2025 INDY SUMMER CUP
- Wednesday, June 25 – Saturday, June 28, 2025
- IUPUI Natatorium, Indianapolis, IN
- LCM (50 meters)
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A significant portion of the swimmers on the US World Championship roster, along with several other big names, are racing this week in Indianapolis, treating swim fans to some relatively fast swimming as we approach this summer’s major international meets. That included Leon Marchand tonight, after the French swimmer DFS’ed the 200 fly and 400 free yesterday, but took on the 100 free, 20 back and 200 IM tonight.
Simone Manuel took a dominant victory in the women’s 100 freestyle on Day 4, winning the event by nearly a second to continue her great form this season. At U.S. Nationals she posted her fastest time since 2019 to take third and come within five-hundredths of an individual swim. Manuel was out tonight in 25.73, and despite Regan Smith closing the gap slightly on the second 50 touched first in 53.28, less than half a second off her season-best 52.83.
Smith knocked over a second off her previous best to go 54.15, showing some serious sprint speed in an off-event for her. She did not race the 100 free at U.S. nationals, but has certainly thrown her hat in the ring for future forays in the event.
She tripled up on Day 4, swimming the 200 back and the 200 IM in this finals session as well as the 100 free. She was up in the 200 back just 20 minutes later, where she took the win in 2:06.84. She had set a new meet record of 2:09.77 in the morning, and was significantly faster again in the final to swim exactly a second slower than she was at U.S. Nationals.
Miranda Grana, who will swim the 100 and 200 back for Mexico in Singapore next month, took third in 2:14.83, three seconds off her best from Mexican Nationals this year.
Smith placed first in the 200 IM as well to round off her session, posting a time of 2:10.35 to win by nearly seven seconds and shatter the meet record by more than four. She was out sub-1:00 in 59.49, and then split 40.44 on breaststroke and 30.42 in freestyle to set her season-best in the event.
In the Men’s 100 free, Chris Guiliano followed on from his meet record of 47.79 from the heats this morning to shave another seven-hundredths, going 47.72 in the final. He was out fast in 22.56, joined under 23 seconds by Matt King (22.91), and stormed home in 25.16 to take the win. King came back in 25.40 to go 48.31, faster than he was in either heats (48.39) or finals (48.41) at U.S. Nationals.
Several World Championship swimmers tried this event on for size tonight, including Luke Hobson (49.64), Hubert Kos (49.42) and Leon Marchand (49.70). Marchand had scratched his events yesterday, but returned to racing with a big schedule tonight. Carson Foster (49.87) and Rex Maurer (49.98) were in tonight’s ‘B’ final, which was won by their compatriot and WUG’s entrant Baylor Nelson in 49.83.
Ruslan Gaziev, who is coming off an 18-month whereabouts suspension, took third in the ‘A’ final in 48.94. He won the event at Canadian Trials this year in 48.37, and holds a best time of 48.27 from 2023. In total, 15 swimmers broke the previous meet record of 50.67 over the course of the day.
Marchand, Kos, Baylor Nelson and Carson Foster completed the same triple as Regan Smith, in what looked to be a punishing Texas schedule for tonight. A stacked 200 backstroke final saw five World Championship competitors race – Carson Foster, Rex Maurer, Kai van Westering, Hubert Kos and Leon Marchand – with World and Olympic Champion Hubert Kos taking the win in a new meet record of 1:56.74. Marchand pushed him close the whole race to finish in 1:57.14, which looks to be a new best time for him, with no one else breaking two minutes.
With his swim here coming in under the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard of 1:58.07 Marchand now holds World Aquatics ‘A’ cuts in all five 200s. He is the first swimmer since Michael Phelps to even have a personal best under the ‘A’ cuts in all five, and this may well be the first instance of a swimmer swimming under all five in a single qualifying period.
The 200 IM saw the competitors split up, with Foster and Shaine Casas in the ‘B’ final and Kos and Marchand in the ‘A’. Casas took the win ahead of Foster 1:59.71 to 2:00.07, as Foster matched his 200 backstroke time to the hundredth. Marchand and Kos were nearly even at halfway in their final, but Marchand blew Kos away with a 33.90/28.52 back half to roar to a 1:57.23 that shaves 0.04 off his season best and maintains his #8 ranking in the World this season.
2024-2025 LCM Men 200 IM
MARCHAND
1:52.69 WR
| 2 | Shaine CASAS | USA | 1:54.30 | 07/31 |
| 3 | Hubert KÓS | HUN | 1:55.34 | 07/31 |
| 4 | Duncan SCOTT | GBR | 1:55.51 | 07/30 |
| 5 | Carson FOSTER | USA | 1:55.76 | 06/07 |
| 6 | TOMOYUKI MATSUSHITA | JPN | 1:56.35 | 03/22 |
| 7 | Wang Shun | CHN | 1:56.58 | 05/21 |
| 8 | KOSUKE MAKINO | JPN | 1:56.80 | 03/22 |
| 9 | Lewis CLAREBURT | NZL | 1:57.06 | 07/31 |
| 10 | TAKUMI MORI | JPN | 1:57.24 | 07/19 |
Other Results
- David Johnston and Levi Sandidge battled it out in the men’s 800 free, with Johnston taking the win 8:01.34 to 8:06.92. That’s slower for both swimmers than they were at U.S. Nationals, where Johnston was 7:49.85 and Sandidge posted an 8:04.25. Johnston will race the 1500 free for Team USA in Singapore
- Reagan Mattice of Purdue broke 17 minutes in the 1500 for the first time ever, shaving eight seconds off her previous best to go 16:54.31. That gave her the win by nearly ten seconds over her teammate Adele Sands.
Leon Marchand’s back stroke has greatly improved in the last two years! Since Bob Bowman has coached both Hubert Kos, the Olympic Champion in backstroke and Leon Marchand throughout their college careers, first at ASU and now Texas I guess this was to be expected!
Regan Smith breaks the 200 IM world record with Alex Walsh’s breaststroke
If my grandma had wheels she’d be a bike 🥀
No, because Kaylee has Kate’s breast and gets in Regan’s head.
A Marchand vs Kos short course 200 back would be an interesting race
Would Marchand have trained for the race or nah?
Slnce both Marchand and Kos have trained and practiced with each other for the last three years first at ASU and now at Texas, they know each others strengths very well.
What a brutal triple.
I vaguely remember a young-ish Phelps doing this same triple like 20 years ago, and they pricked his ear to test lactic acid levels after each race.
After the first race, his lactic levels were about what you’d expect from an elite swimmer early in practice. After the second race, his lactic levels had actually GONE DOWN, before rising a bit after his third race. All the times were well world-ranked.
Anyway, after this I expect the crew to be at least mentally ready for a lot of racing at worlds.
We should do an article on swimmers with insane lactic tolerance. I know that Bjorn from Cal mentioned that Chalmers and Dressel also had insane lactic tolerance and hence suit for multiple events and doubles
Curious to know why Carson Foster was announced as ‘unaffiliated’ with any clubs for this meet. Is he not a part of Longhorn Aquatics?
He used to rep Mason Manta Rays all the time. My guess is he’s switching to represent Longhorn Aquatics
He was unattached at Trials too. Not sure why, can ask.
Shaine “B Final special” Casas
Shaine “1st in the world rankings” Casas
would you like some salt with that first place world ranking?
54.1 for Regan in the 100 free at a non target meet is super super interesting. I know lots of folks have wanted her to focus on the 200free for more relay ops but maybe the 100 would be a better target for her. Makes sense to focus on it at this point with pan pacs next year and no need to worry about a trials in 2026
Seems a 53 mid could be in the cards for her in the future if she wants it, and that has been the time needed for that 5/6 spot over the last 5 years.
Her IM is a lot more interesting.. 2:10 low in a meet where she went 2:06 in the fly and the back. I don’t really care if she becomes our 5th or 6th best 100 freestyler.
A female swimmer posts a lead-off split of 54.1 in the W 4 x 100 FR-R and the USA will finish third to China once Yang Junxuan returns to action.
A mid 53 in the W 100 FR was already covered at the 2025 USA Swimming National Championships by E. Gemmell and A. Moesch. If anyone has the potential in the future to surpass the aforementioned two female swimmers at the 2027 USA Swimming National Championships, it’s Rylee Erisman.
Smith obviously won’t be swimming the finals session in this hypothetical scenario. But given the fact a 53 mid often makes the relay pool, a 54.1 does put her in that conversation in the future if she decides to place more focus on the 100free
I don’t expect Regan to ever swim free at an international meet. A 54 low doesn’t change that assessment. AT THE SAME TIME, it is definitely an impressive result, and I love seeing her try it.
Insane triple from Marchand, especially since he did it within a hour and a half window. 1:57 200m back hanging with Hubi shows he is truly world-class in every stroke.
Even though he’s focusing more on freestyle lately, I’d enjoy watching Marchand do more backstroke events. That 200 back race between him and Kos was my favorite of the meet.