2023 LEN U23 SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Friday, August 11th – Sunday, August 13th
- Sport Ireland National Aquatic Centre, Dublin, Ireland
- LCM (50m)
- Entries
- Start Lists/Live Results
The inaugural LEN U23 Swimming Championships are upon us, with the action kicking off from the Sport Ireland National Aquatic Centre in Dublin, Ireland tomorrow, August 11th.
As a refresher, for the first edition, LEN is allowing one nation from four other continents to participate, although Russia and Belarus are still banned from competing.
A total of 399 athletes representing 44 nations will be competing for meet titles and cold hard cash.
A total of €5,000 ($5,454) in prize money will be awarded with half going to the top male performance and half going to the top female performances of the meet by the World Aquatics points system.
The competition will include the full World Championship schedule for individual events, two relays (the mixed 400 free and mixed 400 medley), and a special 50 free ‘skins’ event where the field will be whittled after each round until a head-to-head finish is all that remains.
The entry list in its entirety is listed in the bullet points above with key entrants per nation highlighted down below.
We reported how Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen is among the biggest stars committed to competing, while World Championships silver medalist Krzysztof Chmielewski of Poland is also entered.
The South African roster includes Matt Sates and Pieter Coetze both of whom dropped out of the World Championships.
Finally, multiple European Junior Championships gold medalists are expected to compete, including Petar Mitsin of Bulgaria, Miroslav Knedla of the Czech Republic and Leah Schlosshan of Great Britain.
Key Entrants per Nation
- Bulgaria – Petar Mitsin
- Czech Republic – Miroslav Knedla
- France – Lilou Ressencourt
- Great Britain – Greg Butler, Lilly Booker, Archie Goodburn, Keanna MacInnes, Ed Mildred
- Germany – Isabel Gose, Oliver Klmet, Sven Schwarz
- Greece – Apostolos Papastamos
- Hungary – Eszter Bekesi, Gabor Zombori
- Ireland – Eoin Corby, Molly Mayne, John Shortt, Ellen Walshe, Daniel Wiffen
- Israel – Aviv Barzelay, Ron Polonsky
- Italy – Simone Cerasuolo, Luca Di Tullio, Lorenzo Galossi, Giulia Salin
- Norway – Nicholas Lia
- Poland – Michal Chmiewleski, Krzysztof Chmielewski, Jakob Majerski
- South Africa – Pieter Coetze, Matt Sates
- Serbia – Anja Crevar
- USA – Rex Maurer, Aaron Shackell, Isabel Stadden, Emma Sticklen, Hunter Tapp
No Popovici? No Ribeiro? Both 18/19…
Seems like a missed shot to get some more European medals
Is there a stream for finals?
Aaron Shackell just went 1:47.07 in prelims…this kid is making the Paris team next summer.
Any info where to watch
This should be an exciting meet. A quick glance at the entries shows that some of these swimmers competed at Worlds and/or Wugs. I am perplexed as to the rationale of putting the same swimmers in 3 international meets 3 weeks in a row, but I might be missing something.
So few heats though. Some events only have 2 heats and most only have 3 or 4.
ASUs Patrick Sammon who is an excellent sprint free swimmer is also on the team and should do well.