2020 U.S. Open Swimming Championships

The 2020 Toyota U.S. Open Swimming Championships were contested from November 12 to 14, 2020 in a virtual competition format at nine locations in the United States with medalists determined from the merged results across all nine locations.[1][2][3][4] Competition was conducted in long course (50 meter) pools.[1][5]

2020 Toyota U.S. Open Championships
Date(s)November 12–14
Events28
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Venues

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the format of the Championships was changed from its normal one in-person venue competition format to a virtual format, marking the first USA Swimming Championships contested in a virtual format and the second USA Swimming competition of any type, Championships or non-Championships, in a virtual format.[6] Individual sites of competition included the following nine venues (cities):

  1. Blossom Athletic Center (San Antonio, Texas).[7]
  2. Greensboro Aquatic Center (Greensboro, North Carolina).[8]
  3. Huntsville Aquatic Center (Huntsville, Alabama).[9]
  4. Indiana University Natatorium (Indianapolis, Indiana).[10]
  5. Selby Aquatic Center (Sarasota, Florida).[11]
  6. SwimRVA (Richmond, Virginia).[12]
  7. Tualatin Hills Aquatic Center (Beaverton, Oregon).[13]
  8. Wellmark YMCA (Des Moines, Iowa).[14]
  9. William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center (Irvine, California).[15]

Results

Men
Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle Santo Condorelli22.27 Ryan Held22.35 Yusuke Legard22.59
100 m freestyle Andrej Barna48.75 Ryan Held49.00 Santo Condorelli49.39
200 m freestyle Kieran Smith1:47.29 Patrick Callan1:47.38 Alexei Sancov1:48.46
400 m freestyle Kieran Smith3:48.78 Marwan Elkamash3:48.87 Patrick Callan3:49.34
800 m freestyle Marwan Elkamash7:52.19 Robert Finke7:53.05 Kieran Smith8:00.05
1500 m freestyle Robert Finke15:09.14 John Gallant15:18.39 Jack Collins15:22.05
100 m backstroke Jack Aikins54.59 William Grant54.69 Gabriel Fantoni54.96
200 m backstroke William Grant1:59.52 Clark Beach2:00.21 Wyatt Davis2:00.30
100 m breaststroke Andrew Wilson59.58 Cody Miller59.65 Ilya Evdokimov1:00.47
200 m breaststroke Andrew Wilson2:09.83 Cody Miller2:10.22 Brandon Fischer2:13.60
100 m butterfly Luis Martínez51.50
CR		 Miles Smachlo52.54 Zach Harting52.62
200 m butterfly Zach Harting1:57.82 Matthew Fenlon1:58.41 Antani Ivanov
Miles Smachlo		1:58.51
200 m
individual medley		 Chase Kalisz1:59.72 Carson Foster1:59.82 Ryan Lochte2:01.05
400 m
individual medley		 Carson Foster4:16.51 Robert Finke4:18.08 Jake Foster4:19.44

Women
Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle Gretchen Walsh24.65 Kate Douglass24.99 Farida Osman25.10
100 m freestyle Torri Huske54.04 Gretchen Walsh54.37 Claire Curzan54.93
200 m freestyle Paige Madden1:57.64 Madisyn Cox1:58.97 Joanna Evans1:59.26
400 m freestyle Emma Weyant4:10.38 Paige Madden4:10.42 Joanna Evans4:11.28
800 m freestyle Bella Sims8:27.01 Ally McHugh8:29.36 Erica Sullivan8:31.38
1500 m freestyle Erica Sullivan16:04.37 Ashley Twichell16:18.11 Ally McHugh16:30.40
100 m backstroke Kathleen Baker59.82 Regan Smith59.95 Phoebe Bacon1:00.18
200 m backstroke Phoebe Bacon2:09.16 Katharine Berkoff2:10.12 Kathleen Baker2:11.38
100 m breaststroke Anna Elendt1:07.50 Lydia Jacoby1:07.57 Rachel Bernhardt1:07.67
200 m breaststroke Madisyn Cox2:27.55 Isabelle Odgers2:28.69 Anna Keating2:29.38
100 m butterfly Claire Curzan56.61
CR		 Torri Huske57.36 Kate Douglass57.43
200 m butterfly Regan Smith2:08.61 Olivia Carter2:10.52 Charlotte Hook2:10.90
200 m
individual medley		 Madisyn Cox2:10.49 Torri Huske2:11.18 Kathleen Baker2:12.97
400 m
individual medley		 Emma Weyant4:40.84 Ally McHugh4:43.00 Genevieve Pfeifer4:45.14

Championships records set
Day Event Stage Time Name Country Date Ref
2 100 m butterfly (Women's) Final 56.61 Claire Curzan  United States November 13, 2020 [5][16][17]
2 100 m butterfly (Men's) Final 51.50 Luis Martínez  Guatemala November 13, 2020 [5][17][18][19]

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