Entry Lists For 2022 Short Course World Championships Released

2022 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

• December 13-18, 2022
• Melbourne, Australia
• SCM (25 meters)
• Meet Central
• Psych Sheets

The official entry lists for the 2022 Short Course World Championships have dropped.

The event, set to kick off next Tuesday in Melbourne, Australia, is loaded with a stacked field of swimmers and will feature some must-see matchups over six days of racing from Dec. 13-18.

• Full Entry Lists

The event entries for the U.S. athletes has been known since mid-October (though things have shifted a few times), but the psych sheets reveal what the other top athletes, including the stacked 36-member Australian team, will be swimming.

Highlighting the Aussie team is triple Olympic gold medalist and 2022 world champion Kaylee McKeown, who is set to race the women’s 50, 100 and 200 backstroke, along with the 200 IM.

McKeown, the reigning Olympic and long course world champion in the 200 back, is the SCM world record holder in the event, having clocked 1:58.94 back in November 2020.

Other notable entries for the Australians include Emma McKeon in the women’s 50 and 100 free, Kyle Chalmers in the men’s 50, 100 and 200 free, and Mollie O’Callaghan in the women’s 50 and 100 back.

O’Callaghan is the reigning LC world champion in the women’s 100 free and the 2022 silver medalist in the 200 free, but will sit out of both. Madison Wilson will race the 100 free along with McKeon, while Wilson and Leah Neale will take on the 200 free.

Australia bringing such a large, talented team on home soil comes after last year when Swimming Australia opted not to send a team after canceling its national championships due to a third wave of COVID-19. Holly Barratt, who announced her retirement last month, was Australia’s lone swimmer at the 2021 championships.

The Canadian team will led by Maggie MacNeil, who comes in as the defending champion in the women’s 50 back and 100 fly. MacNeil is entered in both of those events along with the 50 fly, and will also surely be depended on heavily in relays.

MacNeil’s teammate Kylie Masse, who was the silver medalist in the women’s 50, 100 and 200 backstroke in Abu Dhabi, will race all three backstrokes once again.

Coming off a phenomenal summer, Romanian sensation David Popovici will seek his first short course world title next week as he’s entered in the men’s 100, 200 and 400 free.

The men’s 100 and 200 free are shaping up to be epic clashes, with Hwang Sunwoo and Chalmers also in the mix. Another name to watch for is Great Britain’s Tom Dean, the reigning Olympic gold medalist in the 200 free.

Adam Peaty, who had a difficult long course season after fracturing his foot, is lurking down on the psych sheets but is entered to race the men’s 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke.

This will be Peaty’s first appearance at a Short Course World Championship since 2014, when he took silver in the men’s 50 and 100 breast. Although he’s known more for his prowess in the long course pool, Peaty proved he could be the best in the world in the short course pool during the 2020 ISL season, including setting a new world record in the 100 breast (that has since been broken).

OTHER NOTABLE ENTRIES

• Fresh off breaking the world record in the women’s 400 free in late October, China’s Li Bingjie comes in as the defending world champion in both the women’s 400 and 800 free, and will also be vying for the inaugural 1500 title. She and teammate Yang Junxuan will also race the 200 free.
• China’s Zhang Yufei will not be defending her world title in the women’s 200 fly, instead opting to race the 50 free, 50 fly and 100 fly.
• As expected, Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey will defend her world titles in the women’s 100 and 200 free, though she hasn’t entered either the 50 or the 400.
• After leading last year’s Worlds with seven medals, Louise Hansson leads this year’s Swedish roster that won’t have the same relay power it did 12 months ago due to the absence of Sarah Sjostrom. Hansson will defend her world title in the women’s 100 back, and will also seek repeat medal performances in the 50 back, 100 fly, and she’ll also race the 100 IM.
• One race to watch out for on the women’s side is the 200 IM, where all three Tokyo Olympic medalists are set to clash. Yui Ohashi, Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass headline the field, but we’ve also got defending champion Sydney Pickrem, World Junior Record holder Yu Yiting and Australia’s McKeown in the mix.
• The men’s side will also have a lot of firepower in the 200 IM, with all three podium finishers from last year in Daiya Seto, Carson Foster and Alberto Razzetti, plus current world #1 Shaine Casas and South Africa’s Matt Sates.
• Coming off of a standout midseason performance in the NCAA, Jordan Crooks will represent the Cayman Islands in the men’s 50 and 100 free. Crooks went 18.27 in the 50-yard free at the Tennessee Invitational in November, tying him for #2 all-time in the event.
• After going on an undefeated run in the men’s 50 free, 50 back and 50 fly on the FINA World Cup circuit, Trinidad and Tobago’s Dylan Carter will face stiff competition in all three in Melbourne. Carter will have to contend with defending champion Ben Proud and Chalmers in the 50 free, American Ryan Murphy, and co-world record holders Nicholas Santos and Szebasztian Szabo in the 50 fly. Santos is also the defending champion in the 50 fly.
• Other swimmers who will be defending their 2021 titles on the men’s side include Alessandro Miressi (100 free), Hwang Sunwoo (200 free), Radoslaw Kawecki (200 back), Nic Fink (50/200 breast), Matteo Rivolta (100 fly), Razzetti (200 fly), and Seto (200/400 IM).
• In addition to the swimmers mentioned above, defending their titles on the women’s side will be Rhyan White (200 back), Tang Qianting (100 breast) and Tessa Cieplucha (400 IM).

The 2022 World Short Course Championships will be held from December 13-18 in Melbourne, Australia. Keep an eye on our event page as we’ll be previewing the races over the coming week in the lead-up to the championships.