Alex Walsh Ready to Show ‘Untapped Potential’ in 400 IM at Worlds After Making Four Events
Alex Walsh Ready to Show ‘Untapped Potential’ in 400 IM at Worlds After Making Four Events
For years, the 400 IM made Alex Walsh so nervous that she didn’t swim it much.
After a breakthrough this summer, she is heading into the 2026 World Short Course Championships in what is currently her favorite event, at least for the time being.
“I am really excited to go to Beijing. I am most excited for the 400 IM. I swam it a couple of years ago and was really afraid of it. So I backed off then had a resurgence this summer,” Alex Walsh said. “It is always something that has been untapped potential for me. So I am excited to have a great group of girls out there to race – and hopefully do something special.”
It won’t be her only event. After her performance at the 2026 USA Swimming Short Course World Championship Trials in Westmont, Illinois, she earned four individual swims on the world stage.
Walsh won the 400 IM in 4:29.18. She finished second to Kate Douglass in the 200 breaststroke (2:18.76) and 200 IM (2:04.54) and was also second in the 100 breaststroke (1:04.59).
“I feel really good about makin...