2025 U.S. Open: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam

2025 U.S. OPEN

December 3-6, 2025
Austin, Texas
Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Heart

Prelims: 10 a.m. EST
Finals: 7 p.m EST (Day 1: 5 p.m. EST)

LCM (50 meters)
Meet Central
Psych Sheets
Reside Outcomes
Reside Recaps

Prelims: Day 2
Finals: Day 1

Day 2 Finals Warmth Sheet

Welcome to the primary full finals session of the 2025 U.S. Open Championships. Tonight, we’ve a number of races with the highest swimmers on this planet racing one another as they attempt to finish 2025 on a excessive observe.

Schedule of Occasions

50 Again
400 Free
200 IM
50 Breast
50 Free

The meet will begin with the 50 backstrokes. On the ladies’s aspect two of the most effective backstrokers on this planet, Katharine Berkoff and Regan Smith, can be racing the 50 again with Berkoff, the American document holder within the occasion, main the sector together with her high time from prelims coming in at 27.49

The lads’s occasion will see 17-year-old Australian Henry Allan attempt to maintain off a number of the greatest backstrokers on this planet in Hubert Kos and Shaine Casas.

The headline occasions of the session are the 400 freestyles, however for various causes. On the ladies’s aspect, World Document holder Summer time McIntosh earned the highest spot by greater than 11 seconds in prelims, swimming 4:00.68. Tonight, she can be chasing her personal U.S. Open Meet document of three:59.42, and Katie Ledecky‘s U.S. Open document of three:56.82, however she can be in a discipline of her personal.

The lads’s race can be a distinct story. Leon Marchand is the most effective male swimmer on this planet proper now, and he is available in seeded third behind coaching companions Luke Hobson and Carson Foster. Hobson swam the highest time in prelims, touching in 3:47.56 to guide Foster’s 3:48.05 and Marchand’s 3:48.13. They are going to be joined by 16-year-old phenom Luka Mijatovic who sits lower than two tenths again of Marchand at 3:48.30.

The place the ladies’s 400 freestyle can be a narrative of dominance, the boys’s may very well be one of many closest races of the meet amongst a number of the high swimmers on this planet.

The 200 IM occasions see Kate Douglass and Hubert Kos as the highest seeds. Douglass is available in almost a second forward of Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey and a little bit greater than a second forward of Alex Walsh. Kos, alternatively, sits simply two seconds forward of Baylor Nelson, who’s coming off the meet of his life on the Texas Corridor of Fame Invite and half-a-second forward of Indiana’s Owen McDonald, who additionally had a robust efficiency at midseasons.

The meet will finish with the 50 breaststroke and 50 freestyle occasions. Eire’s Mona McSharry is the highest seed within the ladies’s 5- breaststroke, a tenth forward of Ohio State’s Maria Ramos Najji from Spain. On the me’s aspect, South Africa’s Michael Houlie got here in simply 5 hundredths forward of Van Mathias for the highest spot.

The ladies’s 50 free will see Kate Douglass and Gretchen Walsh battle for the highest spot from lanes 4 and 5, and the boys’s 50 free closing is lacking a lot of the highest swimmers on this planet together with Ilya Kharun, Caeleb Dressel, and Santo Condorelli, however options Serbia’s Andrej Barna as the highest seed simply forward of Jack Alexy and Chris Giuliano.

Girls’s 50 Backstroke – Finals

World Document: 26.86 – Kaylee McKeown, Australia (2023)
U.S. Open Document: 26.97 – Katharine Berkoff, USA (2025)
Meet Document: 27.49 — Katharine Berkoff, 2025

Males’s 50 Backstroke – Finals

World Document: 23.55 – Kliment Kolesnikov, Russia (2023)
U.S. Open Document: 23.71 – Hunter Armstrong, USA (2022)
Meet Document: 24.70 — Henry Allan, 2025

Girls’s 400 Freestyle – Finals

World Document: 3:54.18 – Summer time McIntosh, Canada (2025)
U.S. Open Document: 3:56.81 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2025)
Meet Document: 3:59.42 – Summer time McIntosh, 2023

Males’s 400 Freestyle – Finals

World Document: 3:39.96 – Lukas Martens, Germany (2025)
U.S. Open Document: 3:43.33 – Rex Maurer, USA (2025)
Meet Document: 3:45.63 – Zane Grothe, 2016

Girls’s 200 IM – Finals

World Document: 2:05.70 – Summer time McIntosh, Canada (2025)
U.S. Open Document: 2:06.79 – Kate Douglass, USA (2024)
Meet Document: 2:08.20 – Melanie Margalis, 2019

Males’s 200 IM – Finals

World Document: 1:52.69 – Leon Marchand, France (2025)
U.S. Open Document: 1:54.43 – Ryan Lochte, USA (2010)
Meet Document: 1:56.52 – Chase Kalisz, 2022

Girls’s 50 Breaststroke – Finals

World Document: 29.16 – Ruta Meilutyte, Lithuania (2023)
U.S. Open Document: 29.62 – Lilly King, USA (2018)
Meet Document: 30.80 — Mona McSharry, 2025

Males’s 50 Breaststroke – Finals

World Document: 25.95 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2017)
U.S. Open Document: 26.52 – Michael Andrew, USA (2022)
Meet Document: 26.79 — Michael Houlie, 2025

Girls’s 50 Freestyle – Finals

World Document: 23.61 – Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden (2023)
U.S. Open Document: 23.91 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2025)
Meet Document: 24.38 – Kate Douglass, 2023