Chambers Shines with Second World Title in Singapore

SINGAPORE – Team USA closed out day three of the 2025 World Para Swimming Championships in commanding vogue, incomes 5 extra podium finishes on the OCBC Aquatic Center. The spotlight of the evening got here from Paralympic champion Olivia Chambers (Little Rock, Arkansas), who captured her first worldwide gold medal in a 100-meter occasion.

Chambers powered to her second straight world title, hanging gold within the ladies’s 100m freestyle S13 towards a stacked discipline that featured two fellow Americans. Grace Nuhfer (Greenwood, Indiana) added to Team USA’s medal haul with bronze, whereas Paralympic champion Gia Pergolini (Atlanta, Georgia) completed simply two-hundredths of a second shy of the rostrum for the fourth-fastest time on this planet.

“Honestly it’s just crazy, I wouldn’t consider myself a sprinter really, so I’ve really just been embracing that and trying to get some more speed,” mentioned Chambers. “It’s always exciting to get out there with Gia and Grace and to just have a great race.”

“I knew coming into worlds that this race was going to be a close one and after this morning knew that I hit the gas really early on [in prelims] so I wanted to be a little stronger with my pull going out and hit it home that last 50.”

Fresh off her double podium debut, Katie Kubiak (Mequon, Wisconsin) returned to the pool for 2 occasions, together with racing a category above her personal within the ladies’s 50m butterfly S5. In doing so, Kubiak added a silver to her assortment in world document vogue cementing a time of :39.34 within the historical past books for the S4 classification.

“I never expected to set a world record at this meet,” mentioned Kubiak. “To touch the wall and turn around to see the world record pop up on the scoreboard was incredible and I’m just so proud that I was able to set it in the venue while representing Team USA.”

“I was one of the only S4 athletes in that heat so it’s always a little intimidating to be at the disadvantage of being a class down. I think it really lit a fire under me to want to do my best and that really showed in the water.”

Koehn Boyd (Ramsey, Minnesota) captured his second consecutive silver medal of the competitors with a standout efficiency within the males’s 400m freestyle S10. After qualifying first out of the preliminary heats, Boyd delivered one other sturdy swim in one of many night’s most tightly contested races.

“Wow, that was such a fun race and great competition,” mentioned Boyd. “I’m just glad I could bring home another medal for Team USA.”

Three of the 4 bronze medalists from the United States’ first relay race returned to the world stage for the 4×50 medley relay 20 pts the place they added a brand new racer, Morgan Ray (St. Augustine, Florida), to the lineup and a second relay bronze for Team USA. Ray joined final evening’s group which included Kubiak, Adin Williams (Happy Valley, Oregon) and Leanne Smith (Salem, Massachusetts) to choose up his first medal of the championships.  

Three American swimmers narrowly missed the rostrum with fourth-place finishes, together with Taylor Winnett (Hershey, Pennsylvania) within the ladies’s 400m freestyle S10, 18-time Paralympic champion Jessica Long (Baltimore, Maryland) within the ladies’s 100m butterfly S8, and two-time Paralympic medalist Noah Jaffe (Carlsbad, California) within the males’s 100m butterfly S8.

The fourth day of competitors will start at 9 a.m. GMT+8 with finals beginning at 5:30 p.m. native time. A livestream is out there to view at www.youtube.com/paralympics. For extra info on U.S. Paralympics Swimming, go to usparaswimming.org.  

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Team USA Results: 

Olivia Chambers, gold, ladies’s 100m freestyle S13

Koehn Boyd, silver, males’s 400m freestyle S10

Katie Kubiak, silver, ladies’s 50m butterfly S5 and world document in ladies’s 50m butterfly S4

Grace Nuhfer, bronze, ladies’s 100m freestyle S13

Katie Kubiak, Morgan Ray, Leanne Smith and Adin Williams, bronze, 4×50 medley relay 20 pts 

Other finishes: 

Noah Jaffe, 4th, males’s 100m butterfly S8

Jessica Long, 4th, ladies’s 100m butterfly S8

Gia Pergolini, 4th, ladies’s 100m freestyle S13

Taylor Winnett, 4th, ladies’s 400m freestyle S10