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.

Regan Smith finished her 2025 World Championships in the same manner she concluded her 2024 Olympic games — with a gold medal. With a world record. With a bang. Regan Smith, Kate Douglass, Gretchen ...

Although the 100 butterfly is not one of her events on the international stage, Regan Smith has flourished in the discipline.

Regan Smith broke her own American record in the short-course 200m butterfly for a second consecutive Friday on the first night of a World Aquatics World Cup in Westmont, Illinois. Smith won in ...

Kate Douglass became the first American swimmer to break a 100m freestyle world record in 21 years, while Australian Kaylee McKeown and American Regan Smith each went under Smith’s 200m backstroke ...