2026 Junior Pan Pacs: Day 2 Finals Dwell Recap

2026 Junior Pan Pacific Championships

It’s the 2nd finals session of the 2026 Junior Pan Pacific Championships from Vancouver, that includes the finals within the 400 IM, 100 free, 100 breast, 50 again, and the 4×200 freestyle relays.

The 400 IM will kick us off because the longest particular person occasion of the session, as high seeds Audrey Derivaux (4:44.40) and Raito Numata (4:14.76) will look to keep up their top-seeded standing in hopes of Jr. Pan Pac gold.

Australia’s Jodie Mead, coming off a runner-up end within the 200 free on night time 1, will look to high the women’ 100 free towards a tightly contested closing, one which noticed the highest six prelims swimmers end inside 4 tenths of her. The males’s race will characteristic the US duo of Jordan Ragland and Luka Mijatovic as the highest seeds, with instances of 49.38 and 49.61, respectively.

Lilla Ribot De Bresac clocked the lone 1:08 prelims swim within the ladies’ 100 breast this morning in 1:07.56, practically a full second quicker than the remainder of the sector. Yusei Imaizumi practically cracked the 1:00 barrier this morning in 1:00.17, the quickest time within the prelims by greater than a second.

Our closing particular person occasion of the ultimate would be the 50 backstroke, as Alyssa Sagle (28.74) and 50 fly champion Gabi Brito (28.75), each representing the US, will lead the cost, separated by solely one-hundredth of a second within the prelims, and battle for a spot on the rostrum with a hungry area behind them. Singapore’s Tedd Windsor Chan (25.76) and New Zealand’s Lucas Bell (25.88) head into the boys’ 50 again closing because the lone sub-26-second prelims swimmers.

GIRLS’ 400 IM – FINAL

• World Junior Record: 4:24.38, Summer McIntosh (CAN) – 2024
• Junior Pan Pac Record: 4:36.79, Mio Narita (JPN) – 2022

Top 10:

1. Shuna Sasaki (JPN) – 4:39.36
2. Amelie Smith (AUS) – 4:40.40
3. Sydney Hardy (USA) – 4:40.70
4. Audrey Derivaux (USA) – 4:41.73
5. Eloise McLellan (AUS) – 4:49.89
6. Callie Cardiff (CAN) – 4:51.08
7. Shima Taghavi (CAN) – 4:51.84
8. Shu Ning Julia Yeo (SGP) – 4:56.63
9. Laila Chain (ARG) – 4:47.83
10. Ariella Riley (NZL) – 4:58.06

Opening up the primary race of the night, it was a fast leap on the butterfly leg for Japan’s Shuna Sasaki in 1:02.22; simply behind her was Audrey Derivaux in 1:02.35. Derivaux would make an enormous transfer on the primary 50 of backstroke, outsplitting Sasaki by greater than a second and a half, later delivering 2:12.24 on the midway level, greater than three seconds forward of the sector.

By the 300 mark, the race was as soon as once more in a special place, as Derivaux gave up her massive lead again to Sasaki and Amelie Smith, each of whom turned for the ultimate 100 simply .13 between the 2, as Sasaki turned first in 3:34.70.

It can be Sasaki holding on for the win in 4:39.36, a couple of physique size forward of Amelie Smith in 4:40.40.

Derivaux would accept a 4th-place end along with her 4:41.73 after an enormous closing 100 from her fellow American Sydney Hardy, touching simply over a second quicker in 4:40.70.

BOYS’ 400 IM – FINAL

• World Junior Record: 4:08.69, Yumeki Kojima (JPN) – 2026
• Junior Pan Pac Record: 4:12.59, Chase Kalisz (USA) – 2012

Top 10:

1. Raito Numata (JPN) – 4:09.82 *JPP Record
2. Yi Zheng (USA) – 4:14.94
3. Ayumu Negiushi (JPN) – 4:15.44
4. Andre Labara (AUS) – 4:16.88
5. Anthony Dornoff (USA) – 4:21.82
6. Cael Eley (AUS) – 4:23.79
7. Reagan Cheng (SGP) – 4:25.59
8. Liam Chew (CAN) – 4:25.84
9. Pedro Henrique Oliveira Medrado (BRA) – 4:28.91
10. Colt Chaires (CAN) – 4:30.30

The opening phases of the boys’ 400 IM had been led by Japan’s Ayumu Negiushi in 57.09, although the US’s Yi Zheng wouldn’t let him get too far, turning two hundredths behind in 57.11. The tides would shift by the backstroke, as Raito Numata of Japan scorched the remainder of the sector to take over the lead on the 200 mark in 2:01.97, leaving solely Zheng close by in 2:04.01.

Numata didn’t let up on the breaststroke both, retaining a couple of two-body-length lead between himself and the sector by the 300 flip.

Numata was uncontested by the end, finally profitable in a brand new Junior Pan Pacs document of 4:09.82, crushing the previous mark set by Chase Kalisz in 2012 of 4:12.59 in 4:09.82.

The race was on for the silver between Negiushi and Zheng, although it might be the American Zheng taking the silver spot on the rostrum in 4:14.94 and Negishi with the bronze in 4:15.44.

GIRLS’ 100 FREESTYLE – FINAL

• World Junior Record: 52.70, Penny Oleksiak (CAN) – 2016
• Junior Pan Pac Record: 53.76, Rylee Erisman (USA) – 2024

Top 10:

1. Ranumi Eashwarage (CAN) – 55.00
2. Aria Grossenbach (USA) – 55.07
3. Abi Burke (USA) – 55.19
4. Jodie Mead (AUS) – 55.25
5. Hina Nakamura (JPN) – 55.80
6. Kaede Takai (CAN) – 56.03
7. Jun Fujiwara (JPN) – 56.13
8. Lillie McPherson (AUS) – 56.19
9. Alyssa Lawson (NZL) – 57.46
10. Sophia De Andrade Isidoro (BRA) – 57.78

It was Jodie Mead sandwiched between Americans Abi Burke and Aria Grossenbach, making for an intriguing closing from the leap.

At the primary flip, it was a fast 50 from Aria Grossenbach in 26.20, greater than three tenths faster than Japan’s Hina Nakamura in 26.53; Mead was operating third in 26.60.

Through the 75 mark, it was Grossenbach who had grown her result in a couple of half physique size, although the remainder of the sector started to creep to the ultimate contact. Out of seemingly nowhere, it was Canada’s Ranumi Eashwarage who would shut with every stroke and finally take a nail-biting win in 55.00, simply seven hundredths faster than Grossenbach in 55.07.

Abi Burke additionally made a powerful transfer on the ultimate 15 or so meters to get herself on the rostrum in 55.19, back-ending a 2-3 end for the American duo. Mead would end 4th in 55.25.

BOYS’ 100 FREESTYLE – FINAL

• World Junior Record: 46.86, David Popovici (ROU) – 2022
• Junior Pan Pac Record: 48.23, Flynn Southam (AUS) – 2022

Top 10:

1. Luka Mijatovic (USA) – 49.53
2. Matias Chaillou (ARG) – 49.56
3. Jordan Ragland (USA) – 49.65
4. Maxwell Cunningham (AUS) – 49.81
5. Eita Kawaura (JPN) – 49.84
6. Celso Luis Santos (BRA) – 49.90
7. Tristen Waugh (AUS) – 50.53
8. Hinata Ando (JPN) – 50.65
9. Owen Ekk (CAN) – 51.14
10. Simon Fonseca Florez (CAN) – 51.31

After his two wins on night time 1, Mijatovic would wish to battle robust to safe a third thought two days.

Out of the gate, it was the opposite American within the closing, and high seed, Jordan Ragland, taking it out the quickest to the flip in 23.73, with Mijatovic and Maxwell Cunningham proper behind in a tie at 23.87.

Coming right down to the shut, it was an absolute blanket for the rostrum as Mijatovic, Ragland and Matias Chaillou of Argentina had been practically similar to the attention, however it might be the lengthy arms of Mijatovic taking the slim win in one other shut end on night time 2 in 49.53, three hundredths faster than Chaillou in 49.56.

Jordan Ragland would earn bronze for his efforts in 49.65, solely 12 hundredths outdoors Mijatovic’s profitable time.

The ‘B’ closing would really see the occasion’s quickest performer within the type of Mike Rice of the United States, crushing the warmth in 49.33, quicker than Mijatovic’s profitable time within the warmth earlier than him.

GIRLS’ 100 BREASTSTROKE – FINAL

• World Junior Record: 1:04.35, Ruta Meilutyte (LTU) – 2013
• Junior Pan Pac Record: 1:07.45, Kato Kotomi (AUS) – 2024

Top 10:

1. Lilla Ribot De Bresac (AUS) – 1:07.17 *JPP Record
2. Mana Ishikawa (JPN) – 1:07.79
3. Mikayla Tan (SGP) – 1:08.18
4. Maddie Moreth (USA) – 1:08.47
5. Maelle Sanborn (CAN) – 1:09.39
6. Kaidy Stout (USA) – 1:09.72
7. Amelie Smith (AUS) – 1:09.87
8. Julia Becker Silva (BRA) – 1:10.30
9. Shima Taghavi (CAN) – 1:11.54

The opening phases of this race had been held in verify by Maddie Moreth of the US in 31.21 and Lilla Ribot De Bresac in 31.45, the one swimmers to open below 32 seconds.

Though the subsequent 25 meters neither was trying to again down from the opposite, there have been new challengers coming into the fray as Mana Ishikawa and Mikayla Tan each had been beginning to creep up on the leaders.

Moreth started to fade, although Ribot De Bresac would proceed her push to the wall, touching within the win and a brand new Jr. Pan Pacs document time of 1:07.17, reducing the meet document mark set by Kato Kotomi in 2024 in 1:07.45.

Both Ishikawa and Tan would get the higher of a fading Moreth to steal silver and bronze in 1:07.79 and 1:08.18. Moreth would miss the rostrum by 1:08.47, ending 4th.

BOYS’ 100 BREASTSTROKE – FINAL

• World Junior Record: 58.54, Shin Ohashi (JPN) – 2026
• Junior Pan Pac Record: 59.85, Akihiro Yamaguchi (JPN) – 2012

Top 10:

1. Yusei Imaizumi (JPN) – 59.98
2. Wilson York (USA) – 1:00.65
3. Kaua Santos Carvalho (BRA) – 1:00.87
4. Andrew Eubanks (USA) – 1:01.26
5. Rio Omori (JPN) – 1:02.06
6. Christopher Montana (AUS) – 1:02.36
7. Benjamin Cescon (CAN) – 1:02.37
8. Leny Grigot (AUS) – 1:02.58
9. Felipe Catuta Neves (BRA) – 1:02.83
10. Arthur Galiano (CAN) – 1:03.51

The males’s race was primarily centered on if Imaizumi would dip below that 1:00 barrier, and to that, he did, simply squeaking below that barrier in 59.98, largely partially to a swift opening 50 that noticed him out within the lead in 27.75, simply forward of the Brazilian Kaua Santos Carvalho in 27.99.

The remainder of the sector was simply unable to carry onto the velocity that Imaizumi was in a position to muster up, although it might solely be two different swimmers in a position to crack the 1:01 mark.

Santos Carvalho (1:00.87 completed third after an enormous closing 50 from the US’s Wilson ork, which made up greater than seven tenths of a second on Santos Carvalho within the closing 50 meters to complete within the silver place in 1:00.65.

GIRLS’ 50 BACKSTROKE – FINAL

• World Junior Record: 27.49, Minna Atherton (AUS) – 2016

Top 10:

1. Alyssa Sagle (USA) – 28.54 *JPP Record
2. Lucy Wiens (CAN) – 28.86
3. Cecilia Dieleke (ARG) – 28.87
4. Victoria Fernanda Garcia Caldera (MEX) – 29.00
5. Gabi Brito (USA) – 29.10
6. Misaki Kasahara (JPN) – 29.11
7. Allegra Crean (AUS) – 29.12
8. Rinka Ide (JPN) – 29.33
9. Alba Arnall (AUS) – 29.34
10. Helena Tripp (CAN) – 29.46

In the night’s closing woman occasion, it was an absolute scorcher of a swim from Alyssa Sagle, establishing the Junior Pan Pacs document in 28.54, the quickest time within the ‘A’ closing by greater than three tenths of a second.

Sagle’s teammate Gabi Brito seemed to be within the operating for a spot on the rostrum, however late pushes from Lucy Wiens and Cecilia Dieleke shifted the rostrum of their favor, as Wiens and Dieleke would contact simply one-hundredth of a second aside in 28.86 and 28.87 for silver and bronze.

Brito would slip to fifth in 29.10 behind Mexico’s Victoria Fernanda Garcia Caldera in 29.00.

Lane Francis, the winner of the 100 again final night time, would high the ‘B’ closing in 28.74, which might have been ok for the silver medal within the championship closing.

BOYS’ 50 BACKSTROKE – FINAL

• World Junior Record: 24.00, Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS) – 2018

Top 10:

1. Toya Hirata (JPN) – 25.16 *JPP Record
2. Davi Vallim Costa De Carvalho (BRA) – 25.49
3. Tedd Windsor Chan (SGP) / Lucas Bell (NZL) – 25.66
4. tie
5. Rui Yoshida (JPN) / Sydney Kito (AUS) – 25.87
6. tie
7. Ethan Bathala (USA) – 26.09
8. Thomas Garbanzo (AUS) – 26.14
9. Ty Thomas (USA) – 26.16
10. Gavin Schinkelshoek (CAN) – 26.17

After profitable the 100 again on night time 1 in Vancouver, Japan’s Toya Hirata didn’t care what the lane assignments mentioned, as he flew previous the remainder of the sector in a dominating efficiency out of lane 1, taking the win and setting a Jr. Pan Pacs document in 25.16.

Only one different swimmer within the closing managed to dip under 25.50, that being Brazil’s Davi Vallim Costa De Carvalho in 25.49.

The bronze medal place can be a tie between Tedd Windsor Chan of Singapore and Lucas Bell of New Zealand, each touching concurrently in 25.66.

There can be one other tie, this one for fifth, between Rui Yoshida and Sydney Kito in 25.97.

GIRLS’ 4×200 FREE RELAY – FINAL

• World Junior Record: 7:51.47, Canada – 2017
• Junior Pan Pac Record: 7:53.56, United States – 2022

Top 3:

1. United States – 8:01.04
2. Australia – 8:05.09
3. Japan – 8:05.59

Opening up the 4×200 free relay for the women, it was the United States and their leadoff swimmer, Vivienne Zangaro, kicking issues off on a quick observe for the US, touching in 2:00.70, a couple of half second forward of Canada’s Elleigh Wise in 2:01.25.

Abi Burke, the 200 free champion from day 1, was each bit as dominant as we figured she can be, rising the US’s result in greater than three seconds on the midway level, touching in 3:59.61.

The duty can be handed over to Ellie Clarke, as on the 500-meter mark, it might take one thing magical to take down the Americans, as they might flip practically 5 seconds forward of Australia, however by the ultimate takeover, that US lead would sit at simply over 4 seconds as Sydney Hardy would hit the water with loads of open house between her and the remainder of the sector.

Hardy would seal the win for the US relay in 8:01.04, although a majority of the race was uncontested.

The Australians had been escorted to the silver by anchor leg Jodie Mead, touching in 8:05.09, although a powerful push from crew Japan’s anchor Haruno Tanimoto would give the Aussies a little bit of a scare in the direction of the ultimate seconds, with Japan profitable bronze in 8:05.59.

BOYS’ 4×200 FREE RELAY – FINAL

• World Junior Record: 7:08.37, United States – 2019
• Junior Pan Pac Record: 7:13.07, Australia – 2022

Top 3:

1. United States – 7:13.22
2. Japan – 7:15.62
3. Canada – 7:21.33

The boys’ 4×200 free relay was a battle between Japan and the United States, with each squads opening at excessive velocity. It was the US’s Kai Joyner touching the 200 mark first in 1:48.99, although Japan’s Eita Kawaura was simply behind in 1:49.08. Canada’s opening swimmer, Simon Fonseca Florez, delivered a robust first leg as properly for the host nation in 1:49.20.

The US would narrowly lose the result in Japan by the midway level, as Ryo Furue would use a powerful 27.73 closing 50 to achieve the sting over Trent Allen of the US by .01 in 3:38.16.

Japan would wish to make some critical house from the US on the third leg, as Raito Numata would develop the result in a couple of physique size over the Americans, holding a close to two-second cushion over the US and Ellis Crisci.

Luka Mijatovic would wish to dig very deep to drag this win out for the US, however after the primary 100 of the anchor leg, Japan’s Hinata Ando would get an early style of the Americans’ velocity, because the US would claw again to inside three tenths of the Japanese crew.

Mijatovic would then activate the afterburners, firing on all cylinders on his approach to his 4th gold medal of the meet on a blistering anchor leg, touching in 7:13.22, practically taking down the Jr. Pan Pac document of seven:13.07. What was as soon as a two-second deficit became a greater than two-second win for the US relay as Japan would contact 2nd in 7:15.61, with Canada holding on for third in 7:21.33.