By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
World Record holder Lilly King has announced on Instagram that 2025 will be her final season competing. King had previously announced that the 2024 Paris Olympics would be her final Olympics, but that she would not step away directly after last summer’s Paris Games. At the Fort Lauderdale Pro Series stop, King also said that the addition of the 50 breast at the Olympics has not changed her plans.
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“Well folks, my time has come.
This will be my final season competing. I’m fortunate heading into retirement being able to say I have accomplished everything I have ever wanted in this sport. I feel fulfilled.
That being said, it has always been important to me that my last meet in the US be at the pool that started it all. I have been racing in the IU Natatorium since I was 10 years old. From state meets, to NCAAs, Nationals, and anything in between, this pool has been my home. I didn’t quite make it 20 years (only 18) of racing in Indy, but this is as close as I’m gonna get! I look forward to racing in front of a home crowd one last time.
See you in Indy!”
Originally from Evansville, Indiana, King will swim her final meet on home soil in her home state. She is entered in the 50 and 100 breaststrokes for 2025 US Summer Nationals, where she is the top seed in the 100 breast as well as the #2 seed in the 50 breast. She did not enter the 200 breast, an event she won silver in at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and finished 8th in the event in Paris. US Nationals are scheduled to begin this week, running from June 3-June 7 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
King is the World Record holder in the LCM 100 breaststroke as she swam a 1:04.13 at the 2017 World Championships in Hungary. She also is a member of two relay World Records as the team of Regan Smith, King, Gretchen Walsh, and Torri Huske swam to a World Record in the women’s 4×100 medley relay in Paris.
This past December, Smith, King, Walsh, and Kate Douglass swam to the World Record in the SCM women’s 4×100 medley relay at SC Worlds. At SC Worlds, King stated that she has been swimming less practices than ever before.
King represented the US at a total of three Olympics. In 2016, she won gold in the 100 breast setting a new Olympic Record in the process. She also won gold in the US women’s 4×100 medley relay. In Tokyo at the 2020 Games, she won silver in the 200 breast, silver in the women’s 4×100 medley relay, and bronze in the 100 breast. This past summer in Paris, she finished 4th in the 100 breast just 0.01 off of bronze. She also swam to the World Record setting relay in the women’s 4×100 medley relay that won gold.
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