2025 INDY SUMMER CUP
A good portion of the swimmers on the US World Championship roster, together with a number of different huge names, are racing this week in Indianapolis, treating swim followers to some comparatively quick swimming as we method this summer season’s main worldwide meets. That included Leon Marchand tonight, after the French swimmer DFS’ed the 200 fly and 400 free yesterday, however took on the 100 free, 20 again and 200 IM tonight.
Simone Manuel took a dominant victory within the ladies’s 100 freestyle on Day 4, profitable the occasion by almost a second to proceed her nice kind this season. At U.S. Nationals she posted her quickest time since 2019 to take third and are available inside five-hundredths of a person swim. Manuel was out tonight in 25.73, and regardless of Regan Smith closing the hole barely on the second 50 touched first in 53.28, lower than half a second off her season-best 52.83.
Smith knocked over a second off her earlier finest to go 54.15, exhibiting some severe dash pace in an off-event for her. She didn’t race the 100 free at U.S. nationals, however has definitely thrown her hat within the ring for future forays within the occasion.
She tripled up on Day 4, swimming the 200 again and the 200 IM on this finals session in addition to the 100 free. She was up within the 200 again simply 20 minutes later, the place she took the win in 2:06.84. She had set a brand new meet file of two:09.77 within the morning, and was considerably sooner once more within the last to swim precisely a second slower than she was at U.S. Nationals.
Miranda Grana, who will swim the 100 and 200 again for Mexico in Singapore subsequent month, took third in 2:14.83, three seconds off her finest from Mexican Nationals this 12 months.
Smith positioned first within the 200 IM as nicely to spherical off her session, posting a time of two:10.35 to win by almost seven seconds and shatter the meet file by greater than 4. She was out sub-1:00 in 59.49, after which cut up 40.44 on breaststroke and 30.42 in freestyle to set her season-best within the occasion.
Within the Males’s 100 free, Chris Guiliano adopted on from his meet file of 47.79 from the heats this morning to shave one other seven-hundredths, going 47.72 within the last. He was out quick in 22.56, joined beneath 23 seconds by Matt King (22.91), and stormed dwelling in 25.16 to take the win. King got here again in 25.40 to go 48.31, sooner than he was in both heats (48.39) or finals (48.41) at U.S. Nationals.
A number of World Championship swimmers tried this occasion on for dimension tonight, together with Luke Hobson (49.64), Hubert Kos (49.42) and Leon Marchand (49.70). Marchand had scratched his occasions yesterday, however returned to racing with an enormous schedule tonight. Carson Foster (49.87) and Rex Maurer (49.98) have been in tonight’s ‘B’ last, which was gained by their compatriot and WUG’s entrant Baylor Nelson in 49.83.
Ruslan Gaziev, who’s coming off an 18-month whereabouts suspension, took third within the ‘A’ last in 48.94. He gained the occasion at Canadian Trials this 12 months in 48.37, and holds a finest time of 48.27 from 2023. In complete, 15 swimmers broke the earlier meet file of fifty.67 over the course of the day.
Marchand, Kos, Baylor Nelson and Carson Foster accomplished the identical triple as Regan Smith, in what appeared to be a punishing Texas schedule for tonight. A stacked 200 backstroke last noticed 5 World Championship rivals race – Carson Foster, Rex Maurer, Kai van Westering, Hubert Kos and Leon Marchand – with World and Olympic Champion Hubert Kos taking the win in a brand new meet file of 1:56.74. Marchand pushed him shut the entire race to complete in 1:57.14, which seems to be to be a brand new finest time for him, with nobody else breaking two minutes.
The 200 IM noticed the rivals cut up up, with Foster and Shaine Casas within the ‘B’ last and Kos and Marchand within the ‘A’. Casas took the win forward of Foster 1:59.71 to 2:00.07, as Foster matched his 200 backstroke time to the hundredth. Marchand and Kos have been almost even at midway of their last, however Marchand blew Kos away with a 33.90/28.52 again half to roar to a 1:57.23 that shaves 0.04 off his season finest and maintains his #8 rating within the World this season.
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Different Outcomes
David Johnston and Levi Sandidge battled it out within the males’s 800 free, with Johnston taking the win 8:01.34 to eight:06.92. That’s slower for each swimmers than they have been at U.S. Nationals, the place Johnston was 7:49.85 and Sandidge posted an 8:04.25. Johnston will race the 1500 free for Group USA in Singapore
Reagan Mattice of Purdue broke 17 minutes within the 1500 for the primary time ever, shaving eight seconds off her earlier finest to go 16:54.31. That gave her the win by almost ten seconds over her teammate Adele Sands.
