2025 Mexican Nationals
- April 21-26, 2025
- Centro de Alto Rendimiento BC – Tijuana, BC, Mexico
- LCM (50 meters)
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The 2025 Elite Arena Championships have just hit the halfway mark in Tijuana. Mexico’s best are vying to hit the World Aquatics ‘A’ cut for their chance to qualify for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, where they would race under a neutral flag as the Mexican Swimming Federation was suspended in November 2024.
After an excellent first year with the Indiana Hoosiers, Miranda Grana has kept rolling from her third and fourth place finishes in the 100-yard back/fly at the 2025 Women’s NCAA Championships. She swam the highlight race of the first half of the meet, breaking the Mexican record in the 100-meter backstroke. Grana nearly took the record under the 1:00 barrier, hitting a 1:00.02.
The swim is under the World Aquatics ‘A’ cut, qualifying Grana for a trip to Singapore. She was one of two Mexican swimmers to race at the 2024 Short Course World Championships and is the only swimmer to hit an ‘A’ cut through the first half of this meet.
Her swim breaks the 1:00.60 record that Celia Pulido swam last June. Grana was in the same final as Pulido when she broke the record, clocking a lifetime best 1:00.67 that she improved on at these championships. Pulido took second to Grana in this edition of their 100 backstroke showdown—they were third and fourth in the 100-yard backstroke at NCAAs–swimming 1:00.65 to come within five-hundredths of her now-former national record.
Pulido got the better of Grana in the 50-meter backstroke, swimming 28.50 to Grana’s 28.76. Both were faster in prelims, with Pulido rattling her 50 backstroke national record (28.39) with a 28.47 and Grana swimming a lifetime best 28.50.
Grana scared the Mexican record in the 100-meter butterfly, swimming 59.79 and stopping the clock less than a half-second from Miriam Guevara’s 59.31 standard. This was Grana’s first swim under the 1:00 barrier in the event.
No men have hit an ‘A’ cut through the first half of the competition, though Andres Puente Bustamente, a former Texas A&M swimmer, narrowly missed the mark in the 50-meter breaststroke. He dominated the final, winning by almost a second with a 27.48 that missed the ‘A’ cut by .15 seconds. He also clocked 2:16.12 in the 200-meter breaststroke.
Andrés Dupont got the better of Olympian Jorge Iga in a solid men’s 100-meter freestyle final, getting under the 50-second barrier with a 49.52 to Iga’s 50.38.
