Regan Smith

Regan Smith is an American competitive swimmer, born on 9 February 2002 and raised in Lakeville, Minnesota, who specializes in backstroke and butterfly events. She was regarded as the best American swimmer of her age group as a teenager and broke out internationally at the 2019 World Championships, where she won two gold medals. At the 2020 Olympic Games she won three medals, none of them gold, and at the 2024 Olympic Games she won five medals, two of them gold and three silver. She holds the long course world record in the 100 m backstroke and short course world records in the 50 m and 100 m backstroke, and won seven medals, four of them gold, at the 2024 Short Course World Championships.