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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 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7
The lineups for the men’s medley relay have dropped, with the U.S. opting to stick rather than twist with the majority of their lineup. Tommy Janton will lead off and is followed by Campbell McKean, with Dare Rose the potential surprise on fly after not qualifying individually in the 100. Jack Alexy, who led off the World-Record-setting mixed free relay last night in 46.91, will anchor this morning as the U.S. take no chances on qualifying for the final.
Janton is the safe choice on backstroke as the fastest man to have swum so far for the U.S., and is picked ahead of more left-field choices such as Shaine Casas, Destin Lasco, Quintin McCarty or Luca Urlando. Casas was in the 50 backstroke yesterday but only went 24.97 to miss the semi-finals, while McCarty will be in tonight’s final after going 24.52 to take 7th in the semi-finals but only has a best of 55.26 in the 100.
McKean was 59.07 on breaststroke in the mixed medley relay, and his inclusion here could indicate that Josh Matheny is not fully recovered from the illness that knocked him out of the 200 breast. The Indiana swimmer was 59.15 individually for a new best time, but has not swum since the 100 breast final on Day 2.
Dare Rose is the one leg where the coaches have gone for the twist, with Dare Rose only swimming the 50 fly so far here. He was 12th in the semi-finals in 23.02, off his best time of 22.79, but owns a season-best of 50.93 in the 100 fly. After Shaine Casas (51.66) and Thomas Heilman (52.02) missed the semi-finals in the 100 fly, Rose has evidently shown something to indicate he can be faster here.
Jack Alexy on the anchor shows just how aware the U.S. is of missing this final. Patrick Sammon did split 46.70 on the mixed free relay last night, but with Alexy swimming flat start 46-points three times so far in Singapore, he should be able to go even faster than that if required to. With a strong heat 3 to come after they swim, the U.S. will want to finish in the top two of their heat as a minimum.
The lineup this morning could end up being the same as that used for the finals tonight, with all three non-fly legs using what looks to be the top available swimmer. The time they go will be extremely interesting.
How Does Everyone Else Look?
The risk for the U.S. is exacerbated by a number of other countries putting out very strong lineups this morning.
NAB will swim out of heat 1, and the inclusion of Kliment Kolesnikov means that Miron Lifintsev will likely be on the finals team. Andrei Minakov will be on fly after their second swimmer, Mikhail Antipov, added over a second in the individual 100. Ivan Girev was 47.0 on the mixed free relay and should be a strong anchor as they will effectively have a time trial in their heat. Ivan Kozhakin did not swim the 100 breast individually, but has a season best of 59.14, and overall they will almost certainly be able to out-qualify the U.S.
The Netherlands, Great Britain and Australia have all gone with full-strength lineups this morning, with Casper Corbeau, Oliver Morgan, Matt Richards, Matt Temple and Kyle Chalmers all being used. There will be a surprise swimmer in heat 2, as 400 free champion and 800 free bronze medalist Lukas Maertens will lead off for Germany. He is the fastest German 100 backstroker this season thanks to his 54.18 from April.
The first three of those nations will have designs on the final, and with the Dutch and British teams flanking the U.S. whichever one of the trio finishes 3rd will be waiting nervously through the final heat. The U.S. should get the better of the Dutch, but Great Britain will have clean water after Oliver Morgan‘s leadoff and both Greg Butler and Ed Mildred have looked good so far for the breaststroke and fly legs and should not give up much at all to the U.S.. Matt Richards has a 47.23 free split already in Singapore, and may be too far away for Alexy to catch.
The final heat could contain the majority of tonight’s finalists. Lanes 2 through 8 will all believe they can do enough to make the final, and if they end up pulling each other to quick times one of the top two from the previous heat, or even NAB, could miss out.
Italy have gone for a full reserve lineup, although one that is strong enough that they should guarantee themselves a finals spot after failing to do so in Paris last summer. Christian Bacico and Ludovico Viberti were used on the mixed medley relay heats where they were 52.68/58.67, so they may well lead out the final heat even without their individual silver medalists in backstroke and breaststroke, Thomas Ceccon and Nicolo Martinenghi.
Federico Burdisso and Manuel Frigo will swim the back half, potentially opening up the possibility of putting Thomas Ceccon onto the finals relay on the fly leg instead of backstroke. That will be dependent on Burdisso’s relay split, after Ceccon was 50.42 in the 100 fly semi-finals but only 51.12 in the final last night. Frigo is one of three Italian men to have split between 47.34 and 47.36 so far, and should not be much slower this morning.
China have gone almost full strength, with Pan Zhanle and Qin Haiyang racing, but lead off with Shun Wang rather than Xu Jiayu. Xu Fang is on fly and was just 51.90 individually, but their two stars should give them enough of a buffer. However, if they get caught in the wash of the teams either side – Canada and France – they could be in trouble if Pan is not in 46-mid form.
France has mixed up their order and will swim Maxime Grousset on the free leg rather than fly, after he won the 100 fly last night in a new European Record. Clement Secchi, who just missed the 100 final in 51.23 but who owns a best of 51.06, will take the fly duties. Jeremie Delbois will swim breaststroke, and split 59.80 on the prelims mixed medley relay that placed 9th.
That relay should advance comfortably, especially with bronze medalist Yohann Ndoye-Brouard on backstroke, and will then know whether Secchi/Grousset is a better option for tonight than Grousset/le Goff or Fente-Damers.
Australia will need a big back half from Matt Temple and Kyle Chalmers, with Joshua Edwards-Smith and Nash Wilkes one of the weaker front ends among the final contenders. Poland next to them go with Ksawery Masiuk and 100 free record holder Kamil Sieradzki, who has already neared his National Record twice on relay leadoffs and set a huge new Polish record in the 200 free en route to finishing 5th. A finals appearance will be the aim, and they are unlikely to leave anything in the pool.
The U.S. will probably be nearer to the times of those two than the heavyweights in lanes 2, 4 and 5. Canada will rely on Blake Tierney being near his 100 back best after setting a big 200 back record, and Oliver Dawson will need to be under 1:00 to give Ilya Kharun and Ruslan Gaziev, a back half that could end up as a wash with the U.S., the best chance to qualify the team for the final.
Japan have also gone full strength and could be dangerous, but a lot depends on a slightly out of form Katsuhiro Matsumoto. They probably don’t have either the speed on backstroke or freestyle leg to push the U.S. out.
Beyond Italy, France, NAB and China, there are six teams fighting for four spots. Great Britain, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, Poland and the U.S. will probably not be separated by much in that fight, and Alexy’s anchor could well be key to American hopes.
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