2024 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
American swimmer Kate Douglass is scratching the 50 fly on the 2024 Quick Course World Championships, leaving her teammate Gretchen Walsh as the one American entry within the occasion.
Douglass entered the meet as the highest seed with an entry time of 24.42, which she swam on the finale of the World Cup in Singapore in November. That point left her simply .04 seconds shy of Therese Alshammar’s legendary World Report within the occasion and made her the #2 performer within the historical past of the occasion.
Douglass retains entries within the 50 free, 100 free, 200 breast, 100 IM, and 200 IM for the meet. Her coaches hinted at a doable withdrawal from that race as a result of it conflicts instantly with different races – particularly a direct overlap with the 200 IM (the place she can be the highest seed) and the 400 free relay.
USA Swimming doesn’t choose swimmers on the premise of fifty meter occasions and after 100 fly Olympic gold medalist Torri Huske pulled out of the meet, no different members of the U.S. roster have been eligible for the 50 fly, so Douglass’ late withdrawal doesn’t affect anyone else’s occasion selection.
This scratch doesn’t imply that Douglass can have an ‘simple’ run. Presuming she swims all relays 400-meters-and-under, and doesn’t swim on the heats of any of these relays, that is what Douglass’ schedule would mission out as for the meet:
Kate Douglass‘ Schedule, 2024 Quick Course World Swimming Championships
| Prelims | Finals | |
| Day 1 | 200 IM H |
200 IM F, 400 free relay F |
| Day 2 | 100 Free H |
100 Free SF, 200 Blended Medley F |
| Day 3 | 100 IM H | |
| Day 4 | 200 Breast H |
200 Breast F, 100 IM F, Blended 200 Free Relay F |
| Day 5 | 50 Free H |
50 Free SF, Blended 400 Medley Relay F |
| Day 6 |
50 Free F, Ladies’s 400 Medley Relay F |
The opposite American entry Gretchen Walsh is entered at 25.20, which is her quickest time within the qualifying interval, however that’s truly a protracted course cut up and is her midway cut up from the 100 meter fly last on the U.S. Olympic Trials over the summer season. That makes her the favourite on this race.
Prime 8 Seeds, 2024 Quick Course World Swimming Championships
- Beryl Gastaldello, France – 24.76
- Alexandria Perkins, Australia – 24.99
- Arina Surkova, Impartial Athletes – 25.02
- Lily Worth, Australia – 25.07
- Tessa Giele, Netherlands – 25.10
- (TIE) Mizuki Hirai, Japan/Sara Junevik, Sweden – 25.15
- Gretchen Walsh, USA – 25.20 (LCM time)
