2024 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
After confirming Kate Douglass and Gretchen Walsh because the American crew’s entrants within the girls’s 100 IM on the upcoming Brief Course World Championships on Monday, USA Swimming revealed additional updates to its roster for the competitors which can start in lower than two weeks in Budapest.
Hunter Armstrong, a two-time relay medalist on the 2022 Brief Course Worlds, has withdrawn from the competitors, leaving vacant spots in his two particular person entries, the boys’s 50 and 100 again.
Michael Andrew, initially solely entered to swim the boys’s 50 and 100 breast individually, is now entered in each the 50 again and 100 IM, giving him 4 particular person occasions, probably the most of any male swimmer on the crew.
USA Swimming is probably transferring one other swimmer already on the roster into the 100 again, however has not made an official transfer as of but. The one swimmer at the moment entered within the occasion is Jack Aikins.
Up to date U.S. Particular person Entries For SC Worlds
Armstrong is coming off a busy 12 months that included representing the U.S. at each the 2024 World Championships in February after which the Olympic Video games in July. The 23-year-old gained seven medals in Doha, together with particular person gold within the 100 again, and adopted up with a pair of relay medals in Paris, together with gold on the U.S. males’s 4×100 free relay.
On the 2022 Brief Course Worlds in Melbourne, along with his two relay medals, Armstrong was a semi-finalist within the 50 again, tying for eighth within the semis earlier than shedding a swim-off for a spot within the closing. He additionally positioned seventeenth within the 100 again and nineteenth within the 100 free.
His withdrawal from the meet not solely is a blow for the People within the males’s backstroke occasions, but in addition hurts the relays, with Armstrong being able to contributing 50 and 100 free relay legs along with backstroke lead-offs.
Andrew has discovered loads of success within the 100 IM up to now, successful the 2016 SC world title within the occasion after which claiming silver on the 2018 version. In 2022, he certified first out of the semis earlier than taking fifth within the closing.
On this 12 months’s World Cup circuit, he positioned eighth in Shanghai (52.66 in prelims) and sixth in Incheon (52.54).
Andrew has by no means raced the 50 again in SC World Championship competitors, together with his finest time of 23.11 stemming from the 2018 World Cup cease in Singapore. This 12 months on the World Cup, his quickest time got here in at 23.58 (Shanghai).
