The 2025 World Para Swimming Championships continued with Day 3 from Singapore and U.S. swimmer Olivia Chambers continued her stellar meet.
Chambers won the women’s 100 freestyle S13 against a stacked field that featured a 1-3 American finish with Grace Nuhfer.
“Honestly, it’s just crazy. I wouldn’t consider myself a sprinter really, so I’ve really just been embracing that and trying to get some more speed,” Chambers said. “It’s always exciting to get out there with (Grace) and to just have a great race.”
“I knew coming into worlds that this race was going to be a close one and after this morning knew that I hit the gas really early on [in prelims] so I wanted to be a little stronger with my pull going out and hit it home that last 50.”
Fresh off her double podium debut, Katie Kubiak returned to the pool for two events including racing a class above her own in the women’s 50m butterfly S5. In doing so, Kubiak added a silver to her collection in world record fashion, cementing a time of 39.34 in the history books for the S4 classification.
“I never expected to set a world record at this meet,” said Kubiak. “To touch the wall and turn around to see the world record pop up on the scoreboard was incredible and I’m just so proud that I was able to set it in the venue while representing Team USA.”
“I was one of the only S4 athletes in that heat so it’s always a little intimidating to be at the disadvantage of being a class down. I think it really lit a fire under me to want to do my best and that really showed in the water“Wow, that was such a fun race and great competition,” Boyd said. “I’m just glad I could bring home another medal for Team USA.”
- Men’s 100 Backstroke S1: Anton Kol, Ukraine
- Men’s 100 Breaststroke SB7: Carlos Serrano Zarate, Colombia
- Women’s 100 Breaststroke SB7: Mariia Pavlova
- Men’s 100 Breaststroke SB14: Naohide Yamaguchi, Japan
- Women’s 100 Breaststroke: Beatriz de Araujo Flausino, Brazil
- Men’s 100 Backstroke S2: Gabriel Dos Santos Arujo, Brazil
- Women’s 100 Backstroke S2: Diana Koltsova
- Men’s Para 150 IM SM4: Roman Zhdanov
- Women’s Para 150 IM SM4: Mira Larionova
- Men’s 50 Free S12: Illia Yaremenko, Ukraine
- Women’s 50 Free S12: Maria Gomes Santiago Araujo, Brazil
- Men’s 50 Butterfly S5: Guo Jincheng, China
- Women’s 50 Butterfly S5: He Shenggao, China
- Men’s 200 IM SM6: Yang Hong, China
- Women’s 200 IM SM6: Zhu Ji, China
- Men’s 100 Butterfly S9: Simone Barlaam, Italy
- Women’s 100 Butterfly S9: Xu Jialing, China
- Men’s 400 Free S10: Bas Takken, Netherlands
- Women’s 400 Free S10: Faye Rogers, Great Britain
- Men’s 100 Breaststroke SB11: Rogier Dorsman, Netherlands
- Women’s 100 Breaststroke SB11: Daria Lukianenko
- Men’s 100 Free S13: Egor Shchitovskii
- Women’s 100 Free S13: Olivia Chambers, USA
- Men’s 100 Butterfly S8: Li Ting, China
- Women’s 100 Butterfly S8: Alice Tai, Great Britain
- Mixed 200 Medley Relay: Brazil
