Three Extra Swimmers, Together with a Paris 2024 Olympian, Added to Enhanced Games Roster

Organizers of the Enhanced Games have confirmed three extra swimmers for its inaugural occasion in Las Vegas in May.

Bulgarian 26-year-old Antani Ivanov, British 28-year-old Emily Barclay, and Mexican 31-year-old Miguel de Lara Ojeda, are the newest batch of registrants for the substance-fueled spectacle.

Ivanov’s participation was leaked on Monday, with him telling SwimSwam that the Enhanced Games gave him a possibility after he was barred by his federation from the Olympic motion. Ivanov is within the midst of a sequence of suspensions that leaves him ineligible to symbolize Bulgaria till a minimum of 2028.

He was the 2017 World Junior Championships bronze medalist within the 200 fly and 2016 European Junior Championships silver medalist within the 200 fly.

He represented Bulgaria on the 2020 Summer Olympics, ending twenty ninth within the 100 fly and twentieth within the 200 fly. His greatest time within the 100 meter fly is 51.93 and the 200 meter fly, not but an introduced occasion on the Enhanced Games, is 1:54.50.

He additionally represented Virginia Tech within the NCAA, putting third within the 200 fly in 2021.

Emily Barclay, one other former NCAA swimmer at Arkansas, turns into simply the 4th girl to signal onto the Games, becoming a member of Natalie Fryckowska of Poland, Isabella Arcila of Colombia, and Megan Romano of the United States.

Barclay’s final official race got here on the Swim England National Championships in December 2021 briefly course meters. She made restricted worldwide appearances representing Britain throughout her profession, with the spotlight being a bronze medal on the 2019 World University Games.

Primarily a dash freestyler, her lifetime bests in lengthy course are 24.94 within the 50 and 56.45 within the 100, each from 2018. The World Records in these races are 23.61 and 51.71, respectively.

De Lara, in the meantime, certified for his first Olympic Games in 2023 at 28 years previous with a 2:09.60 within the 200 breaststroke. Now 31, he’s one other swimmer who has hung out coaching within the United States, together with with professional teams based mostly out of Auburn and Virginia Tech (the place Ivanov raced on the varsity squad).

De Lara has seven gold medals from the Central American and Caribbean Games in breaststroke races, and was the 2019 bronze medalist within the 200 breaststroke and 2023 bronze medalist within the 100 breaststroke on the Pan American Games.

He competed on the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, the place he completed twenty eighth within the 100 breaststroke and twenty fourth within the 200 breaststroke.

He is the Mexican Record holder in each occasions, with a better of 1:00.14 over 100 meters and a couple of:09.60 over 200 meters.

He rounds out the sphere because the fourth Enhanced Games participant within the males’s breaststroke races, with the occasion specializing in 4 swimmer timed finals occasions.

He joins Brazilian Felipe Lima, American Cody Miller, and Russian Evgenii Somov within the males’s breaststroke discipline.

Announced Enhanced Games Participants

While official particulars of pay packages are restricted, many reviews circulating point out six-figure base salaries for these collaborating within the Enhanced Games.

Event winners have been promised $500,000, with a sub-World Record time within the 50-meter free being provided a $1 million bonus.

The Enhanced Games this week has moved its coaching base to Abu Dhabi, with the competitors scheduled to happen at Resorts World in Las Vegas from May 21-24, 2026.