2024 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP
- Three-stop series – October 18-November 2
- Shanghai, China – October 18-20
- Incheon, South Korea – October 24-26
- Singapore – October 31-November 2
- SCM (25 meters)
- World Cup Central
The stars are coming out in full force for the 2024 World Cup series, with six reigning Olympic champions among the swimmers committing to all three stops of the circuit.
World Aquatics has announced the “Tremendous 12” athletes who will race at all three stops, including individual Paris Olympic gold medalists Leon Marchand, Kaylee McKeown, Kate Douglass, Pan Zhanle, Nicolo Martinenghi and Thomas Ceccon.
Also announced to be racing the full series are 2024 Olympic medalists Regan Smith, Siobhan Haughey and Zhang Yufei, along with triple 2023 world champion Qin Haiyang, two-time Olympic medalist Arno Kamminga and four-time Olympic medalist Chad Le Clos.
Swimmers Committed To Full Series
- Thomas Ceccon (ITA)
- Chad Le Clos (RSA)
- Qin Haiyang (CHN)
- Leon Marchand (FRA)
- Nicolo Martinenghi (ITA)
- Arno Kamminga (NED)
- Pan Zhanle (CHN)
- Kate Douglass (USA)
- Siobhan Haughey (HKG)
- Kaylee McKeown (AUS)
- Regan Smith (USA)
- Zhang Yufei (CHN)
This group of dozen swimmers promises us some exciting races throughout the series, headlined by McKeown and Smith going head-to-head in the women’s backstroke events.
We could also see Smith versus Zhang in women’s fly, McKeown versus Douglass in the 200 IM, and on the men’s side, Marchand and Qin should lock horns in the 200 breast, with Martinenghi and Kamminga adding some extra spice alongside Qin in the 100 breast.
The series, which will be contested in short course meters, kicks off Oct. 18-20 in Shanghai, China, and will have subsequent stops in Incheon, South Korea (Oct. 24-26) and Singapore (Oct. 31-Nov.2). Each meet will be three days with prelims and finals.
There has also been a large group of Singaporean swimmers confirmed to be racing at the final stop on home soil, with a small group including Teong Tzen Wei locked in for all three legs. Amanda Lim, who like Teong, is a SEA Games gold medalist, highlights the local women’s field confirmed for Singapore.
Teong, 26, missed out on qualifying for the 2024 Olympics after dealing with an elbow injury, but is gearing up for a big 2025 with the World Cup kickings things off.
“The preparation for the World Cup has been good, especially after not being able to swim the qualifying trials for the Olympics. The (recovery) process was pretty hard, I had some dark days but what kept me motivated was that I didn’t want to end my career on a low so I’m just training to get better.
“I just want to go out there and get some racing done and do some proper swimming rather than just training and recovering all year round. I feel really excited to race against the best swimmers in the world because I’ll get to see where I place. I’m looking forward to racing in front of the home crowd because it’s something we rarely get to do and I hope to put on a show for my fellow Singaporeans.”
The full list of athletes competing at the Incheon and Singapore stops has not yet been released by World Aquatics. You can find the breakdown of the Shanghai entries here.
Anyone having luck in figuring out how to watch the World Cup? All I can find in Australia is that we have to pay Recast. Last year they put up the price last minute for junior world champs which was extortion really.
I’m gonna try using a VPN to watch Eurovision Sport
ZSC moving to train with Mel Marshall at Griffith Uni. Hope she’s gonna have more success improving Zac’s starts and turns than Peaty’s.
Enough of the Druggyang
Go MA
Between Douglas and Marchand, the SCM world records will be rewritten over the next 3 months. I just hope the entry rules allow each to swim a variety of events across their full stroke capabilities.
Chanelling my inner Oliver Twist…can we get the best short course sprinters in history, Caeleb Dressel and Gretchen Walsh?
nobody cares about SCY
Dressel is the best in SCM too
Chalmers holds the 100 free WR
Was that Oliver Twist or Jerry Lewis?
off topic, but harrison turner has been named to the aus sc worlds team, in the spot vacated by kaylee
Atmosphere in Shanghai is going to be special – bring on the Pan Party! 🦄 🇨🇳
Is Pan swimming 200 free?
He can break WR there.
Pan is doing 100-200 free, 50 breast and 100 medley in Shanghai and the same events except 50 breast in the other two stops.
What do you think Pan could go SCY?
Douglass vs McKeown in SCM 2 IM? Doug will annihilate her.
I have 0 doubt she gets the world record if she’s in good form
she was very very close a few years ago. I think 2 years ago?
Kaylee has the 200 back in the same session so she may not even swim the 200 IM.
200Bk/IM clash again!
Yeah Kaylee prob wise to focus on Backstroke sweep across cup series and pocket some $ while she can as a swimmer for post pool life.
Kaylee’s LCM medley best time is faster than Kate’s so I think “annihilate” is probably not the word you should be using. Not sure Kaylee will swim it anyway.
time in australia…
What does that mean?
I guess her two world records at World Cups last year and four individual Olympic gold didn’t convince everyone that she can perform outside Australia.
For some people anytime that an Australian swims fast in Australia it must be because it’s a 49 metre pool.
Isn’t it true though? Their pool looks more like a SCY pool.
We don’t know what that means SCY?
We are metric, like the rest of the world.
Last year Kaylee broke two world records in Europe, that means outside Australia.
Kaylee won four individual Olympics gold outside Australia
Kaylee won four individual World Championship gold Australia
This isn’t LCM…
Kaylee’s recent WR in the SCM 100 back suggests she is alright at short course swimming. Does Kate hold an individual SCM WR currently?
totally different world. Did you see the kind of momentum swimmers like Kate, Alex, and Gretchen get off their turns? Nobody in the world does it as smooth and fast. In particular, Alex Walsh’s breast pullout. The only one to hang with Kate is Alex in the 2 IM, and we all know that Kate has her number in a short pool.