Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2023

[Josh 13,441]

35 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

That was too close for Ireland 

McSharry realistically had no chance at the podium anyways, she did well to achieve a 5th place finish. King, Meilutyte, Jacoby, and Schoenmaker were always going to be 1-2-3-4 (In some order). 

[OlympicIRL 6,304]

42 minutes ago, Josh said:

McSharry realistically had no chance at the podium anyways, she did well to achieve a 5th place finish. King, Meilutyte, Jacoby, and Schoenmaker were always going to be 1-2-3-4 (In some order). 

While I agree it was unlikely she going to be on the podium and 5th place is actually a great result, I wouldn’t say based on her semi final performance she had no chance. But again 5th is actually a great result for her and improves on her 8th place in Tokyo.

 

[dodge 1,041]

44 minutes ago, Josh said:

McSharry realistically had no chance at the podium anyways, she did well to achieve a 5th place finish. King, Meilutyte, Jacoby, and Schoenmaker were always going to be 1-2-3-4 (In some order). 

If she swam the same time as her heat or semi final, she would have won a medal

 

For sure she was behind the other 4 in favouritism, but it’s simply not true to say a medal was unrealistic. 

[phelps 8,687]

3 minutes ago, dodge said:

If she swam the same time as her heat or semi final, she would have won a medal

 

For sure she was behind the other 4 in favouritism, but it’s simply not true to say a medal was unrealistic. 

in the women's 100m (and 50m) breastroke, it almost never happens to swim the same time of the prelims and/or semis

 

too much anxiety that affects the necessary smoothness you need to swim well in that style

Edited July 25, 2023 by phelps

[Vektor 3,326]

Kós unsurprisingly withdraws from 200 IM. He will save his energy for the 200 back.

[Josh 13,441]

Day 3 Finals Summary 

 

Men's 200m Freestyle Final

1.  Matt Richards (1:44.30), 2.  Tom Dean (1:44.32), 3.  Hwang Sunwoo (1:44.42), 4.  David Popovici (1:44.90), 5.  Luke Hobson (1:45.09), 6.  Lee Hojoon (1:46.04), 7.  Kieran Smith (1:46.10), 8.  Felix Auboeck (1:46.40)

 

Women's 1500m Freestyle Final

1.  Katie Ledecky (15:26.27), 2.  Simona Quadarella (15:43.31), 3.  Li Bingje (15:45.71), 4.  Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (15:48.53), 5.  Lani Pallister (15:49.17), 6.  Isabel Gose (15:54.58), 7.  Beatriz Dizotti (16:03.70), 8.  Katie Grimes (16:04.21)

 

Men's 50m Breaststroke (Through to Finals)

 Qin Haiyang →  Nicolo Martinenghi →  Sun Jiajun →  Lucas Matzerath →   Joao Gomes Hr →   Nic Fink →  Peter Stevens →  Sam Williamson

 

Women's 100m Backstroke Final

1.   Kaylee McKeown (57.53), 2.  Regan Smith (57.78), 3.  Katharine Berkoff (58.25), 4.   Kylie Masse (59.09), 5.  Ingrid Wilm (59.31), 6.  Pauline Mahieu (59.72), 7.  Medi Harris (59.84), 8.  Wan Letian (1:00.39)

 

Men's 100m Backstroke Final

1.   Ryan Murphy (52.22), 2.  Thomas Ceccon (52.27), 3.  Hunter Armstrong (52.58), 4.   Xu Jiayu (52.64), 5.  Yohann Ndoye-Brouard (52.83), 6.  Ksawery Masiuk (52.92), 7.  Hubert Kos (53.11), 8.  Mewen Tomac (53.16)

 

Women's 200m Freestyle (Through to Finals)

 Ariarne Titmus →  Summer McIntosh →  Mollie O'Callaghan →   Bella Sims →   Siobhan Haughey →  Freya Anderson →  Li Yaxin →  Marrit Steenbergen

 

Men's 200m Butterfly (Through to Finals)

 Carson Foster →  Leon Marchand →  Illya Kharun →  Krzysztof Chmielewski →  Tomoru Honda →   Richard Marton →   Thomas Heilman →  Wang Kuan-Hung

 

Women's 100m Breastroke Final

1.   Ruta Meilutyte (1:04.62), 2.  Tatjana Schoenmaker (1:05.84), 3.  Lydia Jacoby (1:05.94), 4.  Lilly King (1:06.02), 5.  Mona McSharry (1:06.07), 6.  Eneli Jefimova (1:06.36), 7.  Sophie Hansson (1:06.61), 8.  Satomi Suzuki (1:06.67)

Edited July 25, 2023 by Josh

[OlympicsFan 860]

7 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

They still have a good chance in the men's 800/1500m freestyle

Very impressive performance by them so far, return to the golden age of Michelle Smith. After 50 % of the individual olympic disciplines they have 2 finals, as many as Turkey, South Africa and Spain combined. Only 1 less than Brazil/Netherlands/South Korea/Hungary and half as many as GB/Japan. With a little bit more luck they could have won as many individual medals as GB.

Edited July 25, 2023 by OlympicsFan

[OlympicsFan 860]

Interesting to see that France might have the 4th most individual finals in olympic disciplines, only behind USA, Australia and China, but ahead of GB, Canada, Japan and Italy. Not too long ago their swimming program was completely dead. Sending Marchand to Bowman and naturalizing Kirpichnikov of course helped.

Edited July 25, 2023 by OlympicsFan

[dodge 1,041]

2 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

Very impressive performance by them so far, return to the golden age of Michelle Smith. After 50 % of the individual olympic disciplines they have 2 finals, as many as Turkey, South Africa and Spain combined. Only 1 less than Brazil/Netherlands/South Korea/Hungary and half as many as GB/Japan. With a little bit more luck they could have won as many individual medals as GB.

Golden age = 2 swimmers

 

What a time to be alive

 

You’ll be happy to hear that McSharry’s German genes (mother) are playing their part 

[Topicmaster1010 6,559]

whoa  Jordan Crooks with a sub 48 100 free time! that qualifies him for Paris