2017 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- July 23 – July 30 (Swimming portion)
- Budapest, Hungary
- Meet Central
- Start Lists / Results (Closer to the meet)
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We’ll be individually previewing all 42 World Championships events, including predictions of the top 8 finishers in each. Below, we’ll be updating the chart to show our predicted medalists, as well as including links to the full-length previews on each event.
Women
Men
Mixed Relays
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
| Mixed 4×100 Medley Relay | United States | China | Great Britain |
| Mixed 4×100 Free Relay | United States | Australia | Canada |
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Anyone who thinks Sjostrom will win anything is out of their mind lol
Wut. she is second best pound for pound swimmer behind Ledecky. Prodigy.
please…First is Hosszu pound for pound… She is the best IM-er, backstroker ,going for gold both in butterfly and freestyle too. Case closed…I hope you were only joking son…
Doesn’t have the ability to get fly/free golds and her backstroke is threatened. Her IMs are very good, but Sjöström and Ledecky have 4 events where they’re far ahead of the world. Hosszu is one of the best, but Ledecky and Sjöström are in a class of their own.
Yeah forgot little bit about Hosszu but still think she is good in everything (thats why she is IMer) but Ledecky and Sjostrom are just special in free and fly..
You have probably never checked her ranking to make a statement that she is good at everything.
“Her IMs are very good.” I guess so.
gold in butterfly and freestyle? what events are you talking about?
Katinka won’t beat Kylie in the 100 Back. WR going down
This troll isn’t even slightly amusing, and its not offensive enough to cause any stir. Try harder next time.
Just because Sarah Sjostrom is better than anyone else in the world you need to hate. You’re jealous. Get over it.
best in one style…
Naa uuhh no way she is better than LeBron James in Basketball or Danica Patrick at race car driving!!!!
Yeah. There is no way Sjostrom will ever match Danica Patrick’s career record of 1 win in 348 races.
are you going to predict OW races too? they start on Saturday!
There’s a separate preview for OW.
Come on, Jared, go out on a limb and at least put Katie Ledecky in the Gold position for the 400, 800 and 1500.
My predictions
Men
50 free
1. Proud 21.2
2. Dressel 21.3
3. Morozov 21.3
100 free
1. McEvoy 47.4
2. Dressel 47.7
3. Adrian 47.7
200 free
1. Sun 1:43.9
2. Haas 1:44.1
3. Park 1:44.8
400 free
1. Sun 3:41.2
2. Horton 3:41.5
3. Detti 3:42.6
800 free
1. Detti 7:38.2
2. Paltrinieri 7:38.7
3. Horton 7:40.1
1500 free
1. Paltrinieri 14:32.5
2. Detti 14:38.2
3. Horton 14:41.09
50 back
1. Xu 24.2
2. Ress 24.3
3. Rylov 24.4
100 back
1. Xu 51.7 WR
2. Murphy… Read more »
I agree with most of it except for me, the times in mens 2free are really ambitious but the Sun Haas Park is a sure bet. Also VdBurgh will most likely beat Cordes in my view since he has been sub 27 twice in season and from past experiences he can go 26.6 with a good taper. We might also see another WR in the 1500 from the GOAT(Ledecky)
I screwed up. Ledecky’s time should have a WR next to it
I like most of your predictions…the big ones I saw I would disagree with – Murphy will win both backstrokes. And the 100 fly…no way Schooling pulls a 50.1…IMO he doesn’t have the training base this season to have a .7 second drop when he was already a week into his taper and swimming a 50.9. I’d put Dressel at 50.3, Schooling at 50.5 and Le Clos at 50.5…Dressel’s hungry for this event plus the Troy taper.
Have you seen Murphy swim this year? He’s not bad, but he’s definitely not going to be in 2016 form. The Chinese are Unreliable, but Xu has been consistent between nationals and Internal championships. Unless murphy is ready to break his WR, which nothing he has done this year suggests, it’s going to Xu. As for fly, yes, Schooling swam 50.9 in his first week of taper, which is great. Whats your logic. “Dressel swam a restest 100 fly in 50.8, schooling a week later swam 50.9. Based off that, Schooling isn’t going to be in good shape, but Dressel will drop a .5 pb.” ??? 50.9 is a fantastic place for Schooling to be, and baring a Cseh style… Read more »
Murphy- I don’t think he’s in 2016 form but I also think he hadn’t started his taper at nationals. Honestly though it’s less that I’m betting for Murphy and more that I’m betting against Xu being consistent. As for Schooling. He was swimming real well before NCAAs this year too and just didn’t drop as much time as folk expected. I haven’t seen anything that suggests he’s put in the base in the last 3 months to be able to have a major taper drop. Will he be faster? Yes. I just think it’ll be more in the half second range and i think dressels drops will be bigger. Again basing it on part off of where he was and… Read more »
If Yang had a 1.43 in him, I think we would have seen it by now. Likewise Haas, dont see him dropping another second. Perhaps a little conservative on Park though
We have seen it, in Barcelona
Chasing, on a relay anchor? That’s not how it works
I’m pretty confident James Guy will be in the mix in the 200 free. He’s still the reigning world champion.
Several of these races will have way more than 3 people in the mix. I was simply sticking to the top 3.
And the womens fly?
I screwed up. My fly prediction is
50
1. Sjostrom 24.6
2. Ikee 25.3
3. Kromowidjojo 25.4
100
1. Sjostrom 55.4 WR
2. Oleksiak 56.3
3. 56.4
200
1. Belomnte 2:05.7
2. Hasegawa 2:06.0
3. Hentke 2:06.2
The blank name in the 100 is supposed to be Ikee. Ugh
Is Japan officially fielding a relay in the 4×200?
I agree with most of it but your backstroke predictions seem a little off. Murphy not winning either backstroke events? He did say this past years been rough but I think he has it in him to win. And Baker ahead of both Seebohm and Hosszu in the 200? I don’t see that happening
Xu and Rylov both look better this year, while Murphy just looks the opposite.
That’s fair, but predicting Murphy to lose isn’t really bold, Xu is flying, right on Murphy’s WR, and there are a few really classy looking young Russians. Murphy could win double gold, he could win no golds. Both are fairly reasonable suggestions.
Also no Hagino in the 400 IM??
Must give you credit for putting them out there !! Most of them I would see as being at least plausible.
My real points of difference:
– McEvoy will NOT swim 47.3. In fact I’d sub him out of the medal equation in favour of Scott (GBR).
– Horton will NOT medal in all 3 (400/800/1500)
– Order looks OK in M100fly, winning time maybe optimistic
– AUS M4X100 minus Chalmers unlikely to figure in medals
– Think Hosszu may figure in 1 backstroke podium but not both
– Coleman was been swimming very well at W200fr but not sure a sub 1.55 (0.7 PB) is on. Could medal but I might likes… Read more »
Interesting call on McEvoy & Horton, I like to think you maybe mistaken on that.
Rob, not ruling McEvoy out but the evidence currently at hand suggest that 47.04 was “lightning in a bottle” and his Rio performance does add a question mark. Just think the 2 Americans & Scott may have the edge this time around.
Horton ?? Is either very good or pure “plod”, little to no middle ground …… and what we saw in Europe was “plod”. Furthermore, has yet to really show he’s a major factor at World level in the 1500. Could be a contender at 400 & 800 if he’s on ….. just very doubtful he will contend in all 3 events
My apologies CW, I misread you comment, I thought it said Horton will not medal in any of his 3 events. Yes correct he has not proven that ability as yet, but he will medal in some of his swims.
As for McEvoy, it might have been a “lightning in a bottle”, the 47.04, but neither the Americans nor Scott are out there this year, as a matter of fact, while being nearly 0.9 below his best at the Aussie trials, it’s still 0.01 from being best time in the world.
Yes, that Trials time certainly puts him very much in the equation however his Mare Nostrum performances were distinctly pedestrian. Whilst it would’ve been unrealistic to have expected sub48s or even 48low, he was north of 49 or 48 very high. His usual “in season” level is generally considerably above those times. Wish him well but I also acknowledge that there are some very real question marks hanging over him hence my caution re tipping him. Ditto with Horton, both his intl record plus his performances this year read “he’s either hot or he’s not” which makes him a less secure bet than others. I put him as a “MAY medal” rather than a “will medal”
I’m sure Scott will get a place on the podium.
lol no American man winning any backstroke race? Bold prediction
That was what happened in Kazan.
Why is it bold? It’s really not. If Xu shows up in Chinese Nationals form, only Muprhy at his best can match him imo. Over 200m, Rio was close, and Murphy doesn’t look quite in his 2016 form – Rylov looks to be flying.
You know Martins is already 22,70 on 50 fly right? He will go slowers in World to be beat by Proud? And I think the free relay will be USA, Brazil and Russia..
To be fair, the 50s at that meet looked very fast. Was it an outdoor pool? Lima 0.04 off his PB caught me off guard too. We’ll see if Martins can back that up – But, if he was only 22.98 at Maria Lenk, I can’t see much more room. Santos/Govorov top 2, scrap for bronze IMO.
Outdoor pool.
I thought it might be – I’ll reserve an opinion on Martins for now, but I’d lean towards the 22.98 being closer to what we’ll see in Budapest. Outdoor pools are notorious – Especially in butterfly, with the body rising higher out of the water.
I like your Ledecky prediction.
Is this meet going to be streamed by any reliable site??
http://www.olympicchannel.com will stream prelims and final but it is not clear if the streaming will be available in USA and if it will be free of charge USA Swimming link https://www.usaswimming.org/articles-landing-page/2017/07/14/worlds-tv-webcast-schedule
Anyone know what time the opening ceremony on Friday starts?
21:00 CET (GMT+1)
So that’s 4:00 pm in EST. Thanks!
How come some of the events are blank? Is it because im on my phone
We’re spreading our previews out, publishing several a day until the meet starts. If you keep checking back, we’ll update these as our previews come out!
and no love for Open Water races?
https://swimswam.com/2017-open-water-world-championship-preview/
Is hagino swimming?
He enters in 200IM, 400IM and 200BK. No freestyle events for him.
I remember hagino saying his backstroke has gotten better than his freestyle but can he swim a 1:53?
I think his pb is a 1:54