2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open
Wednesday, April 29 – Saturday, May 2, 2026
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Welcome to the final day of the 2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open! This morning’s action will feature prelims of the 100 backstroke, 200 breaststroke, 100 butterfly, 200 IM, and 50 freestyle. The 800 freestyle will also be swum as a timed finals event today, with the slowest heats going in the early afternoon, and the fastest heat for each gender kicking off tonight’s finals session.
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WOMEN’S 100M BACKSTROKE – PRELIMS
Top 8 Qualifiers:
Isabelle Stadden (AQJT) – 58.05
Regan Smith (TXLA) – 58.25
Katharine Berkoff (WOLF) – 59.09
Erika Pelaez (NCS) – 1:00.41
Phoebe Bacon (WISC) – 1:00.89
Catie Choate (GSC) – 1:01.65
Sadie Buckley (NCAP) – 1:01.82
Roos Rottink (NAC) – 1:02.13
After scorching a 2:04.37 to win the 200 backstroke last night and become the fourth-fastest woman in world history, Virginia-trained Isabelle Stadden carried her momentum into this morning’s 100 back prelims.
The 23-year-old clocked a field-leading 58.05, splitting 28.22/29.83 to slice 0.21 off her lifetime best from the Westmont stop of the Pro Swim Series last month. The swim moved her from third to second in the world standings and ahead of Australian Kaylee McKeown, who has been untouchable in this event in major individual finals since 2021.
Entering the season, Stadden’s lifetime best had stood at the 58.99 she produced at the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials, meaning she’s sliced nearly a full second off of it since moving to Charlottesville a few months ago.
World record holder Regan Smith is the most likely candidate to deny Stadden a backstroke sweep here in Fort Lauderdale. She emphasized her back half this morning, splitting 28.70/29.55 for a 58.25, the only other sub-59 swim of the session. Smith owns a world-leading season best of 57.91, and it appears she will need to be right around that mark, if not a few tenths faster, to fend off Stadden tonight.
NC State pro Katharine Berkoff (59.09), the reigning Olympic and World Championship bronze medalist in the event, was the only other woman under a minute.
MEN’S 100M BACKSTROKE – PRELIMS
Top 8 Qualifiers:
Hubert Kos (TXLA) – 54.03
Jack Aikins (UVA) – 55.95
Aiden Norman (FLOR) – 56.03
Liam Carrington (BSS) – 56.35
Finn Harland (ALTO) – 56.36
Ethan Bathala (BSSS – 56.50
Caleb Maldari (GSC) – 57.00
Gavin Schinkelshoek (WAC) – 57.20
Hubert Kos clocked a time of 54.03 to lead the men’s 100m back prelims by nearly two full seconds, with Jack Aikins (55.95) and Aiden Norman (56.03) rounding out the top three qualifiers.
Kos, who won the 50 and 200 back earlier in the meet, appears to be carrying a heavy training load, as his backstroke times have been well off his season and personal bests. He did, however, throw down a personal best in the rarely raced 200 free less than 24 hours ago.
Aikins and Norman are in a similar position and are both known as big taper swimmers, so tonight figures to be all about how close Kos can get to a 52-point swim.
Outside of the top three, the Bolles School Sharks qualified two age groupers into the ‘A’ final: 17-year-olds Liam Carrington (4th, 56.35) and Ethan Bathala (8th, 56.50). Carrington has been as swift as 54.54 this season, while Bathala dropped just over four tenths from his best time set at 2025 Summer Juniors.
WOMEN’S 200M BREASTSTROKE – PRELIMS
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MEN’S 200M BREASTSTROKE – PRELIMS
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WOMEN’S 100M BUTTERFLY – PRELIMS
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MEN’S 100M BUTTERFLY – PRELIMS
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WOMEN’S 200M INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – PRELIMS
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MEN’S 200M INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – PRELIMS
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WOMEN’S 50M FREESTYLE – PRELIMS
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MEN’S 50M FREESTYLE – PRELIMS
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