2024 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 10-15, 2024
- Duna Arena, Budapest, Hungary
- SCM (25m)
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World Aquatics has released the official entry lists for the 2024 Short Course World Championships just five days before the competition gets underway in Budapest.
The psych sheets can now be found here.
Short Course Worlds has lost plenty of star power over the past few weeks, with Leon Marchand, Kristof Milak and Torri Huske among the high-profile withdrawals, but there are still plenty of big names headed to Budapest.
Reigning Olympic champions Lukas Märtens, Hubert Kos, Kate Douglass and Summer McIntosh will all be in the field, and while Kos and Douglass already had their event lineups announced, and Märtens’ is roughly the same at every big meet, McIntosh’s lineup was unknown until today.
The 18-year-old Canadian is entered in the women’s 400 free, 200 back, 200 fly and 400 IM, notably opting not to race the 200 IM, one of the three events in which she won Olympic gold in Paris.
With semi-finals only being contested for 50 and 100-meter events, McIntosh would have had a tight turnaround between the 400 free and 200 IM finals on the opening day of competition. Instead, we see her take on the 200 back, an event she typically hasn’t raced at major meets, notably picking to race that instead of the 200 free, with both falling on the last day of racing.
Douglass is entered in six events, set to take on the women’s 50 free, 100 free, 50 fly and 100 IM alongside teammate Gretchen Walsh, and also entering the 200 breast and 200 IM, both events she comes in as the defending champion.
Walsh is also slated to race the 100 fly alongside teammate Regan Smith, who will be favored to sweep the women’s backstroke events.
One of the top nations that had yet to announce an official roster for the meet was China, and we now know that although they are sending a youthful team predominantly, there are a few stars headed to Budapest including breaststroke world champions Qin Haiyang and Tang Qianting.
Kate Douglass – 6 events
Regan Smith – 5 events
Gretchen Walsh – 5 events
Some very busy women.
Have a look at the updated entries on Omega Timing – almost the entire Russian team is present. Including multiple swimmers with doping violations to their name. https://www.omegatiming.com/File/0001180008FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF20.pdf
So weird McIntosh in 200 back. I don’t think she’ll medal, at most bronze though would love to be wrong
She swam it once LC last year at a random meet and ended up 6th in the world for the year. I think she’ll surprise people.
i dont think it matters if she doesnt medal, its good to swim other events when youre so versatile/young, and she has 3 other individual events where shes >95% of the time gonna medal (if not win gold)
assuming smith is going to win, anderson and bacon are the 2 other podium favourites, and I think that shes got a good chance of beating at least one of them
and based on arckeys comments Im assuming shes prepping to swim this at LC worlds where I think she’ll be a podium favourite even with both mckeown and smith
What comments from archy?
Selfishly, I wish she would have done the 800 or 1500 free. 🙂
Remember Katie Ledecky in the 800m on the opening night of the 2024 Southern Zone South Sectional Championships ; with Summer, “miracles” are sometimes renewed…
With Marchand out who is the favorit for the im events?
My pre
100:Noe
200:Daiya or Carson
200:Daiya or Borodin
And the 200 breast is now open. Will Daiya defend his title from Melboure
Surprised Kyle Sockwell hasn’t had his typical “World Aquatics is terrible, NEEDS to be better” comment yet with them releasing these sheets so late, lol
lol did you not see his insta post…no trash talking. Chill brother
🙄
Excited to see Alex Walsh back in the water!!!!
I’m a bit disappointed Kos didn’t add any IM events (the 100IM at least), since this meet is somewhat unserious anyway, and as per an interview in Hungarian, he has been apparently working more on his IM lately.
200 fly should be a great race. Regan’s underwaters vs McIntosh’s 400 endurance.
Great contrast. McIntosh will take several strokes before Regan surfaces.
Perhaps Summer has been working on those underwaters…