We’re hitting the heart of winter in the northern hemisphere but frigid temperatures bring hot racing from other parts of the world in February.
The highest-profile event is the 2024 World Championships set for Doha, Qatar with swimming action beginning there on February 11th.
Check out the other international meets lining up for the upcoming month, with competitions spanning Portugal to Australia to Japan. Read on to find out where your favorite swimmers may be over the next few weeks.
Let me know in the comments of any meets I may have inadvertently missed.
02/01 – 02/02 Tokyo Senior Winter Swimming Meet (JPN)
02/02 – 02/03 Trofeu N Sabadell (ESP)
02/09 – 02/10 Lisbon International Meeting (POR)
02/10 – 02/11 Queensland Sprint Championships (AUS)
02/10 – 02/11 Tokyo Winter Swimming Competition (JPN)
02/10 – 02/11 Kirara Cup (JPN)
02/11 – 02/17 World Aquatics World Championships (QAT)
02/17 – 02/18 Konami Open (JPN)
02/20 – 02/24 Spanish Open Winter Championships (ESP)
02/21 – 02/23 Lithuanian Junior Championships (LTU)
02/23 – 02/25 South African Grand Prix – Durban (RSA)
02/23 – 02/25 Victorian Open LC Championships (AUS)
02/23 – 02/25 BUCS Long Course Swimming Championships (GBR)
02/24 – 02/25 NSW Senior Metro Championships (AUS)
02/24 – 02/26 Lausanne Swim Cup (SUI)
There’s a few noteworthy athletes mostly from the Bond and Miami clubs entered at a prep meet this weekend.
https://www.swimminggoldcoast.org.au/miamiprep
There’s also the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games with short course meters happening
World Aquatics World Championships…not sure having a big meet in the Middle East is a great idea at this time, hoping nothing goes wrong.
Qatar is pretty secure, but you’ve still got to keep a low pro and not be the ugly American or westerner.
Doha is 1800km away from Palestine. That’s only about 200km less than the distance from Paris to Ukraine
Any chance McEvoy takes down Cielo’s WR? That would be unexpected. Doha seems like a great place to do it without the additional pressures of an Olympics. Is Popovici entered in the 100/200?
Pretty sure Popovici said he’s skipping Doha
Brett Hawke thinks he will. Brett predicted Cam and Australia winning in Fukuoka soooo…
This reminds me of the old days when Facebook users were grouped primarily by college. Every year, Facebook held an NCAA bracket contest, and besides your individual score, they would list rankings based on what college everyone went to. The colleges in the final four always won, and whatever Cinderella team there was that year would also place well, or maybe even win.
It didn’t mean the students from those schools were savants, it meant they were fans of their schools who were rewarded for their fandom.
Lol yeah this was tongue in cheek. I don’t believe Brett Hawke has the power to predict the future.
This actually reminds me of the Fukuoka pickems: the top 30 was full of Aussies because we all picked Aussies to do well