2024 WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- February 11th – February 18th (pool swimming)
- Doha, Qatar
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Entries
In the strangest World Championships in several generations, we’re going to do our best to pick the medalists and finalists for the 2024 World Championships.
The 2024 World Aquatics Championships will kick off on Feb. 2, and pool swimming will get underway on Feb. 11 and run through the 18th.
As the meet approaches, we will be previewing all 42 pool events that are set to take place at the meet, though due to this being a non-traditional World Championships during the Olympic year, and thus a severely pared down field compared to a normal World Championship, we’ll be publishing previews by discipline: sprint, mid-distance and distance free, along with back, breast, fly, IM and relays in their own articles for men and women, plus a mixed relay preview article.
Keep track of all of SwimSwam’s discipline-by-discipline previews below, with medalist picks listed out for every event.
We’ll also keep track of a projected medal table based on our picks at the bottom of this article.
WOMEN’S EVENTS
MEN’S EVENTS
| ARTICLE | EVENT | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE |
| Sprint Free | 50 Free | Cameron McEvoy (AUS) | Ben Proud (GBR) | Michael Andrew (USA) |
| 100 Free | Pan Zhanle (CHN) | Alessandro Miressi (ITA) | Hwang Sunwoo (KOR) | |
| Mid-Distance Free | 200 Free | Hwang Sunwoo (KOR) | Pan Zhanle (CHN) | Luke Hobson (USA) |
| 400 Free | Daniel Wiffen (IRL) | Ahmed Hafnaoui (TUN) | Lukas Märtens (GER) | |
| Distance Free | 800 Free | Daniel Wiffen (IRL) | Ahmed Hafnaoui (TUN) | Mykhailo Romanchuk (UKR) |
| 1500 Free | Daniel Wiffen (IRL) | Ahmed Hafnaoui (TUN) | Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA) | |
| Back | 50 Back | Hunter Armstrong (USA) | Isaac Cooper (AUS) | Ksawery Masiuk (POL) |
| 100 Back | Hunter Armstrong (USA) | Ksawery Masiuk (POL) | Pieter Coetze (RSA) | |
| 200 Back | Roman Mityukov (SUI) | Bradley Woodward (AUS) | Luke Greenbank (GBR) | |
| Breast | 50 Breast | Nic Fink (USA) | Adam Peaty (GBR) | Michael Andrew (USA) |
| 100 Breast | Arno Kamminga (NED) | Nic Fink (USA) | Adam Peaty (GBR) | |
| 200 Breast | Arno Kamminga (NED) | Caspar Corbeau (NED) | Dong Zhihao (CHN) | |
| Fly | 50 Fly | Michael Andrew (USA) | Diogo Ribeiro (POR) | Shaine Casas (USA) |
| 100 Fly | Shaine Casas (USA) | Nyls Korstanje (NED) | Chad le Clos (RSA) | |
| 200 Fly | Krzysztof Chmielewski (POL) | Tomoru Honda (JPN) | Martin Espernberger (AUT) | |
| IM | 200 IM | Duncan Scott (GBR) | Shaine Casas (USA) | Carson Foster (USA) |
| 400 IM | Carson Foster (USA) | Daiya Seto (JPN) | Alberto Razzetti (ITA) | |
| Relays | 4×100 Free | Great Britain | Italy | Australia |
| 4×200 Free | Great Britain | South Korea | USA | |
| 4×100 Medley | USA | Italy | China |
MIXED RELAYS
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||
| Mixed Relays | 4×100 Free | Australia | USA | Italy |
| 4×100 Medley | USA | Netherlands | Australia |
PROJECTED POOL SWIMMING MEDAL TABLE
| NATION | TOTAL MEDALS | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE |
| USA | 26 | 13 | 5 | 8 |
| Great Britain | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Australia | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| Netherlands | 8 | 3 | 5 | |
| Ireland | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| Sweden | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| Italy | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| Lithuania | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 2 | ||
| China | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| Poland | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| South Korea | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| New Zealand | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Bosnia | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1 | ||
| Germany | 3 | 3 | ||
| South Africa | 3 | 3 | ||
| Tunisia | 3 | 3 | ||
| Japan | 2 | 2 | ||
| France | 2 | 2 | ||
| Denmark | 1 | 1 | ||
| NIA (Individual Neutrals) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Portugal | 1 | 1 | ||
| Austria | 1 | 1 | ||
| Canada | 2 | 2 | ||
| Ukraine | 1 | 1 | ||
| Israel | 1 | 1 |
Canada projected to be last place. Ouch. I know the big guns are not going to Doha but I’m hoping Canada will exceed swimswam predictions.
Welllllllll last place among countries that win medals. Which makes them 26th place out of 1XX countries, so top quarter.
I know. But it’s still a big fall from their placements at big meets in recent years. Paris will be a different story, though!
For sure. Summer by herself could be top 5-6 if she’s really on one.
Looking forward to the relay predictions Some teams taking it very seriously in order to qualify for Paris whiles struggling to field a team.
“Keep tabs on all of our event previews for the 2024 World Championships in Doha, where Sarah Sjostrom is favored in all three of her events.”
Haughey: Am I a joke to you
When are you going to do some more women’s events? Worlds is drawing near and only breaststroke for the women so far.
Oops! Missed the women’s mid-distance free preview.
The staff was more interested in women’s events than men’s, so I wound up taking men’s stuff. I generally work faster than they do, so more men’s events are up than women’s (I’ve done 3/4 men’s events that are up so far).
They’ll catch up, I promise.
Thanks for the follow-up!
Pretty sure Duncan Scott will medal in 200Free too
Matt Richards should.
SwimSwam on the payroll of Ceasar’s now?
I wish. If you know anybody over there who would like to pay us, please let me know.
They should hire you as consultants
Why is the drug cheat from Lithuania competing?
If you knew anything about Ruta’s story, you wouldn’t refer to her a a drug cheat. Coleman did a podcast with her a couple of years ago – maybe you should listen to it. She was suspended for missing 3 drug tests – at a time when she had effectively retired from swimming but hadn’t filled in the paperwork, so the drug testers still turned up at her previously nominated location, but Ruta was elsewhere. She didn’t make any excuses, but accepted the punishment and retired. At the time she was also going through mental health issues and an eating disorder, so filling in retirement paperwork was hardly front of mind. Her comeback, both to full health and to swimming… Read more »
So full of confidence and yet so wrong.
so no projected medal for NZL’s Erika Fairweather in 400m freestyle?
They haven’t covered that event yet