By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
Two-time Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder Hunter Armstrong is joining the Enhanced Games, he has confirmed to SwimSwam, but does not plan on taking the performance-enhancing drugs.
Armstrong, 25, is the first athlete to publicly commit to the Enhanced Games with the intention of competing clean.
The two-time American Olympian has been open about the financial struggles he’s dealt with as a professional swimmer, leading him to consider retirement last year. He went in-depth on the situation last May on the SwimSwam Podcast.
Armstrong told SwimSwam that pursuing the Enhanced Games, which is offering $1 million for breaking the world record in the 50 freestyle and will have a prize purse of $500,000 for each event ($250,000 going to the winner), was his best option to be able to continue supporting himself financially while training to compete at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.
However, even if Armstrong competes in the Enhanced Games without taking performance-enhancing drugs, something will have to give in order for him to be able to compete in World Aquatics-sanctioned events. The international governing body enacted a bylaw (bylaw 10) last year banning any participants in Enhanced Games competitions from its events.
The Enhanced Games filed a lawsuit against World Aquatics, along with USA Swimming and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), alleging that bylaw 10 was anticompetitive, but a Federal Judge concluded that it didn’t do what Enhanced claims it did.
However, Armstrong’s signing gives the Enhanced Games a harmed party to potentially sue World Aquatics and USA Swimming again.
Armstrong last competed at the U.S. Open in December, placing 14th in the final of the men’s 50 free (22.35) and finishing in the same position in the heats of the 50 back (25.65) before scratching the final.
He did not compete at the U.S. National Championships in June, the American selection meet for the 2025 World Championships, but did race at the U.S. Pro Championships in August, earning a runner-up finish in the 50 free (21.76).
A former Ohio State Buckeye, Armstrong broke out in 2021 by qualifying for the U.S. Olympic team in the men’s 100 back, going on to win a gold medal at the Tokyo Games as a prelim member of the men’s 4×100 medley relay.
After winning five medals at the 2022 World Championships and three at the 2023 edition in Fukuoka, highlighted by an individual gold medal in the 50 back, Armstrong made his second straight Olympic team in 2024, earning a silver medal in Paris in the men’s medley relay while placing 11th in the 100 back.
Armstrong is the 18th swimmer to commit to the Enhanced Games and the second American man, joining fellow Olympic gold medalist Cody Miller.
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