Articles by Sam Blacker

2025 World Championships: Seven Takeaways From The Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay

Maxime Grousset gives France a joker on fly, but they need a stronger anchor to complement Yohann Ndoye-Brouard, Leon Marchand, and the 100 fly world champ

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2025 World Championships: Five Takeaways From The Mixed 4×100 Free Relay

Jack Alexy and Patrick Sammon broke the field open on the first half for the U.S., giving Kate Douglass and Torri Huske the perfect platform to break the WR

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2025 World Championships: Eight Takeaways From The Men’s 4×200 Free Relay

Great Britain turned to their anchor leg to win them the race, making it five years in a row with a 1:43-point split on the end for them

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2025 World Championships: Six Takeaways From The Women’s 4×200 Free Relay

Katie Ledecky made the most of her duel with Mollie O’Callaghan on the anchor leg, her first in 2016, to swim her second-fastest split ever

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2025 World Championships: Six Takeaways From The Mixed 4×100 Medley Relay

Italy fell from 1st in the heats to 6th in the final, missing out on their first-ever medal in the event as they opted not to use Thomas Ceccon.

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2025 World Championships: Six Takeaways From The Men’s 4×100 Free Relay

Australia made the most of an incredible team performance, once again giving Kyle Chalmers the platform to run someone down on the anchor leg

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2025 World Championships: Seven Takeaways From The Women’s 4×100 Free Relay

Australia and the U.S. were the clear frontrunners, but the Netherland’s Marrit Steenbergen was the swimmer with the most important split in the field

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What Does Summer McIntosh Need To Split To Break The 200 Fly WR?

Summer McIntosh was 0.18 seconds away from breaking Liu Zige’s World Record after being two-tenths up with 50 to go. What does she need to do to break it?

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Van Mathias Blasts 26.87 50 Breast At U.S. Summer Championships, Fastest American This Year

Van Mathias, in his first major meet since 2023 NCAAs, stormed to a massive best in the 50 breast that puts him in line to make the Pan Pacs squad tonight

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Jamie Jack Posts 21.63 At U.S. Summer Championships To Lead 50 Free Prelims

Jamie Jack had a big swim to take lane 4 in tonight’s final, as he clipped his best time with a swim that would have earned him a spot at World Championships

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Five New Names You Need to Know from the 2025 World Championships

Harrison Turner made the podium at his first attempt in the 200 fly, and was not alone in gate-crashing the top table in Singapore.

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2025 World Championships: Day 8 Swims You Might Have Missed

Japan’s Mio Narita had a big swim in the 400 IM to take silver, after just missing the podium in the 200 IM despite setting a new best time.

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2025 World Championships: Day 8 Relay Analysis – Women’s 4×100 Medley Relay

Kate Douglass had the 5th-fastest breaststroke split in history, as the U.S. reset the World Record for the second summer in a row

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2025 World Championships: Day 8 Relay Analysis – Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay

Jack Alexy had a phenomenal anchor leg for the U.S., but there were standout swims across the field with the fastest splits coming from four different teams

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Canada Break 3:30 To Set Second Canadian Record Of The Day In Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay

Ilya Kharun split 49.83 for Canada, his second sub-50 split of the day, as Canada soared to a new National Record and finished 5th in the men’s medley relay

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