By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
2025 Golden Goggle Awards
- September 27, 2025
- Denver, Colorado
- SwimSwam Official Ballot
- Online Auction (Closes at 10 PM MST, Sept 27)
The US women’s 4×100 medley relay earned the 2025 Golden Goggle Award for relay of the year. The relay set a World Record at the 2025 World Championships.
The only other nominee was the mixed 4×100 free relay that also swam to a World Record. The women’s 4×100 medley relay also won the award a year ago, although that relay had a slightly different composition.
The US women’s 4×100 medley relay consisted of Katharine Berkoff, Lilly King, Claire Curzan, and Simone Manuel in prelims as they posted the top time to set the finals relay up for a swim out of lane 4. The finals relay of Regan Smith, Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh, and Torri Huske made a statement on the final day of competition in Singapore, posting a new World Record with a 3:49.34 in their win. The relay won by over three seconds as Australia was 2nd in a 3:52.67.
The previous World Record was a 3:49.63 that Smith, King, Walsh, and Huske swam at the 2024 Paris Olympics for gold. The group also broke the previous Championship Record set back in 2019 by the US in a 3:50.40. Smith was the only member of that relay from 2019 to also swim on the finals relay this year in Singapore while King and Manuel were on the relay in 2019 and swam in prelims this year.
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