{"id":324749,"date":"2026-05-20T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324749\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:10:09","slug":"2026-pro-swim-series-sacramento-day-1-prelims-live-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324749\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Pro Swim Series &#8211; Sacramento: Day 1 Prelims Live Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t2026 Sacramento Pro Series<\/p>\n<p>May 20-23, 2026<br \/>\nSacramento, CA<br \/>\nLCM (50 meters)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/swimswam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026-tyr-pro-swim-series-sacramento-psych-sheet-5-13-26-2.pdf\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Psych Sheets<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/swimmeetresults.tech\/USA-Swimming-TYR-Pro-Swim-Series-Sacramento-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Live Results<\/a> also Available on Meet Mobile<br \/>\nLive Stream: USA Swimming Network<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swimswam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026-Sacramento-PSS-Day-1-Prelims-Heat-Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Day 1 Prelims Heat Sheet<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/swimswam.com\/2026-pss-sacramento-day-1-prelims-scratches-world-medalists-weinstein-urlando-out-of-2-free\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Day 1 Prelims Scratch Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is the first session of the Sacramento Pro Series, and with that, a full event lineup! Today\u2019s opening prelims session will feature the women\u2019s and men\u2019s 200 IM, 50 breaststroke, 100 backstroke, and 200 freestyle. The first three events will race for a spot in the championship final, while swimmers in the 200 free will look to earn their spot in the event\u2019s semifinal. The top performers in those semi-races this evening will race again tomorrow in the championship final.<\/p>\n<p>Below is information regarding the 1500 free (per USA Swimming):<\/p>\n<p>Only the fastest (single) seeded heat of the Women\u2019s and Men\u2019s 800m and Men\u2019s 1500m Freestyle events will be swum in the Finals Session. All other heats will swim slowest to fastest. The Women\u2019s 1500m Freestyle will be offered as a Preliminaries and Finals event. All preliminary heats will take place during the Distance Freestyle Session on Day 1. The top eight (8) swimmers from the preliminary heats will advance to the Final during the Day 2 Finals Session.<br \/>\nThe 1500m Freestyle will alternate women (prelims) and men (timed finals) and begin at a predetermined time, so the second fastest seeded heat of the Men\u2019s 1500m Freestyle concludes 75 minutes before the Day 1 Finals Session is scheduled to begin. The top two heats in the Preliminary Session for Event 9 will be circleseeded.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s 200 IM \u2013 Prelims<\/p>\n<p>World Record: Summer McIntosh \u2013 2:05.70 (2025)<br \/>\nAmerican Record: Ariana Kukors \u2013 2:06.15 (2009)<br \/>\nUS Open Record: 2:06.79 \u2013 Kate Douglass (2024)<br \/>\nPro Series Record: Summer McIntosh \u2013 2:06.82 (2025)<\/p>\n<p>Top 8:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s 200 IM \u2013 Prelims<\/p>\n<p>World Record: Leon Marchand \u2013 1:52.69 (2025)<br \/>\nAmerican Record: Ryan Lochte \u2013 1:54.00<br \/>\nUS Open Record: Ryan Lochte \u2013 1:54.43<br \/>\nPro Series Record: 1:55.68 \u2013 Leon Marchand (2023)<\/p>\n<p>Top 8:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s 50 Breast \u2013 Prelims<\/p>\n<p>World Record: Ruta Meilutyte \u2013 29.16 (2023)<br \/>\nAmerican Record: Lilly King \u2013 29.40 (2017)<br \/>\nUS Open Record: Lilly King \u2013 29.62 (2018)<br \/>\nPro Series Record: Lilly King \u2013 29.62 (2018)<\/p>\n<p>Top 8:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s 50 Breast \u2013 Prelims<\/p>\n<p>World Record: Adam Peaty \u2013 25.95 (2017)<br \/>\nAmerican Record: Van Mathias \u2013 26.39 (2026)<br \/>\nUS Open Record: Michael Andrew \u2013 26.52 (2022)<br \/>\nPro Series Record: Van Mathias \u2013 26.57 (2026)<\/p>\n<p>Top 8:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s 100 Back \u2013 Prelims<\/p>\n<p>World Record: Regan Smith \u2013 57.13 (2024)<br \/>\nAmerican Record: Regan Smith \u2013 57.13 (2024)<br \/>\nUS Open Record: Regan Smith \u2013 57.13 (2024)<br \/>\nPro Series Record: Regan Smith \u2013 57.46 (2025)<\/p>\n<p>Top 8:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s 100 Back \u2013 Prelims<\/p>\n<p>World Record: Thomas Ceccon \u2013 51.60 (2022)<br \/>\nAmerican Record: Ryan Murphy \u2013 51.85 (2016)<br \/>\nUS Open Record: Aaron Peirsol \u2013 51.94 (2009)<br \/>\nPro Series Record: David Plummer \u2013 52.40 (2016)<\/p>\n<p>Top 8:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s 200 Free \u2013 Prelims<\/p>\n<p>World Record: Ariarne Titmus \u2013 1:52.23 (2024)<br \/>\nAmerican Record: Allison Schmitt \u2013 1:53.61 (2012)<br \/>\nUS Open Record: Summer McIntosh \u2013 1:53.80 (2026)<br \/>\nPro Series Record: Summer McIntosh \u2013 1:53.80 (2026)<\/p>\n<p>Top 8:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s 200 Free \u2013 Prelims<\/p>\n<p>World Record: Paul Biederman \u2013 1:42.00 (2009)<br \/>\nAmerican Record: Michael Phelps \u2013 1:42.96 (2008)<br \/>\nUS Open Record: Luke Hobson \u2013 1:43.73 (2025)<br \/>\nPro Series Record: Sun Yang \u2013 1:44.82 (2016)<\/p>\n<p>Top 8:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Sacramento Pro Series May 20-23, 2026 Sacramento, CA LCM (50 meters) Psych Sheets Live Results also Available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-324749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}