By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam
2025 U.S. OPEN
December 3-6, 2025 Austin, Texas Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center Prelims: 10 a.m. EST Finals: 7 p.m EST (Day 1: 5 p.m. EST) LCM (50 meters) Meet Central Psych Sheets Live Results Live Recaps Prelims: Day 2 Finals: Day 1Day 2 Finals Heat Sheet
Welcome to the first full finals session of the 2025 U.S. Open Championships. Tonight, we have a host of races with the top swimmers in the world racing each other as they try to end 2025 on a high note.
Schedule of Events
50 Back 400 Free 200 IM 50 Breast 50 FreeThe meet will start with the 50 backstrokes. On the women’s side two of the best backstrokers in the world, Katharine Berkoff and Regan Smith, will be racing the 50 back with Berkoff, the American record holder in the event, leading the field with her top time from prelims coming in at 27.49
The men’s event will see 17-year-old Australian Henry Allan try to hold off some of the best backstrokers in the world in Hubert Kos and Shaine Casas.
The headline events of the session are the 400 freestyles, but for different reasons. On the women’s side, World Record holder Summer McIntosh earned the top spot by more than 11 seconds in prelims, swimming 4:00.68. Tonight, she will be chasing her own U.S. Open Meet record of 3:59.42, and Katie Ledecky‘s U.S. Open record of 3:56.82, but she will be in a field of her own.
The men’s race will be a different story. Leon Marchand is the best male swimmer in the world right now, and he comes in seeded 3rd behind training partners Luke Hobson and Carson Foster. Hobson swam the top time in prelims, touching in 3:47.56 to lead Foster’s 3:48.05 and Marchand’s 3:48.13. They will be joined by 16-year-old phenom Luka Mijatovic who sits less than two tenths back of Marchand at 3:48.30.
Where the women’s 400 freestyle will be a story of dominance, the men’s could be one of the closest races of the meet among some of the top swimmers in the world.
The 200 IM events see Kate Douglass and Hubert Kos as the top seeds. Douglass comes in nearly a second ahead of Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey and a little more than a second ahead of Alex Walsh. Kos, on the other hand, sits just two seconds ahead of Baylor Nelson, who is coming off the meet of his life at the Texas Hall of Fame Invite and half-a-second ahead of Indiana’s Owen McDonald, who also had a strong performance at midseasons.
The meet will end with the 50 breaststroke and 50 freestyle events. Ireland’s Mona McSharry is the top seed in the women’s 5- breaststroke, a tenth ahead of Ohio State’s Maria Ramos Najji from Spain. On the me’s side, South Africa’s Michael Houlie came in just five hundredths ahead of Van Mathias for the top spot.
The women’s 50 free will see Kate Douglass and Gretchen Walsh battle for the top spot from lanes 4 and 5, and the men’s 50 free final is missing a number of the top swimmers in the world including Ilya Kharun, Caeleb Dressel, and Santo Condorelli, but features Serbia’s Andrej Barna as the top seed just ahead of Jack Alexy and Chris Giuliano.
Women’s 50 Backstroke – Finals
World Record: 26.86 – Kaylee McKeown, Australia (2023) U.S. Open Record: 26.97 – Katharine Berkoff, USA (2025) Meet Record: 27.49 — Katharine Berkoff, 2025Men’s 50 Backstroke – Finals
World Record: 23.55 – Kliment Kolesnikov, Russia (2023) U.S. Open Record: 23.71 – Hunter Armstrong, USA (2022) Meet Record: 24.70 — Henry Allan, 2025Women’s 400 Freestyle – Finals
World Record: 3:54.18 – Summer McIntosh, Canada (2025) U.S. Open Record: 3:56.81 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2025) Meet Record: 3:59.42 – Summer McIntosh, 2023Men’s 400 Freestyle – Finals
World Record: 3:39.96 – Lukas Martens, Germany (2025) U.S. Open Record: 3:43.33 – Rex Maurer, USA (2025) Meet Record: 3:45.63 – Zane Grothe, 2016Women’s 200 IM – Finals
World Record: 2:05.70 – Summer McIntosh, Canada (2025) U.S. Open Record: 2:06.79 – Kate Douglass, USA (2024) Meet Record: 2:08.20 – Melanie Margalis, 2019Men’s 200 IM – Finals
World Record: 1:52.69 – Leon Marchand, France (2025) U.S. Open Record: 1:54.43 – Ryan Lochte, USA (2010) Meet Record: 1:56.52 – Chase Kalisz, 2022Women’s 50 Breaststroke – Finals
World Record: 29.16 – Ruta Meilutyte, Lithuania (2023) U.S. Open Record: 29.62 – Lilly King, USA (2018) Meet Record: 30.80 — Mona McSharry, 2025Men’s 50 Breaststroke – Finals
World Record: 25.95 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2017) U.S. Open Record: 26.52 – Michael Andrew, USA (2022) Meet Record: 26.79 — Michael Houlie, 2025Women’s 50 Freestyle – Finals
World Record: 23.61 – Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden (2023) U.S. Open Record: 23.91 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2025) Meet Record: 24.38 – Kate Douglass, 2023Men’s 50 Freestyle – Finals
World Record: 20.91 – César Cielo, Brazil (2009) U.S. Open Record: 21.04 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2021) Meet Record: 21.58 –Andrej Barna, 2025Read the full story on SwimSwam: 2025 U.S. Open: Day 2 Finals Live Recap
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