2022 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, December 13 to Sunday, December 18, 2022
- Melbourne Sports and Aquatics Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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Through two days of action in Melbourne, Australia at the 2022 Short Course World Championships, the host nation remains atop the overall medal table.
Owning 9 total pieces of hardware, Australia has collected 5 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronze medals to lead the United States and Italy who comprise the remainder of the top 3 performers thus far. The U.S. has reaped more medals with a total of 11, but the nation falls one gold shy of Australia to rank as #2.
Lani Pallister kicked the night off right for the Aussies, adding a women’s 800m freestyle gold to the tally. Multi-Olympic gold medalist Kaylee McKeown followed suit by topping the podium in the women’s 100m backstroke, teaming up with Mollie O’Callaghan for a 1-2 Aussie punch.
Isaac Cooper captured bronze in the men’s 100m back while the Australian women’s 800m free relay put a statement on the night with a World Record-setting finish for another gold for day two.
The U.S. captured mixed medley relay gold, setting a new World Record of their own, while Ryan Murphy grabbed the top prize in the men’s 100m backstroke for the stars n’ stripes.
Torri Huske was another gold medalist for the U.S., tying Canada’s Maggie MacNeil in the women’s 50m fly, while the nation also scored bronze in the women’s 800m free relay to finish out the night.
For Italy, Lorenzo Mora snagged silver behind Murphy in the men’s 100m back, setting a new national record in the process. The nation also produced a new European Record for silver in the mixed medley relay this evening.
It is a fine meet, but the world of swimming is full of mixed messaging which resists resolution. I don’t like selection for this meet just from Long Course meters performances. But with the undoubted emphasis on the Olympics, I do understand selection of athletes off of LCM swims so that those who might have a better chance of making it to the Olympics will have more competitive exposure (in whatever course) to the best folks of other countries. If that wasn’t the overall objective, ways to get the Coleman Stewarts and Beata Nelson’s of our nation to the meet would more likely be sought.
But we make choices. Coaches and swimmers want to make choices they believe will enhnce… Read more »
Those Australian athletes competing at QLD Champs weren’t prevented from competing at SC worlds. They chose to take a break after Comm Games instead of attending trials. Titmus in particular has only been training again for six weeks.
The U.S. has more medals than Australia according to the table. Maybe the headline should have mentioned they lead in gold medals as the headline implies more overall medals which is incorrect.
The title doesn’t imply anything about total medals. Medal tables are traditionally not sorted by total medals and the winner of the medal table is the one with the most golds, then silvers, then bronze.
Troyy – you are correct. I DOESN’T imply anything about total medals. IT STATES IT DIRECTLY. Otherwise they wouldn’t include reference to the Silver and Bronze medals, along with the Golds, in such tables. When you reference a “medal” table, it is total medals. If you want to emphasize Gold medals from that table, that is well, good and justifiable; JUST SAY SO. Make a chart that has only Gold Medals and the countries that win them. It is pretty simple really. At this point the Aussies lead in total Gold Medals, but the Americans lead in total medals. You can make your own judgment as to which is more significant or important. Don’t try to change the meaning of… Read more »
We have this same stupid argument at every stupid meet and it’s always stupid. It’s just that the side that thinks total is more important than golds shifts depending on who’s in the lead.
Touch.
Grass.
No, only the US sorts a medal table by total medals. All the major international sporting organisations including World Aquatics and the IOC, World Athletics and every other country sorts using the traditional method of gold, then silver, then bronze. Even the US used to do it this way until they figured out it works to their favour to sort by total medals effectively giving silvers and bronzes the same value as a gold medal.
Here’s the official medal table right here:
https://www.fina.org/competitions/2894/16th-fina-world-swimming-championships-25m-2022/medals
Wrong. It says ‘Aussies maintain MEDAL TABLE lead’. The country with the most golds leads the medal table. Always has and always will. FINA/WA and the IOC and basically every country in the world uses this system.
Words aren’t wrong just because you don’t understand them.
just waiting for the American comments going “But Dressel’s not there so it doesn’t count 😟”
“But we’re missing the Sandpipers …”
“Wait until we have Ledecky …”
“Something about Gretchen Walsh …”
I think most of us American fans have realized that the selection procedures put in place by US swimming are dumb and have limited the team’s performance, and we are primarily complaining about that. Not really concerned about world champs or Olympic medal count, which we will continue to absolutely wash Australia at
13x the population and 1,000x the resources but below on the medal table. Congrats.
I kind of want the US not to have the overall top medal haul, or even top the medal charts in golds,
just to try and send a message to USAS.
But I doubt it would even make a difference.
Just celebrate your swimmers success instead of focusing on what’s missing .. These kids are trying and having the time of their lives
See, this is the mindset that keeps us in the situation we are currently in. My post was not in any way negative to the swimmers who are there. It is instead focusing on the outcome-driven data USAS looks at to then use to support its claims that nothing needs to change.
BUT
If we want to talk about the swimmers, then we can also shine the light on the ones who are clearly not race ready, but took up the roster spot because they were offered it under the current selection process (no shame to them. if I could get an all-expenses paid trip to Australia and just have to swim prelims with no skin off my… Read more »
1) World Aquatics (formerly FINA) needs to accept conversions of yards times to SC meters for qualification purposes, and open the list of eligible meets to include NCAA meets such as the fall championship format meets.
2) NCAA needs to encourage more SCM college competitions and add the 100 IM and mixed relays to such meets and fall championship format meets;
3) USA Swimming needs to based team selection upon more SCY/SCM performances.
4) Whomever imposed the 16 swimmer roster limit needs to expand it, allow more than 2 competitors per nations (perhaps with a 2 per nation limit to A finalists as is done in PanPacs;
5) Need to allow swimmers from banned/restriction nations to… Read more »
How about USA gets with the program and swim everything in metres only like the rest of the world!
This has been said before, but logistically this would be very difficult, as most swimming pools in high school and college unfortunately do not have the ability to switch to SCM.
And the NCAA is in SCY, so colleges need to prioritize that and high school swimmers need to put emphasis on SCY in order to get recruited
I’m enjoying it at the moment. It’s been pretty exciting so far.