2024 Olympian Claire Weinstein (@claire_weinstein, World Aquatic bio here) won the 5 km race at the USA Swimming Open Water Swimming National Championships, setting up a tremendously full slate of potential events at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.

Weinstein, standing at 183 cm, dominated the race, winning by 41 seconds, an almost unheard-of victory at the 5 km distance.

Given her probability of also qualifying for additional individual and relay pool events, the 18-year-old representing the Sandpipers Of Nevada, she will have a very busy two weeks in Singapore. The future University of California student-athlete will potentially swim the 5 km and 10 km races, the mixed 4×1500 team relay, and the 3 km Knockout Sprints in the open water, and then her speciality in the 200m freestyle (where she finished 8th at the 2024 Paris Olympics) and the 800m relay (where she won a silver medal and had the fastest split on the team at 1:54.88).

Combining the speed of an Olympic 200m pool freestyler with the stamina of a 10 km marathon swimmer makes the 18-year-old from Las Vegas a very strong medal favorite in both the 5 km and 10 km events in Singapore.

Indiana University senior Mariah Denigan (21, MSF bio here, World Aquatics bio here) finished just between second-place Ichika Kajimoto of Japan with Brooke Travis of the TAC Titans with the times of 1:02:14, 1:02:15, and 1:02:16.

Becca Mann, the Grand Dame of the field in both the 5 km and 10 km events at the age of 27 and a busy author and screenwriter, finished both the 5 km and 10 km races in seventh place.

USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships Women’s 5 km Results

1. Claire Weinstein, Sandpipers Of Nevada 1:01:33
2. Ichika Kajimoto, Japan 1:02:14
3. Mariah Denigan, Indiana University 1:02:15
4. Brooke Travis, TAC Titans 1:02:16
5. Misa Okuzono, Japan 1:02:33
6. Abby Dunford, Canada 1:03:28
7. Becca Mann, TAC Titans 1:04:16
8. Laila Oravsky, Barrie Trojan Swim Club 1:04:17
9. Claire Stuhlmacher, Indiana University 1:04:17
10. Bella Tramontana, Sandpipers Of Nevada 1:04:23
11. Izzy Wilson, South Florida Aquatic Club 1:05:34
12. Karly Boles, Germantown Academy Aquatic Club 1:05:35
13. Paige Reilly, 1:05:36
14. Marlene Blanke, Villanova 1:05:37
15. Andrea Dworak, Rockville Montgomery Swim Club 1:05:39
16. Kai Flanagan, 1:06:02
17. Taira Vroom, Barrie Trojan Swim Club 1:06:48
18. Ava Jochims, Racer X Aquatics 1:07:11
19. Kylie McMurray, Jersey Wahoos Swim Club 1:07:13
20. Quinn White, Shawmut Aquatic Club 1:10:13
21. Ginger Kiefer, Vandal Aquatic Club 1:10:36
22. Ridley Hagerman, Front Range Barracudas 1:10:36

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