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SwimSwam’s Prime 100 For 2025: Girls’s #81-90

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By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam

After an unprecedented 12 months of racing that included the Olympics sandwiched between the Lengthy Course and Quick Course World Championships, it’s time to start out releasing our fifth annual Prime 100 record—try final 12 months’s rankings right here.

As in earlier years, we’ve taken a statistically pushed strategy reliant primarily upon world rankings and medals gained on the Olympics, and to a lesser extent, Quick Course Worlds and the 2024 Worlds in Doha. We’ve additionally taken into consideration issues corresponding to potential, future medal alternatives, accidents, and flexibility. Lengthy course is weighted greater than brief course, although efficiency potential in each codecs is factored in.

After a big contingent of Russian and Belarusian swimmers raced at Quick Course Worlds in December, these swimmers have began to maneuver again up the rankings after they had been low on the lists final 12 months because of lack of competitors.

We’ll be breaking down the highest 100 into a number of installments, so maintain an eye fixed out as they’re launched.

These lists are, by nature, subjective. For those who disagree, go away your ideas/ranks within the feedback.

Thanks to Daniel Takata for his assist with the information and compiling the rankings. Madeline Folsom contributed to this report. 

Girls’s Rankings:

  • #100 – #91
  • #90 – #81
  • #80 – #71
  • #70 – #61
  • #60 – #51
  • #50 – #41
  • #40 – #31
  • #30 – #21
  • #20 – #11
  • #10 – #1

#90: Moesha Johnson, Australia (2024 Rank: 76) — Moesha Johnson ranked eighth on the earth within the ladies’s 1500 freestyle final season and completed sixth within the occasion in Tokyo. Nonetheless, the place she really shines is open water, the place she gained Olympic silver in Paris. She’s constructing fairly a medal haul for herself in open water and gained gold on the 2024 Worlds within the workforce open water occasion. This record focuses totally on pool swimming, which pushes Johnson additional down these rankings. However regardless of her success in open water, Johnson continues to showcase her talent within the pool. Not solely did she closing within the 1500 free on the Olympics, she returned to the pool for the 2024 SC Worlds, the place she completed sixth in a lifetime finest (15:45.07).

#89: Analia Pigree, France (2024 Rank: NR) — Analia Pigree is a 50 backstroke specialist, and, as that occasion doesn’t characteristic on the Olympic schedule, had an uphill journey to Olympic qualification. She was off the lifetime bests she set final summer season within the 100 free/100 again and regardless of setting a PB within the 50 free on the French Championships, missed qualifying for the Olympics. In 2024, she ranked forty fourth on the earth within the 100 again and fiftieth within the 50 free. She represented France to finish the 12 months at SC Worlds, putting fifth within the 50 backstroke, 18th within the 100 free, and twenty first within the 50 free. With the 2025 World Championships on the horizon and the 50 backstroke again on the schedule, Pigree has made our high 100 and could have the possibility to get again on the rostrum at a senior worldwide meet. However, she’ll have to proceed to develop her Olympic occasions to maneuver greater in these rankings.

#88: Simone Manuel, USA (2024 Rank: NR) — After years of labor, Simone Manuel accomplished her comeback to the highest degree {of professional} swimming in 2024 by making her third-straight Olympic workforce. Manuel first certified as a part of the ladies’s 4×100 freestyle relay, then added a person berth within the 50 freestyle. Her finest swims of the 12 months got here in Indianapolis, however Manuel walked away with two silver medals from relays on the Paris Video games. She helped set an Americas file within the 4×100 freestyle relay closing (3:30.20) and swam on the 4×200 freestyle prelims relay. Manuel has been changed because the go-to anchor for the American ladies’s relays, however along with her comeback full, it’s as much as Manuel to resolve what’s subsequent for her within the sport. She’s proven she’s nonetheless able to chasing it, which has facilitated her return to those rankings after being absent in 2024.

#87: Lydia Jacoby, USA (2024 Rank: 23) — Lydia Jacoby was the 100 breaststroke bronze medalist on the 2023 World Championships. Jacoby arrived on the U.S. Olympic Trials with a season-best of 1:05.74 however didn’t strategy that point in Indianapolis and located herself on the incorrect facet of the contact within the 100 breaststroke closing for the second time in three years. She took third, lacking the possibility to defend her Olympic gold from Tokyo, and withdrew from the remainder of the meet. Her 1:05.74 would’ve earned her a spot within the Olympic closing, however Jacoby’s struggles to make worldwide rosters and being hyper-specialized within the 100 breaststroke maintain her from being greater on the record regardless of her confirmed skill to make worldwide podiums. Since Trials, Jacoby appears to have hit the reset button; she’s turned professional and can practice in Spain whereas finding out overseas for the semester. The change in surroundings might show to be what she wants to seek out her means again onto the united statess worldwide roster, however the uncertainty is what’s pushed her additional down the ranks than she was final 12 months.

#86: Jamie Perkins, Australia (2024 Rank: NR) — The Australian ladies are so deep within the freestyle occasions that Jamie Perkins will get a bit ignored, and it additionally pushes her additional down rankings like these. However quietly, Perkins had a powerful 2024; the 19-year-old certified for her debut Video games, incomes a person berth within the 400 free and a relay spot on the ladies’s 4×200 free relay, swimming a lifetime finest 1:56.22 within the latter. She hit a lifetime finest within the Paris 400 freestyle prelims, clocking 4:03.30 to qualify for the ultimate, the place she completed eighth. That swim ranks her thirtieth all-time within the occasion. Perkins earned an Olympic gold courtesy of her prelims effort on the ladies’s 4×200 freestyle relay. It’s exhausting to interrupt into the highest echelon of Australian ladies’s freestyle, however Perkins will attempt to use the momentum from her 2024 to maintain rising this 12 months.

#85: Melanie Henique, France (2024 Rank: NR) — Melanie Henique is the second French swimmer on this batch of ten athletes that focuses on a non-Olympic occasion, which makes it exhausting to rank her a lot greater. The place Pigree shines within the 50 backstroke, Henique’s space of experience is the 50 butterfly. She did qualify for the Paris Olympics although, swimming what turned out to be a season-best 24.53 within the 50 freestyle on the French Championships, which ties her for twenty second on the earth final season. In Paris, Henique added from the French Championships and completed twenty second general. Like Pigree, she’ll get her probability to shine in her finest occasion on the World Championships this season. At 32, she’s searching for her fourth Worlds medal after incomes bronze in 2011 and silver in 2022 and 2024.

#84: Marie Wattel, France (2024 Rank: NR) — We’ve acquired Marie Wattel, 27, sandwiched between two of her teammates on the French nationwide workforce. In contrast to the 2 that we’ve already mentioned, Wattel’s finest occasions are on the Olympic schedule. She competed at her third Video games in entrance of a home-nation crowd in Paris and got here simply shy of lacking the 100 butterfly closing with a 57.24 for ninth place, and seventeenth on the earth for the 12 months. The 100 fly is Wattel’s finest occasion, however she can also be a powerful 100 freestyler, and he or she completed tenth within the occasion on the Olympics. Wattel’s finest within the 100 free is from 2021 and her 100 fly finest is from 2022, however even with out enhancements up to now couple years, she’s difficult for a lane within the finals of the largest worldwide meets. Wattel hasn’t raced because the Video games, so we’ll have to attend to see what type she’s bringing into the brand new 12 months.

#83: Emma Terebo, France (2024 Rank: NR) — Emma Terebo was a nice shock final 12 months, as she made unexpectedly massive enhancements within the 100/200 backstroke this season. Within the lead as much as the Video games, the 26-year-old broke 59 seconds for the primary time within the 100 backstroke (58.79) and swam a lifetime finest 2:08.45 within the 200 backstroke. Terebo didn’t replicate these instances at her debut Video games, however she nonetheless landed a finals berth within the 100 again and took seventh, then completed ninth within the 200 backstroke. She additionally confirmed tenacity all through the Video games, persevering with to enhance on her 100 backstroke time till she virtually acquired again beneath the 59-second barrier with a 59.00 main off France’s 4×100 medley relay in the course of the Video games’ closing session.

#82: Maria Fernanda de Oliviera da Silva Costa, Brazil (2024 Rank: NR) — Brazil has been forging a powerful mid-distance freestyle corps for years, and now, Maria Costa is firmly main that cost on the ladies’s facet. After setting South American information within the 200/400 freestyle and 4×200 freestyle relay, Costa turned the primary Brazilian lady in 76 years to qualify for the 400 freestyle Olympic closing, the place she took seventh. She lowered her continental file within the 200 freestyle on the Video games as effectively, swimming a 1:56.06, which tied her for 14th on the earth final season. Her highest rating comes within the 400 freestyle, the place her 4:02.86 from Doha checks in ninth. Costa’s candy spot is from the 200 to 800 and is displaying no indicators of slowing down heading into 2025.

#81: Ellen Walshe, Eire (2024 Rank: NR) — Ellen Walshe, 23, has been swimming worldwide fly and IM occasions since 2021, and he or she holds eight Irish Nationwide Information within the occasions, and he or she made her first Olympic and Worlds finals this 12 months. On the Video games, Walshe completed eighth within the 400 IM, swimming 4:40.70. She additionally made the semi-final si n the 200 IM, coming in thirteenth at 2:11.35. Walshe additionally swam on the SC World Champs, the place she completed high eight in three occasions, the 100 fly (sixth, 55.68), 200 IM (fifth, 2:05.52), 400 IM (fifth, 4:29.86), all of which had been new Nationwide Information. She additionally broke the 50 fly (14th, 25.65) and 100 IM (ninth, 58.85) information within the semifinals.

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