2026 Sacramento Professional Sequence
Day one of many 2026 Professional Swim Sequence in Sacramento noticed quite a lot of quick swims together with the return of Olympic gold medalist Ryan Murphy from his almost two 12 months hiatus from competitors. Murphy raced Daniel Diehl for the highest time within the males’s 100 backstroke, with Diehl in the end popping out victorious.
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Males’s 1500 Free – Timed Last
World Document: Bobby Finke – 14:30.67 (2024)
American Document: Bobby Finke – 14:30.67 (2024)
US Open Document: Bobby Finke – 14:40.28 (2024)
Professional Sequence Document: Sam Brief – 14:52.33 (2026)
Prime 8 Finishers
Luka Mijatovic (PLS) — 14:59.27
Juan Vallmitjana (SOFL) — 15:24.07
Ellis Crisci (TST) — 15:32.32
Julien Rousseau (CAL) — 15;48.10
Luke Brennan (UOFM) — 15:48.93
Darwin Anderson (COUG) — 15:49.29
Aiden Kirk (CAN) — 15:53.14
Deacon Gutshall (TST) — 15:54.33
Luka Mijatovic, who turned 17 lower than a month in the past, received the lads’s 1500 freestyle in 14:59.27. This swim was a brand new finest time by 16 seconds from the 15:15.95 mark he set in August of 2024 at Junior Pan Pacs.
Mijatovic will transfer as much as #4 American within the 17-18 age group within the occasion, leaping Luke Ellis, who swam 15:00.24 on the similar meet in August of 2024. The NAG report is Larsen Jensen’s 14:45.29 from the 2004 Olympic Video games. He will even turn into the highest American on the earth this season, leaping Bobby Finke‘s 15:02.81 from the Austin cease of the Professional Swim Sequence.
Juan Vallmitjana, one other 17-year-old, completed 2nd in 15:24.07, This was a slight add from the 15:16.61 he swam on the Professional Swim Sequence in Westmont. He’s dedicated to Virginia for the category of 2027.
Ellis Crisci, who can also be 17, completed third in 15:32.32. He added 12 seconds from his better of 15:20.93, which he swam final June. Crisci and Mijatovic are future Texas teammates for the category of 2027.
Girls’s 200 IM – Finals
World Document: Summer time McIntosh – 2:05.70 (2025)
American Document: Ariana Kukors – 2:06.15 (2009)
US Open Document: 2:06.79 – Kate Douglass (2024)
Professional Sequence Document: Summer time McIntosh – 2:06.82 (2025)
Prime 8 Finishers
Torri Huske (UN) — 2:11.34
Katie Christopherson (SA) — 2:13.15
Lauren Lonsdale (DART) — 2:14.27
Mikayla Tan (SRVA) — 2:14.92
Alexa McDevitt (CAL) — 2:15.12
Marie Landreneau (COLA) — 2:15.13
Emma Hussein (CANY) — 2:16.06
Ieva Maluka (ABSC) — 2:16.34
The ladies’s 200 IM went to Torri Huske in dominant trend. She grabbed the lead on the primary 50 and held the highest spot by way of your entire race, touching in 2:11.34 to cease the clock almost two seconds forward of the remainder of the sphere.
Huske cut up 27.79/33.50/38.84/31.21 to have the quickest butterfly and backstroke legs within the subject together with her opening 100 of 1:01.29. Her lifetime finest within the occasion stands at 2:08.47, which she swam in April of 2024.
Swim Atlanta’s Katie Christopherson, who swims collegiately for the College of Virginia, completed 2nd in 2:13.15, a seven tenth drop from the two:13.83 finest time she swam in July of 2024. Christopherson cut up 28.41/35.46/37.78/31.50 to overhaul third place finisher, Lauren Lonsdale, on the breaststroke.
Lonsdale, who’s 14 and swims for DART Swimming, completed third in 2:14.27. This was a full second drop from the two:15.79 mark she set final July. It can additionally transfer her as much as #4 American all-time within the 13-14 age group. The NAG Document is 2:12.53, set by Teagan O’Dell in August of 2021. Lonsdale cut up 29.14/33.66/39.80/31.66.
Males’s 200 IM – Finals
World Document: Leon Marchand – 1:52.69 (2025)
American Document: Ryan Lochte – 1:54.00
US Open Document: Ryan Lochte – 1:54.43
Professional Sequence Document: 1:55.68 – Leon Marchand (2023)
Prime 8 Finishers
Finlay Knox (CAN) — 1:59.27
Grant Home (SUN) — 2:00.61
Grant Sanders (SPA) — 2:01.01
Jacob Turner (UN) — 2:03.15
Xavier Ruiz (PUR) — 2:03.27
Munzy Kabbara (LEB) — 2:03.48
Jackson Hartzler (CFSC) — 2:04.60
Jack Madden (FCST) — 2:06.12
Finlay Knox was the one swimmer within the males’s 200 IM to the touch below 2:00 within the occasion, swimming 1:59.27 to come back in additional than a second forward of Grant Home‘s 2:00.61 in 2nd place.
Knox cut up 25.02/30.70/34.89/28.66 to be the quickest swimmer on the butterfly, backstroke, and freestyle 50s. His lifetime finest is 1:56.07 from the 2024 Canadian Trials. He was additionally simply off his season better of 1:58.74, which he swam on the U.S. Open Championships in December.
Grant Home got here in 2nd at 2:00.61 after splitting 25.27/30.98/35.33/29.03. His lifetime finest stands at 1:58.07 from final June.
Grant Sanders, a 28-year-old from Saint Petersburg Aquatics Membership swam 2:01.01 to complete third. He cut up 26.13/31.30/34.61/28.97 as he tried to chase down Home on the again half. His private finest is 2:00.14 from August of 2019.
Girls’s 50 Breast – Finals
World Document: Ruta Meilutyte – 29.16 (2023)
American Document: Lilly King – 29.40 (2017)
US Open Document: Lilly King – 29.62 (2018)
Professional Sequence Document: Lilly King – 29.62 (2018)
Prime 8 Finishers
Frida Loebersli (GPA) — 30.91
Silje Slyngstadli (CAL) — 31.04
Mikayla Tan (SRVA) — 31.14
Lucy Thomas (ALTO) — 31.28
Aliz Kalmar (FRES) — 31.33
Caroline Larsen (UOFL) — 31.36
Jenna Pulkkinen (FRES) — 31.48
Sophia Sileo-Magliari (UDAC) — 32.05
The ladies’s 50 breaststroke went to Golden Panther Aquatics’ Frida Loebersli in 30.91 as the one swimmer below 31 seconds. She took a couple of tenth off her better of 31.58 from April of final 12 months.
Silje Slyngstaldi completed 2nd in 31.04, about half-a-second off her better of 30.48 from final 12 months’s World Championships.
In her 2nd occasion of the evening, San Ramon Valley 16-year-old Mikayla Tan swam 31.14 to complete third. This was a 3 tenth drop from her earlier better of 31.41, which she swam in July of final 12 months.
Males’s 50 Breast – Finals
World Document: Adam Peaty – 25.95 (2017)
American Document: Van Mathias – 26.39 (2026)
US Open Document: Michael Andrew – 26.52 (2022)
Professional Sequence Document: Van Mathias – 26.57 (2026)
Prime 8 Finishers
Michael Andrew (MASA) –26.96
Yamato Okadome (CAL) — 27.03
Mitch Mason (TFA) — 27.10
Mikel Schreuders (MASA)– 27.29
Tom Higdon (CART) — 27.74
Koko Bratanov (TFA) — 27.82
Andrew Eubanks (TDPS) — 27.91
Pavel Romanov (UN) — 28.19
Michael Andrew picked up his 2nd sub-27 swim of the meet within the males’s 50 breaststroke last, swimming 26.96 to win the occasion and drop a hundredth from his prelims time of 26.97.
Andrew’s lifetime finest is 26.52 from April of 2022, however he these swims mark his first time below 27 seconds this season. He’ll transfer as much as twelfth on the earth this season forward of China’s Zhang Yinghao, who swam 26.97 in November.
Yamato Okadome completed 2nd in 27.03, taking two tenths off the 27.38 mark he set in June of 2025 on the French Championships.
Mitch Mason, from Texas Ford Aquatics, completed third in 27.10, which was a two tenth drop from the 27.32 he set in January.
Girls’s 100 Again – Finals
World Document: Regan Smith – 57.13 (2024)
American Document: Regan Smith – 57.13 (2024)
US Open Document: Regan Smith – 57.13 (2024)
Professional Sequence Document: Regan Smith – 57.46 (2025)
Prime 8 Finishers
Katharine Berkoff (WOLF) — 58.88
Mary-Ambre Moluh (CAL) — 59.41
Rhyan White (WOLF) — 1:00.93
Kennedi Dobson (EEX) — 1:01.98
Kaitlyn Owens (TAMU) — 1:02.37
Maddie Thornton (BEND) — 1:03.57
Bridget Burton (CAN) — 1:03.83
Chloe Isleta (PSC) — 1:04.40
Katharine Berkoff swam the highest time within the ladies’s 100 backstroke of 58.88, touching extra htan half-a-second forward of Mary-Ambre Moluh‘s 59.41 for Cal in 2nd.
Berkoff’s season better of 58.71, which she swam on the U.S. Open Championships in December at the moment ranks fifth on the earth for this season. Her lifetime finest is 57.83 from the 2024 Olympic Trials.
Moluh will transfer as much as ninth on the earth this 12 months, leaping Leah Shackley‘s 59.42 from the U.S. Open. Moluh would be the highest ranked European swimmer passing French teammate Pauline Mahieu’s 59.44 from March.
Rhyan White, from the Wolfpack Elite, swam 1:00.93 to complete third, coming in a couple of second off the 1:00.09 season finest mark she set on the cease in Westmont. Her lifetime finest is 58.43 from Might of 2021
Males’s 100 Again – Finals
World Document: Thomas Ceccon – 51.60 (2022)
American Document: Ryan Murphy – 51.85 (2016)
US Open Document: Aaron Peirsol – 51.94 (2009)
Professional Sequence Document: David Plummer – 52.40 (2016)
Prime 8 Finishers
Daniel Diehl (NCST) — 53.74
Ryan Murphy (CAL) — 53.91
Blake Tierney (CAN) — 54.59
Gavin Keogh (NCST) — 55.21
Ethan Ekk (ALTO) — 55.35
Tommy Hagar (BAMA) — 55.41
Raben Dommann (CAN) — 55.78
Utkarsh Patil (ISC) — 56.30
The lads’s 100 backstroke was thrilling. Finally, NC State’s Daniel Diehl got here out on prime in 53.74, just below two tenths forward of Olympic gold medalist Ryan Murphy.
Ryan Murphy acquired out to a fast lead, splitting 25.00 on the opening 50 to take a seat two tenths forward of Diehl’s 26.20 in 2nd place.
The 2nd 50 noticed Diehl cut up 27.54, nearly half-a-second quicker than Murphy’s 27.91 to move him for the lead. Diehl’s time was about eight tenths off the 52.94 he swam in July of final summer season on the World College Video games.
Murphy touched 2nd in 53.91, racing his first last because the Olympic Video games in 2024.
Canada’s Blake Tierney took third in 54.59, splitting 26.47/28.12 to take care of the third place place all through the entire race. This was a couple of second off his season better of 53.52 from the U.S. Open, however continues to be greater than a second quicker than anybody in Canada has been this season.
