2024 Brief Course World Championships
Good morning! Welcome to day 2 prelims on the 2024 Brief Course World Championships.
Yesterday’s swims have been electrical. The day 1 finals session noticed SIX new World Data, and two of the report breakers are again in motion in the identical occasion this morning.
We’re beginning the prelims session with the 100 freestyle, and American swimmers Gretchen Walsh and Kate Douglass are sizzling. They each set particular person World Data yesterday, Walsh within the 50 fly and Douglass within the 200 IM. Additionally they have been part of the ladies’s 4×100 freestyle relay World Document, the place Douglass led off in 50.95 and Walsh anchored in 50.67.
They aren’t the one stars, nonetheless, as we are going to get to see Siobhan Haughey, a World Document holder in her personal proper, compete for the primary time this morning in the identical occasion.
The lads’s 100 freestyle is lacking lots of their huge title swimmers, however that doesn’t imply it received’t be quick, as we noticed yesterday. People Jack Alexy and Chris Guiliano will take the water once more, after swimming on the World Document breaking males’s 4×100 freestyle relay yesterday. To not be ignored, is France’s Maxime Grousset who’s seeded first going into the session. We will even see Jordan Crooks, who’s coming off a superb NCAA midseason, for the primary time this meet.
The breaststrokers are additionally taking the pool for the primary time, amongst them on the ladies’s facet are China’s Tang Qianting, defending champion Lilly King, and present World Document holder Ruta Meilutyte.
The lads’s breaststrokers embody World Document holder Ilya Shymanovich, Qin Haiyang, and Kirill Prigoda, who’re inside 2 tenths of one another up to now this season.
The Ladies’s 800 freestyle will even swim as a timed-finals occasion, with all however the quickest warmth swimming within the morning session. Not one of the prelims swimmers are anticipated to make the rostrum, however something can occur, and they don’t seem to be out of competition.
The meet will finish with the prelims of the Blended 4×50 medley relay.
Ladies’s 100 Freestyle
- World Document: 50.25 – Cate Campbell, AUS (2017)
- World Junior Document: 51.45 – Kayla Sanchez, CAN (2018)
- World Championship Document: 50.77 – Emma McKeon, AUS (2022)
- 2022 World Champion: Emma McKeon, AUS – 50.77
Prime 16 Qualifiers:
- Gretchen Walsh (USA)- 51.64
- Siobhan Haughey (HKG)- 52.12
- Freya Anderson (GBR)/Kate Douglass (USA)- 52.27
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- Daria Trofimova (NAB)- 52.30
- Beryl Gastaldello (FRA)- 52.47
- Sara Curtis (ITA)/Milla Jansen (AUS)- 52.51
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- Nina Holt (GER)- 52.73
- Milou Van Wijk (NED)- 52.76
- Snaefridur Sol Jorunnardottir (ISL)- 52.77
- Katarzyna Wasick (POL)- 52.80
- Sara Junevik (SWE)- 52.84
- Daria Klepikova (NAB)- 52.97
- Barbora Janickova (CZE)- 52.99
- Sofia Morini (ITA)- 53.02
Maral Batsanal began out the prelims session with a win within the first prelims warmth of the 100 free for Mongolia, going 1:00.08. The second warmth went to Eritrea’s Christina Raach in 58.74, and Sarah Mose from Kenya took warmth 3 in 57.12. Warmth 4 went to New Zealand’s Zoe Pedersen in 53.86.
Nina Holt certified for the semi-final along with her prelims swims exterior of the circle seeded heats. Holt received warmth 5 in 52.73 to qualify in ninth.
The primary circle seeded noticed Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey and Nice Britian’s Freya Anderson neck-and-neck all through the race, with Haughey passing her proper on the finish to win warmth 6 in 52.12. Anderson took 2nd in 52.27 and Sara Curtis of Italy took third in 52.51
Gretchen Walsh took the 2nd circle-seeded warmth, and led from begin to end. Walsh was out in 24.59, and took the warmth in 51.64 by simply over seven tenths of a second over Beryl Gastaldello from France who got here in 2nd at 52.47. Mila Jansen was third in 52.51.
The final warmth was a race, however finally went to American Kate Douglass in 52.27 over Daria Trofimova who got here in at 52.30, however led the entire race till the very finish. Sara Junevik rounded out the highest 3 in 52.84.
Males’s 100 Freestyle
- World Document: 44.84 – Kyle Chalmers, AUS (2021)
- World Junior Document: 45.64 – David Popovici ROU (2022)
World Championship Document:45.05 – Jack Alexy USA (2024)- 2022 World Champion:Kyle Chalmers, AUS – 45.16
Prime 16 Qualifiers
- Jordan Crooks (CAY)- 44.95 ***New Championship Document***
- Chris Guiliano (USA)- 45.94
- Maxime Grousset (FRA)- 46.01
- Guilherme Santos (BRA)- 46.06
- Egor Kornev (NAB)- 46.07
- Shane Ryan (IRL)- 46.23
- Youssef Ramadan (EGY)- 46.24
- Heiko Gigler (AUT)- 46.45
- Jack Alexy (USA)- 46.57
- Jere Hribar (CRO)- 46.60
- Dylan Carter (TTO)- 46.63
- Tomas Navikonis (LTU)- 46.63
- Rafael Miroslaw (GER)- 46.74
- Alessandro Miressi (ITA)- 46.82
- Kamil Sieradzki (POL)/Lamar Taylor (BAH)- 46.89
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Jordan Crooks was out first and quick within the first circle seeded warmth. He was 21.63 on the 50, and held on to that pace to go 44.95 breaking the Jack Alexy’s championship report from final evening within the course of. 2nd with to Guilherme Santos of Brazil, and third place was Heiko Gigler of Austri in 46.45
People Chris Guiliano and Jack Alexy each swam within the 2nd circle seeded warmth. Guliano took the warmth in 45.94. Alexy cruised to 2nd in 46.57, over a second and a half off what he went final evening. third went to Alessandro Miressi of Italy in 46.82, and that was the entire qualifiers out of warmth 7.
The ultimate circle seeded warmth was nearly a useless tie by the primary 50. In the end France’s Maxime Groussset received the warmth in 46.01, simply 6 tenths forward of Impartial Athlete Egor Kornev who got here in at 46.07. Eire’s Shane Ryan took third in 46.23. Dylan Carter additionally made the semi-final with 46.63 for 4th.
Warmth 8 wasn’t technically circle seeded, however 3 swimmers certified out of it for the ultimate. Youssef Ramadan from Egypt was 1st in 46.24. Tomas Navikonis of Lithuania positioned 2nd in 46.63, and Lamar Taylor was third, finally tied for fifteenth in 46.89
Ladies’s 100 Breaststroke
- World Document: 1:02.36 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU (2013)/Alia Atkinson, JAM (2014, 2016)
- World Junior Document: 1:02.36 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU (2013)
- World Championship Document: 1:02.36 – Alia Atkinson, JAM (2014)
- 2022 World Champion: Lilly King, USA – 1:02.67
Prime 16 Qualifiers:
- Angharad Evans (GBR)- 1:03.45
- Lilly King (USA)- 1:03.50
- Qianting Tang (CHN)- 1:03.52
- Ruta Meilutyte (LTU- 1:04.27
- Eneli Jefimova (EST)- 1:04.34
- Sophie Angus (CAN)/ Alina Zmushka (NAA)- 1:04.42
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- Rebecca Meder (RSA)- 1:04.57
- Evgeniia Chikunova (NAB)- 1:04.61
- Kotryna Teterevkova (LTU)- 1:04.62
- Kotomi Kato (JPN)- 1:04.67
- Yulia Efimova (NAB)- 1:04.77
- Kristyna Horska (CZE)/Dominika Sztandera- 1:04.78
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- Emma Weber (USA)- 1:04.81
- Sophie Hansson (SWE)- 1:04.97
Males’s 100 Breaststroke
- World Document: 55.28 – Ilya Shymanovich, BLR (2021)
- World Junior Document: 56.66 – Simone Cerasuolo, ITA (2021)
- World Championship Document: 55.70 – Ilya Shymanovich, BLR (2021)
- 2022 World Champion: Nic Fink, USA – 55.88
Ladies’s 800 Freestyle
- World Document: 7:57.42 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2022)
- World Junior Document: 7:59.44 – Li Bingjie, CHN (2018)
- World Championship Document: 8:02.90 – Li Bingjie, CHN (2021)
- 2022 World Champion: Lani Pallister, AUS – 8:04.07
Blended 4×50 Medley Relay
- World Document: 1:35.15 – United States (2022)
- World Championship Document: 1:35.15 – United States (2022)
- 2022 World Champion: United States – 1:35.15
