USA Swimming released its final roster after the Toyota National Championships in Indianapolis. (George Hale, WFIU/WTIU News)
Four Hoosier swimmers including breaststroke legend Lilly King will represent the United States at next month’s World Aquatics Championships.
USA Swimming released its final roster over the weekend after five days of races at the Toyota National Championships in Indianapolis.
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King will join fellow Indiana swimmers Josh Matheny, Anna Peplowski and Mariah Denigan at the July international finals in Singapore.
Indiana Athletics reports four divers will also compete in the world championships.
Three-time-Olympian King won the 50-meter breaststroke and came in second in the 100-meter breast days after announcing her plans to retire.
“This is not just a basketball state. This is a swimming state,” King said after her final race at the IU Natatorium, her childhood pool.
The world-record-holder also urged fans to keep supporting Indiana swimmers.
King, 28, holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:04.13, set at the 2017 world championships.
She won an Olympic gold medal in the 100 breast at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and captured Olympic titles on relays in Rio and at her final Olympics last year in Paris.
At the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, King earned silver medals in the 200 breaststroke and 4x100 medley relay and a bronze in the 100 breast.
She narrowly missed the medal stand in the 100 breast in Paris, with one-hundredth of a second separating bronze medalist Mona McSharry of Ireland and the fourth-place tie between King and Italy’s Benedetta Pilato in 1:05.60.
King announced her plans to retire last weekend and said swimming her final race in the U.S. in her home state “has always been important to me.”
“Well, folks, my time has come. This will be my final season competing,” she wrote. “I’m fortunate heading into retirement being able to say I have accomplished everything I have ever wanted in this sport. I feel fulfilled,” King wrote on Instagram.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
