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2025 World Championships
July 27 – August 3, 2025 (pool swimming) Singapore, Singapore World Aquatics Championships Arena LCM (50m) Meet Central How To Watch SwimSwam Preview Index Entry Book Live Results Live Recaps Prelims: Day 1 Finals: Day 1Day 2 Prelims Heat Sheet
Day 2 Prelims Schedule:
Women’s 100 Back Men’s 100 Back Women’s 100 Breast Men’s 200 Free Women’s 1500 FreeWelcome to day 2 of the 2025 World Championships in Singapore! After the excitement of yesterday’s opening day, we’re in for a fairly light prelims session this morning, featuring 5 events.
American Regan Smith will begin her attempt to take down Australia’s Kaylee McKeown in the women’s 100 back this morning. Smith enters the meet as the top seed and the World Record holder, but her time of 57.13 isn’t too far ahead of McKeown’s 57.33. That’s not even mentioning that American Katharine Berkoff and Canadian Kylie Masse have both been under 58 seconds as well.
It’s another World Record holder who comes in as the top seed in the men’s 100 back. Italy’s Thomas Ceccon enters this meet with a 52.00, while he holds the WR at 51.60, which he swam back in 2022. While it’s easy to hype the women’s 100 back up more than the men’s because of the longstanding rivalry between Smith and McKeown, the men’s 100 back should be just as hotly contested this week. Kliment Kolesnikov is seeded just 0.04 seconds behind Ceccon, while Great Britain’s Oliver Morgan comes in with a 52.12, just 0.12 seconds behind Ceccon.
China’s Tang Qianting comes in as the top seed by a huge margin in the women’s 100 breast. She enters with a 1:04.39, which is 0.98 seconds faster than the #2 seed.
American Luke Hobson comes in as the top seed in a stacked field in the men’s 200 free. Hobson ripped a huge career best of 1:43.73 at the US National meet 2 months ago, which puts him 1st on the psych sheet by nearly a full second. Even so, Hobson has his work cut out for him, as this field also includes World Junior Record holder David Popivici, 100 free World Record holder Pan Zhanle, Hwang Sunwoo, Edward Sommerville, James Guy, Matt Richards, and fellow American Gabriel Jett.
Then, we’ll end the session with prelims of the women’s 1500. As per usual, Katie Ledecky is the heavy favorite here and should come out of this morning as the top seed for the final, which will take place tomorrow night.
WOMEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE – PRELIMS
World Record: 57.13 – Regan Smith, USA (2024) World Junior Record: 57.57 – Regan Smith, USA (2019) Championship Record: 57.53 – Kaylee McKeown, AUS (2023) 2023 World Champion: Kaylee McKeown, AUS – 57.53 2024 Olympic Champion: Kaylee McKeown, AUS – 57.33TOP 16 QUALIFIERS:
MEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE – PRELIMS
World Record: 51.60 – Thomas Ceccon, ITA (2022) World Junior Record: 52.08 – Miron Lifintsev, RUS (2024) Championship Record: 51.60 – Thomas Ceccon, ITA (2022) 2023 World Champion: Ryan Murphy, USA – 52.22 2024 Olympic Champion: Thomas Ceccon, ITA – 52.00TOP 16 QUALIFIERS:
WOMEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE – PRELIMS
World Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King, USA (2017) World Junior Record: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU (2013) Championship Record: 1:04.13 – Lilly King, USA (2017) 2023 World Champion: Ruta Meilutyte, LTU – 1:04.62 2024 Olympic Champion: Tatjana Schoenmaker, RSA – 1:05.28TOP 16 QUALIFIERS:
MEN’S 200 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS
World Record: 1:42.00 – Paul Biedermann, GER (2009) World Junior Record: 1:42.97 – David Popovici, ROU (2022) Championship Record: 1:42.00 – Paul Biedermann, GER (2009) 2023 World Champion: Matt Richards, GBR – 1:44.30 2024 Olympic Champion: David Popovici, ROU – 1:44.72TOP 16 QUALIFIERS:
WOMEN’S 1500 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS
World Record: 15:20.48 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2018) World Junior Record: 15:28.36 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2014) Championship Record: 15:25.48 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2015) 2023 World Champion: Katie Ledecky, USA – 15:26.27 2024 Olympic Champion: Katie Ledecky, USA – 15:30.02TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
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