Three Highly Potential US swimmers likely to win gold at Singapore
Three Highly potential Male US swimmers are likely to win gold at the World Swimming Championship 2025, Singapore beyond Bobby Finke, three-time Olympic Champion. Bobby Finke is the only male US Swimmer who won individual Gold at the Paris Olympics in 2024. Finke came through in the clutch with a world-record performance in the final of the men’s 1500 freestyle, successfully defending his Olympic title in 14:30.67.
Heading into the 2025 World Championships, there’s no question that Finke has the best chance of standing atop the podium for the U.S. men. He aims to regain the 800 free world title he won in 2022, while in the 1500, it’s hard to believe he’s never won the world title (despite two Olympic gold medals), but he’s the clear favorite there after what he did in Paris.
Beyond Finke, there were only four other American men to win an individual medal at last summer’s Olympic Games, and at least one and maybe two of them won’t be racing this summer.
200 free bronze medalist Luke Hobson and 400 IM bronze medalist Carson Foster as the two returning medalists from Paris for the American men this summer, not including Finke.
Luca Urlando :
Urlando is among one of three Highy potential male swimmers who have a Chance of winning individual gold in Singapore for the American men outside of Finke.
Orlando had a phenomenal college season, breaking the American, NCAA, and U.S. Record in the 200 fly (SCY) multiple times, including blasting a time of 1:36.43 in the NCAA final. This time is sufficient to become the fastest swimmer in history by nearly a full second. This performance was followed up by setting a massive new best time of 1:52.37 in the long-course pool a few days later.
The 200 fly at the World Championships feels more wide open than it has in past years. Leon Marchand won Olympic gold last summer, and though he was impressive in the 400 IM (4:07.11) last weekend, he hasn’t raced the 200 fly in LCM yet this season.
Kristof Milak, the two-time world champion and world record holder in the 200 fly, has had questions surrounding his commitment to training dating back to early last year, though he mustered a 1:51.75 swim in Paris to win silver behind Marchand.
After Urlando’s 1:52.37 swim in early April, there’s no denying he has a chance to snag the world title this summer—anything under 1:52 might do. Urlando is ranked ist swimmer.
Luke Hobson
Hobson is among three highly potential US male swimmers. Hobson, since winning bronze in the 200 free in Paris, has rewritten the short course record books in the event, first breaking and then re-breaking the super-suited world record in the SCM 200 free (1:38.61) in December before downing his own SCY all-time mark (1:28.33) in March.
In long course, Hobson set a best time of 1:44.79 in the Olympic final to claim bronze, just seven one-hundredths shy of David Popovici‘s gold medal-winning time of 1:44.72.
In 2024, Popovici was the only swimmer to go under the 1:44 barrier, clocking 1:43.13 at the European Championships in Belgrade, and sub-1:44 feels like something Hobson is capable of after the progression he’s made over the short course season.
Outside of Popovici’s dominant world title win in 2022 (1:43.21), it’s taken 1:44-something to win gold at the World Championships every year since 2015, and the door is open for Hobson, with Popovici presenting his biggest hurdle.
400m WR holder Lukas Martens and South Korean Hwang Sunwoo are contenders for the title.
Shaine Casas
Unlike Urlando and Hobson, Casas doesn’t have one event where he’s a clear-cut gold medal contender, but he could pull out a victory in a number of different races due to his versatility.
Casas won the short course world title in the 200 IM in December and ranks 4th in the world this season in long course (1:56.52), while he’s been 24.23 in the 50 back, 53.54 in the 100 back, and 50.82 in the 100 fly, putting him in the mix in all those events (and maybe even the 50 fly). He’s also impressed of late in the 100 and 200 free, which puts him in relay contention this summer.
After the Paris Games Merchand had to come in real form. Hungarian Star Hubert Kos and Chinese Wang Sun are a real threat. Anyaway race is open, but Casas has to deliver his 100 percent and Marchand may be out of form.