Lani Pallister swims third quickest 400m freestyle in historical past on the 2025 Swimming World Cup Westmont

Kharun and Ponti reignite dash duel in Westmont

There have been loads of fireworks within the males’s 100m butterfly, as Switzerland’s Noe Ponti and Canada’s Ilya Kharun confronted off for the second week in a row.

And once more, the victory went to Ponti in a time of 48.47 seconds. But it wasn’t all uneven water and silver medals for Kharun, as he notched a win of his personal within the males’s 50m freestyle, clocking 20.72 seconds to take the highest spot forward of teammate Josh Liendo (20.87).

Australia’s Kaylee Mckeown additionally fought a decent battle towards Team USA’s Gretchen Walsh, who ventured away from her favoured breaststroke and freestyle distances to present the ladies’s 50m backstroke an opportunity.

While the American didn’t attain the wall first – clocking 25.65 seconds to complete second behind McKeown (25.63) – she nonetheless impressed together with her sprinting talents and flexibility throughout strokes.

It was a efficiency that foreshadowed her dominant displaying within the girls’s 100m particular person medley, the place she set the new World Cup report at 55.77 seconds.

Not one to be omitted of the report hunt, Team USA’s Regan Smith powered to victory within the girls’s 200m butterfly, setting a brand new World Cup report within the course of at 2:00.20.

Elsewhere, Poland’s Katarzyna Wasick celebrated her second win of the season within the girls’s 50m freestyle, whereas Hubert Kos continued his reign over the lads’s 200m backstroke.

Celebrations have been additionally to ensure that residence favourites Shaine Casas and Kate Douglass, as they snagged standard wins within the males’s 100m particular person medley and ladies’s 200m breaststroke to shut out the primary day of finals in Westmont.