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 an event that loaded the psych sheets with headliner names, the 50 freestyle championship final at the US Open in 2025 will be without the likes of Caeleb Dressel, Hunter Armstrong, Santo Condorelli, andMichael Andrew.
Dressel (29), who is making his major meet debut under new training, finished three spots outside of the final in 22.17. Armstrong (24) finished tied for 15th in 22.37, seven spots outside the championship final. Condorelli (30) was tied for 27th in prelims at 22.70, and Andrew (26) was tied for 38th in 22.95.
Entering Austin, Condorelli (3rd), Armstrong (5th), and Dressel (9th) each held a pre-meet top-10 entry time.
Condorelli posted a video to his Instagram story of his poor start to the 50 free with the caption of ‘Even at 30 you can still screw up”, showing him breaking out in lane four, a full bodylenght behind Dressel in lane three.
Jack Alexy, 22, who is at the forefront of this new wave of American sprinters, has proven to be a dominant force in domestic and international sprint freestyles and will have a chance to prove further that later tonight when he races as the 2nd seed in the 50 free final.
Right behind him for tonight’s final is Guiliano, 22, who put the world on notice last summer, winning the 100 free, and finishing 2nd in both the 50 and 200 frees at Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. He went on to be a key piece to the winning 400 free relay alongside Alexy, Dressel, and Armstrong in Paris.
Patrick Sammon, 21, had his breakout summer at the World Championships in Singapore, finishing 6th in the 100 free and blasting a 46.70 leg on the gold medal-winning 400 mixed free relay for the US. His 10th-place finish this morning was just outside of the championship final by six hundredths of a second.
Jonny Kulow, 21, is the 17th fastest performer in the world this year, and qualified in 4th for tonight’s final (21.90). With his 21.73 from the US National Championships this past summer. He was also a member of the bronze medal 400 free relay this summer in Singapore, where he anchored in 47.94. Three of those four legs (Alexy and Guiliano) will be competing in the final tonight (Sammon was 10th).
Brendan Whitfield, 21, finished 9th this morning, but has shown potential to be a forceful sprinter for the American teams; this morning, he lowered his lifetime best from 22.08 to 22.06, just narrowly missing the final.
MA entering too many events, swimming slowly.
Rinse.
Repeat.
Maybe Condorelli can become a citizen of a 27th country. I hear Botswana us nice
Costa Rica awaits Michael Andrew!
The results of this meet DO NOT MATTER. I’m sure a decent amount of non college swimmers are not in top shape (and thought about not attending) but came anyway because they love to swim. I’m grateful to see the big names show up even though they knew they wouldn’t be at their best!
Keep telling yourself that.
written by MA’s parents for sure!
ASU 😈
he hans’t been there since worlds
well at least MA got some surfing in this week. he wouldn’t want anyone to think he didn’t live up to his life of leisure.
Andrew strikes me as the kind of guy who never stops competing. In 20 years we’ll be reading at the bottom of a recap article, “And not to be forgotten, Michael Andrew finished 84th in the 50 free with a 23.54 out of heat 1 lane 1”
23.5 in his forties would be a neat time TBH
“Michael Andrew joins enhanced games”
Sadly, it’s just about the last card the dude has to play. Not hating on MA here. He made the move away from dad / USRPT about 6 years too late. Hope he turns it around, but did not look good in Austin today.
I would think his stance on vaccines could certainly extend to putting other substances into his body.
I doubt he’d go that route based on that alone.
Heard he turned down a ton of money… way more than anyone else was offered. Kind of seems silly to say no considering he doesn’t have the most positive reputation in the sport anyway