\t\t\t\t\t2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open<\/p>\n
Wednesday, April 29 \u2013 Saturday, May 2, 2026 Welcome to the final day of the 2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open! This morning\u2019s 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\u2019s finals session.<\/p>\n Scoreboard Live Steam and Audio<\/p>\n Stay tuned for live updates.<\/p>\n WOMEN\u2019S 100M BACKSTROKE \u2013 PRELIMS<\/p>\n Top 8 Qualifiers:<\/p>\n Isabelle Stadden<\/a> (AQJT) \u2013 58.05 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<\/a> carried her momentum into this morning\u2019s 100 back prelims.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Entering the season, Stadden\u2019s lifetime best had stood at the 58.99 she produced at the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials, meaning she\u2019s sliced nearly a full second off of it since moving to Charlottesville a few months ago.<\/p>\n World record holder Regan Smith<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n NC State pro Katharine Berkoff<\/a> (59.09), the reigning Olympic and World Championship bronze medalist in the event, was the only other woman under a minute.<\/p>\n MEN\u2019S 100M BACKSTROKE \u2013 PRELIMS<\/p>\n Top 8 Qualifiers:<\/p>\n Hubert Kos<\/a> (TXLA) \u2013 54.03 Hubert Kos<\/a> clocked a time of 54.03 to lead the men\u2019s 100m back prelims by nearly two full seconds, with\u00a0Jack Aikins<\/a> (55.95) and Aiden Norman<\/a> (56.03) rounding out the top three qualifiers.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Outside of the top three, the Bolles School Sharks qualified two age groupers into the \u2018A\u2019 final: 17-year-olds Liam Carrington<\/a> (4th, 56.35) and Ethan Bathala<\/a> (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.<\/p>\n WOMEN\u2019S 200M BREASTSTROKE \u2013 PRELIMS<\/p>\n Top 8 Qualifiers:<\/p>\n MEN\u2019S 200M BREASTSTROKE \u2013 PRELIMS<\/p>\n Top 8 Qualifiers:<\/p>\n WOMEN\u2019S 100M BUTTERFLY \u2013 PRELIMS<\/p>\n Top 8 Qualifiers:<\/p>\n MEN\u2019S 100M BUTTERFLY \u2013 PRELIMS<\/p>\n Top 8 Qualifiers:<\/p>\n WOMEN\u2019S 200M INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY \u2013 PRELIMS<\/p>\n Top 8 Qualifiers:<\/p>\n MEN\u2019S 200M INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY \u2013 PRELIMS<\/p>\n Top 8 Qualifiers:<\/p>\n WOMEN\u2019S 50M FREESTYLE \u2013 PRELIMS<\/p>\n Top 8 Qualifiers:<\/p>\n MEN\u2019S 50M FREESTYLE \u2013 PRELIMS<\/p>\n Top 8 Qualifiers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Speedo Fort Lauderdale Open Wednesday, April 29 \u2013 Saturday, May 2, 2026 Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[57179,57187,57188,108558,111083,110384,249,251,250,111084,108560,108563,108564,108569,111085,108581,108583,111086,110780],"class_list":["post-255416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-aiden-norman","tag-caleb-maldari","tag-catie-choate","tag-erika-pelaez","tag-ethan-bathala","tag-finn-harland","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-gavin-schinkelshoek","tag-hubert-kos","tag-isabelle-stadden","tag-jack-aikins","tag-katharine-berkoff","tag-liam-carrington","tag-phoebe-bacon","tag-regan-smith","tag-roos-rottink","tag-sadie-buckley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255416","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=255416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSwimSwam Recaps<\/p>\n
\nRegan Smith<\/a> (TXLA) \u2013 58.25
\nKatharine Berkoff<\/a> (WOLF) \u2013 59.09
\nErika Pelaez<\/a> (NCS) \u2013 1:00.41
\nPhoebe Bacon<\/a> (WISC) \u2013 1:00.89
\nCatie Choate<\/a> (GSC) \u2013 1:01.65
\nSadie Buckley<\/a> (NCAP) \u2013 1:01.82
\nRoos Rottink<\/a> (NAC) \u2013 1:02.13<\/p>\n
\nJack Aikins<\/a> (UVA) \u2013 55.95
\nAiden Norman<\/a> (FLOR) \u2013 56.03
\nLiam Carrington<\/a> (BSS) \u2013 56.35
\nFinn Harland<\/a> (ALTO) \u2013 56.36
\nEthan Bathala<\/a> (BSSS \u2013 56.50
\nCaleb Maldari<\/a> (GSC) \u2013 57.00
\nGavin Schinkelshoek<\/a> (WAC) \u2013 57.20<\/p>\n