{"id":251563,"date":"2026-04-29T21:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251563\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:07:05","slug":"day-1-finals-live-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251563\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 Finals Live Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the first day of the 2026 Fort Lauderdale Open! Last year\u2019s Pro Swim Series meet at this pool saw two World Records from Gretchen Walsh and <a class=\"auto-link-tag\" title=\"Katie Ledecky Bio\" href=\"https:\/\/swimswam.com\/bio\/katie-ledecky\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Ledecky<\/a>, and both swimmers are back this year along with a few other major swimmers.<\/p>\n<p>There is no official livestream, but SwimSwam\u2019s Coleman Hodges will be attempting to livestream the meet on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SwimSwamTV\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\"> SwimSwam\u2019s YouTube page<\/a>. Bear with us through this session as this will be our first attempt and it might not be perfect.<\/p>\n<p>The only race tonight is the men\u2019s and women\u2019s 1500 freestyle. Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s world record holders <a class=\"auto-link-tag\" title=\"Katie Ledecky Bio\" href=\"https:\/\/swimswam.com\/bio\/katie-ledecky\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Ledecky<\/a> and <a class=\"auto-link-tag\" title=\"Bobby Finke Bio\" href=\"https:\/\/swimswam.com\/bio\/bobby-finke\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Finke<\/a> are in action tonight and are the heavy favorites to earn the respective wins.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s 1500 Freestyle \u2014 Timed Final<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s 1500 Freestyle \u2014 Timed Final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open Welcome to the first day of the 2026 Fort Lauderdale Open! Last year\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[68034,249,251,250,65595],"class_list":["post-251563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-bobby-finke","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-katie-ledecky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}