Regan Smith, Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh swim historic occasions at World Aquatics World Cup

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Olympic gold medalists Regan Smith, Kate Douglass and Gretchen Walsh every posted the third-fastest time in historical past in an occasion on the primary evening of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Carmel, Indiana.

In the 200m butterfly, Smith lowered her personal American brief course document from 2:01.00 to 2:00.28 on Friday. The solely quicker occasions in historical past total have been the final two world data: 1:59.32 from Canadian Summer McIntosh final yr and 1:59.61 from Spain’s Mireia Belmonte in 2014.

Douglass gained the 200m breaststroke in 2:13.97. She now owns the 4 quickest occasions ever, led by her world document of two:12.50 from final December’s World Short Course Championships.

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Walsh took the 100m particular person medley in 55.91 seconds, giving her the highest 5 occasions ever within the occasion, together with her world document of 55.11 from December’s worlds.

Walsh, who this time final yr had by no means raced in a short-course meters pool (25 meters), broke a complete of 12 world data briefly course between particular person and relay occasions final fall.

Eleven of them got here at December’s worlds, together with two within the 100m IM (which isn’t an Olympic occasion).

The three-stop World Cup sequence — Carmel, adopted the following two weekends by Westmont, Illinois, and Toronto — is held in 25-meter swimming pools quite than 50-meter swimming pools used for the Olympics.

Swimmers accumulate factors based mostly on their outcomes and occasions with total girls’s and males’s champions topped after the ultimate cease.

In 2024, Douglass and Frenchman Léon Marchand gained the ladies’s and males’s titles, respectively.

While Marchand is racing in Carmel, he’s not anticipated to compete in Westmont or Toronto. Douglass is anticipated to contest all three stops.

McIntosh, who gained 4 particular person gold medals at this previous summer season’s long-course World Championships, withdrew earlier than the Carmel cease because of sickness however may nonetheless race Westmont and Toronto.

The Carmel World Cup continues Saturday with preliminary heats at 10 a.m. ET and finals at 6 p.m., each dwell on Peacock.

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