2023 U.S. Open Water National Championships
- April 21-23, 2023
- Nathan Benderson Park, Sarasota, Florida
- Open Water
- Meet Central
- World Championship Selection Procedure
- Start List
- SwimSwam Preview (Schedule included)
- Live Stream
- Full 10K Results
Katie Grimes put the hammer down on the final lap of the women’s 10km on Friday morning at U.S. Open Water Nationals, claiming victory and a spot at the 2023 World Championships.
After several different athletes took turns at the front of the race throughout, Grimes’ Sandpipers of Nevada teammate Claire Weinstein held the lead early on during the last of five laps of the race, with a group containing Mariah Denigan, Kensey McMahon, Ashley Twichell, Maria De Valdez and Grimes close behind.
Grimes moved to the front of the pack and managed to pull away, ultimately winning by 15 seconds to defend her national title and earn a spot at the World Championships in a time of 1:58:08.
After Weinstein and Denigan had a photo finish in the race for second, the nod ultimately went to Denigan, who is listed with a time of 1:58:23, one second clear of Weinstein.
Twichell, a 33-year-old veteran and Tokyo Olympian in open water, placed fourth in 1:58:25, while De Valdez (1:59:06) was fifth and McMahon sixth (1:59:09).
Top 8 Finishers
- Katie Grimes (Sandpipers of Nevada), 1:58:08
- Mariah Denigan (ISC), 1:58:23
- Claire Weinstein (Sandpipers of Nevada), 1:58:24
- Ashley Twichell (TAC Titans), 1:58:25
- Maria de Valdes (Spain), 1:59:06
- Kensey McMahon (Univ of Alabama Swim Club), 1:59:09
- Angela Martinez (Spain), 2:00.28
- Leah Degeorge (University of Florida), 2:00:31
Grimes’ performance is all the more impressive given she’s less than a week removed from producing a personal best time of 4:31.81 in the 400 IM, a performance that ranks her #2 in the world this year and 15th all-time.
The winner of both the men’s and women’s 10km events automatically earn a spot on the U.S. team at Worlds this summer, with the opportunity to race both the 5km and 10km in Fukuoka.
She has much better chance of winning open water gold than anyone from australia
Curious as to what compels a person to write a comment like this. How does this contribute to constructive dialogue? Does this make you feel good to type, knowing it’s disrespectful?
It’s flame-bait.
It’s a fact truth always hurts
Looks like the days of pure open water swimmers are numbered.
Ashley Twichell placed fourth (4th) in the women’s 1500 meter freestyle at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.
That’s too far!! You must focus on the pool alone!!
Working on that stamina for the pool events.
Supposed to leave these open water events to washed up pool swimmers lol.
I was joking.
Who do you think was the most promising young swimmer in women long distance events in the beginning of Olympic 2012 year. If you think that was Katie Ledecky you are well off. It was Becca Mann. Not many remember her now, she moved to the open water competition.
What’s your point?
16 year old Katie Grimes won the silver medal in the women’s 1500 meter freestyle at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships.
https://www.worldaquatics.com/swimming/rankings?gender=F&distance=1500&stroke=FREESTYLE&poolConfiguration=LCM&year=all&startDate=&endDate=×Mode=ALL_TIMES®ionId=all&countryId=
As LT Colombo answers such questions:”Point? Oh, no. No point”.
I’m just wondering why Ledecky never competed at OW. She even ignored SCM meets until recently. Maybe she knew something about tuning the technique in particular style of swimming. It may happen that versatility isn’t that good thing when you want to swim at the edge of possible. Maybe you indeed can’t sit in two chairs with one butt.
If you watched the last day of the 2022 Phillips 66 National Championships, you would know the answer to question.
Yozhik: ”. . . Maybe you indeed can’t sit in two chairs with one butt.”
Southwest Airlines: ”Oh, yes you can.”
I think a lot of people remember Becca Mann.
I think a lot people remember Haley Anderson and Ashley Twichell.
The Olympics needs to have more than 1 open water event. Maybe add the 5k and a mile.
Okay I’m willing to hear you out, but have one big question:
Why?
Because it’s a totally different sport that pool swimming and 10k and 5k are like the difference between a sprint and a distance event for open water swimmers
That’s not true at all. A 50 and a 1500 are completely different energy zones and training. A 5k and 10K are the same one is just who can do it even longer.
this guy gets it, although honestly they aren’t even that different. If you train as a distance swimmer, they’ll both pretty much be equal. Just one long threshold swim, really makes you question the amount of training done for a mile when the same amount is done for 10k, really feels like pool distance training needs to be re-thought
Dumb question: How is the junior team selected?
https://www.usaswimming.org/docs/default-source/open-water-resources/open-water-selection/2023-2024-ow-national-junior-team-selection-summary-final.pdf
Now that Grimes has qualified she can do the 5K as an individual medley on Sunday.
5k breaststroke, Katie Grimes needs the work to improve the W 400 IM.
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Why is this selection process so complicated? Shouldn’t the winner in the 10k swim the 10k at Worlds and the winner of the 5k swim the 5k? There is actually a pretty big difference between being good at the 5k and the 10k, so the winner of the 10k may not be in the best position to win the 5k.
It’s the same reason why the top 2 in the 50s don’t go to Worlds: only the 10k is in the Olympics, only the Olympics pays the bills, so everything is the Olympics.
I thought two American swimmers went in more than one of the 50’s. I’m thinking in particular the men’s 50 back took Armstrong and Ress. No?
They entered more than one.
But only one qualified via winning the 50 at Trials (Armstrong).
Ress made the team as a member of the 400 free relay by placing 6th at Trials in the 100 free.