2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships
- August 21-24, 2024
- Canberra, Australia
- LCM (50 meters)
- Live Results
- Live Stream
- All Days Prelim Heat Sheet
- Prelims Recaps: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4
- Finals Recaps: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4
The final day of racing at the 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships saw the United States add another five golds to their hardware collection, cementing their position on top of the medal table as competition came to a close.
In what quickly became a race for second, Japan managed to clinch the runner-up spot behind the Americans. After being neck-and-neck with Australia and Canada for much of the meet, Japan added three more gold medals to its collection on Saturday to pull ahead of the other nations.
Turning in critical performances for Japan in securing their spot on the final medal table were Kotomi Kato and Shin Ohashi, who won the girls and boys 200 breaststroke to give Japan a sweep in the event.
Kazushi Imafuku also turned in a massive performance for his country, winning the 1500 freestyle in a thrilling finish that saw him narrowly beat out American Luke Ellis to claim the gold and shatter the meet record.
Japan came out of the competition with six gold medals and a total medal count of 21, having added seven on the last day, the most of any country besides the United States.
JUNIOR PAN PACIFICS FINAL MEDAL TABLE
| RANK | COUNTRY | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | TOTAL |
| 1 | United States | 21 | 17 | 6 | 44 |
| 2 | Japan | 6 | 5 | 10 | 21 |
| 3 | Australia | 4 | 8 | 8 | 20 |
| 4 | Canada | 2 | 6 | 8 | 16 |
| 5 | South Korea | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Argentina | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Just realized this isn’t the best team us could have sent
Same for all the countries.
I think it’s weird how much stock Americans are putting in these results signifying anything for the future.
USA demolished AUS in the medal count by similar margins in every other recent JPP meet, and won by an even bigger margin in 2018. This meet is fun and a great learning experience for juniors but it doesn’t necessarily tell us much about future senior performance.
You’re right. There doesn’t necessarily seem to be much correlation between the Junior medal counts and what happens at senior level subsequently.
2018 Junior Pan Pacs: USA 27 Australia 4
2019 World Junior Championships: USA 18 Australia 4
No hints of Australia’s 9 gold at Tokyo or 13 gold at Fukuoka in those Junior events.
I don’t think Americans are putting stock in the medal counts so much as they’re putting stock in the individual results. Audrey Derivaux going 57.99 at 15 years old and Rylee Erisman going 53.7 at 15 years old and Luka Mijatovic going 3:49 at 15 years old are all incredible and encouraging swims regardless of whether they happen at Sectionals, Junior Pan Pacs, win a gold medal, or finish in 8th place.
Yeah, that’s totally fair. Some really impressive swims by certain swimmers. But there have been comments about the overall medal count, domination, etc.
It would be cool to see some numerical analysis of how results at JPPs translate into senior success.
Already working on it 🙂
Merci!
Those 3 swims were outstanding for 15 years olds and all 3 very impressive swimmers and if they were Aussies, we’d be very excited too.
It’s just the posters going on about the demise of Australian swimming, look at the medal count and cowbells, we Aussies were answering.
I was just watching a YT reaction to ‘The Sound of Music’ and the Mother Superior commented about those with “a cowbell around her neck” lol
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I don’t need to name-them-you-know-who-they-are-Daddy
lol – have you ever read comments by Americans on here.
It’s all about medal-tables (and the way they should be counted ) cos
U-S-A U-S-A – USA
Hey – we just beat another country with less than 20% of our population on the medal table…
Moving the goalposts again! Impressive!
You guys are good at that!!! Moving the goalposts.
The male contingent of Australian swimming performed even worse than the male contingent of USA Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Very poor performance by Australia
Thanks for the Table!
Honestly, I hadn’t imagined what a POUNDING TEAM USA gave the rest of the field, but this is pretty substantive.
Until Cate Campbell makes a definitive retraction of her anti-American anthem remarks, we’ll continue to pursue her. Paris 2024 was the first nail in the coffin; I suspect after these results that LA 2028 will be the second nail in the anti-cowbell crowd.
Boohoo!!!! Cry me a river.
Sadly, it would have salt water crocs in, I guess.
Build a bridge
Is this satire?
God I hope so.
Not satire so much as righteous ire!
Pursue her? How are you going to accomplish that, genius? Chase her down the street? She’s retired in case you didn’t know.
Mike has been giving off Günter Parche vibes when it comes to Cate Campbell for a while now.
I can assure you that dead men, like Gunter Parche, aren’t giving off any vibes.
Harm? a woman?
Texans don’t typically do that. . . .on or off their meds!
To state the obvious for the clueless: in the press.
She does read, doesn’t she?
not your rubbish
Paris was the first nail in the coffin. Are you kidding. Yes the US won the medal table, but it was one of the worst olympic medal hauls for the US and one of Australia’s best.
The historical record, as you point out, is clear.
Yet, top of the medal table, anyway you sort it, is still, well, top of the table.
A smaller start, yes, but still, Citius, Altius, Fortius!
not really a nail ion the coffin though was it.
Definitely not inviting you to any parties
I prefer discrete cocktails with close friends; not really a “party-hound” as they used to be called. But nice to know I shouldn’t open any letters from THIS GUY. . . .
I think you take this meet too seriously.If every country had its best swimmers here it would be more definitive.Canada could probably use Summer Macintosh for example along with many others.Does USA have the most good swimmers..probably and I don,t think anyone disputes that but ..pounding?..a bit over the top.This was a good meet with lots of good swimmers but that’s all.As for Cate Campbell,I can,t imagine many people outside of yourself care much about that anymore, if they ever did.You say WE are going to pursue her..who is we?Are you part of a gang or something?
CHECK THE REPLAYS of NBC/Peacock and I do seem to recall (sort of) that Rowdy Gaines invoked her name at least once.
If you’re going to make threats like…”we,ll continue to pursue her”..you should change your callsign from Mike in Dallas.It gives the FBI your name and location. p.s. SwimSwam,you might consider taking this one down.
What utter silliness and a vulgar request — the last time I harmed anything, it was a bug running across the classroom. I loathe any form of physical altercation, having been a teenage victim.
One of the loudest cheers from the Aussie team came when Luke Ellis was touched out by the Japanese swimmer on the 1500. Hhmmm, fans of Japan or happy to see the US get touched out?
#cowbell
Or maybe because it was a good race? Idk though
Happy to see the US get touched out.
Not nice, on any level – they are teenagers after all!
It was quite obvious that they were cheering because he got under 15 minutes.
Not nice to cheer a Japanese swimmer?
Oh, please! I did not say that or even imply that.
They’re in Canberra!
of course we know which is the case. . . . . .
It was because the Japanese swimmer went under 15 minutes. It was very very obvious. For heaven’s sake.
petty US fans won’t understand that.
Kazushi Imafuku is a very likeable young man, has raced domestically here in Australia before and has gained a lot of respect and admiration from Australians that have had the pleasure of meeting and racing him.
I feel very confident you are trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. The race was spectacular in every sense and cheered for as a result of circumstances not bias.
no cowbell. Japanese swimmer won. Cheer for the time and the race, not for US being beaten
Let’s just say, the future of Australia swimming isn’t so bright. At least they had some decent showings in the breaststroke.
Hopefully this display of dominance by our youngsters will quite down the nonsense about the world catching up to us.
We’ll be sure to pass on this vital intelligence to Marchand, McKeown, and too many others to list here.
Is this the same McKeown who doesn’t own the olympic or world record in the 100back?
Or Marchand who train year round in the USA by an American coach.
They may not be competing in 2032.
Yes, the very same McKeown who beat Smith twice at the Paris Olympics, winning gold in BOTH backstroke events.
It’s the McKeown who gets her hand on the wall first (e.g.100-200 Back Tokyo, 200 Back Budapest, 50-100-200 Back Fukuoka, 100-200 Back Paris).
Also the 50 & 200 Back long course World Records and the 200 Back short course World Record. I hope this helps.
You will praise Regan all day long and tell us she is better that Kaylee. Then criticise Kaylee for not having an Olympic record etc. She is mcuh better than Regan and may yet swim to 2032.
The Kaylee that has 4 individual Olympic golds.
Someone forgot to tell Summer.
Wow. Are you really Mike in Dallas?
that depends on how the mens performances compare to European juniors. The Europeans are the world leaders in mens swimming.
A few Aussie teenagers in the olympic team did well. Not over yet.
America have the next crop of swimmers waiting-Bribane 2032.
No one doing long distance (1500)) for Australia, which was known in the past. Has training and sprinting changed this event that much!🤔😯
Erisman 5 gold and 1 silver
Shackley 4 gold
Individual double golds for:
Boys:
Mijatovic
Norman
Kim Youngbeom
Ohashi
Girls:
Shackley
K.Kato
Derivaux
Why the down votes? It’s just a statement of facts.