The 2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open is upon us, with action kicking off at the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center on Wednesday, April 29 and running through Saturday, May 2.
Although the meet is no longer part of the Pro Swim Series circuit, it remains a key in-season stop along the path to July’s Summer Nationals and August’s Pan Pacific Championships. Prelims are set for 9:00am ET each day, with finals at 6:00pm. Wednesday’s session is the exception, featuring a standalone 1500 timed finals at 5:00pm.
Here’s everything you need to follow along this week.
Key Links
You can access the meet website here.
Tickets can be purchased here.
Prize money information is available on page two of the meet packet. A $2,000 bonus is on offer for a world record, while $1,000 will be awarded for an American or U.S. Open record.
Psych sheets for the competition can be found here.
Live results for the competition will be available on Meet Mobile, but we’ll also be live recapping each session here on SwimSwam.
You can read about some of the notable entries for the meet here, and some of the key storylines to watch here.
How To Watch
Originally, the meet was not set to be livestreamed, but the hosts have now given SwimSwam permission to broadcast on YouTube. You can find the stream here.
Because of the last minute nature of this, it’s not going to be perfect, but we’re going to do, at a minimum, the “point a camera at the pool” version. Additionally, we will post race videos of every ‘A’ final shortly after each session concludes.
Event Schedule
# = Only the fastest heat of the 800 Freestyle will compete in finals. All other heats will be swum at the conclusion of Saturday prelims.
the Olympics Committee & the networks hosting the OG, should be funding/put aside (from advertisers for the different sports that don’t generate NBA money for the athletes). .so when they break an American, US or World Record outside of the OG (& during), the more serious money is there for these bigger meets. .they can or already investing the 100s of millions of not billions of dollars they make DURING and leading up to the OG. .create a fund for swimming and other sports. .INVEST in your athletes OG committee/powers that be network CEOs/CFOs and not just exploiting them leading up and during the Games. You make a bloody fortune during all these OG off the swimmers (all the sport’s… Read more »
$2k for WORLD RECORD?? geez. .start looking at China’s business model for the swimmers
Schott for the win! Glad to see the announcer finally realizing who was winning by the end of the race.
Please – USA Swimming / SwimSwam / Swimming World – figure out a way to post live results!
This is a significant meet, and parent, swimmers, and fans deserve timely access to live results – espeically if livestream is not feasible. Meet Mobile does not work. Any volunteer who worked at a Tech Table knows that Meet Mobile is unreliable and an unmitigated disaster. We can absolutely do better! Someone from these organizations is there… Get the printed results from the table generate something that is formatted into shareable information, and post to to their official websites. We are not living in the 80s, and we have the technology to fill the void that meet mobile creates faster than… Read more »
Still waiting for the complete results for Saturday distance races and finals to be posted! The meets been over for hours.
Is there a results page? Is this on Meet Mobile? I can’t find it
It’s called “Fort Lauderdale Open” on Meet Mobile
Posting finals videos would be great! Can you do it without naming/posting the winner so we can get the experience of finding out as we watch?
USA Swimming is doing itself and swimming fans an incredible disservice when they opt out of livestreams for sponsored meets. All of these pools have capabilities to provide even a basic livestream. In 2026, there should be no reason for lack of one at national meets.
Thank you Swimswam. You’re the best