2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open
Wednesday, April 29 – Saturday, Could 2, 2026
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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We’ve made it to the ultimate session of the 2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open! The previous couple of days have seen some quick racing in Florida, and we’ve another session with a few of the most anticipated occasions on tonight’s schedule.
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The night will begin off with the ladies’s and males’s 800 freestyle occasions. Final yr, Katie Ledecky set the 800 freestyle world report on the ultimate day and she’s going to lead the ladies’s ultimate tonight together with her seed time of 8:04.12 (the aforementioned world report) coming in 30 seconds forward of the remainder of the sector.
Bobby Finke is the highest seed within the males’s occasion at 7:38.67, however William Mulgrew is seeded 2nd and he has been having a really robust meet thus far.
After the 800 freestyles, the ladies’s and males’s 100 backstroke occasions will race. Isabelle Stadden swam the quickest time within the prelims of the 100 backstroke, however world report holder Regan Smith might be proper subsequent to her within the ultimate.
Hubert Kos is the highest seed within the males’s race by virtually two seconds over Jack Aikins, and he might be seeking to choose up the win tonight.
The ladies’s and males’s 200 breaststroke races will see two of the highest swimmers on this planet in the course of the pool. Kate Douglass is the ladies’s prime seed and Leon Marchand is the lads’s. They’re each heavy favorites to win.
Gretchen Walsh is the highest seed within the girls’s 100 butterfly, swimming 55.39 in prelims to earn the highest seed by greater than three seconds over Claire Curzan‘s 58.61. She additionally set a world report within the occasion ultimately yr’s Fort Lauderdale Professional Swim Collection and may very well be on the lookout for a repeat efficiency tonight.
The lads’s race is wanting like it will likely be the other of the domination we’ll possible see on the ladies’s aspect. Ilya Kharun and Josh Liendo are the first and 2nd seeds respectively, touching simply eight hundredths aside in prelims.
Phoebe Bacon, Sadie Buckley, and Regan Smith are gearing up for an in depth race within the girls’s 200 IM as all three have been a bit of greater than half-a-second aside in prelims.
The lads’s 200 IM might be all concerning the Texas athletes as the first, third, and 4th seeds tonight are all from Austin together with world report holder Leon Marchand.
Lastly, the meet will wrap up with the 50 freestyles. Gretchen Walsh is the ladies’s prime seed by simply two hundredths over Kate Douglass. On the lads’s aspect, Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun will meet once more as the first and third seeds with their 22.29 and 22.52 respective prelims swims. Dylan Carter certified 2nd in 22.41.
Ladies’s 800M Freestyle — Timed Last
Males’s 800M Freestyle — Timed Last
World Report: 7:32.12 — Zhang Lin, CHN (2009)
World Junior Report: 7:43.37 — Lorenzo Galossi, ITA (2022)
American Report: 7:38.67 — Bobby Finke (2023)
U.S. Open Report: 7:40.34 — Bobby Finke, USA (2023)
