2024 Spanish Winter Championships
- November 14-17, 2024
- Prelims at 9:30 native time (3:30 AM EST)/Finals at 6:00 native(midday EST)
- Centro de Natación M-86, Madrid, Spain
- SCM (25 meters)
- Meet central
- Psych sheet
Spain is among the many a number of European international locations gearing up for a brief course nationwide championships this weekend. Beginning this Thursday, we’ll see many Spanish stars kick off their brief course season. No Spaniards competed on the 2024 World Cup collection, so this can be our probability to see what sort of form a lot of them are in heading into Brief Course Worlds in Budapest.
Ten Spanish athletes have already earned an opportunity to swim in Budapest by way of their 2024 Olympic performances, however this meet will function a second qualification pathway into the nationwide crew.
The largest identify in Spain swimming proper now, Hugo Gonzalez, will compete for the primary time since his pair of sixth place finishes within the backstroke occasions at this summer time’s Olympic Video games. Gonzalez is the highest seed within the 200 again in addition to the 200 and 400 IM. He will even swim the 200 breastroke, by which he’s seeded third. Because the 2024 Lengthy Course World Champion of the 200 backstroke, this might be a checkpoint to see if he’s primed to defend his title.
Gonzalez isn’t the one world backstroke champion on the meet. Canadian nationwide Kylie Masse is entered within the 50 and 100 backstrokes, seeded first within the latter. That is Masse’s first meet post-Paris. She’s going to get an opportunity to reply to the slew of world file swims that long-time rivals Regan Smith and Kaylee McKeown have thrown down this fall. Her hardest competitors at this meet might be 200 backstroke Spanish Olympic semifinalist África Zamorano.
Three different Olympic semifinalists will swim in Madrid this weekend: Arbidel Gonzalez, Laura Cabanes, and Emma Carrasco. Arbidel is seeded first within the 200 fly and second within the 100 fly. He already has a spot on the Worlds crew within the 200, however to be aggressive for a nationwide title he must enhance from his 1:58.54 he swam within the Czech Republic originally of the month.
Carrasco seems to be like she might be the swimmer with essentially the most finals appearances. She is the highest seed in all three IM occasions and the 200 breaststroke, and she or he is within the high 5 within the 100 breast. She’s going to face competitors within the 200 and 400 IM from fellow Olympian Cabanes, who’s seeded second in each occasions.
Notably absent from the psych sheets are Olympic semifinalists Jessica Vall and Carmen Weiler. Vall, now a three-time Olympian, just lately competed in her first triathlon. Weiler is in her junior yr at Virginia Tech, presumably gearing up for NCAA midseason.
