2025 Pro Swim Series – Sacramento: Day 3 Prelims Live Recap ...Middle East

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2025 Pro Swim Series — Sacramento

Day 3 Prelims Heat Sheet

Happy Friday, swim fans! The third day of action at the Sacramento stop of the Pro Swim Series gets underway today. We’ve got the 200 butterfly, 50 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 200 breaststroke, 50 butterfly, and 400 freestyle this morning, but it should still be a relatively quick prelims session.

One of the closest races yesterday evening was the men’s 100 butterfly, which came down to the touch as Fukuoka world champion Maxime Grousset pipped Luca Urlando by two-hundredths for the win. Urlando, like a handful of swimmers at this meet, is rolling out of the NCAA Championships straight into long-course meters. He’s got a busy session this morning as he’s entered in the 200 and 50 butterfly. In the former, he’ll get set for a battle with the Chmielewski brothers this evening while the latter will set up another showdown with the top-seeded Grousset.

Grousset has a double as well; he’s entered in the 50 butterfly and 50 freestyle. The top seed in both events, he’ll race Max Giuliani and Youssef Ramadan in the final heat of the men’s 50 freestyle. Last night’s 200 freestyle champion Brooks Curry will take the blocks next to Maximus Williamson in heat three, while Michael Andrew and Evgenii Somov race in heat four.

Katharine Berkoff and Taylor Ruck face off in the final heat of the women’s 50 freestyle this morning, with Ruch holding the top seed (24.50). These prelims should set up a great race tonight. Beryl Gastaldello is seeded a hundredth behind Ruck and is a versatile sprinter who was 4th in the 200 free last night. Louisville’s Julia Dennis reached a new level in yards during the NCAA postseason and will try to translate that to meters in heat four.

Also, Berkoff’s fellow Wolfpack member Leah Shackley is set for another double today. Shackley just completed here freshman season at NC State and has made the quick switch to meters. Yesterday, she won the 100 butterfly and placed third in the 50 backstroke. Those disciplines flip today, as she’s entered in the 100 backstroke and 50 butterfly.

Women’s 200-Meter Butterfly — Prelims

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

With just 11 swimmers competing in the 200 butterfly this morning, it didn’t take very much effort this morning for the top swimmers to make the championship final. Rachel Klinker, a member of the U.S. team at the 2024 World Championships, locked down the fastest time of the morning by 3.45 seconds with a 2:13.00.

It’s a strong statement heading into the final, where her closest competition will be Justina Kozan. Kozan won the first of two 200 butterfly heats this morning, clocking a 2:16.45 as a follow up to her 200 freestyle win last night (1:59.31). She was followed by the Sandpipers’ Applejean Gwinn, who took second in heat one with a 2:17.36.

Gwinn sits as third-fastest qualifier after that swim and the only one to join Klinker and Kozan under 2:20 in the heats.

Men’s 200-Meter Butterfly — Prelims

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Luca Urlando was the first man to crack the 2:00 barrier this morning, cruising to a heat two win with a 1:57.27. He’s the newly crowned NCAA champion in the 200-yard version of this event, breaking his NCAA record to win the title in a blistering 1:36.43.

Urlando will swim out of lane three for the final, as the Chmielewski brothers Michal and Krzysztof were both faster this morning. Michal Chmielewski won the penultimate heat in 1:56.86, dipping .41 seconds under Urlando’s swim.

Krzysztof Chmielewski turned in the fastest swim of the morning in the final heat, blowing past his brother and Urlando with a 1:54.92. The swim is about a second off the 1:53.90 he swam for fourth at the Paris Olympics and the Pro Swim Series record Urlando set in 2019.

The Chmielewskis and Urlando have set themselves apart by clearing 2:00 before the final. That said, the top four swimmers all competed at the NCAA Men’s DI Championships in Federal Way last weekend; Urlando for Georgia, the Chmielewskis for USC, and Michael Hochwalt for Arizona State.

Women’s 50-Meter Freestyle — Prelims

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

After a fourth-place finish in the 200 freestyle yesterday, Beryl Gastaldello posted the fastest qualifying time in the women’s 50 freestyle. The 30-year-old clocked a 24.79 to win heat five, .28 seconds off her entry time.

In the same heat, Julia Dennis swam 24.97, posting her first lifetime best in the 50-meter freestyle in almost two years. Her swim cuts nine-hundredths off her previous lifetime best and was her first sub-25 second outing. It comes after a breakout NCAA postseason for the Louisville swimmer, who hit a lifetime best 21.08 at the ACC Championships and finished third at NCAAs.

Behind these heat five antics, Katharine Berkoff qualified easily for the final, swimming a 25.62 for third overall, while Gastaldello’s INSEP teammate Albane Cachot qualified fifth (25.86), four-hundredths behind Liberty Clark.

There’s a wide range of times and ages in this championship final. There’s a 1.35-second gap between first-place Gastaldello and eighth-place Adrianna Szwabinska. Then, there’s a 16-year-gap from the youngest ‘A’ final qualifier, Kennedi Southern, to the oldest, Gastaldello. This is the 14-year-old Southern’s second ‘A’ final of the meet, as she placed seventh in the 50 backstroke last night. Her 26.02 50 freestyle qualifying time is a lifetime best by .16 seconds.

Men’s 50-Meter Freestyle — Prelims

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

Brooks Curry will aim for his second win of the Sacramento Pro Series this evening in the men’s 50 freestyle. He’s set himself up well, locking down lane four for the championship final with a 22.03. The time is faster than what he went at the U.S. Olympic Trials, where he missed the semifinals with a 22.35.

He’s got a .17 second advantage on the field heading into tonight’s final, but Maxime Grousset won’t make life easy for him. Grousset won last night’s 100 fly final by two-hundredths. In his first of two swims today, he clocked a 22.20, which stands as the second-fastest time of the morning.

In his first official individual 50 freestyle since 2023, Kamal Muhammad dropped over a second off the lifetime best he swam at the 2023 NCAP Elite Qualifier, blasting a 22.33 for the third seed in tonight’s final. He’s sitting eight-hundredths up on Michael Andrew (22.41).

Women’s 100-Meter Backstroke — Prelims

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

100 backstroke Paris Olympic medalist Katharine Berkoff clocked the fastest time of the event prelims this morning in Sacramento. In her second swim of the session, she logged a 1:00.69, getting ahead of her teammate Leah Shackley‘s swim by .26 seconds. Berkoff made the championship final of the women’s 50 freestyle earlier in the session.

Shackley has a double as well today (as do many swimmers) and her 1:00.95 from heat two held as the second-fastest time of the morning. Yesterday, she won the 100 fly and placed third in the 50 backstroke.

There will be plenty of Wolfpack swimmers in the final as Rhyan White, another pro member of the NC State group, qualified fourth in 1:01.26. She was sixth in this event at Westmont with a 1:00.05.

Teenagers Savannah-Eve Martin and Georgia Wimberly dropped from their seed times to make the championship final. Martin dropped .72 seconds with a 1:02.66, while Wimberly improved by .67 seconds, grabbing lane eight with a 1:04.82.

Men’s 100-Meter Backstroke — Prelims

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

The lack of entries in the men’s 100 backstroke and a rash of DNS meant there were just four swimmers in the final heat of the men’s 100 backstroke prelims. Paris Olympic finalist Yohann Ndoye-Brouard easily controlled the heat, powering to the fastest time of the morning with a 55.50. Ndoye-Brouard dominated the men’s 50 backstroke final last night, winning by almost a second. Though he’s got a smaller margin after the 100 backstroke prelims, the 3.02 second add from his seed time suggests he’s got plenty left in the tank for this evening.

He’ll swim next to Ohio State’s Cornelius Jahn in the final. The 22-year-old Buckeye won the second (and penultimate) heat with a 55.76, which puts him .26 seconds behind Ndoye-Brouard. While the Frenchman will have Jahn on one side in the final, his teammate Hugo Duvauchelle will be on the other. The 17-year-old cut .96 seconds from his seed time, breaking 57 seconds with a 56.99 to qualify third for the final.

After placing 9th in the men’s 200 butterfly this morning, Jack Dahlgren earned his first ‘A’ final swim of the day in the 100 backstroke. Dahlgren clocked 58.74 for the fifth-fastest swim of the morning.

There will be two 17-year-olds in the final, as Phoenix Swim Club’s Devin Irons made it back in seventh after swimming a lifetime best 59.56. The swim is his first sub-1:00 outing and a .81-second drop.

Women’s 200-Meter Breaststroke — Prelims

‘A’ Final Qualifiers:

Aliz Kalmar has stayed hot for Fresno State after becoming the program’s first All-American with her 200 breaststroke at the 2025 Women’s NCAA DI Championships two weeks ago. Kalmar, a 22-year-old from Hungary, won the 100 breaststroke last night in a lifetime best 1:07.91. Now, she’s the top qualifier for the 200 breaststroke.

Kalmar swam 2:30.35, which is the fastest time of the morning by .69 seconds. She was the only swimmer to break 2:31 in the heats, as Isabelle Odgers swam 2:31.04. Odgers was faster here than she was in the 200 breaststroke prelims in Westmont, where she swam 2:33.20. She went on to place 6th that night with a 2:30.93.

Fresno State will have two swimmers in the 200 breaststroke championship final as Kalmar’s teammate Jenna Pulkkinen made it back in seventh (2:34.14). Pulkkinen did not have a long-course 200 breaststroke registered in SwimCloud before this morning.

The smaller field in Sacramento has allowed some of the younger swimmers to earn a spot in the championship final. That trend continued in this event as 15-year-old Mikayla Tan swam a lifetime best 2:31.94 to make the ‘A’ final in third overall.

Men’s 200-Meter Breaststroke — Prelims

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Women’s 50-Meter Butterfly — Prelims

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Men’s 50-Meter Butterfly — Prelims

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Women’s 400-Meter Freestyle — Prelims

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Men’s 400-Meter Freestyle — Prelims

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