SwimSwam’s Official 2024 Swammy Awards Index
2024 ASIAN FEMALE OF THE YEAR: TANG QIANTING (CHN)
After spectacular performances on the 2024 Olympic Video games in addition to at this yr’s Lengthy Course World Championships and Brief Course World Championships, 20-year-old Tang Qianting of China is our Asian Feminine of the 12 months Swammy Award winner.
Tang represents our third winner in a row hailing from the nation of China, following within the footsteps of Li Bingjie and Zhang Yufei.
On the Brief Course World Championships in Doha, Qatar in February, Tang earned 50m breast silver and 100m breast gold, establishing a brand new nationwide report of 1:05.27 within the latter occasion. She turned China’s first Worlds gold medalist within the race in over 20 years together with her outcome taking down Ji Liping‘s 2009 super-suited Chinese language nationwide report of 1:05.32.
Using that momentum, Tang earned Olympic silver within the 100m breast in Paris, producing one other speedy time of 1:05.54 to fall simply .26 shy of gold.
She additionally helped China’s girls’s 4x100m medley relay land on the rostrum with bronze, in addition to raced as a prelims swimmer to contribute to China’s gold medal-winning combined medley relay.
Not resting on her laurels, Tang was a two-time particular person medalist on the Brief Course World Championships in Budapest. She snagged 50m breast silver however grabbed 100m breast gold whereas additionally incomes bronze on the Chinese language girls’s 4x100m medley relay.
She received the 100m breast in a time of 1:02.38 however her semi-finals efficiency was a fingernail faster in 1:02.37. That was particularly eye-popping as she narrowly missed breaking a world report that had been on the books for greater than 11 years. Her time checked in because the 4th-fastest swim in historical past and broke her personal Asian and Chinese language Document of 1:02.53, set on the Shanghai cease of the 2024 World Cup in October.
Talking of the World Cup, Tang completed 4th within the general cash standings with solely Hong Kong’s Haughey rating one slot forward as the highest money-earning Asian swimmer.
On the circuit, Tang remarkably repeated as each 50m breast and 100m breast champion throughout all three stops.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
- Siobhan Haughey (HKG) – Already a three-time winner of this Swammy award, Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey settles for an honorable point out this time round. She had a profitable 2024, starting in Doha the place she earned 100m free silver, 200m free gold and 100m breast bronze as a testomony to her versatility. The previous College of Michigan star landed on the rostrum with bronze in each the 100m and 200m freestyle occasions in Paris and continued her spectacular swimming by successful the 100m free throughout 2 stops and the 200m free throughout 3 stops of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup. She capped off her 2024 by grabbing 200m free gold on the Brief Course World Championships.
- Zhang Yufei (CHN) – 26-year-old Zhang Yufei collected an unbelievable six Olympic medals in Paris, making her essentially the most embellished swimmer on each the boys’s and girls’s sides. She bagged particular person bronzes within the 100m and 200m fly occasions and likewise helped China take combined medley silver, girls’s 400m free relay bronze and girls’s medley bronze. Zhang opted out of this yr’s World Championships and likewise didn’t compete within the World Cup Collection which tipped the award in Tang’s favor.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
- 2023 – Zhang Yufei, China
- 2022 – Li Bingjie, China
- 2021 – Siobhan Haughey, Hong Kong
- 2020 – Siobhan Haughey, Hong Kong
- 2019 – Siobhan Haughey, Hong Kong
- 2018 – Rikako Ikee, Japan
- 2017 – Li Bingjie, China
- 2016 – Rie Kaneto, Japan
- 2015 – Kanako Watanabe, Japan
- 2014 – Ye Shiwen, China
- 2013 – Aya Terakawa, Japan
