2026 Para Pan Pacific Championships: Day 2 Recap

Para Pan Pacific Championships

The 2nd day of the 2026 Para Pan Pacific Championships is within the books, and with it, a slew of spectacular performances, together with one other two world-record-breaking swims.

After two world information fell on the opening day on Friday, two extra went down on Saturday, each of which got here within the 100 breaststroke.

First, within the ladies’s SB4 100, 18-year-old Alessandra Oliveira Dos Santos took down her personal World Record within the SB4 class in 1:40.63; that point completed ninth general amongst all individuals within the occasion and marked a close to full second drop from her earlier all-time commonplace of 1:41.47 from December of 2025.

In that very same occasion, American Olivia Chambers notched an American report within the S12 class in 1:18.25, reducing the report time by a close to half second.

The very subsequent occasion, the boys’s 100 breaststroke, Japan’s Naohide Yamaguchi lowered his personal SB14 World Record of 1:02.53 from August of 2025, turning within the quickest general time within the occasion in 1:02.38.

Several different American information had been lowered in Walnut, as Katie Kubiak, who notched a world report on day 1, lowered the American Record within the ladies’s S5 50 backstroke twice on day 2; first touching in 40.69 within the prelims, earlier than smashing that point within the finals in 40.18.

Aiden Stivers adopted an analogous trajectory to Kubiak within the males’s S9 100 breast, touching in 1:10.43 within the prelims, initially reducing his personal nationwide report, earlier than blasting a fair sooner time within the finals to enhance on that point in 1:09.90.

Aspen Shelton demolished the ladies’s SB2 American report within the 50 breast, swimming practically two seconds sooner than the earlier prime American mark in 1:06.42.

Dillon Mezey added one other American Record within the males’s S3 50 again in 59.27, whereas Josie Dolan notched one other nationwide commonplace within the prelims of the ladies’s SB9 100 breast in 1:21.68.

Australia was untouchable within the relays, because the Aussie contingents within the Mixed 4×100 free relay in each the S14 (3:45.33) and 34-point (4:07.64) classes, and the blended 4×50 free relays 20 factors (3:01.63), securing gold in all three.