2024 SC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Now we have now reached the ultimate day of competitors within the 2024 swim season. This final prelims session shouldn’t disappoint. Immediately’s competitors begins with some 200s, and in conventional worldwide competitors vogue, we wrap it up with the medley relays.
Day 6 Prelims Line-Up
- Ladies’s 200 free
- Males’s 200 free
- Ladies’s 200 again
- Males’s 200 again
- Ladies’s 4×100 medley relay
- Males’s 4×100 medley relay
Within the first occasion, the ladies’s 200 freestyle, Siobhan Haughey will likely be on the lookout for a spot in finals to make it three straight world titles on this occasion. The lads’s occasion, in the meantime, has a model new world document holder in Luke Hobson from the 800 free relays earlier within the meet. Can Hobson again up his swim individually?
This brief course season, Regan Smith has been on a warpath in backstroke, breaking world information in all three distances at the very least as soon as. This 200 backstroke may function her victory lap and maybe a chance to set new information.
The ultimate particular person occasion is the lads’s 200 backstroke. Reigning Olympic gold medalist, Hungary’s Hubert Kos, has a shot to win his first brief course world title. Nevertheless, he’ll face competitors from a slew of European expertise, together with high seed Lorenzo Mora.
Ladies’s 200 freestyle
- World Document: 1:50.31 — Siobhan Haughey, HKG (2021)
World Junior Document: 1:52.59 — Bella Sims, USA (2022)- Championship Document: 1:50.31 — Siobhan Haughey, HKG (2021)
- 2022 Champion: Siobhan Haughey, HKG — 1:51.65
Prime 8
- Claire Weinstein (USA) — 1:52.51
- Mary-Sophie Harvey (CAN) — 1:52.81
- Lani Pallister (AUS) — 1:53.01
- Leah Neale (AUS) — 1:53.48
- Siobhan Haughey (HKG) — 1:53.76
- Paige Madden (USA) — 1:53.94
- Freya Anderson (GBR) — 1:53.99
- Sofia Morini (ITA) — 1:54.29
The primary of the seeded heats, and the highest seed total, went to Crew USA’s Claire Weinstein. The 17 year-old carried over the momentum from her monster 1:50 cut up within the 800 free relay, breaking Bella Sims’ World Junior document with a 1:52.51. It slashes almost two seconds off her finest time of 1:54.31 from the World Cup this yr.
Weinstein’s teammate Paige Madden managed following warmth to qualify sixth total in 1:53.94. Simply behind her was Freya Anderson (1:53.99)
Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey took the ultimate warmth in a brand new private better of 1:52.81. She had a really robust again half, overtaking defending world champion Siobhan Haughey within the closing 50.
Males’s 200 freestyle
- World Document: 1:38.91 — Luke Hobson, USA (2024)
- World Junior Document: 1:40.68 — Matthew Sates, RSA (2021)
- Championship Document: 1:38.91 — Luke Hobson, USA (2024)
- 2022 Champion: Hwang Solar-woo, KOR — 1:39.72
Prime 8
- Luke Hobson (USA) — 1:41.55
- Lucas Pierre Henveaux (BEL) — 1:41.58
- Tomas Koski (FIN) — 1:41.92
- Kieran Smith (USA) — 1:42.22
- Tatsuya Murasa (JPN) — 1:42.28
- Rafael Miroslaw (GER) — 1:42.38
- Maximillian Giuliani (AUS) — 1:42.67
- Danas Rapsys (LTU) — 1:42.84
Two new nationwide information got here out of warmth 6. Belgium’s Lucas Pierre Henveaux received the warmth in 1:41.58, eclipsing his personal 1:42.14 nationwide document. Tomas Koski touched second in a brand new Finnish document of 1:41.92. The document beforehand belonged to Matias Koski (1:43.51).
Within the following warmth, the Individuals posted a 1-2 end. Luke Hobson led the race from the beginning and by no means regarded again, touching in 1:41.55. Kieran Smith trailed him in 1:42.22, narrowly out touching Japan’s Tatsuya Murasa and Germany’s Rafael Miroslaw to come back again seeded 4th tonight.
Ladies’s 200 backstroke
- World Document: 1:58.83 — Regan Smith, USA (2024)
- World Junior Document: 2:00.03 — Missy Franklin, USA (2011)
- Championship Document: 1:59.23 — Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2014)
- 2022 Champion: Kaylee McKeown, AUS — 1:59.26
Males’s 200 backstroke
- World Document: 1:45.63 — Mitch Larkin, AUS (2015)
- World Junior Document: 1:48.02 — Kliment Kolesnikov, RUS (2017)
- Championship Document: 1:46.68 — Ryan Lochte, USA (2010)
- 2022 Champion: Ryan Murphy, USA — 1:47.41
Ladies’s 4×100 medley relay
- World Document: 3:44.35 — United States (C. Curzan, L. King, T. Huske, Ok. Douglass) (2022)
- Championship Document: 3:44.35 — United States (C. Curzan, L. King, T. Huske, Ok. Douglass) (2022)
- 2022 Champion: United States (C. Curzan, L. King, T. Huske, Ok. Douglass) — 3:44.35
Males’s 4×100 medley relay
- World Document: 3:18.98 — Australia (I. Coopers, J. Yong, M. Temple, Ok. Chalmers) / United States (R. Murphy, N. Fink, T. Julian, Ok. Smith) (2022)
- Championship Document: 3:18.98 — Australia (I. Coopers, J. Yong, M. Temple, Ok. Chalmers) / United States (R. Murphy, N. Fink, T. Julian, Ok. Smith) (2022)
- 2022 Champion: Tie – Australia (I. Coopers, J. Yong, M. Temple, Ok. Chalmers) / United States (R. Murphy, N. Fink, T. Julian, Ok. Smith) — 3:18.98
