2019 Swim Open Stockholm
- April 12th-15th, 2019
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Entry Lists
Entry lists for the 2019 Stockholm Swim Open, the 3rd stop of the newly-formed Nordic Swim Tour, has been published, affirming the tour’s status as one of the biggest pre-World Championship events in Europe for 2019.
The headliners will include World Record holders Sarah Sjostrom and Katinka Hosszu, but the meet also carries a huge depth of international-caliber swimmers. An example: in the men’s 200 free, there are 30 men seeded under 1:50. At the recent Pro Swim Series meet in Des Moines, there were only 18 swimmers seeded under 1:50; while at last year’s Sette Colli Trophy, one of the premier meets on the European tour, there were 37.
Hosszu is still not taking on the mega-schedules that she did prior to her split from coach and husband Shane Tusup, but she is entered in the 200 free, 50/100/200 back and 200 IM/400 IM: which makes for 6 events in 4 days.
Sjostrom, meanwhile, will swim the 50 fly, 50 back, 50 free, 100 fly, 100 back, 100 free, 200 free, and 400 free. That’s 8 total events if she swims them all, though she hasn’t raced a 400 free since 2016.
List of other high-level athletes entered in the meet.
- Marco Koch, Germany
- Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden
- Isabel Gose, Germany
- Katinka Hosszu, Hungary
- Michelle Coleman, Sweden
- Leonie Beck, Germany
- Sarah Kohler, Germany
- Signe Bro, Denmark
- Danas Rapsys, Lithuania
- Henning Muhlleitner, Germany
- Floridan Wellbrock, Germany
- Mimosa Jallow, Finland
- Alicja Tchorz, Poland
- Mie Nielsen, Denmark
- Radoslaw Kawecki, Poland
- Christian Diener, Germany
- Yakov Toumarkin, Israel
- Emilie Beckmann, Denmark
- Damian Wierling
- Konrad Czerniak
- Sarah Kohler, Germany
- Julia Hassler, Liechtenstein
- Jacob Heidtmann, Germany
- Velimir Stjepnaovic, Serbia
- Alexandra Wenk, Germany
- Kimberly Buys, Belgium
- Fabian Schwingenschlogl, Germany
- Giedrus Titenis, Lithuania
- Franziska Hentke, Germany
- Konrad Czerniak, Poland
- Jan Micka, Czech Republic
- Florian Wellbrock
We welcome Rutgers University to Stockholm. The first college team on Swedish ground in a while.
John Naber with teammates swam in Stockholm 1977, Chad Carvin, Derek Weatherford, Seth Pepper & Brad Bachulis in Borlänge plus Jon Olsen & Seth van Neerden in Falun in the 1990s but they weren’t coming as part of their college team.
Have other college teams been traveling abroad?
More college teams have been (though a lot of the abroad is the Caribbean and other American island nations). But, a few went to Europe in the last few seasons. I think it’s great to see them travelling all over, especially from smaller schools where they’re truly not racing for the Olympics.
Sorry. I meant for racing? I know teams have been around for training trips. I haven’t heard about racing trips earlier.
As for RU, one part of racing in Stockholm seem to be to prepare their best swimmers for the Olympic season.
Ahh yes, no not many have done it. I don’t know all of the rules about it, but I would guess that it’s complicated under NCAA rules to do so. But this is the first one I know of.