2024 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
See additionally: Olympic medalists who received’t be on the 2024 SC World Championships.
In just a few days, we’ll hear the beginning whistle for the 2024 Quick Course World Championships in Budapest. This occasion might be particular because it marks the top of the Olympic yr, which started with the Lengthy Course World Championships in Doha, adopted by the European Championships in Belgrade, and the Paris 2024 Olympics.
In actual fact, many medalists and titleholders from the 2022 Melbourne World Championships, won’t be current within the water at Duna Area. Regardless of this, there are additionally quite a few swimmers who’ve chosen to tackle the problem, desirous to return to competitors and push their limits (or human limits) as soon as once more. Amongst them, we’ll discover athletes of the caliber of Regan Smith, Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh, Hubert Kos, Daiya Seto, and Summer season Mcintosh.
It’s fascinating to notice that many of the World Champions who’ve chosen to take part in Budapest regardless of the few months because the triumphant Olympics, have swum or are nonetheless swimming for an American faculty. The NCAA season, in truth, not solely makes use of a 25-yard pool (about 22m) for competitions but in addition begins within the final week of September. By November, the season main as much as the ultimate championships (convention and nationwide) is already at its midway level, with athletes reaching exceptional instances. It’s no coincidence that swimmers accustomed to competing so ceaselessly, and early after main championships, have eagerly accepted the World Aquatics invitation for Budapest.
Furthermore, many swimmers have shortly returned to the water, delivering exceptional performances and outcomes on the World Cup in Asia held between October and November.
Given the demanding season—together with the World Championships in Doha, Olympic trials, the Olympics, and the World Cup—and contemplating that the subsequent main occasion would be the long-course World Championships in Singapore 2025, athletes need to stability technique, ambitions, and psychological well being of their selections to compete.
THE REIGNING CHAMPIONS WHO ARE MISSING
Out of 18 particular person feminine occasions, solely 5 reigning champions will be capable to defend their titles from Melbourne. In actual fact, 13 occasions might be lacking the gold medalists from 2022 in Budapest.
On the lads’s facet, the classes of reigning world champions we already know the close to way forward for are cut up into two: these we’ll see once more subsequent season and those that will not be seen on the planet’s most necessary lanes.
RETIRED – Emma Mckeon, Nicholas Santos, Hali Flickinger, Maggie MacNeil, Dakota Luther
That is the saddest part, I admit. This sense has already been skilled, far more intensely, throughout the previews for the Paris Olympics, however after the Video games, new names have been added to the checklist.
As formally introduced just a few days in the past, however already hinted at since August, Emma Mckeon has determined to retire from aggressive swimming. Probably the most embellished Olympic Australian in historical past had confirmed her dominance in freestyle on the Melbourne World Championships. There, Mckeon received seven medals: two particular person golds within the 50 and 100 freestyle, two golds within the 4×100 freestyle ladies’s relay and 4×50 medley ladies’s relay, and three silvers within the 4×50 freestyle ladies’s relay, 4×100 medley ladies’s relay, and 4×50 medley freestyle. Mckeon’s legacy has been handed on to Mollie O’Callaghan, whereas in Europe, the crown has remained on Sarah Sjostrom. With out the 2 predominant challengers, who will take the title this yr?
Among the many athletes already absent from the Olympics is Hali Flickinger, who received gold within the 400 IM and silver within the 200 butterfly at Melbourne; and Nicholas Santos, who on the age of 42 received gold within the 50 butterfly.
Additionally absent is Maggie Macneil, who retired from skilled swimming after the Paris Olympics. The Canadian had received three golds in Melbourne: 50 backstroke, 50 butterfly, and 100 butterfly. One other younger athlete who ended her profession after the U.S. Olympic Trials for the 2024 Olympics is Dakota Luther. The then 23-year-old from the College of Texas took benefit of a factor group within the 200 butterfly, profitable the gold forward of Flickinger and Elizabeth Dekkers.
NOT ENTERED- Kaylee McKeown, Torri Huske, Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink, Kyle Chalmers, Marrit Steenbergen
As talked about earlier, many Olympians and Olympic or World Championship medalists have chosen a special path for the top of the 2024 season (and the start of the next one).
Among the many most notable absences embody Kaylee McKeown and Torri Huske. Each, returned residence from Paris with not less than one gold medal round their neck.
Each swimmers have additionally excelled (maybe paradoxically) briefly course. On the 2022 SC Worlds, Huske received a gold within the 50 butterfly and a silver within the 100 en path to Olympic gold within the latter race. The Olympic champion within the 100 and 200 backstroke, in addition to the Olympic bronze medalist within the 200 IM, McKeown climbed precisely the identical steps on the Paris podium as she did on the residence World Championships in 2022.
The Queenslander set a World Document within the 100 backstroke at the beginning of the yr earlier than being surpassed by American Regan Smith twice. Moreover, McKeown holds the perfect time of the season within the 50 backstroke because of her swim within the World Cup in Shanghai the place she touched the wall in 25.36.
| 2 | Maaike DE WAARD |
NED | 24.53 | 10/12 |
| 3 | Regan Smith |
USA | 25.48 | 10/31 |
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Backstroke will bear a whole and thorough energy shift: in truth, moreover Kaylee McKeown, defending males’s champion Ryan Murphy won’t be named both. The American champion had collected a pile of medals in Melbourne, sweeping the gold medals. After touching the wall first in all occasions from the 50 to the 200, and profitable the 100 on the 2023 Fukuoka World Championships in lengthy course, Ryan Murphy was unable to reaffirm himself on the prime on the Paris Olympics. Within the French capital, the 29-year-old received “solely” a bronze within the 100 backstroke and failed to achieve the ultimate within the 200 backstroke, ending in tenth place.
The 2022 version of the World Championshipswas full of doubles, with solely 11 feminine swimmers and 12 male swimmers profitable World Championships out of a complete of 36 particular person occasions -including Murphy.
Different multi-winners who won’t be replicated embody these of Gregorio Paltrinieri and Nic Fink.
In Melbourne, Fink secured a double gold within the 50 and 100, with American Information within the 50 (25.38) and the 200 breaststroke (2:01.60). Within the latter, he received silver behind Daiya Seto. The American can be on a break, awaiting to find out his subsequent aims, after a season that noticed him climb to the highest of the world first within the 100 breaststroke in Doha, after which with the 4×100 medley relay in Paris throughout the Olympic Video games. He additionally noticed the delivery of his first little one with fellow elite swimmer Melanie Margalis because the Video games. At La Protection Area, Fink received a silver within the 100 breaststroke behind Nicolò Martinenghi and tied with Adam Peaty, and a silver within the males’s medley relay.
Even the champion Gregorio Paltrinieri is at the moment having fun with a well-deserved trip after profitable two medals on the Paris Olympic Video games and serving to to extend Italy’s medal tally with a silver within the 1500m freestyle and a bronze within the 800m. Briefly course, Paltrinieri boasts six World Championship medals and 6 European medals, with a complete of seven golds. In 2022, in Melbourne, the Italian swimmer secured two of those gold medals, within the 1500m and the 800m, the latter setting a brand new Championship file with a time of seven:29.99.
Among the many three Olympic medalists from Italy, we can’t overlook the exceptional feat of Thomas Ceccon, who returned from Australia with six medals round his neck and two world data. The Olympic champion within the 100m backstroke received gold within the 100m IM, in addition to two golds with world data within the males’s 4x50m medley relay and the 4x100m freestyle relay. Moreover, he contributed to the silver within the 4x50m freestyle relay closing and the bronzes within the 4x100m medley and 4x200m freestyle relays.
The 23-year-old, regardless of his Olympic title, has but to win a World Championship title within the 100m backstroke briefly course, persistently specializing in extra uncommon occasions, such because the 100m IM or 50m butterfly, leaving a very powerful occasions—people who have already introduced him to the highest of the Olympic podium—for the longer term. It might have been thrilling and spectacular to witness a battle between Ceccon, Leon Marchand, Noe Ponti, Duncan Scott, and perhaps Kolesnikov within the 100m IM; or one other problem within the 100m freestyle between him and the Chinese language Pan Zhanle, whom Ceccon defeated throughout the first World Cup cease in October. Nonetheless, these eventualities will stay in fantasy, as Ceccon has confirmed he won’t compete in 2024 to deal with the World Championships in Singapore.
OTHER NOTABLE ABSENCES
- Claire Curzan
- silver within the 50 backstroke, 200 backstroke
- bronze within the 100 backstroke
- Mollie O’Callaghan
- silver within the 100 backstroke
- bronze within the 50 backstroke
- Kyle Chalmers –
- gold within the 100 freestyle, within the 4×50 freestyle, 4×100 medley,
- silver within the 4×100 freestyle, 4×200 freestyle, 4×50 freestyle blended,
- bronze within the 4×50 medley
- Marrit Stenbergen –
- gold within the 100 IM,
- bronze within the 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle, 4×50 freestyle blended.
Girls’s Occasions
| Occasion | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 50 Freestyle | Kasia Wasick (POL), 23.55 | Anna Hopkin (GBR), 23.68 | |
| 100 Freestyle | Siobhan Haughey (HKG), 50.87 | ||
| 200 Freestyle | Siobhan Haughey (HKG), 1:51.65 | Rebecca Smith (CAN), 1:52.24 | |
| 400 Freestyle | Lani Pallister (AUS), 3:55.04 | Erika Fairweather (NZL), 3:56.00 | Leah Smith (USA), 3:59.78 |
| 800 Freestyle | Lani Pallister (AUS), 8:04.07 NR | Erika Fairweather (NZL), 8:10.41 | Miyu Namba (JPN), 8:12.98 NR |
| 1500 Freestyle | Lani Pallister (AUS), 15:21.43 CR, OC | Miyu Namba (JPN), 15:46.76 | |
| 50 Backstroke | |||
| 100 Backstroke | |||
| 200 Backstroke | Kylie Masse (CAN), 2:01.26 NR | ||
| 50 Breaststroke | Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 28.50 | Lara van Niekerk (RSA), 29.09 AF | Lilly King (USA), 29.11 |
| 100 Breaststroke | Lilly King (USA), 1:02.67 | Tes Schouten (NED), 1:03.90 NR | Anna Elendt (GER), 1:04.05 NR |
| 200 Breaststroke | Kate Douglass (USA), 2:15.77 CR | Lilly King (USA), 2:17.13 | Tes Schouten (NED), 2:18.19 NR |
| 50 Butterfly | – | Zhang Yufei (CHN), 24.71 =AS | |
| 100 Butterfly | Louise Hansson (SWE), 54.87 | ||
| 200 Butterfly | Elizabeth Dekkers (AUS), 2:03.94 | ||
| 100 IM | Beryl Gastaldello (FRA), 57.63 | Louise Hansson (SWE), 57.68 | |
| 200 IM | Kate Douglass (USA), 2:02.12 AM | Alex Walsh (USA), 2:03.37 | |
| 400 IM | Waka Kobori (JPN), 4:29.03 |
Males’s Occasions
| Occasion | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 50 Freestyle | Jordan Crooks (CAY), 20.46 | Ben Proud (GBR), 20.49 | Dylan Carter (TTO), 20.72 |
| 100 Freestyle | Maxime Grousset (FRA), 45.41 | ||
| 200 Freestyle | Hwang Sunwoo (KOR), 1:39.72 CR, AS | David Popovici (ROU), 1:40.79 | Tom Dean (GBR), 1:40.86 |
| 400 Freestyle | Kieran Smith (USA), 3:34.35 AM | Thomas Neill (AUS), 3:35.05 | Danas Rapsys (LTU), 3:36.26 |
| 800 Freestyle | Henrik Christiansen (NOR), 7:31.48 | Logan Fontaine (FRA), 7:33.12 | |
| 1500 Freestyle | Damien Joly (FRA), 14:19.62 NR | ||
| 50 Backstroke | Isaac Cooper (AUS), 22.73 | Kacper Stokowski (POL), 22.74 | |
| 100 Backstroke | Lorenzo Mora (ITA), 49.04 NR | Isaac Cooper (AUS), 49.52 | |
| 200 Backstroke | Shaine Casas (USA), 1:48.01 | Lorenzo Mora (ITA), 1:48.45 NR | |
| 50 Breaststroke | Simone Cerasuolo (ITA), 25.68 | ||
| 100 Breaststroke | Adam Peaty (GBR), 56.25 | ||
| 200 Breaststroke | Daiya Seto (JPN), 2:00.35 AS | Qin Haiyang (CHN), 2:02.22 | |
| 50 Butterfly | Noe Ponti (SUI), 21.96 NR | Szebasztian Szabo (HUN), 21.98 | |
| 100 Butterfly | Chad Le Clos (RSA), 48.59 | Ilya Kharun (CAN), 49.03 WJ, NR | Marius Kusch (GER), 49.12 |
| 200 Butterfly | Chad Le Clos (RSA), 1:48.27 AF | Daiya Seto (JPN), 1:49.22 | Noe Ponti (SUI), 1:49.42 NR |
| 100 IM | Javier Acevedo (CAN), 51.05 NR | Finlay Knox (CAN), 51.10 | |
| 200 IM | Matt Sates (RSA), 1:50.15 AF | Carson Foster (USA), 1:50.96 | Finlay Knox (CAN), 1:51.04 NR |
| 400 IM | Daiya Seto (JPN), 3:55.75 | Carson Foster (USA), 3:57.63 | Matt Sates (RSA), 3:59.21 NR |
