On Friday, World Aquatics announced the names of 20 athletes who have committed to compete in all three legs of the 2025 Swimming World Cup circuit. The series will kick off in Carmel, Indiana (October 10–12), continue to Westmont, Illinois (October 17–19), and wrap up in Toronto, Canada (October 23–25).
Olympic champions Adam Peaty, Gretchen Walsh, Jack Alexy, Michael Andrew, Matthew Richards, and Chad le Clos headline the list of confirmed competitors, joined by world champions Ilya Kharun, Luke Hobson, Shaine Casas, Kylie Masse, Marrit Steenbergen, Kieran Smith, and Lani Pallister.
See the full list below:
- Jack Alexy
- Michael Andrew
- Dylan Carter
- Shaine Casas
- Caspar Corbeau
- Luke Hobson
- Ilya Kharun
- Matthew Richards
- Kieran Smith
- Erika Fairweather
- Mary-Sophie Harvey
- Kylie Masse
- Mio Narita
- Marrit Steenbergen
- Roos Vanotterdijk
- Katarzyna Wasick
- Adam Peaty
- Chad le Clos
- Lani Pallister
- Gretchen Walsh
These 20 swimmers join the “Notable Nine,” who had already committed in August to racing in all three stops of the series, a group that included individual 2025 world champions Summer McIntosh, Kaylee McKeown, Kate Douglass, Mollie O’Callaghan, and Hubert Kos, along with fellow World Championship medalists Thomas Ceccon, Noe Ponti, Josh Liendo, and Regan Smith.
The Swimming World Cup is a series of three SCM meets in October, which serve as a racing and money making opportunity for some of the best swimmers in the world. Last year’s stops were highlighted by swims from numerous World Record holders and Olympic Champions including Leon Marchand and Kate Douglass who were the overall men’s and women’s series winners.
As usual, the athletes will be racing for more than medals, with a $1.2 million prize purse on the line. There are also world record ($10,000) and “crowns” ($10,000 for sweeping the same event at all three stops) bonuses, which last season produced eight world records and 18 event “crowns”, helping the total payout reach $1.46 million.
The official entries for the opening leg of the 2025 World Cup in Carmel were released on Thursday, with a loaded lineup of swimmers set to take on some busy schedules over the three-day meet beginning next Friday.
A lot of of these American swimmers, like Alexy, took a break after Worlds and they started training just a month before this meet, which is not enough time to race the best in the world.
Not only the Americans took a break
Appearance fee finally negotiated?
SC how boring. And who pays for the travel costs?
That’s your main takeaway from this?
World Aquatics Instagram post also confirms Carson Foster for all 3 stops…
With how rarely SCM are raced at the highest level in the United States, you have to think a ton of US Open records will be set at the World Cup. The real question is which US Open records are the most likely to survive.
I don’t think any of the Women’s US Open records will survive. Most of the women’s world records will probably be reset across the 3 stops as well – all back and fly distance, all IMs, 50/200/400/800 free, and 100/200 breast seem likely to go
I think the Australian womens records will be smashed as well…and the US and AUS will demolish a good number of WRs too!
How about Alex?
50 Back
100 Back
50 Fly
100 Fly
50 Free
100 Free
100 IM
7 SCM World Records will belong to Gretchen Walsh after this season.
She’s not getting that 100 free WR (nor even winning the event at all 3 meets). I don’t expect her to be as fast here as she was in Budapest last December. We haven’t seen any proof that she can maintain her form across multiple short meets.
She goes fast all the time. Pipe down
You must be one of the people who was saying that she’d go 19.x in the 50 yard free at NCAAs this year.
Gretchen’s def getting the 100 free record at some point but she’s not swimming it the first stop anyway I thought
Campbell set that record 8 years ago. It’s always been under-rated. Walsh will get it probably but Cate deserves huge recognition.
yeah but gretchen was only .06 off on her first ever scm final of that race and shes only been getting faster
Ranking these 20 swimmers based on their current relevance:
Shaine and Adam Peaty should be higher
We should rank them on their Swimming.
Pallister at 3. Hobson lower. Peaty higher.
Not sure how you weigh a one event Hobson (very good one event) vs multi event others that aren’t as good – several of them Casas included.
This feels rage baity. Pallister with the second best results after Gretchen but 4th to someone who swims one event?
Steenbergen who won the blue ribbon event behind someone who won silver in butterfly.
Narita who won an individual silver at worlds behind multiple people who won literally nothing???
What’s Kharun doing ahead of gold and silver medalists?
Click and rage bait confirmed.