Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2023

[heywoodu 14,943]

14 minutes ago, Josh said:

Titmus also now the #3 performer all-time!

So she lost a spot, since she was the #2 performer all-time before this final  

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Another relay World Record for Australia!

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5th gold medal and 4th world record for Mollie O'Callaghan

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 Steenbergen beats  Wattel in the 50m free swimoff

 

 Hansson beats  Jacoby in the 50m breast swimoff

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Individual Finals for Tomorrow

 

Men's 50m Backstroke:

1.  Braunschweig 2.  Christou 3.  Armstrong 4.  Ress 5.  Xu 6.  Masiuk 7.  Ceccon 8.  Jeffcoat

 

Women's 50m Breaststroke:

1.  Bottazzo 2.  Tang 3.  van Niekerk 4.  Meilutyte 5.  King 6.  Pilato 7.  Jefimova 8.  Suzuki

 

Men's 1500m Freestyle:

1.  Rasovszky 2.  Romanchuk 3.  Hafnaoui 4.  Finke 5.  Wiffen 6.  Martens 7.  Short 8.  Aubry

 

Women's 50m Freestyle:

1.  McKeon 2.  Cheng 3.  Zhang 4.  Sjoestroem 5.  Jack 6.  Weitzeil 7.  Coleman 8.  Steenbergen

 

Women's 400m Individual Medley:

TBD

[OlympicsFan 858]

The Netherlanda with 8 individual finals in olympic events, as much as Germany and one more than Italy. Italy could also get to 8 tomorrow if Franceschi makes the final in women's 400 IM. Very good result in terms of medals for Italy if we consider this.

Italy: 7 individual finals, 4 medals

Germany: 8 individual finals, 1 medal

Hungary: 7 individual finals, 1 medal

Japan: 10 individual finals, 1 medal

[JoshMartini007 2,533]

Italy is pretty good at converting their chances (also in other sports), the risk is they are also very close to regress back to the mean should their luck run out.

[AsensioWillemsen 158]

Italy is definitely the third strongest country in Europe right now. And tbh France look pretty lackluster behind Marchand and Grousset, but they could be worth 6 medals in Paris nonetheless.

[Andry84 102]

14 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Italy is pretty good at converting their chances (also in other sports), the risk is they are also very close to regress back to the mean should their luck run out.

We have also to remember that Italy Lost 5 or 6 finals for hundreths of second , Razzetti twice 9th in 200 Butterfly and Medley , Poggio in 100 breastroke, De Tullio in 200 freestyle, Franceschi Dsq when she swam a time good for final , also the women 4x100 less than 2 tenths from finals so we werent so lucky in terms of finals. Medals from Martinenghi , Ceccon , Quadarella and men relay are not lucky medals.

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1 hour ago, Andry84 said:

We have also to remember that Italy Lost 5 or 6 finals for hundreths of second , Razzetti twice 9th in 200 Butterfly and Medley , Poggio in 100 breastroke, De Tullio in 200 freestyle, Franceschi Dsq when she swam a time good for final , also the women 4x100 less than 2 tenths from finals so we werent so lucky in terms of finals. Medals from Martinenghi , Ceccon , Quadarella and men relay are not lucky medals.

1) If Martinenghi swims 0.01 slower, he doesn't medal.

2) In the men's 4 x 100 free relay Italy might as well have finished 4th (behind GB and the US)

3) In men's 200 free the 10th place was a huge success for De Tullio. You shouldn't forget that multiple faster guys flopped or didn't even compete (Märtens, Pan, Marchand).

4) In men's 200 fly you shouldn't forget that Milak didn't compete, otherwise Razzetti would have been 0.5 seconds away from the final.

5) In men's 200 IM multiple faster guys flopped or didn't compete (Wang, Qin, Kos).

6) Not sure if Franceschi would have made the final if McKeown, Pickrem, Wood and McIntosh would have competed/not been disqualified as well.

7) Poggio was unlucky, not sure how close he would have been to the final if Peaty and Imoudu would have competed (not to mention the two russian guys and Shymanovich who were missing as well).

 

Before this year i would have expected Italy to definitely to better, but in my opinion 4 medals is pretty much a perfect result for them given where they are at right now. I would give the following italian athletes a chance to medal next year:

Maybe Miressi (100 free)

Maybe Galossi (400/800 free)

Men's 4 x 100 free

Maybe men's medley relay

Martinenghi (100 breast)

Ceccon (100 back, maybe 100 free)

Quadarella (1500 free)

Pilato (100 breast)

I think 2-6 medals are realistic in my opinion (Quadarella, Ceccon, Martinenghi + X).

 

Edited July 29, 2023 by OlympicsFan