Ivan Puskovitch (@swimimp, World Aquatics bio here) wanted very badly to qualify for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. He put in the mileage and intensity, but he had just missed out making the USA team by 2 seconds, getting out-sprinted by Dylan Gravely and Joey Tepper, on Friday at the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Sarasota, Florida.
But the 24-year-old representing TSM Aquatics made his final push in today’s 5 km race well worth his training and preparations. He won by a 2-second margin over rival Gravely. The top two Americans had separated themselves from a trailing pack of Japanese (Riku Takaki, Taishin Minamide, Kaiki Furuhata, and Koichiro Iwazumi) and the rest of the field.
Puskovitch said after his victory, “After coming up just short of World Championship qualification in the 10 km on Friday, I was on a mission coming into today’s 5 km. My strategy was to start fast to create some separation in the pack early on, but I certainly hadn’t planned to lead from start to finish. That might actually be the first time I’ve done that since I was 14.
There was a split second on lap two when I got worried about hanging on for the finish, but I flushed that energy out of my mind and trusted in the work my coach and I had done. I’m proud to have not only booked my ticket to Worlds with my result, but also won my first national title and made a statement in the process.“
The top Australian men who had gone 1-2 in the 10 km race on Friday did not compete in the shorter 5 km event.
Puskovitch and Gravely will represent the USA in the 5 km while Gravely and Joey Tepper will be the American representatives in the 10 km race at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore this July. They will meet up again with Kyle Lee and Thomas Raymond of Australia who went 1-2 in the 10 km race on Friday and their Japanese and Canadian rivals who also competed in Sarasota this weekend.
USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships 5 km Results
- Ivan Puskovitch, TSM Aquatics 56:10
- Dylan Gravely, Sun Devil Swimming 56:12
- Riku Takaki, Japan 56:22
- Taishin Minamide, Japan 56:33
- Kaiki Furuhata, Japan 56:38
- Koichiro Iwazumi, Japan 56:38
- Gabriel Manteufel, Sandpipers Of Nevada 56:39
- Charles Clark, Ohio State University 57:09
- Joshua Brown, University of MI 57:16
- Alexander Lyubavskiy, Longhorn Aquatics 57:19
- Ben Wainman 57:20
- Will Mulgrew, Shawmut Aquatic Club 58:37
- Trey Dickey, Texas A & M University 58:39
- Bucky Gettys, Texas Gold 58:50
- Colin Jacobs 59:06
- Max Vega Cuevas, Texas A & M University 59:25
- Paul Mullen, Nation’s Capital Swim Club 59:37
- Jacob Pishko, Louisiana State University 59:38
- Oliver Shao, Badger Swim Club,Inc. 59:38
- Zach Tower, TSM Aquatics 59:50
- Parker Sterlitz, West Virginia University 59:51
- Landon Egeland, Bend Swim Club 1:00:09
- Harrison Smith, TSM Aquatics 1:00:24
- Charles Schreiner, Egg Harbor Twp Seahawks 1:00:29
- Hunter Payne, University of Calgary 1:00:30
- Finn Holdredge, Unattached 1:00:51
- Luke Leon Guerrero, FAST Swim Team 1:01:10
- Kjell Cady South, Snohomish Co. Dolphins 1:01:24
- Benjamin Robins, Badger Swim Club,Inc. 1:01:29
- Cooper Zakorchemny, Rockville Montgomery Swim Club 1:01:30
- Max Spory, American Energy Swim Club 1:01:31
- Jackson Cooper, Badger Swim Club,Inc. 1:01:35
- Charlie Begin, Rockville Montgomery Swim Club 1:01:36
- Ian McKinney, West Virginia University 1:01:37
- William Mullen, West Virginia University 1:01:48
- Hugo Janvier, Pointe-‘Claire Swim Club 1:01:51
- Quinn Macphail, Blazing Barracudas 1:02:11
- William Shoesmith, Bolles School Sharks 1:02:12
- Alex Nguyen, Rockville Montgomery Swim Club 1:02:47
- Tristan Furlow, Shawmut Aquatic Club 1:02:48
- Jack Eaddy, Revolution Aquatic Club 1:03:10
- Patrick Dunn, Scottsdale Aquatic Club 1:03:11
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