2026 PRO SWIM SERIES – AUSTIN
THURSDAY PRELIMS HEAT SHEET
Welcome to day 2 of the 2026 Professional Swim Collection in Austin! We noticed some nice racing final evening in finals, together with Katie Ledecky throwing down the 2nd-fastest 1500 freed from all-time. Right here’s what now we have on the docket for this morning:
THURSDAY PRELIMS EVENT SCHEDULE
Ladies’s 50 Breast
Males’s 50 Breast
Ladies’s 100 Fly
Males’s 100 fly
Ladies’s 200 Again
Males’s 200 Again
Ladies’s 400 Freestyle
Males’s 400 Freestyle
After successful the lads’s 100 breast final evening, Van Mathias is again as the highest seed within the males’s 50 breast this morning. Mathias is entered with a 26.76.
Regan Smith is not going to be racing the 200 again after clocking a 57 within the ladies’s 100 again final evening. As an alternative, Smith shall be racing within the 100 fly this morning, the place she’s the highest seed. Summer season McIntosh can be entered within the 100 fly this morning.
After her wonderful efficiency within the ladies’s 1500 free final evening, Katie Ledecky shall be again in motion within the ladies’s 400 free. With no Summer season McIntosh within the discipline, Ledecky is the highest seed with a 3:56.81.
The boys’s 400 free discipline could be very tight this morning. Lucas Henveaux leads the entries with a 3:44.61, nonetheless, there are 5 different swimmers within the discipline seeded at 3:46 or quicker.
WOMEN’S 50 BREASTSTROKE – PRELIMS
World Document: 29.16 Rute Meilutyte, LTU (2023)
American Document: 29.40 – Lilly King (2017)
US Open Document: 29.62 – Lilly King, USA (2018)
PSS Document: 29.62 – Lilly King, USA (2018)
World Jr Document: 29.30 – Benedetta Pilato, ITA (2018)
TOP 16* QUALIFIERS:
Skyler Smith – 31.04
Anna Elendt – 31.08
Kate Canales – 32.35
Ella Peterson – 33.47
Audrey Deras – 33.85
Grace Hunt – 33.91
Maya McCarney – 33.93
Caprie Moreno – 33.97
Maren Byrne – 34.34
Kia Alert – 34.90
Hailey Preuss – 35.07
Ellen Jin – 35.34
Skyler Smith and Anna Elendt put up very robust performances within the ladies’s 50 breast this morning. Smith clocked a 31.04 to cleared the path, whereas Elendt was 31.08. These swims set them up for an important race tonight in finals.
Kate Canales discovered herself in third with a 32.35. simply off her better of 32.23.
MEN’S 50 BREASTSTROKE – PRELIMS
World Document: 25.95 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2017)
American Document: 26.45 – Nic Fink (2022)
US Open Document: 26.52 – Michael Andrew, USA (2022)
PSS Document: 26.84 – Michael Andrew, USA (2023)
World Jr Document: 26.97 – Nicolo Martinenghi, ITA (2017)
TOP 16 QUALIFIERS:
Van Mathias – 26.57
Finn Brooks – 27.05
Mitch Mason – 27.32
Brian Benzing – 27.67
Denis Petrashov – 27.71
Andres Puente Bustamante – 27.72
Jeremie Delbois – 28.22
Jack Kelly – 28.25
Koko Bratanov – 28.39
Rashed Altarmoom – 28.42 (TIE)
Nikita Baez – 28.42 (TIE)
Luke Barr – 28.46
James Slessor – 28.62
Pierre Goudeneche – 28.72
Nikola Andjelic – 28.82
Adam Fusti-Molnar – 28.90
Indiana had an important exhibiting within the males’s 50 breast. Van Mathias popped a brand new profession better of 26.57, bettering his earlier mark of 26.76. Moreover, Mathias cracked the Professional Swim Collection Document of 26.84, which was held by Michael Andrew from 2023.
Finn Brooks, Mathias’ coaching accomplice at IU, ripped an enormous profession finest to complete 2nd with a 27.05. Brooks’ earlier finest within the LCM 50 breast was a 28.69, which he swam taking out the 100 breast on the Speedo Summer season Championships in 2024.
Brian Benzing, one other Indiana-based swimmer, clocked a 27.67 for 4th.
Mitch Mason, a professional swimmer at Texas Ford Aquatics, went a brand new profession better of 27.32 to come back in third this morning. Mason’s earlier finest was a 27.38, which he swam again on the 2023 Summer season Nationals meet. Like Indiana, TFA had a number of swimmers make the semifinals tonight as nicely, with Andres Puente Bustamante coming in sixth with a 27.72, Koko Bratanov taking ninth in 28.39, and Luke Barr, one other IU alum because it occurs, coming in twelfth with a 28.46.
WOMEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – PRELIMS
World Document: 54.60 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2025)
American Document: 54.60 – Gretchen Walsh (2025)
US Open Document: 54.60 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2025)
PSS Document: 54.60 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2025)
World Jr Document: 56.33 – Mizuki Hirai, JPN (2024)
Pool Document: 55.60 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2025)
TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
Regan Smith – 57.37
Summer season McIntosh – 58.69
Charlotte Crush – 59.44
Ava Chavez – 59.98
Marie Wattel – 1:00.44
Mena Boardman – 1:00.51
Emma Harvey – 1:00.61
Emily Wolf – 1:00.75
Regan Smith led the way in which by over a second within the ladies’s 100 fly this morning. Smith posted a 57.37, main Summer season McIntosh by over a second. McIntosh took 2nd with a 58.69. Smith was superb on the again half of the race this morning, splitting 30.09 on the 2nd 50. Each Smith and McIntosh improved tremendously from prelims to finals of their respective races yesterday, so we ought to be in for a superb race between them tonight in finals.
Charlotte Crush and Ava Chavez had been each beneath 1:00 as nicely this morning. Crush was 59.44, whereas Chavez clocked a 59.98. Crush got here in 4th within the 100 again final evening.
MEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – PRELIMS
World Document: 49.45 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2021)
American Document: 49.45 – Caeleb Dressel (2021)
US Open Document: 49.76 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2021)
PSS Document: 50.42 – Ilya Kharun, CAN (2025)
World Jr Document: 50.62 – Kristof Milak, HUN (2017)
Pool Document: 50.24 – Shaine Casas, USA (2025)
TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
Caeleb Dressel – 52.25
Maxime Grousset – 52.73
Clement Secchi – 53.14
Jack Dahlgren – 53.51
Patrick Sammon – 53.59
Luke Barr – 53.87
Ethan Heasley – 54.38
Jimmy Beeson – 54.80
Caeleb Dressel, the World Document holder within the males’s 100 fly, led prelims this morning with a 52.25. Dressel wound up with the quickest time as a result of he had the quickest again half within the discipline, coming residence in 28.04 on the 2nd 50.
Maxime Grousset, the one different swimmer on this discipline moreover Dressel to have been beneath 50 seconds on this occasion, clocked a 52.73 for 2nd this morning. One other Frenchman, Clement Secchi, took third this morning with a 53.14.
Shaine Casas notably didn’t swim this race regardless of being entered in it. He additionally didn’t race yesterday.
WOMEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE – PRELIMS
World Document: 2:03.14 – Kaylee McKeown, AUS (2023)
American Document: 2:03.35 – Regan Smith (2019)
US Open Document: 2:03.80 – Regan Smith, USA (2023)
PSS Document: 2:03.99 – Regan Smith, USA (2024)
World Jr Document: 2:03.35 – Regan Smith, USA (2019)
Pool Document: 2:05.52 – Regan Smith, USA (2025)
TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
Charlotte Crush – 2:10.58
Teagan O’Dell – 2:11.20
Rowyn Wilber – 2:16.66
Georgia Wimberly – 2:17.81
Tessa Christiansen – 2:18.02
Sydney Wasylenky – 2:19.83
Haddie Vohs – 2:22.15
Lucy Gilbreath – 2:22.64
Shortly after ending third in prelims of the 100 fly this morning, Charlotte Crush was again in motion within the 200 again. Crush clocked a 2:10.58, main the sphere into finals tonight.
Teagan O’Dell got here in 2nd with a 2:11.20. There’s a large hole between Crush, O’Dell, and the remainder of the sphere, so we will anticipate the ultimate tonight to be an important race between them.
This was a giant occasion for younger swimmers. Crush is barely 17, and there’s a trio of 16-year-olds who completed within the high 8 this morning. Rowyn Wilber (2:16.66), Sydney Wasylenky (2:19.83), and Lucy Gilbreath (2:22.64) had been all born in 2009 and shall be competing within the ‘A’ closing tonight.
MEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE – PRELIMS
World Document: 1:51.92 – Aaron Peirsol, USA (2009)
American Document: 1:51.92 – Aaron Peirsol, USA (2009)
US Open Document: 1:53.08 – Aaron Peirsol, USA (2009)
PSS Document: 1:55.04 – Jiayu Xu, CHN (2017)
World Jr Document: 1:55.14 – Kliment Kolesnikov, RUS (2017)
Pool Document: 1:54.21 – Huber Kos, HUN (2025)
TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
Kieran Smith – 2:00.00
Leon Marchand – 2:00.12
Yohann Ndoye-Broaurd – 2:00.52
Mewen Tomac – 2:01.26
Carson Foster – 2:01.91
Humberto Najera – 2:02.34
Derek Hernandez-Ojeda – 2:03.81
Mathys Chouchaoui – 2:04.16
Kieran Smith clocked the highest time of prelims within the males’s 200 again, stopping the clock in 2:00.00. He was only a tick forward of Leon Marchand, who got here in 2nd with a 2:00.12. With Yohann Ndoye-Brouard taking third in 2:00.52, we ought to be arrange for an important race tonight in finals.
Mewen Tomac was proper there within the combine, taking 4th in 2:01.26, whereas Carson Foster was fifth in 2:01.91.
All issues thought of, it is a discipline that might see most of it swimmers go beneath 2:00 in finals tonight.
WOMEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS
TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
Katie Ledecky – 4:04.38
Rylee Erisman – 4:13.25
Claire Weinstein – 4:13.60
Brinkleigh Hansen – 4:14.37
Anna Peplowski – 4:14.53
Emma Weyant – 4:15.84
Becca Mann – 4:18.92
Emily Wolf – 4:19.33
After successful the mile in dominating trend final evening, Katie Ledecky clocked the highest time of the morning within the ladies’s 400 free. Ledecky swam a 4:04.38, which was the quickest time within the discipline by 9 seconds this morning. Given how nicely Ledecky swam within the 1500 final evening, we will anticipate a quicker swim than 4:04 out of her tonight.
Rylee Erisman posted a 4:13.25 for 2nd this morning. Erisman was wonderful within the 100 again final evening, so we’ll see what she’s capable of do within the 400 free. She was simply forward of Claire Weinstein, who stopped the clock in 4:13.60.
MEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS
World Document: 3:39.46 – Lucas Martens, GER (2025)
American Document: 3:42.78 – Larsen Jensen (2008)
US Open Document: 3:43.33 – Rex Maurer, USA (2025)
PSS Document: 3:43.55 – Yang Solar, CHN (2016)
World Jr Document: 3:44.31 – Petar Mitsin (2023)
Pool Document: 3:44.70 – Leon Marchand, FRA (2025)
TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
Daniel Wiffen – 3:51.22
Ilia Sibirtsev – 3:51.84
Bobby Finke – 3:52.40
Ryan Erisman – 3:52.89
Denis Loktev – 3:53.00
Lucas Henveaux – 3:54.07
Gabriel Jett – 3:55.01
Luke Hobson – 3:55.03
Daniel Wiffen led a reasonably relaxed prelims of the lads’s 400 free, swimming a 3:51.22. He was simply forward of Ilia Sibirtsev, who was 2nd with a 3:51.84.
Bobby Finke and Ryan Erisman had been shut behind, every going 3:52.
