\t\t\t\t\t2026 Sacramento Pro Swim Series<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s 200 Breaststroke \u2013 Semifinal<\/p>\n
World Record: 2:17.55 \u2013\u00a0Evgeniia Chikunova, RUS (2023)
\nAmerican Record: 2:18.50 \u2013\u00a0Kate Douglass, USA (2025)
\nU.S. Open Record: 2:19.30 \u2013\u00a0Kate Douglass, USA (2024)
\nPro Series Record: 2:19.30 \u2013\u00a0Kate Douglass, USA (2024)
\nJunior World Record: 2:19.64 \u2013\u00a0Viktoria Gunes, TUR (2015)<\/p>\n
Top 8 Qualifiers<\/p>\n
Mikayla Tan<\/a>\u00a0(SRVA) \u2014 2:26.37 Sixteen-year-old Mikayla Tan<\/a> delivered a top performance in the women\u2019s 200 breaststroke at the 2026 Pro Swim Series in Sacramento last night, throwing down a lifetime best time of 2:26.37 to claim the top spot coming out of the semifinals and crack the all-time top 10 in her age group.<\/p>\n Tan, who swims for San Ramon Valley Aquatics, knocked almost two seconds off of her previous personal best time of 2:28.11 from the TERA Senior Open just last month. Her performance during the semifinals launched her up the national rankings, marking the fastest time this season in the girls\u2019 15-16 age group and landing her at #7 on the ranking of all-time top 100 times in her age group.<\/p>\n The youngest competitor to qualify for the 200 breast final, Tan narrowly beat out runner-up Aliz Kalmar<\/a> (2:27.05) for the top spot on Thursday night, with the pair being the only two in the field to break 2:30.<\/p>\n Tan split 1:10.73 on the opening 100 of her race, exactly one second faster than the opening split from her previous best time, before coming home in 1:15.64 to race past Kalmar, who posted splits of 1:10.37\/1:16.68.<\/p>\n Earlier in the meet, Tan took 3rd in the 50 breast in 31.14 and 4th in the 200 IM in 2:14.92, setting new lifetime best times in both events.<\/p>\n Coming from a family of swimmers, Tan is one-fourth of a talented group of siblings. Her older brother Zachary Tan<\/a> recently wrapped up his sophomore season with Cal, while her younger siblings Ayden Tan<\/a> (13 years old) and Kyra Tan<\/a> (11 years old) are both forces to be reckoned with in their respective age groups.<\/p>\n While she is based in the United States, Tan has represented Singapore on the international stage, most notably at the 2025 World Aquatics Junior Championships last summer.<\/p>\n Tan will take on the finals of the 200 breast this evening and is the #7 seed heading into the preliminary heats of the 100 breast on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Sacramento Pro Swim Series Women\u2019s 200 Breaststroke \u2013 Semifinal World Record: 2:17.55 \u2013\u00a0Evgeniia Chikunova, RUS (2023) American…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[136320,136321,136322,134706,121,123,122,136323],"class_list":["post-328151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-aliz-kalmar","tag-ayden-tan","tag-kyra-tan","tag-mikayla-tan","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-zachary-tan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328151","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=328151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAliz Kalmar<\/a>\u00a0(FRES) \u2014 2:27.05
\nKatie Christopherson<\/a>\u00a0(SA) \u2014 2:30.75
\nMelina Giraudeau<\/a>\u00a0(MAVS) \u2014 2:31.53
\nAdalene Robillard<\/a>\u00a0(ALTO) \u2014 2:32.62
\nJenna Pulkkinen<\/a>\u00a0(FRES) \u2014 2:32.70
\nSilje Slyngstadli<\/a>\u00a0(CAL) \u2014 2:32.93
\nIeva Maluka<\/a>\u00a0(ABSC) \u2014 2:24.72<\/p>\n