2024 SC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 10-15, 2024
- Duna Arena, Budapest, Hungary
- SCM (25m)
- Meet Central
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- SwimSwam Preview Index
- Pick’em
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Prelims Live Recap: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6
- Finals Live Recap: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6
- Complete final results (PDF)
Today on the SwimSwam Breakdown, we discuss the 2024 Short Course World Championships, where we saw a whopping 30 WORLD RECORDS get broken.
- 0:00 SwimSwam Breakdown Introduction
- 1:23 Gretchen Walsh – 7 Medals, 11 World Records
- 5:20 USA Women Dominance
- 11:58 Gretchen Walsh or Michael Phelps?
- 14:45 Comments
- 20:00 Sink or Swim – Shared Podiums
- 26:45 Sink or Swim – Katie Ledecky Would’ve Broken WR’s in Budapest
- 30:07 Who Wins in a 150m IM in a 37.5m Pool – Gretchen Walsh or Kate Douglass?
- 31:37 More Female Shoutouts
- 36:18 Male Swimmer of the Meet – Noe Ponti
- 39:09 Jordan Crooks First Swimmer Under 20
- 45:03 Luke Hobson Breaks Biedermann Suited WR
- 50:15 Sink or Swim – Neutral Athletes Competing
- 53:42 Men’s Distance Renaissance
- 58:00 Sink or Swim – Should USA have a SCM World Trials Meet?
- 1:03:24 Sink or Swim – 2024 SC World Champs was more impressive than 2009 LCM World Champs
I’ve been thinking who was missing that could have made this meet even more record-breaking, and the obvious one that comes to mind is Marchand. But who else beyond him on the men’s side? Of the events that weren’t broken on the men’s side:
100 free – I think we got as close as we were going to get to Chalmers WR with Crooks and Alexy. Maybe Pan or Popovici could have taken a crack but I’m not sure they’re as good in SC as LC
400 free – Maertens, Short, Woomin?
800/1500 – Wiffen, Finke
Backstrokes – no one? Ceccon is not as good in SC as he is in LCM, Murphy is still very good but I… Read more »
Forgot about Xu Jiayu in the men’s 100 back. Let me know if there’s anyone else I missed
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400 free – Scott
800/1500 – Hafnaoui, Romanchuk (?), Betlehem
200 fly – Milak
IMs – Scott
200 free – Scott, Richards, Hwang, Popovici
100 fly – Milak, Liendo
Is the pool 3 meters deep the entire length? Someone with data on this please respond. Also what type of gutters? Has there been a flow test to determine if there is any negligible current from the filtration? It would be very interesting to learn if the facility thought through designing the pool with wave and water movement reducing technology.
It is.
I’m wondering.
Could we see Walsh compete in the same program (except 100im of course) in Singapore this summer?
A chance to remake her scm triumph in Budapest (and wrs) in lcm or unlikely?
She could try, but there will be a trials and in long course she’s not as guaranteed to make it for all those races
WR count absolutely not unfortunately
I did a shallow dive into potential offenders for the heats-semis-finals WR break and it looks like John Hencken sort of did it in the 100 breast in Montreal 76. He tied his WR in the heats then broke it in semis and again in finals. Possibly missing stuff; didn’t look too closely.
I feel exceedingly validated.
Im getting post meet depression
I was actually productive at work today 🙃
USA Swimming needs to encourage World Aquatics Swimming World Cup participation.
Goat pool duna arena
I have not kept up with the SwimSwam comments this past week due to work travel so I’m sure I sound like a broken record but what a truly incredible week and year G. Walsh has had! To go from seeing her disappointment in 2021 and then hearing about all the work she’s been doing both mentally & physically the last 3 years. To now.. seeing her rewrite history in SCY, SCM and LCM is so inspiring. Especially for a washed up 35 year old mother. She’s showing our future generation how it’s done both in and out of the pool. I don’t think she would be doing what she’s doing without the adversity she’s had and the reflection she… Read more »
I have been keeping up with the comments, and I will comment again that Gretchen Walsh has had an INCREDIBLE meet and an even more incredible story of perseverance. Shout out big Gretch