2024 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP – INCHEON
The 2024 World Cup has already seen a number of world data, with one approaching every of the primary two days in Incheon by way of People Kate Douglass and Regan Smith. With each swimmers slated to compete once more on day 3, together with newly minted 50 butterfly world report holder Noe Ponti, there are sure to be sparks flying on the ultimate day of motion.
After breaking the world report within the 100 backstroke on day 2, Smith shall be seeking to problem Kaylee McKeown‘s 200 backstroke world report of 1:58.94. On the earlier cease of this collection in Shanghai, Smith received the occasion, coming about 2 seconds off of McKeown’s mark, however she has already confirmed to be a lot sooner right here.
Douglass is entered in each the 50 butterfly and 200 IM and is the favourite to take dwelling gold in each of them. On day 1, Douglass dropped the hammer within the 200 breaststroke, shattering Rebecca Soni’s world report from 2009.
Coming off of his world report within the occasion, Ponti will tackle the 50 butterfly once more. On the earlier cease in Shanghai, Ponti popped a WR of 21.67 in prelims earlier than coming inside .01 of that point in finals. Given his consistency within the occasion, that report will doubtless stay in-danger via the rest of the collection.
There shall be loads of pleasure within the different occasions as nicely. Particularly, within the males’s 400 IM, the place lengthy course world report holder Leon Marchand will face-off towards SCM world report holder Daiya Seto. Although Marchand received the occasion in Shanghai, he was considerably slower than anticipated, swimming a time of 4:00.03. With Seto most lately put up a time of 3:59.79 within the 400m IM at a home meet, the race is shapping as much as be very shut.
The prelims session needs to be viewable to most followers on the World Aquatics Recast web page (for a charge), which could be accessed beneath. For extra info, learn right here.
MEN’S 400 IM – Early Heats
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- World File: 3:54.81 – Daiya Seto (JPN), 2019
- World Cup File: 3:57.25 – Daiya Seto (JPN), 2018
- World Junior File: 3:56.47 – Ilya Borodin (RUS), 2021
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The early warmth of the lads’s 400 IM this morning noticed an incredible race between American Brian Raghunathan and Philippines’ R.C.C. Domingo. Raghunathan, simply 15 years outdated, received the race, swimming the SCM 400 IM formally, a minimum of, for the primary time in his younger profession. He clocked a 4:34.70, beating out Domingo by 0.24 seconds. Raghunathan took the lead on breaststroke and managed to carry on via the freestyle leg.
WOMEN’S 100 FLY – Prelims
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- World File: 54.05 – Maggie MacNeil (CAN), 2022
- World Cup File: 54.78 – Maggie MacNeil (CAN), 2022
- World Junior File: 55.39 – Claire Curzan (USA), 2021
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TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
- Laura Lahtinen (Finland) – 56.08
- Louise Hansson (Sweden) – 56.56
- Anastasiya Kuliashova (NIA) – 57.11
- Yu Yiting (China) – 571.9
- Kim Seoyeong (South Korea) – 57.21
- Lily Worth (Australia) – 57.24
- Brittany Castelluzzo (Australia) – 57.48
- Sara Junevik (Sweden) – 57.65
Finland’s Laura Lahtinen clocked a 56.08 to guide prelims of the ladies’s 100 fly by almost half-a-second. It was a extremely encouraging morning swim for Lahtinen, coming in precisely half-a-second off her personal Finnish File of 55.58, which she swam final week.
Whereas Sweden’s Louise Hansson was 2nd total this morning in 56.56, she had the quickest opening 50m cut up within the subject. Hansson was out very quick this morning, splitting 26.27 on the primary 50.
MEN’S 50 FLY – Prelims
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- World File: 21.67 – Noe Ponti (SUI), 2024
- World Cup File: 21.67 – Noe Ponti (SUI), 2024
- World Junior File: 22.28 – Ilya Kharun (CAN), 2022
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TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
- Noe Ponti (Switzerland) – 21.88
- Nyls Korstanje (Netherlands) – 22.24
- Marius Kusch (Germany) – 22.38
- Isaac Cooper (Australia) – 22.41
- Thomas Ceccon (Italy) – 22.59
- Teong Tzen Wei (Singapore) – 22.64
- Ji Yuchan (South Korea) – 22.66
- Grigori Pekarski (NIA) – 22.69
Noe Ponti was inside hanging vary of his personal World File within the males’s 50 fly tonight, clocking a 21.88. Not solely was he the quickest within the subject by almost half a second, Ponti’s time of 21.88 was solely 0.21 seconds off his WR mark of 21.67.
The sector is fairly tight behind Ponti, but it surely was Dutchman Nyls Korstanje who got here in 2nd with a 22.24 this morning.
WOMEN’S 200 BACK – Prelims
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- World File: 1:58.94 – Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 2020
- World Cup File: 1:59.35 – Daryna Zevina (UKR), 2016
- World Junior File: 2:00.03 – Missy Franklin (USA), 2011
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TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
- Anastasiya Shkurdai (NIA) – 2:04.81
- Regan Smith (United States) – 2:05.78
- Ingrid Wilm (Canada) – 2:05.83
- Bella Grant (Australia) – 2:06.04
- Beata Nelson (United States) – 2:06.65
- Hannah Fredericks (Australia) – 2:07.07
- Lee Yunjung (CLB) – 2:08.94
- Tune Jaeyun (CLB) – 2:09.44
Belarusian Anastasiya Shkurdai, competing below the ‘Impartial Impartial Athletes’ banner, beat out American Regan Smith within the girls’s 200 backstroke this morning. Shkurdai clocked a 2:04.81, swimming a really persistently cut up race. She was out in 1:02.05 on the primary 100m, then got here dwelling in 1:02.76 on the again half. Shkurdai has room to go sooner tonight, as she holds the Belarusian File within the occasion along with her profession finest of two:00.15.
Regan Smith, contemporary off a World File within the 100 again yesterday, clocked a 2:05.78 for 2nd this morning. Smith truly doesn’t maintain the American File within the girls’s 200 again presently. That report remains to be held by Missy Franklin, who went 2:00.03 on the World Cup again in 2011. Given Smith’s 54.40 100 backstroke yesterday, it appears fairly doubtless she stands an incredible likelihood of taking down that report t0night in finals.
Canadian Ingrid Wilm was proper there within the combine this morning as nicely, swimming a 2:05.83. Wilm truly destructive cut up the race, going out in 1:03.75 and coming dwelling in 1:02.08, which signifies she will be able to go fairly a bit sooner tonight in finals.
MEN’S 100 BACK – Prelims
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- World File: 48.33 – Coleman Stewart (USA), 2021
- World Cup File: 48.84 – Shaine Casas (USA), 2022
- World Junior File: 48.90 – Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS), 2017
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TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
WOMEN’S 50 BREAST – Prelims
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- World File: 28.37 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2022
- World Cup File: 28.56 – Alia Atkinson (JAM), 2018
- World Junior File: 28.81 – Benedetta Pilato (ITA), 2020
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TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
MEN’S 200 BREAST – Prelims
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- World File: 2:00.16 – Kirill Prigoda (RUS), 2018
- World Cup File: 2:00.48 – Daniel Gyurta (HUN), 2014
- World Junior File: 2:03.23 – Akihiro Yamaguchi (JPN), 2012
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TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
WOMEN’S 100 FREE – Prelims
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- World File: 50.25 – Cate Campbell (AUS), 2017
- World Cup File: 50.58 – Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2017 & Emma McKeon (AUS), 2021
- World Junior File: 51.45 – Kayla Sanchez (CAN), 2018
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TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
MEN’S 200 FREE – Prelims
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- World File: 1:39.37 – Paul Biedermann (GER), 2009
- World Cup File: 1:39.37 – Paul Biedermann (GER), 2009
- World Junior File: 1:40.65 – Matt Sates (RSA), 2021
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WOMEN’S 200 IM – Prelims
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- World File: 2:01.86 – Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2014
- World Cup File: 2:02.13 – Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2014
- World Junior File: 2:04.48 – Yu Yiting (CHN), 2021
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TOP 8 QUALIFIERS:
MEN’S 800 FREE – Early Heats
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- World File: 7:57.42 – Katie Ledecky (USA), 2022
- World Cup File: 7:57.42 – Katie Ledecky (USA), 2022
- World Junior File: 7:59.44 – Wang Jianjiahe (CHN), 2018
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