2024 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Jó napot! Good Afternoon my mates, or good morning, good night, or good [insert your time of day here].
After a raucous and thrilling first preliminary session began the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) 2024, it seems to be like a lot of the identical momentum can be carried over into tonight. We glance to crown our very first champions this night, and now we have six finals and 4 semifinals on faucet.
Day 1 Finals Schedule & Warmth Sheet
The primary session begins off with a bang as Summer season McIntosh seems to be to win her first SC Worlds medal within the 400 free. She was 3:57.55 within the prelims session as was defending Champions Lani Pallister, however one ought to count on them each to be sooner. Flanking the pair on both facet are the American duo of Claire Weinstein and Paige Madden, who have been every lower than a second and a half again of McIntosh.
From the 400 free, we quicken our tempo up as we head to the semifinals of the 50s Fly. Each the Ladies’s and Males’s occasions are on World Document Watch because the USA’s Gretchen Walsh already broke it this morning, and Swiss star Noe Ponti is simply .03 off of his personal WR as each he and Nyls Korstanje broke the Championships file this morning.
Alternating Finals and Semifinals signifies that the following two occasions need to crown some champions. The Ladies’s 200 IM will see Kate Douglass seeking to earn a repeated journey to the highest of the rostrum, however it gained’t be a straightforward activity as she was simply third this morning and must move the top-seed Brit Abbie Wooden and Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey, who can be contesting her second particular person remaining of the session. On the boys’s facet, the USA’s Shaine Casas posted the highest time this morning, the one swimmer below 1:52, however with the entire different finalists below 1:53.6 and with the likes of Daiya Seto, Finlay Knox, Alberto Razzetti, and Carson Foster within the discipline Casas will must be sooner if he hopes to win.
The 100 again, just like the 50 fly, is a semifinal, however that on no account diminishes its pleasure degree. A number of Olympic medalists will compete towards one another for a spot within the Ladies’s remaining tomorrow. Regan Smith leads the cost, however Katharine Berkoff and Kylie Masse are shut behind. Australia’s Iona Anderson and Impartial Athlete Anastasiya Shkurdai lead the primary semifinal.
On the boys’s facet, residence nation’s Hubert Kos will stroll out to massive partisan assist because the Hungarian is the highest seed and occupies lane 4 within the second semifinal, with Poland’s Kacper Stokowski main the primary semi.
The final and quickest warmth of the 1500 for the boys concludes the person races and prime seed Zalan Sarkany hopes that the keenness fo Kos carries over to him because the Hungarian will look to win his first championship gold medal.
We conclude with the 400 free relays, the place Italy put up the one sub 3:30 time this morning on the ladies’s facet, and their males can be chasing after the top-seeded USA because the Italian males look to defend their title.
Ladies’s 400 Freestyle – Finals
Podium
Ladies’s 50 Butterfly – Semifinals
- World Document: 24.02 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2024)
- World Junior Document: 24.55 – Claire Curzan, USA (2021)
- World Championship Document: 24.44 – Ranomi Kromowidjojo, NED (2021)
- 2022 SC World Champion: Torri Huske, USA & Maggie MacNeil, CAN – 24.64
Prime 8
Males’s 50 Butterfly- Semifinals
Prime 8
Ladies’s 200 IM – Finals
Podium
Males’s 200 IM – Finals
- World Document: 1:48.88 — Leon Marchand, FRA (2024)
- World Junior Document: 1:51.45 – Matt Sates, RSA (2021)
- World Championship Document: 1:49.63 — Ryan Lochte, USA (2012)
- 2022 SC World Champion: Matt Sates, RSA — 1:50.15
Podium
Ladies’s 100 Backstroke – Semifinals
Prime 8
Males’s 100 Backstroke – Semifinals
Prime 8
Males’s 1500 Freestyle – Timed Last (Final Warmth)
Final Warmth Outcomes
Ladies’s 400 Freestyle Relay -Last
- World Document: 3:25.43, Australia (2022)
- World Championship Document: 3:25.43 – Australia (2022)
- 2022 SC World Champion: Australia, 3:25.43
Podium
Males’s 400 Freestyle Relay – Last
- World Document: 3:02.75 – Italy (2022)
- World Championship Document: 3:02.75 – Italy (2022)
- 2022 SC World Champion: Italy, 3:02.75
Podium
