Psych Sheets Launched For 2026 Pan Pacific Championships

2026 PAN PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

The preliminary entry lists for the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships have been launched with the competitors lower than one week away from kicking off in Irvine.

Unlike the Olympics or World Championships, the place nations are restricted to 2 swimmers per occasion, nations can enter as many athletes as they’d like in every race at Pan Pacs, although solely two per nation can advance to the ‘A’ remaining.

As a end result, some swimmers are doubtless over entered, which means they’re penciled in for extra occasions than they’ll really swim at Pan Pacs, however the launch of the entries does give us a good suggestion of who’s swimming what, and which occasions some athletes have dominated out.

It’s notably noteworthy that Kaylee McKeown and Mollie O’Callaghan nonetheless seem on the entry lists regardless of each swimmers withdrawing from the meet.

Among the notable entries, Canadian celebrity Summer McIntosh has opted to not enter the ladies’s 800 freestyle on the ultimate day of the competitors, avoiding a battle with the 200 IM.

McIntosh is entered to race the ladies’s 200 free, 400 free, 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM, and if she had been to race all 5, her lone particular person occasion double would come on Day 1, when the 200 free and 200 fly happen.

Among the Americans, Regan Smith is notably not entered to swim the ladies’s 200 fly, which comes instantly earlier than the 100 again on Day 1. In addition to the three backstrokes, Smith can be entered within the 200 IM.

Virginia coaching mates Kate Douglass, Alex Walsh and Claire Curzan are three of the swimmers who seem like over-entered, with Walsh entered in eight occasions and Douglass and Curzan each in seven.

Torri Huske additionally has six occasions on her potential schedule, whereas Gretchen Walsh has saved in easy and solely entered her core 4 occasions: 50 free, 100 free, 50 fly and 100 fly.

Katie Ledecky has strayed away from racing the 200 free individually at main worldwide meets over the previous few years, and that development continues right here the ladies’s GOAT has solely entered the 400, 800 and 1500 free. She’ll go head-to-head with McIntosh within the 400, after which have an actual challenger in Australian Lani Pallister within the two longer occasions.

China is sending a comparatively small however sturdy crew, together with 2024 world champion Tang Qianting, two-time particular person World Championship medalist Yu Yiting, and World Junior Record holder Zhang Zhanshuo.

On the lads’s aspect, Shaine Casas has a comparatively mild schedule, with the 50 again, 50 fly, 100 fly and 200 IM in his lineup, permitting him to keep away from any doubles. The identical could be stated for Carson Foster, who is barely entered within the 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM, opting to not race any freestyle individually.

Australian dynamo Sam Short has opted to not race the 200 free at Pan Pacs, as a substitute specializing in the 400, 800 and 1500 free after sweeping these three occasions on the Commonwealth Games in July.

One vital identify absent from the entry lists is South African Pieter Coetze, who’s coming off a dominant efficiency on the Commonwealth Games. Without Coetze, Americans Casas (50), Will Modglin (100) and Jack Aikins (200) take over as the highest seeds within the males’s backstroke occasions.

NOTABLE ENTRIES

• Summer McIntosh (CAN) – girls’s 200/400 free, 200 fly, 200/400 IM
• Regan Smith (USA) – girls’s 50/100/200 again, 200 IM
• Alex Walsh (USA) – girls’s 200 free, 50/100/200 breast, 100/200 fly, 200/400 IM
• Gretchen Walsh (USA) – girls’s 50/100 free, 50/100 fly
• Kate Douglass (USA) – girls’s 50/10 free, 50/100/200 breast, 50 fly, 200 IM
• Claire Curzan (USA) – girls’s 50/100 free, 50/100/200 again, 50/100 fly
• Torri Huske (USA) – girls’s 50/100/200 free, 50/100 fly, 200 IM
• Katie Ledecky (USA) – girls’s 400/800/1500 free
• Katharine Berkoff (USA) – girls’s 50 free, 50/100 again
• Lani Pallister (AUS) – girls’s 100/200/400/800/1500 free
• Meg Harris (AUS) – girls’s 50/100 free
• Jenna Forrester (AUS) – girls’s 200/400 free, 200 again, 200/400 IM
• Elizabeth Dekkers (AUS) – girls’s 50/100/200 fly, 200/400 IM
• Iona Anderson (AUS) – girls’s 50/100/200 again
• Taylor Ruck (CAN) – girls’s 50/100 free, 100 again, 50/100 fly
• Erika Fairweather (NZL) – girls’s 100/200/400/800 free
• Yu Yiting (CHN) – girls’s 50/100 again, 50 breast, 100 fly, 200/400 IM
• Tang Qianting (CHN) – girls’s 50/100 breast
• Shaine Casas (USA) – males’s 50 again, 50/100 fly, 200 IM
• Carson Foster (USA) – males’s 200 fly, 200/400 IM
• Rex Maurer (USA) – males’s 200/400/800 free, 200/400 IM
• Jack Alexy (USA) – males’s 50/100 free
• Luke Hobson (USA) – males’s 100/200/400 free
• Bobby Finke (USA) – males’s 800/1500 free, 400 IM
• Michael Andrew (USA) – males’s 50 free, 50 again, 50/100 breast, 50 fly
• Van Mathias (USA) – males’s 50 free, 50/100 breast, 50 fly
• Sam Short (AUS) – males’s 200/400/800 free
• Matt Temple (AUS) – males’s 50/100 free, 50/100 fly
• Zac Stubblety-Cook (AUS) – males’s 100/200 breast
• Kai Taylor (AUS) – males’s 50/100/200 free
• Jamie Jack (AUS) – males’s 50/100 free
• Shin Ohashi (JPN) – males’s 50/100/200 breast
• Tomoyuki Matsushita (JPN) – males’s 200/400 IM
• Zhang Zhanshuo (CHN) – males’s 100/200/400/1500 free
• Gui Caribe (BRA) – males’s 50/100 free, 50 fly

The 2026 Pan Pacific Championships will get underway on Wednesday, August 12, and run by Saturday, August 15, subsequent week in Irvine.

You can discover the complete entry lists right here.