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Ledecky ties all-time medal file, the Seine opens to triathletes
Katie Ledecky wins her first gold in Paris to tie a file, U.S. ladies impress in each soccer and BMX and the Seine is clear sufficient for triathletes.
FORT LAUDERDALE — A Who’s Who in swimming will compete within the Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open that will get beneath means Wednesday, April 29 at Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center.
World file holders Katie Ledecky, Gretchen Walsh, Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand head the sphere for the four-day meet.
The meet has almost 600 swimmers, together with 25 Olympians and 7 reigning world champions. Action will get underway Wednesday at 5 p.m. with the timed finals of the gap occasions.
Swimmers from three Palm Beach County membership groups shall be competing.
Jupiter Dragons has the second largest Florida Gold Coast contingent with 9. They are Trey Chesney, 17, Reese Garland, 14, Gabe Guglietta, 18, Charles Howard, 17, Feagin Kaminski, 16, Dillon Metz, 18. Veronica Metz, 16, Hayden Scholl, 16 and Asher Smith, 17. North Palm Beach Swim Club has three swimmers: Tessa Broedell, 16, Trace Colton, 15, and Eamon Lappas-Ford, 17. Boca Raton-based Performance Aquatics’ Josiah Morales, 31, additionally will compete.
In final 12 months’s meet, three world data had been damaged on the ultimate day. Ledecky, a nine-time Olympic gold medalist, lowered her personal ladies’s 800-meter freestyle world file (8:04.12). Walsh broke the ladies’s 100-meter butterfly twice (55.09 after which 54.60).
Marchand will race the identical schedule he did on the 2024 Paris Olympics. The four-time Olympic gold medalist will swim the 200-meter butterfly, 200-meter breaststroke and 200- and 400-meter particular person medleys. He holds the IM world data. Marchand is tuning up for the European Championships in Paris this summer season.
At 19, McIntosh is a three-time Canadian Olympic gold medalist, having received the 200 meter butterfly and 200- and 400-meter particular person medleys at Paris 2024. Last August in Singapore, she received 4 world titles and Swimmer of the Meet honors.
Other world-class swimmers entered are Regan Smith, Josh Liendo, Hubert Kos, Caeleb Dressel, Bobby Finke, Emma Weyant, Claire Curzan, Alex Walsh, Simone Manuel, Kate Douglass and Dylan Carter.
Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open
Wednesday timed finals 5 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday, prelims 9 a.m., finals 6 p.m.Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center, 501 Seabreeze Blvd.Tickets $10 for prelims, $15 for finals. For tickets/data: 954-828-4580
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