2026 Para Pan Pacific Championships: Day 1 Recap

Para Pan Pacific Championships

• August 28-30, 2026
• Walnut, California — Mt. SAC Aquatics Center
• LCM (50 Meters)
• Meet Information
• Live Stream
• Live Results Available on Meet Mobile: “2026 Para Pan Pacific Swimming Championships”
• Day 1 Results

The first day of the 2026 Para Pan Pacific Championships noticed some quick swimming together with two world data and a bunch of nationwide data in the course of the competitors.

Katie Kubiak opened the meet with a brand new world document within the 50 fly prelims, stopping the clock in 37.21 to take virtually a second off the previous world document time of 38.17. In the ultimate, she swam 38.42 to win the occasion with essentially the most Para factors.

She additionally picked up two American data within the 100 free and 200 free. In the 100 free, she swam 1:16.10 to take 17 seconds off the previous document time of 1:33.12 set by Alyssa Gialamas in 2015.

In finals, she swam 1:16.36, which was good for 2nd within the occasion to American teammate Leanne Smith.

Finally, she broke the American document within the 200 freestyle, swimming 2:48.03 in prelims to take 22 seconds off the three:10.73 document additionally set by Gialamas in 2015.

She dropped the document even decrease within the last, swimming 2:43.86 to select up her 2nd win of the session.

The different world document of the day went to Leanne Smith within the girls’s S3 100 freestyle. In the ultimate, she swam 1:26.17 to interrupt her personal world document time of 1:28.81 from the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.

Another American document got here from Lawrence Sapp within the males’s S14 200 freestyle, the place he swam 2:03.24 in prelims to take down his 2019 document of two:04.37. In finals, he lowered his document additional to swim 2:02.85 and end seventh within the S14 occasion.

Piper Sadowski additionally broke an American document along with her 2:21.59 within the S14 200 freestyle prelims. She took two seconds off her personal document time of two:23.25 from earlier this yr. In the ultimate, she swam 2:24.44 to complete ninth within the S14 class.

Canada set a brand new nationwide document within the combined 34-point 4×100 medley relay. They stopped the clock in 4:40.11 to take two seconds off the 4:42.32 document from the 2023 World Championships. Their workforce consisted of Fernando Lu (S10), Katie Cosgriffe (S10), Danielle Doris (S7), and Reid Maxwell (S8).

Australia’s Madeleine McTernan swam 2:10.71 within the S14 200 freestyle to set a brand new Oceania document within the occasion and win the silver medal.