USA Swimming Announces Dates, Format Changes for 2026 TYR Pro Swim Series

USA Swimming Announces Dates, Format Changes for 2026 TYR Pro Swim Series

The 2026 TYR Pro Swim Series will look slightly totally different, USA Swimming introduced on Tuesday in unveiling dates and tweaks to every meet.

The four-leg meet will run from January to June. It will characteristic an “updated competition structure” that features prelims/semifinals/finals for sure occasions. Each of the 4 meets will embrace one distance occasion that could be a prelims/finals format as an alternative of the same old quickest warmth. As such, meets shall be now characteristic 4 full days (morning and night classes) versus the three days plus a leaning night distance session of the previous.

The rationale, per a USA Swimming press release, is “to mirror the racing environment athletes experience at major international meets and enhance long-course racing opportunities throughout the season.”

The meets will happen Jan. 14-17 in Austin, Texas; March 4-7 in Westmont, Ill.; May 20-23 in Sacramento, Calif.; and June 17-20 in Indianapolis.

“In preparation for what’s ahead in LA28, it has become clear we need to create more long-course racing opportunities for our National Team,” stated Greg Meehan, Managing Director of the National Team. “This new format at TYR Pro Swim Series meets in 2026 is a great first step by contesting some events in a prelims/semifinals/final format or a prelims/final distance format. It’s especially important in 2026 without a traditional nine-day meet to finish the long-course season.”

In addition, the USA Swimming National Team division has altered the occasion order barely. The meet comes with elevated prize cash at sure meets for sure occasions. The competitors design, as Meehan stated, will put together the U.S. for the 2028 Olympics and fills the pre-planned hole of no choice meet forward of the Pan Pacific Championships subsequent summer season.

From the press launch:

These changes align with USA Swimming’s broader give attention to efficiency growth main into the subsequent Olympic cycle. By replicating the bodily and psychological calls for of championship-style racing, the TYR Pro Swim Series continues to function a essential developmental platform for National Team and National Junior Team athletes on their path to LA28. 

The particular adjustments for every 2026 TYR Pro Swim Series meet:

• Austin, Jan. 14-17: prelims/finals of the ladies’s 800 free; prelims/semis/finals of fifty strokes and 200 IM; prize cash improve to $3,000 for winners of fifty strokes, 200 IM and girls’s 800 free
• Westmont, March 4-7: prelims/finals of males’s 800 free; prelims/semis/finals of all 100s; prize cash improve to $3,000 for winners of 100s and males’s 800 free
• Sacramento, May 20-23: prelims/finals of girls’s 1500 free; prelims/semis/finals of all stroke 200s (excluding 200 IM); prize cash improve to $3,000 for winners of stroke 200s (excluding 200 IM) and girls’s 1500 free
• Indianapolis, June 17-20: prelims/finals of males’s 1500 free; prize cash improve to $3,000 for winners of 400 free, 400 IM and males’s 1500 free