12 minutes.

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It's only the prelims of the pro swim series, but Gretchen Walsh has already broken the 100m butterfly World Record: 55.09

[Josh 13,622]

8:04.12 

 Katie Ledecky absolutely smashed her previous WR mark in the women’s 800m freestyle at the TYR Pro Swim Series Westmont with an extremely fast last 50m 

[Josh 13,622]

57.46 for  Regan Smith in the women’s 100m backstroke!

 

This has got to be one of the Pro Swim Series’ of all time. 

[Josh 13,622]

54.60,  Gretchen Walsh with another WR in the women’s 100m butterfly 

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swimswam has self-combusted

 

Edited May 3, 2025 by Topicmaster1010

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     WTF???     

 

12-Yr-Old  Yu Zidi Crushes 2:10.63 In Women’s 200 IM At Chinese Nationals

 

Yesterday, we reported that 12-year-old Yu Zidi set a new lifetime best of 2:12.52 in the women’s 200m IM semi-final at the 2025 Chinese National Championships.

 

Well, buckle up because the youngster just destroyed that already other worldly swim with a new personal best of 2:10.63.

 

 

For perspective, Yu’s previous swim obliterated the current U.S. National Age Group Records for girls and boys.

 

Teagan O’Dell owns the girls’ NAG at 2:18.69 while Richard Poplawski owns the boys in 2:13.59.

 

Flash forward to tonight and Yu split 27.47/32.98/39.44/30.74 to earn silver behind winner Yu Yiting who grabbed gold in 2:08.67.

 

Yu easily cleared the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard of 2:12.83 needed to qualify for the World Championships.

 

She now ranks 14th in the world on the season.

 

 

credits: swimswam.com

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 19 yo Apostolos Siskos smashes the NR in the men's 200 backstroke 

His previous PB was 1:55.42 from last year, then he got 1:55.18 last week, now today he got 1:54.66 at the National Championships, which beats Apostolos Christou's 1:54.82 from Paris 2024 which gave him the silver medal