Gary Hall Jr. Brings Sports Betting to Swimming With Anchor Line Sports

EDITOR NOTE: Anchor Line Sports will beta check on the 2026 Summer Nationals. Anchor Line Sports might be dwell and open to the general public for the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships. 

July 14, 2026 (Carlsbad, CA) – Anchor Line Sports, the primary sports activities betting information and analytics platform purpose-built for Olympic adjoining sports activities, at this time introduced an unique partnership with ALT Sports Data, the chief in complete sports activities betting information and fan engagement options for various and rising sports activities. Under the settlement, ALT Sports Data will function the official and unique international betting information and distribution accomplice for Anchor Line Sports, delivering regulated, real-time odds, pricing, and information feeds for Olympic class sports activities to licensed sportsbook operators worldwide.

“An estimated $12B was wagered on the 2024 Paris Olympics, with no centralized betting hub. Sports betting is a proven fan engagement tool, instrumental in attracting and retaining fanbase. Sports compete for viewership, and sponsorship values scale according to reach. Money sports utilizing this valuable tool hold advantage. Anchor Line Sports aims to change that by equipping Olympic adjacent sport federations with the same tool.”

– Gary Hall, Jr., CEO of Anchor Line Sports

Hall misplaced his house and swim faculty enterprise within the Palisades Fire in January 2025. He additionally misplaced his 10 Olympic swimming medals. The International Olympic Committee changed Hall’s medals in a particular ceremony at IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland in May 2025.

“If successful, this will be my legacy contribution back to the sport and Olympic movement that shaped my life. It’s taken everything I have, every favor earned, and the resilient character forged by Olympic competition to get Anchor Line Sports to launch. This is my all-in.”

Anchor Line Sports now serves because the unique bridge between sports activities betting and Olympic class sports activities, providing worldwide sport federations a regulated betting platform.

“Olympic sports have an incredibly passionate global audience and a statistical and technical depth that is ideal for sports betting. Splits measured in hundredths of a second, head-to-head matchups, rivalries, relay formats, and back-to-back finals across multiple disciplines in a single session. By combining Anchor Line’s deep expertise with ALT Sports Data’s trading platform and operator relationships, we are bringing a world-class betting product to a category that has never had one.”

-Todd Ballard, President and Chief Growth Officer, ALT Sports Data

Swimming is among the many most globally acknowledged and took part disciplines in sport. With main championship occasions drawing a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of viewers throughout the Olympic cycle with a devoted, year-round fan base carefully monitoring sports activities information by means of world rankings, cut up instances, and particular person athlete efficiency. The sport presents a compelling and largely untapped betting alternative. Despite international attain, no main sportsbook operator at the moment provides significant markets for elite aggressive swimming. Together, Anchor Line Sports and ALT Sports Data ship.

The announcement comes as Anchor Line Sports prepares for inside beta testing on the USA Swimming National Championships on the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center in Irvine, California, July 28–August 1, 2026. The meet serves as the first choice occasion for the United States nationwide workforce and attracts the highest American swimmers. Anchor Line Sports hopes to subject play on the Pan Pacific Championships, additionally in Irvine, August 12–15, highlighting an escalating rivalry between the United States and Australia, making Southern California the middle of elite aggressive swimming because the LA28 Olympic Games method.

Starting with the game of swimming, Anchor Line Sports will broaden to different Olympic themed sports activities within the lead as much as the LA28 Olympics.

ABOUT ANCHOR LINE SPORTS

Anchor Line Sports is the primary sports activities betting information and analytics platform purpose-built for Olympic class sports activities. Founded by Gary Hall Jr. a ten-time Olympic medalist and Olympic Hall of Fame inductee, the corporate serves as a centralized sports activities betting information hub, offering official occasion information, efficiency analytics, integrity monitoring, and market infrastructure by means of acquired partnership rights. Anchor Line Sports operates in unique partnership with ALT Sports Data. For extra data, go to anchorlinesports.com or e mail [email protected]

ABOUT ALT SPORTS DATA

ALT Sports Data is bringing the following wave of shoppers to sports activities betting. By empowering various sports activities leagues to take part in authorized dwell sports activities betting, ALT Sports Data permits their companions to activate, monetize and retain followers, whereas giving the world larger entry to the sports activities they honestly love. Their official and unique league information rights energy [PRTL], their proprietary buying and selling platform. Leveraging superior information fashions and market insights, ALT Sports Data offers real-time odds and pricing for the biggest sportsbook operators on this planet that embrace FanDuel, DraftKings and bet365.

Further, their demand era engine boasts unique entry to 200+ million social media followers and followers, rivaling the world’s largest sports activities properties in attain and engagement. By partnering with the leagues to entry these, they effectively drive buyer demand for sports activities guide operators in a method that no different information supplier can. ALT Sports Data additional accelerates engagement by way of their owned media channel, NXTbets.com, to tell, entertain and interact audiences round betting on these sports activities. For extra data on ALT Sports Data, please go to altsportsdata.com or e mail [email protected]