2024 Speedo Summer Championships
- Tuesday, July 23 – Saturday, July 27, 2024
- Prelims 9AM, finals 5PM (Pacific Time)
- LCM (50 meters)
- Woollett Aquatics Center, Irvine, California
- Meet Central
- Pre–scratch Psych Sheet
- Live Results
- Live Stream
USA Swimming’s combined summer senior and junior national meet, the Speedo Summer Championships, kicked off this morning in Irvine, California, with prelims of the 200 fly and 100 breast. At 2:26PM Pacific time, we will begin the distance freestyle events, alternating heats of the women’s 800 and the men’s 1500. The fastest heat of each distance event will swim in tonight’s finals session.
Women’s 800m Freestyle – slower heats
- World: 8:04.79 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2016)
- American: 8:04.79 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2016)
- US Open: 8:06.68 – Katie Ledecky, Nation’s Capital (2016)
- Jr World: 8:11.00 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2014)
Top 8:
- Marissa Inouye, CUDA – 8:46.89
- Adele Sands, BA – 8:47.37
- Chloe Kim, SCAR – 8:49.32
- Chloe Teger, GOLD – 8:51.49
- Kathryn Shanley, MICH – 8:52.75
- Caroline Benda, KYA – 8:52.76
- Sammie Hamilton, NOVA – 8:53.97
- Clarke Neace, MAC – 8:55.00
Brooke Bennett from Pleasanton Seahawks started us off with an 8:58.22 in heat 1, winning by 4.7 seconds ahead of Lucy Flynn from Orange County Gold (9:02.96).
Marissa Inouye from Front Range Barracudas, who is headed to the University of Miami in the fall, dropped 17.6 seconds from her previous PB to notch a huge 8:46.89 in heat 2. 6 seconds behind her, Kathryn Shanley of University of Michigan touched out Caroline Benda from Kentucky Aquatics by .01 (8:52.75 to 8:52.76).
Adele Sands won the 3rd heat with 8:47.37, improving her PB by 7.3 seconds. She took over the lead from lane 7 at the 150 and never looked back. Scarlet Aquatics’ Chloe Kim, who started out in 4th place, then moved up to 2nd which she held through to the end, stopped the clock at 8:49.32, dropping half a second. Chloe Teger from Orange County Gold got past Irvine Novaquatics’s Sammie Hamilton at the 600 and finished 3rd with 8:51.49.
Men’s 1500m Freestyle – slower heats
- World: 14:31.02 – Yang Sun, CHN (2012)
- American: 14:31.59 – Bobby Finke, USA (2023)
- US Open: 14:40.28 – Robert Finke, Saint Petersburg (2024)
- Jr World: 14:46.09 – Franko Grgic, CRO (2019)
Top 8:
- Jacob Pishko, LSU – 15:23.84
- Ellis Crisci, TST – 15:31.36
- Juan Vallmitjana, SOFL – 15:35.80
- Saadeddin Saadeddin, SCAR – 15:36.41
- Jonny Hines, FAST – 15:44.28
- Ryan Hume, MICH – 15:45.80
- Quinn Jones, SMST – 15:49.88
- Julien Rousseau, PS – 15:52.33
Michigan’s Jack Luken dominated heat 1, and while he gave up some of the 4-second lead he had at the 1000, he finished with 16:00.65, 3.2 seconds ahead of Ozaukee Aquatics’ Finn Holdredge (16:03.88, PBx1.7). Raymond Stelmark of Scarlet Aquatics was 3rd in 16:11.10, dropping 3.1 seconds.
LSU’s Jacob Pishko eviscerated his lifetime best, which had stood at 15:53.72 since 2022, in heat 2. Pishko won with 15:23.84, coming to the wall 22 seconds ahead of Michigan’s Ryan Hume (15:45.80) and Tsunami Swim Team’s Sam Hennenfent (15:57.05).
Hennenfent’s TST teammate, 15-year-old Ellis Crisci, improved his time by 6.3 seconds to win heat 3 in 15:31.36. Another 15-year-old, Juan Vallmitjana of South Florida Aquatic Club, touched 2nd in 15:35.80, going 3.2 seconds faster than his entry time. Saadeddin Saadeddin of Scarlet Aquatics was 3rd with 15:36.41, taking almost a second off his entry time.
