2021 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Thursday, December 16th – Tuesday, December 21st
- Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- SCM (25m)
- Prize Money
- Meet Site
- Psych Sheet
- Live Results
After a one-year delay, the FINA Short Course World Championships will run for the first time in three years from Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Arena beginning Thursday, with the competition spanning six days through next Tuesday (Dec. 16-21).
Find everything you need to follow along with the competition below.
START TIMES
Preliminary sessions will run at 9:30 am local time in Abu Dhabi, and finals will be at 6:00 pm. Abu Dhabi is nine hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. Check out when that is in some major time zones below:
- Local/Abu Dhabi: Prelims – 9:30 am, Finals – 6:00 pm
- Eastern Time: Prelims – 12:30 am, Finals – 9:00 am
- Central Time: Prelims – 11:30 pm, Finals – 8:00 am
- Pacific Time: Prelims – 9:30 pm, Finals – 6:00 am
- Central European Time: Prelims – 6:30 am, Finals – 3:00 pm
- Australian Eastern Time: Prelims – 4:30 pm, Finals – 1:00 am (next day)
HOW TO WATCH
There will be several live streaming options for viewers around the globe.
European fans can turn to Eurovision Sport’s All Aquatics‘ stream, which has teamed up with British Swimming to feature Andy Jameson and Jazz Carlin commentating each finals session live.
For American viewers, finals sessions will be available to stream on the Olympic Channel (via NBC Sports), while Canadians can turn to the ever-reliable CBC Sports stream.
Both the U.S. and Canadian streams only have the finals sessions listed. For those interested in watching the prelims, Eurovision Sport will feature the “world feed” during the heats, which will likely not include commentary.
For fans in other regions around the world, check out where you can stream the meet as listed by FINA here.
LIVE RESULTS
Live results will be on Omega Timing, and the “entries book” (AKA psych sheets) can be found there as well.
Official start lists for each event will be listed on Omega prior to each session (Day 1 prelims lists are already out).
PREVIEWS
To get a firm grasp on who’s competing and what races to watch out for at the meet, check out SwimSwam’s discipline-by-discipline previews, which can be found on our SC Worlds event channel here.
Thankful for youtube
Nearly all the Olympic Champs are missing sadly….
Dean, Hafnaoui, Wang, Jacoby, MacNeil, Zhang are present.
Do you guys think any world records will get broken?
I think Haughey may get the 200 Free WR, maybe also sjostrom in the 50 fly?
Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any that seem in grave danger.
Best candidates would have to be Shymanovich in either or Kolesnikov in the 50/100.
Actually, Kolesnikov in the 100 is the most likely I think.
Obviously it will depend on athletes form, but I think that different WRs could be bettered. For instance, Paltrinieri will aim at his WR in the 1500 free and his dream would be swimming under the 14 minutes barrier..; difficult – I know – but not impossible considering that Paltrinieri has certainly improved a lot his turns since that 14.08.08 at Netanya 2015 and he’ll face Wellbrock and Romanchuk to push him (or defeat him and one of these could break the WR). Zhang Yufei is an excellent 100 flier LCM: she has the chance to improve Belmonte’s 200 fly SCM WR; Alshammer’s WR in the 50 fly is quite old, and so on..
Tom Cruise: No world records in danger, you said. You mean like grave danger?
Braden Keith: Is there another kind?
Szabo Szebi is not done with that 50 fly
I hope MA earns a lot of money!
I am interested to see how MA performs, especially given how long he’s been out of competition. He released a new vlog and it appears he is running into some restrictions with regards to his vaxx-status in UAE . Not allowed to eat with others, etc. It appears he is pretty adamant about never getting the covid vaccine from his commentary in the vlog. He will definitely be asked about his vaxx-views and it will be a continued distraction for he and others. I suppose that’s part of why he needed a break of swimming post OG’s. The relays will be in trouble if he is exposed or pops +. Best wishes, nonetheless and hope to see more vlogs.
Wonder how much he’s been vaccinated for anything, given his homeschooling, no college.
I’m thinking prelims in Central Time are supposed to read 11:30 *pm*?
Why only one American entered in a lot of the events?
They didn’t take a full team. Why? I don’t know. They took way more than England or Australia
England aren’t competing as a country but GB and NI is.
will it be Rowdy?
Ugh you know it will be if it’s NBC 🤦🏻♂️
I know and I still ask. Why why why
Probably not, i think it will be the international feed commentary