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 1
Men’s 50 Freestyle – Prelims
- World Record: 20.91 – César Cielo, Brazil (2009)
- U.S. Open Record: 21.04 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2021)
Meet Record: 21.59 – Bruno Fratus (2019)
Top 8 Qualifiers:
- Andrej Barna (SRB) – 21.58 CR
- Jack Alexy (CAL) – 21.71
- Chris Guiliano (TXLA) – 21.74
- Jonny Kulow (UN-AZ) – 21.90
- Remi Fabiani (UN-AZ) – 21.91
- Tolu Young (UN-AZ) – 21.92
- Kaii Winkler (NCS) – 21.93
- Matt King (ISC) – 22.04
In the final event of the morning on day 2 of the US Open in Austin, Serbian sprinter Andrej Barna clipped the meet record time in the 50 freestyle, touching in a final time of 21.58, lowering the previous record held by Brazilian Bruno Fratus from 2019 in 21.59 by one-hundredth of a second.
Barna has been as fast as 21.44 this year, from the World Championships in Singapore, which is his fastest time ever (and is the Serbian national record). His swim this morning marks the fourth fastest time in Barna’s career, behind his prelims (21.44), semifinals (21.45), and finals (21.60) swims at those World Championships in August.
Barna flipped positions with pre-meet top seed Jack Alexy, who now sits 2nd for tonight’s final (21.71).
Behind Barna were Alexy (21.71) and Chris Guiliano (21.74) as the only other sub-21.90 performers in prelims. Seven of the top eight for tonight’s final swam under the 22-second mark, with Matt King as the outlier, finishing 8th in 22.04.
Jonny Kulow (4th, 21.90), Remi Fabiani (5th, 21.91), Tolu Young (6th, 21.92), and Kaii Winkler (7th, 21.93) each finished within four hundredths of a second of each other.
Barna is also the oldest competitor in the 50 free final tonight, at 27; the next-oldest is Fabiani at 24. The rest of the field ranges from 19 to 22 years old.
He’s quietly been one of the more consistently better sprinters the past couple of years.
When hes focus in 50m free
where is he currently training? i believe he followed chris from louisville to nd & split time in serbia but pretty sure he didnt follow him to stanford. is he fulltime back in serbia now?
kinda interesting hes not at european championships tho
He actually had kidney cancer couple of years ago. I belive he is doing most of training himself now, he has a steady job.
He trains with me
Good job!