Ryan Held

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Ryan Held
Ryan Held Rio 2016.jpg
Personal information
National teamUnited States
Born (1995-06-27) June 27, 1995 (age 28) [1] [2]
Springfield, Illinois, U.S. [3]
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
College team North Carolina State University [3]
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing the Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Budapest 4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Budapest 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Budapest 4×100 m mixed freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Fukuoka 4×100 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Hangzhou 4×50 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 Hangzhou 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 Hangzhou 4×100 m medley
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 Hangzhou 4×50 m mixed freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×50 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2018 Hangzhou 4×50 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2021 Abu Dhabi 50 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Abu Dhabi 100 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×100 m freestyle
World University Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Taipei 100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2017 Taipei4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2017 Taipei4×100 m medley

Ryan Held (born June 27, 1995) is an American freestyle swimmer who specializes in the sprint events, and is currently sponsored by Arena. He holds the U.S. Open record in the long course 100 meter freestyle and three world records in short course relay events. At the 2016 Summer Olympics he won a gold medal in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay, swimming in both the prelims and the final of the event. In 2021, he won silver medals in the 50 meter freestyle and the 100 meter freestyle at the 2021 World Short Course Championships. At his first FINA World Aquatics Championships, the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, he won a gold medal in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay.

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Background

He attended Christ the King grade school in Springfield, Illinois, and attended high school at Sacred-Heart Griffin, [4] where he graduated in 2014 and was coached by Dr. James Stegeman. [5] During his senior year in 2014, Held was named Illinois State Swimmer of the Year.

Career

2016 Summer Olympics

2016 Summer Olympics
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 4×100 m freestyle 3:09.92

At the 2016 US trials he qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics as a member of the 4×100 meter freestyle relay team. [3] In the Olympic heats, he swam a split time of 47.79 on the second leg, impressing the coaching staff enough to give him the nod to swim in the final. Although Held's time was not as fast as Anthony Ervin’s, head coach Bob Bowman made the decision due to youth since "Younger legs, coming back so quickly". [6] In the final he split 47.73 on the third leg to preserve Team USA's lead, winning the gold medal together with Caeleb Dressel, Michael Phelps, and Nathan Adrian. Held and the other finals relay members won the USA Swimming Foundation Golden Goggle Award for "Relay Performance of the Year" for their performance. [7]

2018 World Championships

2018 World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 4×100 m freestyle 3:03.03 (WR)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 4×50 m mixed freestyle 1:27.89 (WR)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 4×50 m freestyle 1:21.80 (WR)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 4×100 m medley relay 3:19.98 (AM)
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 4×50 m medley relay 1:30.90 (NR)

At the 2018 World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou, China, Held won four gold medals and one silver medal. In the 4×100 meter freestyle relay, Held anchored the finals relay consisting of him, Caeleb Dressel, Blake Pieroni, and Michael Chadwick to a gold medal win in a world record time of 3:03.03. [8] For the 4×50 meter mixed freestyle relay, Held split a 20.60 for the second leg of the relay and helped the finals relay set a new world record and win the gold medal in the event with a finals relay time of 1:27.89. [9] In the final of the 4×50 meter freestyle relay, Held swam the fastest split of his relay teammates, Caeleb Dressel, Jack Conger, and Michael Chadwick, with a time of 20.25 seconds, which helped the relay win the gold medal and set a new world record in the event at 1:21.80. [10] Gold eluded Held in the 4×50 meter medley relay where he swam the freestyle leg of the relay, earned a silver medal, and helped set an American record of 1:30.90 in the final with Ryan Murphy  (backstroke), Michael Andrew  (breaststroke), and Caeleb Dressel (butterfly). [11] Concluding his competition at the Championships, Held swam the freestyle leg of the 4×100 meter medley relay, splitting a time of 45.23 seconds to help the finals relay win the gold medal and set a new Americas record and Championships record of 3:19.98 in the event. [12]

2019

At the 2019 Phillips 66 Summer National Championships in Stanford, California, Held ranked first in the 100 meter freestyle prelims heats with a time of 47.43 seconds on July 31, which broke the U.S. Open record and Championships record of 47.58 seconds set by Jason Lezak over 11 years earlier on July 2, 2008. [13] Later the same day in the final, Held won the 100 meter freestyle with a time of 47.39 seconds, breaking his own U.S. Open and Championships records he set earlier in the day. [14]

2021 World Championships

2021 World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 4×200 m freestyle 6:47.00 (NR)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 4×50 m medley 1:30.51 (CR,AM)
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 50 m freestyle 20.70
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 100 m freestyle 45.63
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 4×100 m medley 3:20.50
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 4×100 m freestyle 3:05.42

Held entered to compete in the short course 50 meter freestyle and 100 meter freestyle for his individual events at the 2021 World Short Course Championships in December in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. [15] As part of the United States team for the Championships, Held was number two on "The Week That Was" honor for the week of November 1, 2021, from Swimming World . [16] Gaining racing experience in short course meters as preparation for the World Championships, Held competed at the 2021 Ron Johnson Masters Championship in Tempe, Arizona in November, where he swam a 21.28 and broke the Masters world record in the 50 meter freestyle for the 25–29 age group set at 21.37 by César Cielo in 2014. [17]

On day one of competition, Held split a 46.17 for the anchor leg of the 4×100 meter freestyle relay, qualifying it to the final ranked second with prelims relay teammates Shaine Casas, Hunter Tapp, and Tom Shields. [18] In the final, Zach Apple, substituted in for Tom Shields and the relay finished in a time of 3:05.42 to win the bronze medal. [19] [20] The second day, Held achieved a fourth-place finish in the 4×50 meter mixed freestyle relay with his finals relay teammates in 1:29.04, splitting a 20.86 for the lead-off leg of the relay. [21] In the morning of day three, Held finished second in prelims heat ten of the 50 meter freestyle behind Ben Proud of Great Britain with a time of 21.01, which qualified Held for the semifinals ranking third overall. [22] Held ranked first in the semifinals later in the day with a 20.81, less than one-tenth of a second ahead of second-ranked Joshua Liendo of Canada. [23] [24] On day four, Held led-off the 4×50 meter freestyle relay with a personal best time of 20.72 seconds and helped the relay achieve a time of 1:23.81, which placed them fourth. [25] Later in the same session Held won the silver medal in the 50 meter freestyle with a personal best time of 20.70 seconds, which was the first individual medal of his career at a World Championships. [26] [27] In his final event of the evening, Held helped set an American record of 6:47.00 and win the gold medal in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay with finals relay teammates Kieran Smith, Trenton Julian, and Carson Foster. [28] [29]

In the morning of day five, Held ranked fifth in the prelims heats of the 100 meter freestyle with a 46.72, qualifying for the semifinals along with fellow American Zach Apple. [30] Held anchored the 4×50 meter medley relay in the evening final, splitting a 20.52 to contribute to the gold-medal-winning time of 1:30.51, which tied the Russia relay team, set a new American record, and tied the Championships record and Americas record. [31] [32] For the semifinals of the 100 meter freestyle Held swam a 46.36, ranked fourth, and qualified for the final. [33] In the final the following day, which was the final day of competition, Held won the silver medal with a personal best time of 45.63 seconds. [34] [35] On the freestyle leg of the 4×100 meter medley relay in the final, Held split a 45.43 to help achieve a time of 3:20.50 and a silver-medal-win. [36] [37]

2022

On April 2, at the 2022 Pro Swim Series at Northside Swim Center in San Antonio, Texas, Held tied Drew Kibler for third in rank in the prelims heats of the 100 meter freestyle with a time of 49.46 seconds and qualified for the final later in the day. [38] He swam a 49.20 in the final to place third, finishing seven-hundredths of a second behind first-place finisher Andrej Barna. [39]

2022 International Team Trials

Day one of the 2022 US International Team Trials in late April in Greensboro, North Carolina, Held qualified for the final of the 100 meter freestyle ranking second from the prelims heats with a time of 48.20 seconds. [40] He placed third in the final with a time of 48.18 seconds, qualifying for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships team in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay. [41] Day two, he qualified for the b-final of the 200 meter freestyle with a time of 1:48.93 and overall rank of 15th in the prelims heats. [42] In the b-final, he lowered his time to a 1:47.99 to place third, 11th overall. [43] In the 50 meter freestyle prelims heats on the morning of the fifth and final day, he ranked fourth with a 21.92 and qualified for the final. [44] He swam a personal best time of 21.85 seconds in the final to take fourth-place. [45]

2022 World Aquatics Championships

2022 World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 4×100 m freestyle 3:09.34
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 4×100 m medley 3:27.79
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 4×100 m mixed freestyle 3:21.09

On the first day of swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, Held split a 47.13 for the second leg of the 4×100 meter freestyle relay in the prelims heats, the fastest out of him and his prelims relay teammates, helping qualify the relay to the final ranking first and securing his spot on the finals relay with his split time. [46] In the final later the same day, he split the fastest out of him and his finals relay teammates with a 46.99 on the second leg of the relay, helping achieve a gold medal victory in a final time of 3:09.34. [47] On day seven, he split a 47.85 in the preliminaries of the 4×100 meter mixed freestyle relay, helping qualify the relay to the final ranking first. [48] In the final, he split a 47.93 for the lead-off leg, helping win the bronze medal in a time of 3:21.09. [49] [50] For the 4×100 metre medley relay, Held split a 47.36 for the freestyle leg of the relay in the final to help win the silver medal in 3:27.79. [51]

Following the Championships, Held was announced to the USA Swimming roster for the 2022 Duel in the Pool, which was held starting August 19 in Sydney, Australia. [52]

Personal bests

As of April 30, 2022
Long Course
EventTimeMeetDateNote(s)
50 m freestyle21.50 2023 USA Swimming Phillips 66 National Championships July 1, 2023
100 m freestyle47.39 2019 U.S. Summer Nationals July 31, 2019 U.S. Open record , CR
200 m freestyle1:47.57 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials June 14, 2021(Preliminaries)
50 m backstroke24.59 2018 Phillips 66 Summer National Championships July 27, 2018(Preliminaries)
50 m butterfly23.41 2023 USA Swimming Phillips 66 National Championships June 29, 2023
100 m butterfly52.15 2019 U.S. Summer Nationals August 2, 2019
Short course
EventTimeMeetDateNote(s)
50 m freestyle20.70 2021 World Championships December 19, 2021
100 m freestyle45.63 2021 World Championships December 21, 2021
50 m backstroke23.17 2021 International Swimming League September 18, 2021
50 m butterfly22.80 2021 International Swimming League September 19, 2021
100 m individual medley53.36 2021 International Swimming League September 19, 2021
Short course yards
EventTimeMeetDateNote(s)
50 y freestyle18.56 (r) 2018 NCAA Championships March 22, 2018
100 y freestyle41.05 (r) 2018 NCAA Championships March 24, 2018
200 y freestyle1:31.37 (r) 2017 NCAA Championships March 22, 2017
100 y butterfly44.792018 ACC ChampionshipsMarch 1, 2017

r = relay lead-off

Continental and national records

Long course meters (50 m pool)

No.EventTimeMeetDateLocationTypeStatusRef
1100 m freestyle47.43h 2019 Phillips 66 Summer National Championships July 31, 2019 Stanford, California US Former [13]
2100 m freestyle (2)47.392019 Phillips 66 Summer National ChampionshipsJuly 31, 2019Stanford, California US Current [14]
Legend: US – U.S. Open record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Short course meters (25 m pool)

No.EventTimeMeetDateLocationTypeStatusNotesRef
14×100 m freestyle3:03.03 2018 World Short Course Championships December 11, 2018 Hangzhou, China AM , NR Current WR [8]
24×50 m mixed freestyle1:27.892018 World Short Course ChampionshipsDecember 12, 2018Hangzhou, China AM , NR Current WR [9]
34×50 m freestyle1:21.802018 World Short Course ChampionshipsDecember 14, 2018Hangzhou, China AM , NR Current WR [10]
44×50 m medley1:30.902018 World Short Course ChampionshipsDecember 15, 2018Hangzhou, China NR Former [11]
54×100 m medley3:19.982018 World Short Course ChampionshipsDecember 16, 2018Hangzhou, China AM , NR Former [12]
64×200 m freestyle6:47.00 2021 World Short Course Championships December 19, 2021 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates NR Current [29]
74×50 m medley (2)1:30.512021 World Short Course ChampionshipsDecember 20, 2021Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates AM , NR Current [31] [32]
Legend: WR – World record;AM – Americas record;NR – American record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Masters world records

Short course meters (25 m pool)

No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateAgeAge GroupRef
150 m freestyle21.282021 Ron Johnson Masters Championship Tempe, Arizona November 20, 202126 years, 146 days25–29 [17]

Awards and honors

Personal life

In October 2021, Held publicly announced his engagement to Lexie Lupton, who he trained with during part of his time competing collegiately for the NC State Wolfpack. [56] [57] Held then married Lupton in December 2022.

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