INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — This world record was five years in the making for Regan Smith. What an up-and-down journey it’s been. Bouncing back from a close-but-no-Olympics call in her first race ...

INDIANAPOLIS — First the American record, then the world record for Regan Smith — all while officially qualifying for her second Olympic Games. Smith smashed and reclaimed the women’s ...

No one was beating Regan Smith in her signature event. Bouncing back from a close-but-no-Olympics call in her first race, Smith set a world record in the women's 100-meter backstroke at the U.S ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Regan Smith, after nearly five years filled with self-doubt, reclaimed the world record in the women ... of Bowman's "insane" practice sets, and of intentionally banishing ...

Regan Smith nailed the 100m backstroke world record with a time of 54.41 at the World Cup in Incheon, South Korea. The US swimmer took 0.15 from Kaylee McKeown’s short-lived standard of 54.56 ...

Her earlier wins in the 50 and 100 backstroke were not particularly close, but as Regan ... at Smith’s expense, and then McIntosh’s four-second annihilation of the 400 IM world record ...

Smith eclipsed the world record of 57.33 set by McKeown in Budapest in October 2023. "It was part of the plan," Smith said of regaining the record she held back in 2019.

Regan Smith added her first short course world title to her gold medal collection, leading a U.S. one-two in the 100m backstroke on Wednesday. Smith won the 100m back at short course worlds in ...

Now, she is left with two after American backstroke star Regan Smith claimed the 200-metre short-course record at the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Singapore. Smith, who McKeown beat to ...

The only real question was whether the swimmers would shatter the world record set by another U.S ... The U.S. team was made up by Regan Smith, Lilly King, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske.