The 2025 World Aquatics Swimming Championships is underway, with two-time Olympic gold medalist and Pelham native Kate Douglass representing the U.S. The competitors is being held on the Singapore Sports Hub by August 3, that includes high swimmers from world wide competing in a 50-meter long-course pool.
Most lately, Douglass raced within the 2025 United States National Championships meet at Indiana University. At this qualifying meet for the US worlds staff, she gained a complete of 5 medals, together with golds in each the ladies’s 100m and 200m breaststroke, and silver within the 50m fly, and can subsequently be competing in these occasions in Singapore. Her fourth-place end within the 100m free certified her for the 4x100m freestyle relay at Worlds.
This is the fourth time that the Olympic champion has competed on the long-course world championships. Last December Douglass competed within the brief course (25m) variant of the World Aquatics Championships, by which she set world data within the ladies’s 200m breaststroke (2:12.50) and girls’s 200m medley (2:01.63). In addition to her particular person world data, Douglass was additionally part of two record-breaking relays within the ladies’s 4x100m freestyle relay (3:25.01) and 4x100m medley relay (3:40.01).
Douglass began her Singapore marketing campaign robust Sunday morning, incomes a silver medal within the ladies’s 4x100m freestyle relay, with a time of 51.9 seconds in her leg of the relay. Her subsequent look shall be within the heats of the ladies’s 100m breaststroke Monday, adopted by heats of the ladies’s 200m breaststroke on July 31. The competitors for the ladies’s 50m butterfly begins on August 1.