When Is Katie Ledecky Swimming At Worlds? Times And Watch Information

The 2025 World Aquatic Championships are the largest worldwide aquatics competitors because the 2024 Paris Olympics. The occasion started on Friday, July 11 in Singapore, however the swimming begins this weekend.

The competitors runs for eight days, from Sunday, July 27 to Sunday, August 3. Swimming followers are used to seeing preliminary classes within the morning and finals within the night, although with Singapore 12 hours forward of Eastern Time, that schedule might be flipped for American viewers. Preliminary classes start in Eastern Time at 10:00 pm ET, which suggests the primary session of swimming on the World Championships might be on Saturday, July 26 for American followers. Finals start at 7:00 am ET all through the competitors.

All classes will air reside on Peacock, with NBC displaying a delayed spotlight broadcast on Saturday, August 3 and Saturday, August 9.

Schedule

All the occasions from the 2024 Olympic schedule might be on provide in Singapore, although the schedules are totally different. The World Championship schedule additionally options 50-meter races for butterfly, backstroke, and breaststroke. World Aquatics introduced in April that these occasions can be added to the 2028 LA Olympics.

The solely different occasion change from the Olympic lineup is the blended 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

Day 1

• Preliminaries: Women’s 200-meter IM, Men’s 400-meter freestyle, Women’s 100-meter Butterfly, Men’s 50-meter butterfly, Women’s 400-meter freestyle, Men’s 100-meter breaststroke, Women’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay, Men’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay
• Finals: Men’s 400-meter freestyle closing, Women’s 100-meter butterfly semifinals, Men’s 50-meter butterfly semifinals, Women’s 400-meter freestyle closing, Men’s 100-meter breaststroke semifinals, Women’s 200-meter IM semifinals, Women’s 4×100-meter freestyle relay closing, Men’s 4×100-meter freestyle closing

Day 2

• Preliminaries: Women’s 100-meter backstroke, Men’s 100-meter backstroke, Women’s 100-meter breaststroke, Men’s 200-meter freestyle, Women’s 1500-meter freestyle
• Finals: Men’s 100-meter breaststroke closing, Women’s 100-meter butterfly closing, Men’s 100-meter backstroke semifinals, Women’s 100-meter breaststroke semifinals, Men’s 50-meter butterfly closing, Women’s 100-meter backstroke semifinals, Men’s 200-meter freestyle semifinals, Women’s 200-meter IM closing

Day 3

• Preliminaries: Men’s 50-meter breaststroke, Women’s 200-meter freestyle, Men’s 200-meter butterfly, Men’s 800-meter freestyle
• Finals: Men’s 200-meter freestyle closing, Women’s 1500-meter freestyle closing, Men’s 50-meter breaststroke semifinals, Women’s 100-meter backstroke closing, Men’s 100—meter backstroke closing, Women’s 200-meter freestyle semifinals, Men’s 200-meter butterfly semifinals, Women’s 100-meter breaststroke closing

Day 4

• Preliminaries: Women’s 50-meter backstroke, Men’s 100-meter freestyle, Men’s 200-meter IM, Women’s 200-meter butterfly, Mixed 4×100-meter medley relay
• Finals: Men’s 800-meter freestyle closing, Women’s 200-meter freestyle closing, Men’s 100-meter freestyle semifinals, Women’s 50-meter backstroke semifinals, Men’s 200-meter butterfly closing, Men’s 50-meter breaststroke closing, Women’s 200-meter butterfly semifinals, Men’s 200-meter IM semifinals, Mixed 4×100-meter medley relay closing

Day 5

• Preliminaries: Women’s 100-meter freestyle, Men’s 200-meter backstroke, Women’s 200-meter breaststroke, Men’s 200-meter breaststroke, Women’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay
• Finals: Women’s 200-meter butterfly closing, Women’s 100-meter freestyle semifinals, Men’s 200-meter IM closing, Men’s 100-meter freestyle closing, Women’s 200-meter breaststroke semifinals, Women’s 50-meter backstroke closing, Men’s 200-meter breaststroke semifinals, Men’s 200-meter backstroke semifinals, Women’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay closing

Day 6

• Preliminaries: Men’s 100-meter butterfly, Women’s 200-meter backstroke, Men’s 50-meter freestyle, Women’s 50-meter butterfly, Men’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay, Women’s 800-meter freestyle
• Finals: Women’s 100-meter freestyle closing, Men’s 100-meter butterfly semifinals, Women’s 200-meter backstroke semifinals, Men’s 50-meter freestyle semifinals, Men’s 200-meter breaststroke closing, Men’s 200-meter backstroke closing, Women’s 200-meter breaststroke closing, Women’s 50-meter butterfly semifinals, Men’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay closing

Day 7

• Preliminaries: Women’s 50-meter freestyle, Men’s 50-meter backstroke, Women’s 50-meter breaststroke, Mixed 4×100-meter freestyle relay, Men’s 1500-meter freestyle
• Finals: Women’s 50-meter butterfly closing, Men’s 50-meter freestyle closing, Women’s 200-meter backstroke closing, Men’s 100-meter butterfly closing, Women’s 50-meter freestyle semifinals, Men’s 50-meter backstroke semifinals, Women’s 800-meter freestyle closing, Mixed 4×100-meter freestyle relay closing

Day 8

• Preliminaries: Men’s 400-meter IM, Women’s 400-meter IM, Men’s 4×100-meter medley relay, Women’s 4×100-meter medley relay
• Finals: Men’s 50-meter backstroke closing, Women’s 50-meter breaststroke closing, Women’s 50-meter freestyle closing, Men’s 1500-meter freestyle closing, Men’s 400-meter IM closing, Women’s 400-meter IM closing, Women’s 4×100-meter medley relay closing, Men’s 4×100-meter medley relay closing

When To Watch The World Championships’ Biggest Stars

All dates and occasions in ET

Katie Ledecky

• Preliminaries: July 26, 400-meter freestyle; July 28, 1500-meter freestyle; July 31, 800-meter freestyle
• Finals: July 27, 400-meter freestyle closing; July 29, 1500-meter freestyle closing; August 2, 800 freestyle closing

Katie Ledecky arrives on the World Championships in sensational kind. She broke her 800-meter freestyle world file from 2016 throughout an in-season meet in May, swimming 8:04.12. At the identical meet, she posted the second-fastest 400-meter and 1500-meter freestyle of her profession. She carried that momentum to the 2025 U.S. Nationals, sweeping the gap freestyle occasions to qualify for her seventh World Championships.

Ledecky is in prime place so as to add to the 26 World Championship medals she has received over the course of her storied profession. She may write her title into the historical past books as soon as once more at this meet—a gold within the 800-meter freestyle would make her the primary swimmer to win seven consecutive World Championship golds in a person occasion. But she might want to have the race of her life to finish the feat as teenage phenom Summer McIntosh has added the occasion to her Worlds program.

In addition to her particular person occasions, Ledecky ought to swim within the closing of the ladies’s 4×200-meter freestyle relay for the United States on July 31.

Summer McIntosh

• Preliminaries: July 26, 400-meter freestyle and 200-meter IM; July 29, 200-meter butterfly, July 31, 800-meter freestyle; August 2, 400-meter IM
• Finals: July 27, 400-meter freestyle closing and 200-meter IM semifinals; July 28, 200-meter IM closing; July 30, 200-meter butterfly semifinals; July 31, 200-meter butterfly closing; August 2, 800-meter freestyle closing, August 3, 400-meter IM closing

McIntosh dazzled on the 2024 Paris Olympics, profitable three gold medals and one silver simply three years after making her Olympic debut in Tokyo at simply 14 years outdated. The versatile teenager has taken this yr by storm, breaking three world data on the Canadian World Trials.

She has additionally added the 800-meter freestyle to her already crowded schedule this season, placing her at 5 particular person occasions. McIntosh is aiming to turn out to be the primary swimmer since Michael Phelps to win 5 particular person gold medals at a single World Championships and her battles with Ledecky within the 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle might be two of her largest exams on the highway to her purpose. The first day of the competitors may even be essential, as McIntosh will race the 400-meter freestyle closing about half-hour earlier than the 200-meter IM semifinals.

Despite a busy particular person schedule, McIntosh must also participate in at the very least one of many Canadian ladies’s relays.

Léon Marchand

• Preliminaries: July 29, 200-meter IM; August 2, 400-meter IM
• Finals: July 30, 200-meter IM semifinals; July 31, 200-meter IM closing; August 3, 400-meter IM closing

After a shocking residence Olympic Games the place he received 4 gold medals—together with two in a single session—Léon Marchand is taking a extra relaxed method to the 2025 World Championships. He was initially entered within the 4 occasions he received Olympic gold in final summer time however French media reported this week Marchand wouldn’t swim the 200-meter breaststroke nor the 200-meter butterfly. The report was confirmed by the updated entry book, the place Marchand is simply entered within the 200-meter and 400-meter IM.

The lowered schedule removes a few powerful doubles for Marchand and provides him a transparent shot at Ryan Lochte’s 14-year-old 200-meter IM world file (1:54.00). Marchand missed the mark by simply six-hundredths in Paris, swimming 1:54.06 to finish his quartet of Olympic golds. Should Marchand break Lochte’s world file in Tokyo, he would then personal the long-course world file in each the 200-meter and 400-meter particular person medley.

Gretchen Walsh

• Preliminaries: July 26, 100-meter butterfly; July 30, 100-meter freestyle; July 31, 50-meter butterfly; August 1, 50-meter freestyle
• Finals: July 27, 100-meter butterfly semifinals; July 28, 100-meter butterfly closing; July 31, 100-meter freestyle semifinals; August 1, 100-meter freestyle closing and 50-meter butterfly semifinals; August 2, 50-meter butterfly closing and 50-meter freestyle semifinals; August 3, 50-meter freestyle closing

Gretchen Walsh has been on hearth since final summer time, when she first took over the 100-meter butterfly world file on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials and received 4 medals at her debut Olympics. Since the 2024 Olympics, Walsh turned in historic performances on the 2024 Short Course World Championships and the 2025 NCAA Championships, the latter of which earned her an ESPY nomination for Best Collegiate Athlete in Women’s Sports.

Walsh lowered her 100-meter butterfly world file twice throughout an in-season meet in May, swimming 54.60 within the closing to turn out to be the primary lady beneath 55 seconds in occasion historical past. She certified for 4 particular person occasions on the 2025 World Championships and might be a medal menace in all of them.

As the world file holder within the ladies’s 100-meter butterfly and the second-place finisher within the 100-meter freestyle on the 2025 U.S. Nationals, Walsh might be a key swimmer for the U.S relays. Along together with her 4 particular person occasions, she ought to race on the 4×100-meter freestyle and medley relays for each the ladies’s and blended occasions.