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Yahoo
07-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Lilly King places second in 100-meter U.S. Swimming Championships
HENDERSON, Ky (WEHT) – Evansville native Lilly King was back in the pool for her final competitive swimming season, and she did not disappoint. After winning the 50-meter breaststroke final in Indianapolis, King finished second in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:06.02. King qualified for the World Championships in Singapore next month. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
NBC Sports
06-06-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
King remains dominant in 50m breaststroke
Lilly King continued to stake her claim to the women's 50m breaststroke, winning in 29.88 seconds at the U.S. Swimming Championships.
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Indianapolis to host US Olympic swimming trials again in 2028 after last year's record run
FILE - Lilly King, of the United States, competes in the women's 100-meter breaststroke semifinal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 28, 2024, in Nanterre, France. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File) INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The 2028 U.S. Olympic swimming trials will return to Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium after drawing record-breaking crowds last year in the first event held inside a football stadium. USA Swimming officials made the announcement Tuesday in Indianapolis where this year's national championships are being held this week. Dates for the event have not yet been announced. Advertisement Organizers intend to build three temporary pools on top of the NFL's Colts' home field — a 50-meter competition pool and two warm-up pools. The Indiana Convention Center, which is connected to the stadium, will host USA Swimming's Toyota Aqua Zone. Last year, more than 285,000 fans attended the nine-day trials. That was a 60% increase over previous events. Single session records also were shattered as television ratings increased 20% from the previous team trials in 2021. Organizers estimated the event helped generate $132 million in revenue for the city. The 2024 trials also won the annual Fan Engagement Award and were a finalist for Sports Business Journal's event of the year. Indianapolis has a long and storied history with the Olympic swimming trials. The 2028 trials will mark the eighth time the city has hosted the event since 1924 when Johnny Weissmuller and Duke Kahanamoku were the stars. Advertisement Other familiar names who qualified for the U.S. Olympic teams include Amanda Beard, Janet Evans, Rowdy Gaines, Katie Ledecky, Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps, Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres. The 2028 Olympics will be held in Los Angeles and could again feature the brother-sister duo of Alex and Aaron Shackell, who swam for nearby Carmel High School. ___ AP sports:
Yahoo
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Olympic champion Lilly King will swim final US meet at IU Natatorium in Indianapolis
Six-time Olympic swimming medalist Lilly King announced on Instagram that she will retire after this season. King, an Evansville native who won NCAA titles while at Indiana University, said in her announcement that she "accomplished everything I have ever wanted in this sport. I feel fulfilled." Advertisement King's final meet on U.S. soil will be the Toyota National Championships at IU Natatorium. The event will be held in Indianapolis, June 3-7. "I have been racing in the IU Natatorium since I was 10 years old," King said. "From state meets, to NCAAs, Nationals, and anything in between, this pool has been my home. I didn't quite make it 20 years (only 18) of racing in Indy, but this is as close as I'm going to get! I look forward to racing in front of a home crowd one last time." King won three gold medals at the 2016 and 2024 Olympics. She also has two silver medals and a bronze medal from the 2020 games. At the 2024 Olympics in Paris, King helped the women's 4x100-meter medley relay set a world record of 3:49.63 in the final event. In June 2024, King announced that the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials would be her final time competing in such an event. According to a report from the Indianapolis Business Journal, the 2028 U.S. Swim Trials will return to Lucas Oil Stadium, but King will not compete at the event. This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Lilly King will swim final US meet at IU Natatorium in Indianapolis
The Guardian
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Lilly King, flinty US swim star, sets retirement for end of 2025 season
American three-time Olympic swimming star and world record holder Lilly King has announced the upcoming Toyota National Championships in Indianapolis will be her final meet on US soil as she prepares to call it a career at the conclusion of the 2025 season. The meet will run Tuesday through Saturday. A longtime breaststroke stalwart, King announced her plans Saturday on Instagram and said swimming her final race in the US in her home state and a pool she's known since her youth 'has always been important to me'. 'Well, folks, my time has come. This will be my final season competing,' she wrote. 'I'm fortunate heading into retirement being able to say I have accomplished everything I have ever wanted in this sport. I feel fulfilled.' This article includes content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. The 28-year-old King holds the world record in the 100m breaststroke with a time of 1:04.13, set at the 2017 world championships. She won an Olympic gold medal in the 100 breast at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and also captured Olympic titles on relays in Rio and at her final Olympics last year in Paris. The US women's 4x100 medley relay set a world record in 3:49.63. Regan Smith, Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske were her teammates in the Americans' victory over defending Olympic champion Australia. 'Just an awesome way to cap off the meet,' King said afterward. At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, King earned silver medals in the 200 breaststroke and 4x100 medley relay and a bronze in the 100 breast. She narrowly missed the medal stand in the 100 breast in Paris, with one-hundredth of a second separating bronze medalist Mona McSharry of Ireland and the fourth-place tie between King and Italy's Benedetta Pilato in 1:05.60. For King, being home in Indiana next week will mean so much. It was also in Indianapolis last June during the US Olympic swimming trials that boyfriend and former Indiana University swimmer James Wells proposed to her just off the pool deck – and she said yes. 'I have been racing in the IU Natatorium since I was 10 years old,' she wrote. 'From state meets, to NCAAs, Nationals, and anything in between, this pool has been my home. I didn't quite make it 20 years (only 18) of racing in Indy, but this is as close as I'm gonna get! I look forward to racing in front of a home crowd one last time.'
