2026 Pan Pacific Championships: Day 2 Prelims Reside Recap

2026 PAN PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPS

DAY 2 PRELIMS HEAT SHEET

After an thrilling finals session final night time, the 2026 Pan Pacific Championships roll on with Day 2 motion from Irvine kicking off this morning with preliminary heats throughout 4 occasions for each women and men.

The session opens with the ladies’s 400 IM, the place world document holder and reigning Olympic and world champion Summer McIntosh headlines the sphere coming off a comparatively disappointing silver medal end final night time within the 200 free.

McIntosh will race alongside Australia’s Jenna Forrester, a two-time World Championship medalist within the 400 IM, within the final warmth, together with Japan’s Mio Narita, who tied Forrester for silver final summer season at Worlds, and American Alex Walsh.

Katie Grimes, who received silver behind McIntosh within the 400 IM on the 2022 Worlds, 2023 Worlds and 2024 Olympics, highlights the primary circle-seeded warmth, alongside Paris bronze medalist Emma Weyant.

The males’s race options Tomoyuki Matsushita and Carson Foster, the silver and bronze medalist from the Paris Olympics, who rank 2-3 on the earth this season. Matsushita notably set a brand new greatest time of 4:06.93 in March.

The 100 freestyle races will certainly be essentially the most thrilling of the morning given what number of Americans shall be vying for the 2 ‘A’ last spots, although the ladies’s race received’t have Kate Douglass, who break up a blistering 51.01 anchoring the U.S. to a world document within the combined medley relay final night time.

Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske, Simone Manuel and Rylee Erisman would be the major contenders for the U.S. spots within the ‘A’ last, whereas Australia’s Meg Harris guarantees to be an element come tonight when the medals are determined.

The males’s 100 free may very well be a good greater canine struggle between the Americans, with nationwide document holder Jack Alexy set to his make his meet debut and Chris Guiliano, Patrick Sammon, Henry McFadden and Destin Lasco all anticipated to make a push for a sub-48 swim this morning.

One main menace come the ultimate shall be Brazil’s Gui Caribe, who confirmed good kind on Day 1 with a bronze within the 50 fly.

In the 100 breast, Douglass is available in as the highest seed, although China’s Tang Qianting, the 2024 world champion and Paris Olympic silver medalist, needs to be an element for gold within the night session.

The males’s race needs to be fascinating after Van Mathias‘ blistering 57.30 split last night on the mixed medley relay, while fellow American Campbell McKean will be looking to get back under 59 seconds after he did it last year and Japan’s Shin Ohashi is available in using some momentum after setting a brand new World Junior Record in March (58.67).

However, final night time within the combined medley relay, Mathias was almost a full second faster than Ohashi (58.24).

Closing out with the 50 again, Katharine Berkoff is the favourite within the girls’s race after upsetting Regan Smith final night time within the 100, and people two ought to have the ability to transfer by way of with the 2 U.S. slots within the ‘A’ last.

The males’s 50 again will see the likes of Shaine Casas, Will Modglin, Quintin McCarty, Michael Andrew, Daniel Diehl and Jack Aikins duking it out for the 2 U.S. spots within the large last.

McCarty is the quickest swimmer this season among the many group, having been 24.45 in June, whereas Casas was 24.53 earlier this season in December.

WOMEN’S 400 IM – PRELIMS

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Agostina Hein (ARG), 4:35.43
2. Jenna Forrester (AUS), 4:35.45
3. Summer McIntosh (CAN), 4:35.56
4. Katie Grimes (USA), 4:35.70
5. Alex Walsh (USA), 4:36.11
6. Emma Weyant (USA), 4:37.04
7. Yu Yiting (CHN), 4:37.74
8. Mio Narita (JPN), 4:37.96
9. Leah Hayes (USA), 4:38.97
10. Waka Kobori (JPN), 4:40.18

A pair of tightly contested heats within the girls’s 400 IM ends in the highest 5 qualifiers for tonight’s ‘A’ last being separated by lower than seven-tenths of a second, and it’s Argentina’s Agostina Hein main the best way.

Hein, 18, has reset quite a few Argentine Records within the freestyle occasions up to now this 12 months, and her good kind continued this morning as she pulled even with Katie Grimes through the breast leg after which inched forward on free to win Heat 2 in a time of 4:35.43, simply forward of Grimes’ 4:35.70.

Hein’s nationwide document within the 400 IM stands at 4:34.34, set final 12 months, however her swim this morning improved on her season-best of 4:35.62 from the Mare Nostrum Tour.

Grimes went 4:33.26 on the U.S. Nationals on this pool just some weeks in the past, which ranks her 4th on the earth this season.

American Emma Weyant was third within the warmth in a time of 4:37.04, placing her liable to shedding an ‘A’ last spot if Alex Walsh managed to go quicker within the following warmth.

In the third and last warmth, Summer McIntosh and Jenna Forrester traded the lead forwards and backwards a number of occasions, and after it seemed like McIntosh had completed sufficient to the touch first coming residence on free, Forrester made a late push to assert the warmth in a time of 4:35.45, qualifying 2nd total to the ultimate whereas McIntosh superior in third in 4:35.56.

Forrester is coming off successful the Commonwealth Games title in late July in a private greatest time of 4:31.19.

Walsh used a really spectacular again half to maneuver up on Forrester and McIntosh, virtually pulling even with them earlier than clocking 4:36.11 to complete third within the warmth and declare the second U.S. spot within the ‘A’ last, bumping out Weyant.

Walsh, who went 4:41.82 within the 400 IM throughout a time trial at Nationals a number of weeks in the past, has been as quick as 4:35.25 this season, completed on the Sette Colli Trophy in June.

MEN’S 400 IM – PRELIMS

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Tomoyuki Matsushita (JPN), 4:07.61
2. Yumeki Kojima (JPN) / Asaki Nishikawa (JPN), 4:08.69*
3. –
4. Carson Foster (USA), 4:11.55
5. William Petric (AUS), 4:11.86
6. Bobby Finke (USA), 4:12.17
7. Lewis Clareburt (NZL), 4:13.33
8. Rex Maurer (USA), 4:13.76
9. Lorne Wigginton (CAN), 4:14.23
10. Tristan Jankovics (CAN), 4:15.87

*Swim-off could also be required; just one could make ‘A’ last

The two heats of the boys’s 400 IM every had a nationwide trials really feel as three Japanese males fought it out for 2 spots within the ‘A’ last within the opening warmth, after which three Americans did the identical within the subsequent warmth.

In Heat 1, Olympic silver medalist Tomoyuki Matsushita placed on a powerful show, opening up a sizeable lead on his countrymen by way of the 300 earlier than cruising to victory in a time of 4:07.61, simply two one-hundredths shy of Ryan Lochte‘s meet document from 2010.

In the battle for the #2 Japanese spot within the ‘A’ last, there was nothing between Yumeki Kojima and Asaki Nishikawa, as each blitzed residence with a pair of 27-mid closing splits and touched in an similar time of 4:08.69, that means the Japanese coaches should determine if there shall be a swim-off or in the event that they’ll determine who strikes on to the ‘A’ last in one other approach.

For Kojima, 17, his time lowers his personal World Junior Record of 4:08.84, set this previous March on the Japanese Championships.

Nishikawa, who turned 20 final month, owns a private greatest time of 4:07.67 from November, which ranks him 4th on the earth this season.

In the next warmth, Carson Foster, who ranks third on the earth together with his 4:07.02 swim from December, did what he wanted to do to securely advance, holding off Bobby Finke coming residence to the touch first in a time of 4:11.55.

Finke was subsequent up in 4:12.17, comfortably forward of Rex Maurer (4:13.76) to earn the second U.S. spot within the last.

Lewis Clareburt, who received the Commonwealth title final month in 4:08.19, cruised to a time of 4:13.33 to simply advance, and he’ll be within the hunt for a medal in tonight’s last.

Since solely one in all Kojima and Nishikawa could make the ‘A’ last, Tenth-place Tristan Jankovics (4:15.87) will swim within the championship warmth alongside Canadian teammate Lorne Wigginton (4:14.23).

WOMEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS

• World Record: 51.68, Marrit Steenbergen (NED) – 2026
• U.S. Open Record: 51.88, Anna Moesch (USA) – 2026
• Pan Pac Championship Record: 52.03, Cate Campbell (AUS) – 2018

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Gretchen Walsh (USA), 52.57
2. Olivia Wunsch (AUS) / Simone Manuel (USA), 53.08
3. –
4. Meg Harris (AUS), 53.17
5. Torri Huske (USA), 53.26
7. Rylee Erisman (USA), 53.37
8. Milla Jansen (AUS), 53.60
9. Kayla Sanchez (PHI), 53.65
10. Taylor Ruck (CAN), 53.69
11. Erin Gemmell (USA) / Hannah Casey (AUS), 54.24
12. –
13. Anna Peplowski (USA), 54.38
14. Alex Shackell (USA), 54.44
15. Cheng Yujie (CHN), 54.58
16. Fan Yaqi (CHN) / Chelsey Edwards (NZL), 54.66*

*Swim-off required

Gretchen Walsh seemed phenomenal within the heats of the ladies’s 100 free, utilizing her dynamite begin and front-end velocity to open up a giant lead early within the last warmth, handing over a scorching 24.97, after which powering residence to clock the quickest time of the morning in 52.57.

The swim improves on Walsh’s private better of 52.75, set a number of weeks in the past throughout a time trial at U.S. Nationals.

Walsh was adopted within the warmth by Simone Manuel, who used a robust again half to clock 53.08 and snag the second American spot in tonight’s ‘A’ last, bumping out Torri Huske (53.26).

Australia’s Meg Harris put up a time of 53.17 to win the primary circle-seeded warmth, whereas her teammate Olivia Wunsch stepped up with a giant swim of 53.08 to win the penultimate warmth.

The swim from Wunsch improves on her two-year-old private greatest time of 53.17, slotting her into the ‘A’ last in a tie for 2nd total alongside Manuel.

Behind Wunsch in Heat 5, Huske and Rylee Erisman (53.37) had first rate swims, however not sufficient to crack the ‘A’ last and each will swim out of the consols tonight. Both have been quicker this season: Erisman was 52.92 at U.S. Nationals final month, whereas Huske went 53.05 on the Indianapolis Pro Swim in June.

Due to the quantity of Americans and Aussies close to the highest of the rankings within the occasion, we needed to go all the best way right down to Sixteenth place, a tie between China’s Fan Yaqi and New Zealand’s Chelsey Edwards, for the final spot within the ‘A’ last, because of the two-per-country rule. Fan and Edwards’ tie at 54.66 means we might even see a swim-off.

MEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Jack Alexy (USA), 47.40 CR
2. Patrick Sammon (USA), 47.49
3. Chris Guiliano (USA), 47.64 
4. Destin Lasco (USA), 47.66
5. Gui Caribe (BRA), 48.16
6. Luke Hobson (USA), 48.30
7. Jamie Jack (AUS) / Harrison Turner (AUS), 48.38
8. –
9. Kai Taylor (AUS), 48.41
10. Edward Sommerville (AUS), 48.42
11. Henry McFadden (USA), 48.46
12. Keaton Jones (USA), 48.53
13. Zhang Zhanshuo (CHN), 48.71
14. Shoon Mitsunaga (JPN), 48.77
15. Matthew Temple (AUS), 48.80
16. Tatsuya Murasa (JPN), 48.84

The stage was set. Jack Alexy and Patrick Sammon stepped onto the blocks for the final warmth of the boys’s 100 freestyle and knew they wanted to be higher than 47.64 to safe themselves a lane within the ‘A’ last, and each delivered.

Chris Guiliano received it began for the American males within the first circle-seeded warmth, torching the sphere in a time of 47.64 to interrupt Cameron McEvoy‘s Pan Pac Championship Record and put himself in a strong position to advance to the ‘A’ last.

Destin Lasco adopted up with a powerful swim within the subsequent warmth, clocking 47.66 to complete simply eight one-hundredths shy of his 47.58 private greatest set final 12 months.

Then, it was Alexy and Sammon going head-to-head within the final warmth, realizing they wanted to be firing on all cylinders to earn a lane within the large warmth.

Alexy received out to a quick begin, handing over 22.59, after which Sammon charged residence with the quickest again half within the discipline (24.43), almost working down Alexy as they touched 1-2 in respective occasions of 47.40 and 47.49.

That knocked Guiliano and Lasco, the third and 4th-fastest swimmers of the session, out of the ‘A’ last because of the two-per-country rule.

Guiliano is the quickest American this season at 47.38, whereas Alexy has been 47.40. Sammon’s swim this morning was his quickest of the season and simply two one-hundredths off his private greatest.

No one else within the discipline was sub-48, with Brazil’s Gui Caribe claiming fifth total and the third seed for the ‘A’ last in 48.16.

Australians Jamie Jack and Harrison Turner, who each personal greatest occasions within the 48.2 vary, produced matching occasions of 48.38 to advance to the ‘A’ last, leaving countrymen Kai Taylor (48.41) and Edward Sommerville (48.42) on the surface wanting in.

Just like the ladies’s occasion, we needed to go all the best way right down to the Sixteenth-fastest swimmer within the prelims, Japan’s Tatsuya Murasa, to seek out the ultimate spot for the ‘A’ last because of the two-per-country rule.

WOMEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE – PRELIMS

• World Record: 1:04.13, Lilly King (USA) – 2017
• U.S. Open Record: 1:04.45, Jessica Hardy (USA) – 2009
• Pan Pac Championship Record: 1:04.93, Rebecca Soni (USA) – 2010

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Tang Qianting (CHN), 1:05.80
2. Kate Douglass (USA), 1:06.10
3. McKenzie Siroky (USA), 1:06.27
4. Satomi Suzuki (JPN), 1:06.30
5. Sophie Angus (JPN), 1:06.38
6. Emma Weber (USA), 1:06.65
7. Alexanne Lepage (CAN), 1:06.67
8. Macarena Ceballos (ARG), 1:06.75
9. Ella Ramsay (AUS), 1:06.83

Tang Qianting, Satomi Suzuki and Kate Douglass all defended Lane 4 within the prelims of the ladies’s 100 breast, successful their respective heats to comfortably advance to the ultimate.

Tang put up a time of 1:05.80 from the opening warmth, which stood up because the quickest total and is inside a half-second of her 1:05.36 season-best that ranks her #2 on the earth.

Japan’s Suzuki topped the next warmth in a time of 1:06.30 to assert the 4th seed for the ultimate. The 35-year-old ranks 4th on the earth this season together with her private greatest time of 1:05.53 from final September.

Douglass and American teammate McKenzie Siroky went head-to-head within the third and last warmth, a rematch of kinds after Siroky received the higher of Douglass a number of weeks in the past within the U.S. National last.

Douglass clipped her on the wall—a reversal of what occurred at Nationals—1:06.10 to 1:06.27 as they each moved by way of to the ultimate. At Nationals, Siroky set a private better of 1:05.64, whereas Douglass established her present season-best of 1:05.66.

Canadian Sophie Angus notably hit a lifetime better of 1:06.38 to qualify in fifth, whereas Emma Weber (1:06.65) was sufferer of the two-per-country rule and can swim within the comfort last tonight.

MEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE – PRELIMS

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Van Mathias (USA), 58.61 CR
2. Shin Ohashi (JPN), 58.85
3. Josh Matheny (USA), 59.23
4. Yamato Okadome (JPN), 59.50
5. Campbell McKean (USA), 59.59
6. Taku Taniguchi (JPN) / Sam Williamson (AUS), 59.74
7. –
8. Oliver Dawson (CAN), 59.88
9. Yamato Fukasawa (JPN), 1:00.06
10. Liu Junjie (CHN), 1:00.21
11. Zac Stubblety-Cook (AUS), 1:00.30

After an outstanding opening day that noticed him win silver within the 50 fly after which unleash a scintillating breaststroke leg on the Americans’ world record-breaking combined medley relay, Van Mathias carried that momentum ahead into this morning’s heats of the boys’s 100 breast.

The 25-year-old break up 27.33/31.28 en path to a time of 58.61, breaking Kosuke Kitajima‘s Pan Pac document of 59.04 from 2010 whereas cruising into the ultimate with the highest seed.

Mathias is the top-ranked swimmer on the earth this season after breaking the American Record in 58.01 again in June.

One warmth previous to Mathias, rising Japanese star Shin Ohashi produced the quickest again half within the discipline (30.92) en path to touching first in a time of 58.85, not too far off his World Junior Record of 58.67 set earlier this 12 months.

Ohashi was joined by countrymen Yamato Okadome (59.50) and Taku Taniguchi (59.74) within the warmth, and with Okadome getting the higher of Taniguchi, he earned the second Japanese spot within the ‘A’ last.

Okadome, who received a pair of NCAA titles within the breaststroke occasions this previous season at Cal, set a PB of 59.11 earlier this season.

Josh Matheny received the primary warmth in 59.23 over American teammate Campbell McKean (59.59), locking in his spot because the #2 American within the ‘A’ last. Matheny was lower than a tenth off his PB of 59.15 set final 12 months.

South Africa’s Michael Houlie blasted out on the primary 50, handing over 26.60, however pale coming again and ended up narrowly lacking an ‘A’ last berth in 1:00.40, one tenth behind Zac Stubblety-Cook.

WOMEN’S 50 BACKSTROKE – PRELIMS

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Katharine Berkoff (USA), 27.04 CR
2. Regan Smith (USA), 27.28
3. Claire Curzan (USA), 27.53
4. Leah Shackley (USA), 27.90
5. Wan Letian (CHN), 27.97
6. Ingrid Wilm (CAN), 27.99
7. Iona Anderson (AUS), 28.01
8. Peng Xuwei (CHN), 28.06
9. Amber George (NZL), 28.11
10. Hannah Fredericks (AUS), 28.27

Similar to the 100 again heats, Katharine Berkoff and Regan Smith denied Claire Curzan a spot within the ‘A’ last by posting the highest two occasions of the morning and claiming the 2 U.S. slots within the girls’s 50 again prelims.

After Smith received the opening warmth in a time of 27.28, undercutting the 16-year-old meet document by a large margin and establishing a brand new season-best, Berkoff blasted her method to a time of 27.04 within the third and last warmth to take possession of the CR and declare Lane 4 for tonight’s last.

Smith superior in 2nd, whereas Curzan’s time of 27.53 from Berkoff’s warmth was good for third total however will put her within the ‘B’ last tonight, the place she’ll be joined by American teammate Leah Shackley, who was 4th total and amongst Americans in 27.90.

Berkoff, who upset Smith to win the 100 again final night time, is ranked third on the earth this season with the 26.98 she produced in June.

Behind the Americans, China’s Wan Letian (27.97) and Canada’s Ingrid Wilm (27.99) additionally broke 28 seconds, placing them in prime place to struggle for bronze tonight together with Australia’s Iona Anderson (28.01) and China’s Peng Xuwei (28.06).

MEN’S 50 BACKSTROKE – PRELIMS

‘A’ Final Qualifiers: 

1. Isaac Cooper (AUS), 24.53 CR
2. Will Modglin (USA), 24.65
3. Marcus Gentry (MEX) / Quintin McCarty (USA), 24.74
4. –
5. Shaine Casas (USA), 24.78
6. Michael Andrew (USA), 24.82
7. Daniel Diehl (USA), 24.97
8. Reo Miura (JPN), 25.10
9. Jack Aikins (USA), 25.13
10. Javier Acevedo (CAN), 25.19
11. Jack Harvey (BER), 25.20
12. Chuang Mu-Lun (TPE), 25.35

Will Modglin received his fingers on it first, however Isaac Cooper heads into the ultimate of the boys’s 50 backstroke because the meet document holder after posting a time of 24.53 from the third and last warmth.

Cooper’s swim was simply shy of his season-best of 24.46, and is an enchancment on the 24.73 he produced en path to a Sixth-place end final month on the Commonwealth Games.

Modglin received the opening warmth in a time of 24.65, breaking Nick Thoman‘s Pan Pacific Championship Record of 24.82 from 2010 earlier than Cooper took maintain of it two heats later.

Marcus Gentry was simply 11 one-hundredths off his Mexican National Record in Modglin’s warmth in 24.74, after which Quintin McCarty matched that in Heat 2 as they transfer into the ‘A’ last sitting in a tie for third.

Three extra Americans had been beneath 25 seconds however received’t advance to the ‘A’ last due to the two-per-country rule, pushing Shaine Casas (24.78) and Michael Andrew (24.82) into the consols.

MEN’S 400 IM – SWIM-OFF

1. Asaki Nishikawa (JPN), 4:13.84
2. Yumeki Kojima (JPN),

Asaki Nishikawa opened up a giant hole early after which cruised to victory in a brutal 400 IM swim-off for the second Japanese spot in tonight’s ‘A’ last, topping Yumeki Kojima.

The two swimmers tied within the prelims in 4:08.69, with that marking a brand new World Junior Record for Kojima.

In the swim-off, Nishikawa clocked 4:13.84, whereas Kojima had nothing left within the tank and completed nicely again.

WOMEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – SWIM-OFF

• World Record: 51.68, Marrit Steenbergen (NED) – 2026
• U.S. Open Record: 51.88, Anna Moesch (USA) – 2026
• Pan Pac Championship Record: 52.03, Cate Campbell (AUS) – 2018

1. Fan Yaqi (CHN), 54.38
2. Chelsey Edwards (NZL), 54.47

After tying for the final spot within the ‘A’ last within the prelims of the ladies’s 100 free in 54.66, each Fan Yaqi and Chelsey Edwards managed to go quicker within the swim-off, nevertheless it was Fan getting her hand on the wall first.

Fan, who is barely 15, clocked 54.38 to edge out Edwards (54.47), coming simply 14 one-hundredths shy of her private better of 54.24 set earlier this 12 months.

Edwards improved her greatest time from 54.72 to 54.66 within the prelims, and set her second consecutive PB of the day in 54.47, with an opportunity to go three-for-three tonight within the ‘B’ last.