Summer McIntosh, Kate Douglass, Regan Smith Highlight Entries For TYR Pro Swim Series Westmont (PSYCH SHEET)
Next week’s TYR Pro Swim Series in Westmont, Ill., will mark the first long course competition for many elite American swimmers since the Paris Olympics. They will be joined by visitors from other top swimming nations, with Canadian star Summer McIntosh the most accomplished swimmer in the field.
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McIntosh, who won three individual gold medals in Paris and was named World Swimmer of the Year, already has made her long course return, becoming the second swimmer ever to break 8:10 in the 800 free at a local meet in Florida in mid-February. In Westmont, McIntosh is entered in her three gold-medal events from Paris, both individual medley events as well as the 200 butterfly, and in the latter event, an Olympic rematch with silver medalist Regan Smith awaits.
Smith, who won five medals in Tokyo, will also race all three backstroke events in Westmont, as well as the 100 fly and 200 freestyle. Kate Douglass, who won silver behind McIntosh in the 200 IM, will not face off against the Canadian at this early-season meet, but she is expected to compete, with entries in all three breaststroke events plus the 50 fly and 50 free.
The women’s field in Westmont also includes Simone Manuel and Penny Oleksiak, the swimmers who tied for Olympic gold in the 100 free in 2016, as well as Paris individual medalists Katharine Berkoff, Kylie Masse (Canada) and Meg Harris (Australia). Lilly King is on the psych sheet but only for the 50 and 100 breast, continuing a trend from the fall short course season in which she eschews the 200. German breaststroker Anna Elendt, Canadians Mary-Sophie Harvey and Ingrid Wilm and 2021 U.S. Olympian Rhyan White are also among the entrants.
For the men, the members of the Paris Olympic team for the U.S. entered in this meet include Hunter Armstrong, Shaine Casas, Carson Foster, Aaron Shackell and Luke Whitlock. Armstrong won relay gold and silver medals at the Games while Foster won 400 IM bronze and a relay silver. Casas came home empty from Paris but did earn the short course world title in the 200 IM in December. Meanwhile, Michael Andrew will test out his new training at Arizona State University as he aims for a return to the senior-level U.S. team.
The longer freestyle events will feature Shackell and Whitlock as the leading Americans while Australia’s Sam Short makes the trip around the world for racing experience. Short was the world champion in the 400 free in 2023 while winning global medals in the 800 and 1500 as well, but he struggled in Paris, failing to reach any finals. He will be joined by Brazil’s Guilherme Costa, also a past global medal winner in the 400 free.
More information on the meet is available here.