Fort Lauderdale Open: Loaded Field, Led by Returning World Record Setters Ledecky, Walsh (Psych Sheets)

Fort Lauderdale Open: Loaded Field, Led by Returning World Record Setters Ledecky, Walsh (Psych Sheets)

The 2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open kicks off subsequent week with a loaded discipline.

The meet runs April 2-May 2.

While not a part of the Pro Swim Series this 12 months, the lasting impacts of final 12 months’s meet might be on the minds of swimmers and followers, led by world data by Katie Ledecky and Gretchen Walsh.

The duo returns to steer the sector to the positioning of the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale.

Ledecky is scheduled to swim the 200, 400, 800 and 1500 freestyles, whereas Walsh will swim the 50 and 100 butterfly and 50, 100 free, 200 free and 50 backstroke.

They might be joined by the highest names in North America, Summer McIntosh, Kate Douglass, Simone Manuel, Katharine Berkoff, Alex Walsh, Regan Smith, Claire Curzan, Anna Moesch, Emma Weyant, Erin Gemmell, Katie Grimes, Jillian Cox, Phoebe Bacon and extra. Kasia Wasick joins McIntosh as one of many prime worldwide swimmers within the meet. The Polish Olympian will swim the sprints. Mona McSharry can be within the lineup for Fort Lauderdale

The males’s discipline is led by France’s Leon Marchand, who trains in Texas. He will swim the 200 butterfly, 200 breaststroke and each IM occasions.

Hubert Kos, Caeleb Dressel, Ilya Kharun, Josh Liendo, Shaine Casas, Chris Guiliano, Bobby Finke, Luke Hobson, Carson Foster, Kieran Smith and extra will be a part of the lads’s discipline.

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