Day 1 Finals Dwell Recap

2026 PRO SWIM SERIES – AUSTIN

Wednesday Finals Heat Sheet

Welcome to the primary finals session of the 2026 Pro Swim Series cease in Austin. Not solely is that this the primary finals session of the collection, however it’s also the primary time swimming followers will get to see the newly launched semifinals in motion.

Tonight’s occasions will begin with the quickest heats of the lads’s and girls’s 1500 freestyle. Katie Ledecky is the clear favourite on the ladies’s aspect, coming in seeded greater than a minute quicker than the remainder of the sphere after the 2nd, third, and 4th seeds scratched the occasion this morning.

On the lads’s aspect, Bobby Finke is the highest seed, however he faces a decent problem within the type of Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen, the Olympic bronze medalist within the occasion.

That race will probably be adopted by the primary semifinal of the meet, the 50 freestyle. Beryl Gastaldello and Simone Manuel are the highest two seeds out of prelims, with Gastaldello incomes the highest spot by simply over two tenths. The males’s race sees Brooks Curry and Maxime Grousset within the high spots, separated by simply seven hundredths. The high eight swimmers will advance to tomorrow’s last, the place they may all have the possibility to vie for the $3,000 occasion winner bonus.

That will probably be adopted by the 100 breaststroke finals. The girls’s occasion will see 17-year-old Caprie Moreno swim the ‘B’ last in a lane by herself whereas reigning World Champion Anna Elendt holds the highest seed within the ‘A’ last. Van Mathias holds the highest spot on the lads’s aspect by a few second over Denis Petrashov.

We will see our 2nd semifinal of the session within the 200 IM the place World Record holders Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand are the 2nd and third seeds respectively after scratches, each coming in additional than 10 seconds slower than their World Record instances within the prelims. Teagan O’Dell and Carson Foster are the highest girls’s and males’s seeds.

The night will wrap up with the 100 backstroke finals, which have the makings to be essentially the most thrilling swims of the session.

Regan Smith and Rylee Erisman lead the ladies’s occasion with Erisman coming in lower than two tenths again of the World Record holder Smith, pointing to a possible upset tonight. The males’s race sees Frenchman Mewen Tomac as the highest seed in 55.48, simply 5 hundredths forward of countrymate Yohann Ndoye Brouard‘s 55.53. Mathys Chouchaoui, additionally from France, is the third seed in 55.78, simply two tenths again.

Women’s 1500 FREESTYLE — Fastest Heat

Men’s 1500 Freestyle — Fastest Heat

• World Record: 14:30.67 – Bobby Finke, USA (2024)
• American Record: 14:30.67 – Bobby Finke, USA (2024)
• US Open Record: 14:40.28 – Bobby Finke, USA (2024)
• PSS Record: 14:52.56 – Peter Vanderkaay, USA (2008)
• World Jr Record: 14:41.22 – Kuzey Runcelli (2024)
• Pool Record: 15:05.51 – Ilia Sibirtsev (2025)

WOMEN’S 50 FREESTYLE – Semifinals

• World Record: 23.61 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2023)
• American Record: 23.91 – Kate Douglass/Gretchen Walsh, USA (2024)
• US Open Record: 23.91 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2024)
• PSS Record: 24.17 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2016)
• World Jr Record: 24.17 – Claire Curzan, USA (2021)
• Pool Record: 24.17 – Sarah Sjostrom

MEN’S 50 FREESTYLE – Semifinals

• World Record: 20.91 – Cesar Cielo, BRA (2009)
• American Record: 21.04 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2019)
• US Open Record: 21.04 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2019)
• PSS Record: 21.51 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2020)
• World Jr Record: 21.75 – Michael Andrew, USA (2017)
• Pool Record: 21.44 – Fred Bousquet

WOMEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE – Finals

• World Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King, USA (2017)
• American Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King, USA (2017)
• US Open Record: 1:04.45 – Jessica Hardy, USA (2009)
• PSS Record: 1:05.32 – Lilly King, USA (2022)
• World Jr Record: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU (2013)
• Pool Record: Lydia Jacoby – 1:06.30

MEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE – Finals

• World Record: 56.88 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2019)
• American Record: 58.14 – Michael Andrew (2021)
• US Open Record: 58.14 – Michael Andrew (2021)
• PSS Record: 58.67 – Michael Andrew (2021)
• World Jr Record: 58.94 – Shin Ohashi, JPN (2025)
• Pool Record: 59.45 – Alexei Avakov

WOMEN’S 200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – Semifinals

• World Record: 2:05.70 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2025)
• American Record: 2:06.15 – Ariana Kukors (2009)
• US Open Record: 2:06.79 – Kate Douglass, USA (2024)
• PSS Record: 2:06.82 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2025)
• World Jr Record: 2:06.56 – Summer McIntosh, CAN (2024)
• Pool Record: 2:08.51 – Madisyn Cox

MEN’S 200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – Semifinals

• World Record: 1:52.69 – Leon Marchand, FRA (2025)
• American Record: 1:54.00 – Ryan Lochte (2011)
• US Open Record: 1:54.43 – Ryan Lochte, USA (2010)
• PSS Record: 1:55.68 – Leon Marchand, FRA (2023)
• World Jr Record: 1:56.99 – Hubert Kos, HUN (2021)
• Pool Record: 1:57.20 – Carson Foster

WOMEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE – Finals

MEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE – Finals

• World Record: 51.60 – Thomas Ceccon, ITA (2022)
• American Record: 51.85 – Ryan Murphy, USA (2016)
• US Open Record: 51.94 – Aaron Peirsol, USA (2009)
• PSS Record: 52.40 – David Plummer, USA (2016)
• World Jr Record: 52.08 – Mirin Lifintsev (2024)
• Pool Record: 52.51 – Shaine Casas