2023 WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- July 23 to 30, 2023
- Fukuoka, Japan
- Marine Messe Fukuoka
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- Entry Book
- Live Results (Omega)
- Day 1 Prelims Live Recap | Day 1 Finals Live Recap
The first day of the 2023 World Championships is in the books, which means it’s time for the first update of the Pick ‘Em Contest. It was a fairly thin first day of the meet in terms of finals, with only the men’s 400 free, women’s 400 free, men’s 400 IM, women’s 4×100 free relay, and men’s 4×100 free relay having been completed today.
Though there were only a handful of finals, there was plenty of drama on the day. It started with the men’s 400 free, where Australian 19-year-old Sam Short and Tunisian 20-year-old Ahmed Hafnaoui had a race for the ages. Short came out on top, winning his first World Championships gold medal. Hafnaoui came in 2nd. Meanwhile, defending champion Elijah Winnington finished off the podium, which was a bummer for many of us who entered the Pick ‘Em Contest.
The other thing that really threw off Pick ‘Em scores today was the women’s 400 free, which saw quite the shakeup from what was expected. Summer McIntosh, who was the heavy favorite coming in based off the picks, finished 4th. It was Australian Ariarne Titmus who got out to a roaring start and carried it through all the way to a huge new World Record. Katie Ledecky won the silver medal, while New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather came in 3rd, winning the bronze.
Nonetheless, it was a pretty good day overall for Pick ‘Em scores. We actually have a tie for first in the day 1 scoring, with “BairnOwl” and “Swimnerd” each scoring 68 points. They were followed very closely by “CoachStod,” who was 3rd today with 67 points. Congratulations “BairnOwl” and “Swimnerd”!
Here is a look at the Day 1 scores:
**There was a slight error in the original scoring that was published. An error in the men’s 400 free caused some of you to be missing 1 point for having the right swimmer but in the wrong order. It is now fixed and, thankfully, it didn’t change today’s daily winners. It didn’t create any major changes to the scoring, some of you may just have 1 more point than what was originally published.**
Those who don’t participate in this “prediction” game will be pleased to know what maximum number of points would be collected with 100% accurate predictions. So along with players they may also get some satisfaction for being wise not gambling. 😀
It would be a good practice for predictors of type “you heard it here first” or “read my lips” and similar to publish the quality of predictions they made in Pick’ ‘Em contest (just for fun 😀 )
Are you asking what the Maximum score is?
42 events x (7 + 5 + 4 +3) = 798
GB DQ in the relay ruined my score
Thank you so much for running this!
I think there may be a mistake somewhere.
M 400 FR: Short, Martens, Winnington, Aubock -> 7 for Short, 1 for Martens -> 8 pts
W 400 FR: McIntosh, Titmus, Ledecky, Fairweather -> 1 each -> 4 pts
M 400 IM: Marchand, Foster, Seto, Kalisz -> perfect score -> 19 pts
W 4×100: Aus, USA, CHN, CAN -> 7 for Aus, 5 for USA, 4 for CHN -> 16 pts
M 4×100: USA, GBR, AUS, CHN -> 1 for USA, 1 for AUS, 3 for CHN -> 5 pts
8+4+19+16+3 = 52 points, but I was given 51.
Please correct me if I made a mistake.
Whoops, should be 8+4+19+16+5 = 52. But my point still stands.
Yes, you’re correct. Thank you for bringing it my attention. There was an issue with the men’s 400 free scoring that caused people to not get their 1 point for “right swimmer, wrong order” in the 2nd spot. It’s updated now!
Backing the Aussies paid dividends today! If they continue to have a stellar meet then I’m going to do well in the pick’ems.
People doubt the Aussies because of past Olympics/WCs results, but the current generation of superstars just continue to deliver. 💪
Same
But I chose Winnington instead of Short
Foreshadowing 🫣