2024 WORLD AQUATIC CHAMPIONSHIPS
- February 11th – February 18th, 2024
- Doha, Qatar
- LCM (50m)
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- Live Results
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- Day 1 Prelims Recap | Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap | Day 2 Finals Recap
- Day 3 Prelims Recap | Day 3 Finals Recap
- Day 4 Prelims Recap | Day 4 Finals Recap
- Day 5 Prelims Recap | Day 5 Finals Recap
- Day 6 Prelims Recap | Day 6 Finals Recap
- Day 7 Prelims Recap | Day 7 Finals Recap
Claire Curzan of the United States won female swimmer of the 2024 World Championships while Daniel Wiffen of Ireland won men’s swimmer of the meet. Team USA won team of the meet.
World Aquatics uses a points system (seen below) to determine the winners. Relays are not taken into account for the individual award.
Curzan was awarded women’s swimmer of the meet as she swept the backstroke events winning gold in the 50, 100 and 200. Curzan also won silver in the 100 butterfly. Notably, relay events are not taken into account for the awards.
Curzan became the second swimmer to sweep the 50, 100, and 200 backstrokes at a World Championship as Australia’s Kaylee McKeown became the first to do so just last summer at the 2023 World Championships.
Wiffen was awarded men’s swimmer of the meet. Wiffen won two individual golds. He won the 800 free on night 4 and the 1500 free tonight. Wiffen also made history as he became the first non-para swimmer from Ireland to win a medal at a World Championship. Not only did Wiffen win one medal, but he won two golds here in Doha.
After a controversial team award from last summer, Team USA won the award here in Doha. Last summer, Australia topped the medal table with 13 golds while the USA only had 7 but the USA still won the team award as seen by the points system above, it is not by the most golds. Either way, the USA won the team award here with the most points. They topped the medal table as well with eight gold medals and 20 medals total.
The team of the meet once again is a joke idiotic
I cannot find the swimming medal table or the overall 2 week medal table. Lol
Yay Claire!
Both deserving. No one cares about the team award here. They should obviously change the rules and just use some logic.
That is great news that no cares about the team award. I had some notion that coach and staff compensation, present or future team funding, or maybe even certain country team member rewards might be affected by team standings. Or that the citizens of various countries might care about how their country performed, and maybe even decide future contributions on what they hear. The best thing about having an open forum like this is eventually someone who knows the facts can let us know without any uncertainty.
ALSO: Yay Claire! (a North Carolina connection, and future UVA star!!!)
I think you can say with absolute certainty that not a single person cares about the team trophy or scoring. Swimming Federations look at medals for staff compensation, funding, future funding and support. None of them look at “team award standings”. To my knowledge FINA doesn’t even publish the team award standings, but the plaster the medal table everywhere.
It always bothers me when the term ‘medal table’ is used to refer to ‘most gold medals’. ‘Most gold’ reveals one thing; ‘most medals’ reveals something else.
There are many ways to rank teams, depending on what we want to measure. Including (among others):
(1) point system based on rank of 1 through 8;
(2) point system for gold/silver/bronze;
(3) point system based on each team head-to-head against other countries;
(4) ‘point system’ based on one point per gold medal. This is frequently misnomered as the ‘medal table’.
Reciting “Gold Medals” is a great thing to measure, but it does not reveal depth. The difference is meaningful, at least to me. Australia, for example, didn’t… Read more »
Be careful last year in Fukuoka when NBC did an overall medal table the Aussies here were at an uproar
Cate Campbell must be pissed….
WHERE are those annoying cowbells ringing when you really need them?
Oooops!
Paris 2024 will, I suspect, have an inordinate number of them clanging.
The power that Cate Campbell has is incredible. People still obsessing over her 8 months and a new world championships after making a joke on a breakfast show. Astounding.
Including you.
When people put their feet in their mouths it’s entertaining. She’s here for our entertainment, nothing more.