2024 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP-Singapore
DAY 1 HEATS START LIST
Effectively, People, now we have come to the top of the road. Now we have arrived on the final cease on the three-leg tour that’s the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup.
The worldwide swimming group descends upon Singapore, the placement of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships for the following three days because the World Cup collection concludes.
The hunt for the general win is tight amongst each the boys and the ladies as People Regan Smith and Kate Douglass, each of whom have set World Information on this tour, will look to struggle for the highest place and be topped champion.
An analogous scenario unfolds within the males’s race the place Leon Marchand and Noe Ponti, who just like the American pair has additionally set a brand new World File, will look to duke it out for the crown however must fend off the likes of Qin Haiyang, Pieter Coetze, and Duncan Scott.
Nevertheless, the collection outcomes received’t be official till the top of the meet, and there are many fascinating races to start out us off on.
To start with, two of the youthful American stars, Katie Grimes and Claire Weinstein, will make their collection debut on this session’s very first occasion, the Ladies’s 400 free, the place the pair will look to make the ultimate alongside high seed Mary-Sophie Harvey.
The lads’s occasion, which sees six heats begins off with a bang as warmth one is slated to have each Leon Marchand and Rafael Miroslaw compete, as each are entered with no time and can look to place up quickest sufficient occasions to make the ultimate and probably push out the likes of Kieran Smith, Duncan Scott, Junwoo Kim and Pan Zhanle.
From the 400 free, we transfer into the Ladies’s 50 Again, the place Smith might be searching to erase the second Kaylee McKeown report from the books as she makes an attempt to cross the 25.36 World Cup report set by the Aussie on the Shanghai cease, and if that report is in sight then so to is the World File set again in 2022 by Maggie MacNeil.
Talking of World Cup Information, Ponti, who along with the World File within the 50, additionally owns the World Cup report within the 100 fly and can look to maintain himself in rivalry for the collection win by coming into the ultimate within the center lanes. Additionally on the skin trying, in reference to the collection win is Douglass, who’s entered within the 200 breast/100 IM double, with the previous swim being her first time swimming the 200 breast because the world report holder.
The prelims session might be viewable to most followers on the World Aquatics Recast web page (for a price), which will be accessed under. For extra data, learn right here.
WOMEN’S 400 Free– Prelims
- World File: 3:51.30 – Li Bingjie, CHN (2022)
- World Cup File: 3:52.80 – Summer time McIntosh, CAN (2022)
- World Junior File: 3:52.80 – Summer time McIntosh, CAN (2022)
Prime 8:
- Mary Sophie-Harvey (CAN) – 4:02.98
- Katie Grimes (USA) – 4:03.58
- Waka Kobori (JPN) – 4:04.93
- Claire Weinstein (USA) – 4:06.68
- Moesha Johnson (AUS) – 4:09.31
- Maya Werner (GER) – 4:10.11
- Han Dakyung (KOR) – 4:15.84
- Ashley Lim (SGP) – 4:21.57
Warmth 1 of three went the best way of native membership swimmer, Inga Xu who posted a time of 4:30.73, not solely profitable by over six seconds but additionally chopping off practically an equal period of time from her seed, as she entered the meet with a 4:37.66.
Warmth 2 noticed American Katie Grimes, the Olympic silver medalist within the 400 IM, take an earlier lead as she led out the sphere in a break up of 58.24. By way of the midway level, Grimes was trailed by Japan’s Waka Kobori and Germany’s Maya Werner, however her 2:00.19 break up was over a second quicker than both of her closest opponents and by the 300-meter mark, Werner had fallen again to over 4 seconds again. Kobori did her finest to maintain shut and by no means fell greater than two seconds again, however couldn’t fairly shut the hole and would stay behind Grimes till the end. Grimes completed in a easy 4:03.58, with Kobori clocking a results of 4:04.93.
The final warmth noticed Grimes teammates and clubmate Claire Weinstein assert her authority early within the race. She opened the primary 100 in 59.20, over a second quicker than the highest seed, Mary-Sophie Harvey, and by the 200, Weinstein had elevated that result in over a second and a half. Nevertheless, Harvey, who is understood to have an unbelievable backhalf clawed a full second again in only a 50 and by the 300-meter flip had the truth is opened up a close to half-second lead on Weinstein. The Canadian Olympian stored up her back-half assault and stormed to the warmth win in 4:02.98, beating Weinstein by practically 4 seconds because the American completed in 4:06.68. Australian distance star Moesha Johnson joined the pair beneath 4:10.00 and can safely advance to the ultimate tonight as nicely.
MEN’S 400 Free– Prelims
- World File: 3:32.25 – Yannick Agnel, FRA (2012)
- World Cup File: 3:32.77 – Paul Biedermann, GER (2009)
- World Junior File: 3:37.92 – Matthew Sates, RSA (2021)
Prime 8:
- Kieran Smith (USA) – 3:41.21
- Duncan Scott (GBR) – 3:43.98
- Benjamin Goedemans (AUS)/Danas Rapsys – 3:44.08
- Kregor Zirk (EST) – 3:44.16
- Charlie Clark (USA) – 3:44.21
- Pan Zhanle (CHN) – 3:44.39
- Hoe Yean Khiew (MAS) – 3:45.73
Effectively, regardless of the digicam panning to a fan-made signal exhibiting help for Leon Marchand, the French star was absent from the primary warmth of the boys’s 400 free. In his place, German Rafael Miroslaw took the warmth win in 3:45.91. The German, who represented his house nation in Paris, is not any stranger to short-course racing week after week (albeit in yards) as he completed as excessive as fifth final March on the NCAA Championships competing for Indiana.
Miroslaw’s time survived up by means of the beginning of the circle-seeded heats as Brazilian Olympian, Breno Correia did his finest to chase the time however finally fell brief in warmth 4, recording a mark of three:46.89.
Warmth 5, the primary of the circle-seeded heats, noticed a lead pack of 4 assert themselves early, with Malaysia’s Hoe Yean Khiew main the best way on the 100-meter mark however rapidly gave option to American Kieran Smith, who took over the lead, splitting 1:48.91 on the midway level. By the 300, Smith had blown aside the main quartet and was forward by over two seconds and would go on to submit the quickest time of the morning up to now of three:41.21. Fellow American Charlie Clark, used a robust backhalf to maneuver into second place after lacking out on being amongst the early leaders, stopping the clock in 3:44.21 with Khiew ending in third, over a second behind.
Warmth 6, the final warmth, noticed Lithuanian Danas Rapsys flip first on the 100 in 53.72, opening a really slim lead over Duncan Scott, who was 53.83. Scott would claw again that differential and, by the 200-meter mark, was within the lead, flipping in 1:50.95. Nevertheless, it was not a safe lead as Rapsys, Pan Zhanle, and Kregor Zirk had been all inside half a second on the 300 flip, and on the 350 flip, it was Pan who was within the lead. The final 50 became a drag race for the main 4, but it surely was Scott, who acquired his hand on the wall first, clocking a results of 3:43.98.
Closing like a freight practice to tie with Rapsys for second within the warmth was Australian Benjamin Goedemans, who appeared out of it however closed in a pace 12.74 to catch up and cease the clock at 3:44.08.
WOMEN’S 50 Again– Prelims
- World File: 25.25 – Maggie MacNeil, CAN (2022)
- World Cup File: 25.36 – Kaylee McKeown, AUS (2025)
- World Junior File: 26.08 – Sara Curtis, ITA (2024)
Prime 8:
- Regan Smith (USA) – 26.01
- Iona Anderson (AUS) – 26.26
- Ingrid Wilm (CAN) – 26.60
- Beata Nelson (USA) – 26.67
- Anastasiya Shkurdai (NIA) – 26.77
- Kim Seungwon (KOR) – 26.93
- Louise Hansson (SWE) – 27.01
- Hannah Fredericks (AUS) – 27.19
Sturdy underwater proved to be the distinction in warmth 2 as American Beata Nelson pushed the final flip just a bit additional than Anastasiya Shkurdai to get to the wall first, stopping the clock in 27.67, with the Belorussian, competing as a impartial athlete recording a mark of 27.73
Warmth 3 noticed Canadian Ingrid Wilm take to the water. The second general seed, who entered with a seed time of 26.09, confirmed off her backstroke prowess and wrested the highest time from Nelson as she stopped the clock in 26.60. Nevertheless, it was short-lived, because the final warmth noticed one of many quickest backstrokers on the planet take to the pool.
Regan Smith, who’s lower than per week faraway from her 100-back WR, used a robust begin to submit a break up of 12.97. Nevertheless, it was not the quickest break up as Iona Anderson, one in all a number of younger Australian backstrokers, was out even quicker, hitting the flip in 12.97. Smith, nevertheless, closed in 13.04, which might have been the third quickest 1st 25 to submit a mark of 26.01. Anderson, for her half, closed in a speedy 13.32 to complete second general in a time of 26.26
MEN’S 200 Again– Prelims
- World File: 1:45.63 – Mitch Larkin, AUS (2015)
- World Cup File: 1:46.11 – Arkady Vyachanin, RUS (2009)
- World Junior File: 1:48.02 – Kliment Kolesnikov, RUS (2017)
Prime 8:
- Pieter Coetze (RSA) – 1:54.67
- Jack Dahlgren (USA) – 1:54.89
- Lorenzo Mora (ITA) – 1:54.99
- Lee Juho (KOR) – 1:55.21
- Yegor Popov (KAZ) – 1:56.95
- Reagan Chang (SGP) – 1:57.40
- Zackery Tay (SGP) – 1:57.49
- Mark Szaranek (GBR) – 1:57.59
With lower than 24 entrants, all three of the heats within the males’s 200 again are circle seeded, and in reality, all had empty lanes, that means most of the high seeds might play the possibly harmful recreation of trying to steadiness conserving their power and going quick within the prelims.
Kazakstan’s Yegor Popov opted to not play the sport and popped off a speedy 1:56.95, contemplating his entry time was 2:01.61. His consequence earned him first within the warmth forward of Nice Britain’s Mark Szaranek (1:57.59) and Poland’s Kacper Stokowski (1:58.22). Stokowski, the #3 seed who entered with a seed of 1:51.56, might be hoping that there aren’t six swimmers within the final two heats who’re quicker.
Warmth 2 was a a lot quicker affair, which can spell doom and gloom for the Pole. Pieter Coetzee, who has been dominant over the previous fortnight, received a decent duel with Jack Dahlgren. The South African completed in 1:54.67, forward of the bearded (or goatee’d) Dahlgren, who completed in 1:54.89. The pair weren’t the one two to beat Stokowski’s time as Zackery Quan Lony Tay and Luccas Brenner recorded marks of 1:57.49 and 1:58.07.
Warmth 3 was a equally tight affair as lower than 1 / 4 of a second separated the highest two finishers, and Italy’s Lorenzo Mora acquired the higher of Korean backstroker Lee Juho 1:54.99 to 1:55.21. With these outcomes, Stokowski would wind up ending tenth general.
WOMEN’S 200 Fly– Prelims
- World File: 1:59.61 – Mireia Belmonte Garcia, ESP (2014)
- World Cup File: 2:00.78 – Liu Zige, CHN (2009)
- World Junior File: 2:02.71 – Chen Luying, CHN (2024)
Prime 8:
- Bella Grant (AUS) – 2:05.13
- Brittany Catelluzzo (AUS) – 2:06.01
- Laura Lahtinen (FIN) – 2:07.73
- Nicholle Toh (SGP) – 2:08.46
- Femke Spiering (NED) – 2:12.54
- Applejean Gwinn (TPE) – 2:13.00
- Xiandi Chua (PHI) – 2:14.11
- Jasmine Mojdeh (PHI) – 2:16.58
Not like in Shanghai, the place there weren’t sufficient entrants to area prelims, the ladies’s 200 fly noticed two preliminary heats take to the water on this session.
Within the first warmth, Finland’s Laura Lahtinen had management from the get go. After putting third in each the finals in Shanghai and Incheon, the Finn will enhance her standing. Out in 59.92, simply one in all two swimmers beneath 1:00, Lahtinen regarded easy over the again half coming to the wall in 2:07.73, practically 5 seconds away from Femke Spiering’s 2:12.54.
Nevertheless, standing in Lahtinen’s method are the Aussie pair of Bella Grant and Brittany Castelluzzo, who, within the second warmth, put up spectacular prelim swims of two:05.13 and a couple of:06.01. Grant, final weekend acquired the higher of Regan Smith, who opted to not enter the occasion this weekend, profitable the ultimate in 2:03.13.
MEN’S 100 Fly– Prelims
- World File: 47.78 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2020)
- World Cup File: 48.40 – Noe Ponti, SUI (2024)
- World Junior File: 49.03 – Ilya Kharun, CAN (2022)
Prime 8:
- Noe Ponti (SUI) – 49.32
- Nyls Korstanje (NED) – 49.76
- Teong Tzen Wei (SGP) – 50.03
- Matthew Temple (AUS) – 50.07
- Chad le Clos (RSA) – 50.13
- Trenton Julian (USA) – 50.60
- Grigori Pekarski (NIA) – 50.61
- Jesse Coleman (AUS) -50.65
Warmth 3 noticed some pleasure from the gang as hometown favourite Teong Tzen Wei posted a speedy time of fifty.01, practically breaking his personal nationwide report of 49.88. The penultimate warmth, warmth 4, noticed the primary consequence beneath 50.00 as Nyls Korstanje posted a results of 49.76.
The final warmth noticed World Cup report holder Noe Ponti assert his authority on the sphere and open up an enormous lead as he completed greater than half a physique size away from the sphere. The Swiss star, who set the 50 fly World File, stopped the clock in 49.32, near a second forward of Australian Matt Temple, who completed in 50.07.
In trying on the splits, solely Korstanje and le Clos had been out beneath 23 (22.94 and 22.95), however neither can match the power of Ponti on the again half. Ponti was out in 23.00 and closed in 26.32, whereas the Dutchman completed with a final break up of 26.82.
WOMEN’S 200 Breast – Prelims
- World File: 2:14.16 – Kate Douglass, USA (2024)
- World Cup File: 2:14.16 – Kate Douglass, USA (2024)
- World Junior File: 2:14.70 – Evgeniia Chikunova, RUS (2022)
Prime 8:
- Kate Douglass (USA) – 2:17.10
- Alina Zmushka (NIA) – 2:20.89
- Tara Kinder (AUS) – 2:22.33
- Sophie Angus (CAN) – 2:23.17
- Nikoleta Trnikova (SVK) – 2:24.35
- Park Sieun (KOR) – 2:24.80
- Sophie Hansson (SWE) – 2:26.29
- Benedetta Pilato (ITA) – 2:26.84
Kate Douglass, racing the 200 breast for the primary time since breaking the world report, was inside a second of her report on the 100-meter mark however shut issues down over the backhalf. Regardless of ending practically three seconds again of her personal finest, her time of two:17.10 was the standout swim of the second warmth as she simply received by over 5 seconds, with Australia’s Tara Kinder ending in 2:22.33 and Park Sieun of Korea in 2:24.80.
Within the earlier warmth, Alina Zmushka received in 2:20.89, additionally nicely away from the sphere albeit Sophie Angus’s 2:23.17 being a lot nearer than Kinder was to Douglass. Tonight, with little competion it’ll be Douglass chasing her personal report and an opportunity to earn one other WR bonus.
MEN’S 100 Breast – Prelims
- World File: 55.28 – Ilya Shymanovich, NIA (2021)
- World Cup File: 55.61 – Cameron van der Burgh, RSA (2009)
- World Junior File: 56.66 – Simone Cersuolo, ITA (2021)
Prime 8:
- Ilya Shymanovich (NIA) – 55.98
- Caspar Corbeau (NED) – 56.85
- Qin Haiyang (CHN) – 57.20
- Joshua Yong (AUS) – 57.74
- Josh Gilbert (NZL) – 57.98
- Andrius Sidlauskas (LTU) – 58.05
- Nicolo Martinenghi (ITA) – 58.26
- Joshua Collett (AUS) – 58.54
Warmth 3 of the boys’s 100 breaststroke was a decent affair between Australian Joshua Yong and Lithuanian Andrius Sidlauskas. The pair traded the lead over the primary 75, but it surely was the Aussie who employed an amazing final pull-out to take the lead within the final 25, and he surged to the wall, recording a mark of 57.74, in comparison with Sidlauskas’s 58.05. Sandwiched between the 2 was Arno Kamminga, who, sporting a beard, completed third in 59.24.
Warmth 4 was a equally tight affair as Kamminga’s compatriot, Caspar Corbeau was out quick (26.69), however was stalked by Chinese language star Qin Haiyang (26.92) your entire race. A a lot quicker warmth, the Olympic bronze medalist within the 200 meter breast, Corbeau took the win in 56.85 forward of Qin’s 57.20.
The fifth warmth adopted within the footsteps of the 4th warmth and was a quicker affair as Ilya Shymanovich nipped beneath the 56.00 barrier, recording a time of 55.98, a time which ought to be famous is quicker than his profitable time from Incheon (56.10).
WOMEN’S 50 Free – Prelims
- World File: 22.93 – Ranomi Kromowidjojo, NED (2017)
- World Cup File: 22.93 – Ranomi Kromowidjojo, NED (2017)
- World Junior File: 23.69 – Anastasyia Shkurdai, NIA (2020)
Prime 8:
- Katarzyna Wasick (POL) – 23.77
- Yang Junxuan (CHN) – 24.14
- Tang Qianting (CHN) – 24.48
- Sara Junevik (SWE) – 24.50
- Siobhan Haughey (HKG) – 24.54
- Hur Yeonkyung (KOR) – 24.59
- Brittany Castelluzzo (AUS) – 24.66
- Mizuki Hirai (JPN) – 24.75
The primary of the circle-seeded heats noticed Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey take the win in 24.54, simply .12 forward of Australia’s Brittany Castelluzzo, who not lower than an hour in the past posted the second quick time within the 200 fly.
An amazing flip by Yang Junxuan noticed the Chinese language swimmer shoot down the final 25 to seize the win in warmth 5. The Olympian took the win in 24.14, practically a half a second away from Korea’s Hur Yeonkyung, who was 24.59 on the wall.
Placing herself in a really robust place to finish the sweep of the splash and sprint was the highest seed, Kasia Wasick. The Pole, who was 23.87 within the Shanghai last and 23.51 in Incheon, was out in a speedy 11.60 and again in 12.17 to submit a results of 23.77, the one time beneath 24.00.
MEN’S 50 Free – Prelims
- World File: 20.16 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2020)
- World Cup File: 20.48 – Vladimir Morozov, RUS (2018)
- World Junior File: 20.98 – Kenzo Simons, NED (2019)
Prime 8:
- Nyls Korstanje (NED) – 20.88
- Dylan Carter (TTO) – 20.96
- Jack Dolan (USA) – 21.00
- Marius Kusch (GER) – 21.03
- Ji Yuchan (KOR) – 21.07
- Isaac Cooper (AUS) – 21.18
- Ralf Tribuntsov (EST) – 21.39
- Kenzo Simons (NED) – 21.40
The circle-seeded warmth got here quick and livid. Dylan Carter took the primary warmth posting a time of 20.96, besting Kenzo Simons by practically half a second because the Junior World File holder stopped the clock in 21.41.
The subsequent warmth noticed Nyls Korstanje additionally go beneath 21.00. The Dutchman was out in sub 9.95 (the one sub 10 break up within the area) and closed in to hit the wall in 20.88, holding off the fast-charging Jack Dolan. Dolan, an American, stopped the clock at 21.00, forward of Australian Olympian Isaac Cooper’s 21.18.
The eighth and last warmth noticed Marius Kusch take the win in 21.o3 The veteran German, who could also be extra recognized for his butterfly prowess, simply inched out Korea’s Ji Yuchan, who was simply behind him, stopping the clock in 21.07.
WOMEN’S 100 IM– Prelims
- World File: 56.51 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2024)
- World Cup File: 56.51 – Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2017)
- World Junior File: 57.59 – Anastasyia Shkurdai, NIA (2020)
Prime 8:
- Kate Douglass (USA) – 57.69
- Beata Nelson (USA) – 58.90
- Yu Yiting (CHN) – 59.45
- Louise Hansson (SWE)/Laura Lahtinen (FIN) – 59.71
- Tamara Potocka (SVK) – 59.76
- Sara Juvenik (SWE) – 59.91
- Iona Anderson (AUS) – 1:00.05
It was an identical begin for Beata Nelson and an identical end for Kate Douglass. Nelson, one of many world’s finest underwater swimmers, had the lead after the 50, taking it in 26.75, however Douglass, one of many world’s finest IMers and to not point out the WR holder within the 200 breast, closed the hole of .34 and gained the lead on the pull-out alone and by no means regarded again as she cruised to the warmth win and general high time of 57.69, greater than a second away from Nelson’s 58.9.
Her fellow compatriot, Katie Grimes, who’s extra recognized for her distance skills, swam within the first warmth of the occasion however didn’t crack the highest 8, ending eleventh general in 1:00.89.
MEN’S 100 IM– Prelims
- World File: 49.28 – Caeleb Dressel, USA (2020)
- World Cup File: 50.26 – Vladimir Morozov, RUS (2018)
- World Junior File: 50.63 – Kliment Kolesnikov, RUS (2018)
Prime 8:
- Noe Ponti (SUI) – 52.41
- Leon Marchand (FRA) – 52.53
- Kim Jihun (KOR) – 52.60
- Thomas Ceccon (ITA) – 52.70
- Alberto Razzetti (ITA) – 52.75
- Joshua Collett (AUS) – 53.01
- Trenton Julian (USA) – 53.07
- Kim Minsuk (KOR) – 54.21
The battle between Ponti and Marchand for the general collection lead heated up because the Swiss star acquired the higher consequence this morning, as he posted the fasted time within the prelims. Marchand was out quicker on the 50 (23.56 vs 23.77), however Ponti’s 13.10 final 25 was greater than sufficient to shut the deficit because the Frenchman closed in 13.91.
Don’t sleep on the others within the area, nevertheless, as Kim Jihun closed in 12.83, the quickest final 25 and one in all solely two within the last to be sub 13, bucking his typical 200 fly technique; Trenton Julian had a swift final leg ending in 12.87.
