By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam
A little over a year ago, SwimSwam started releasing the Top 100 for 2025. This is a list we make annually, where we do our best to rank men and women for the coming calendar year.
With 2025 wrapping up, and the first of our 2026 lists coming out earlier this week, it is time to review how we did with last year’s rankings.
2025 Women’s Rankings
Rank Swimmer Individual World Championships Medal(s) 1 Summer McIntosh 4 gold, 1 bronze 2 Kaylee McKeown 2 gold 3 Katie Ledecky 2 gold, 1 bronze 4 Gretchen Walsh 2 gold 5 Kate Douglass 1 gold, 1 silver 6 Regan Smith 4 silver 7 Mollie O’Callaghan 1 gold, 1 silver 8 Torri Huske 1 bronze 9 Tang Qianting 1 silver, 1 bronze 10 Zhang Yufei 11 Evgeniia Chikunova 1 silver 12 Siobhan Haughey 13 Katie Grimes 14 Isabel Gose 15 Katharine Berkoff 1 gold, 1 bronze 16 Lani Pallister 1 silver, 1 bronze 17 Alex Walsh 1 silver 18 Anastasiya Kirpichnikova 19 Ruta Meilutyte 1 gold 20 Claire Curzan 21 Tes Schouten 22 Meg Harris 1 gold 23 Claire Weinstein 1 bronze 24 Paige Madden 25 Mary-Sophie Harvey 1 bronze 26 Marrit Steenbergen 1 gold 27 Yang Junxuan 28 Simona Quadarella 1 silver 29 Li Bingjie 2 silver 30 Erika Fairweather 31 Iona Anderson 32 Mona McSharry 33 Kylie Masse 34 Benedetta Pilato 1 bronze 35 Elizabeth Dekkers 1 bronze 36 Eneli Jefimova 37 Yu Yiting 38 Lilly King 39 Shayna Jack 40 Anastasia Gorbenko 41 Feya Colbert 42 Angelina Kohler 43 Beryl Gastaldello 44 Phoebe Bacon 45 Angharad Evans 46 Tessa Giele 47 Abbie Wood 48 Kasia Wasick 49 Alex Shackell 50 Ariarne Titmus 51 Emma Weyant 52 Mizuki Hirai 53 Jaclyn Barclay 54 Alexandria Perkins 1 silver, 1 bronze 55 Anastasiya Shkurdai 56 Sydney Pickrem 57 Vivien Jackl 58 Abbey Connor 59 Mio Narita 1 bronze 60 Ingrid Wilm 61 Barbora Seemanova 62 Freya Anderson 63 Arina Surkova 64 Alina Zmushka 1 bronze 65 Kennedy Noble 66 Jenna Forrester 1 silver 67 Lara van Niekerk 68 Louise Hansson 69 Nikolett Padar 70 Jillian Cox 71 Airi Mitsui 72 Ella Ramsay 73 Olivia Wunsch 74 Chen Luying 75 Waka Kobori 76 Brianna Throssell 77 Ksenia Misharina 78 Rebecca Meder 79 Katie Shanahan 80 Amelie Blocksidge 81 Ellen Walshe 82 Maria Costa 83 Emma Terebo 84 Marie Wattel 85 Melanie Henique 86 Jamie Perkins 87 Lydia Jacoby 88 Simone Manuel 89 Analia Pigree 90 Moesha Johnson 3 golds (open water) 91 Helena Rosendahl Bach 92 Eve Thomas 93 Kotryna Teterevkova 94 Rhyan White 95 Rikako Ikee 96 Ageha Tanigawa 97 Bella Sims 98 Liu Yaxin 99 Roos Vanotterdijk 1 silver, 1 bronze 100 Alina GaifutdinovaWhen looking at last year’s rankings, our top 10 picks were strong with nine of the 10 winning at least one individual medal at Worlds and eight of them winning multiple medals. The only place we were slightly off the mark in the top 10 was the #10 ranked Chinese butterflyer, Zhang Yufei. Zhang was coming off three bronze medals at the 2024 Olympics, and it seemed likely she would win multiple at Worlds as well. She ended up only swimming the 100 fly where she finished 4th overall.
Katharine Berkoff and Lani Pallister both won multiple medals as well, sitting at #15 and #16 respectively. Berkoff won the gold medal in the 50 backstroke and a bronze in the 100 back while Pallister took a silver in the 800 free and a bronze in the 1500.
There were a few medalists that we missed ranking entirely, with German breaststroker Anna Elendt being our biggest oversight. After not making an Olympic semifinal in 2024, she did not earn a spot on our top 100, but she had a massive turn around in 2025 that culminated in her earning the gold medal in the women’s 100 breaststroke at the World Championships as our only unranked gold medalist on the women’s side.
At #26, Dutch swimmer Marrit Steenbergen was the lowest ranked pool swimming gold medalist with her win in the 100 freestyle, and at #90 Moesha Johnson was the lowest ranked gold medalist with three open water gold medals, though our ranking was focused on pool swimming only.
Roos Vanotterdijk was another majorly under-ranked swimmer in 2025, coming in at 99 to just make the list before making five event semifinals and winning a silver medal in the 100 fly and a bronze medal in the 50 fly at the 2025 World Championships.
The event we struggled the most with on the women’s side was the 50 free. Gold medalist Meg Harris was ranked 22nd and silver medalist Wu Qingfeng and bronze medalist Cheng Yujie went completely unranked.
There were two other medalists we missed ranking, Wan Letian — who won bronze in the 50 back — and Kaylene Corbett — who won bronze in the 200 breast
Top 100 For 2025 — Men’s Rankings
Rank Swimmer Individual World Championships Medal(s) 1 Leon Marchand 2 gold 2 Pan Zhanle 3 Bobby Finke 1 bronze 4 Kristof Milak 5 David Popovici 2 gold 6 Daniel Wiffen 7 Kliment Kolesnikov 1 gold 8 Qin Haiyang 2 gold, 1 bronze 9 Thomas Ceccon 1 silver, 1 bronze 10 Lukas Martens 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze 11 Noe Ponti 1 silver 12 Hubert Kos 1 gold, 1 bronze 13 Sam Short 1 silver 14 Josh Liendo 15 Ilya Kharun 1 bronze 16 Gregorio Paltrinieri 17 Duncan Scott 18 Ryan Murphy 19 Maxime Grousset 2 gold 20 Carson Foster 21 Ahmed Jaouadi 2 gold 22 Miron Lifintsev 23 Elijah Winnington 24 Nicolo Martinenghi 1 silver 25 Kyle Chalmers 1 bronze 26 Jack Alexy 1 silver, 1 bronze 27 Luke Hobson 1 silver 28 Adam Peaty 29 Cameron McEvoy 1 gold 30 Shaine Casas 1 silver 31 Matt Richards 32 Zac Stubblety-Cook 33 Ben Proud 1 silver 34 Hwang Sunwoo 35 Kirill Prigoda 1 silver 36 Wang Shun 37 Tomoyuki Matsushita 1 silver 38 Kuzey Tuncelli 39 Florian Wellbrock 40 Ilya Borodin 1 bronze 41 Chris Guiliano 42 Pieter Coetze 1 gold, 2 silver 43 Roman Mityukov 44 Nic Fink 45 Jordan Crooks 46 Caeleb Dressel 47 Hunter Armstrong 48 Kim Woomin 1 bronze 49 Nyls Korstanje 50 Tom Dean 51 Matt Fallon 52 Caspar Corbeau 1 bronze 53 Tomoru Honda 54 David Betlehem 55 Krzysztof Chmielewski 1 silver 56 Ilya Shymanovich 57 Zalan Sarkany 58 Xu Jiayu 59 Apostolos Christou 60 Kieran Smith 61 Alberto Razzetti 62 Hugo Gonzalez 63 Sun Jiajun 64 Melvin Imoudu 65 Sam Williamson 66 Yu Hanaguruma 67 Andrei Minakov 68 Finlay Knox 69 Yamato Fukasawa 70 Lewis Clareburt 71 Matt Temple 72 Sven Schwarz 2 silver 73 Vladyslav Bukhov 74 Dong Zhihao 75 Thomas Heilman 76 Keaton Jones 77 Yohann Ndoye-Brouard 2 bronze 78 Diogo Ribeiro 79 Oliver Klemet 80 Isaac Cooper 81 Mewen Tomac 82 Carles Coll Marti 83 Daiya Seto 84 Genki Terakado 85 Gui Caribe 86 Evgenii Somov 87 Dare Rose 88 Michael Andrew 89 Nandor Nemeth 90 Simone Cerasuolo 1 gold 91 Max Giuliani 92 Jack Aikins 93 Max Litchfield 94 Danas Rapsys 95 Guilherme Costa 96 Arno Kamminga 97 Chase Kalisz 98 Mykhailo Romanchuk 99 Ippei Watanabe 1 silver 100 James GuyOur men’s rankings were all over the place in 2025. You could argue that the swimmer in the top 10 who was in the right spot was Leon Marchand in #1. Pan Zhanle, our #2 ended up missing the men’s 100 free final entirely, finishing 10th in the semifinals.
#3 Bobby Finke only won one bronze medal in the 1500, and #4 Kristof Milak dropped out of Worlds entirely, earning no medals.
After that, our ranking went better. The 11 spots from #5 to #15 saw nine individual medalists with only Daniel Wiffen, who was dealing with appendicitis at Worlds, and Josh Liendo, who had an underwhelming Worlds but broke the SCM World Record in the 100 fly during 2025, getting ranked in those spots with no medals.
There were a few men’s medalists we missed ranking as well, namely American Luca Urlando, who won the gold medal in the men’s 200 fly in Singapore after coming back from more than five years of injury.
We also missed ranking Australian Harrison Turner, who picked up the bronze medal in the 200 fly this year after failing to make the Olympic team in 2024 and making his senior international debut at the 2024 World Championships.
The other men’s medalists we didn’t rank were all bronze medalists: Tatsuya Murasa, 200 free, Pavel Samusenko, 50 back, and Denis Petrashov, 100 breast.
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