Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2023 Road to Paris 2024

[AsensioWillemsen 123]

Tbh hope some other countries can challenge the Aussies as well as the States, although they have not really delivered so far, at least on the individuals. 

[Vic Liu 1,596]

It was such a wonderful night for me. I am in Fukuoka watched today's matches including prelims and finals on court. Just witnessed 3 WR, 3 AR, one medal and one relay olympic quota for China. I am going to watch the finals on court in coming days. Hopefully so happy everyday. I am already in love with Fukuoka.

[dullard 440]

1 hour ago, Vic Liu said:

It was such a wonderful night for me. I am in Fukuoka watched today's matches including prelims and finals on court. Just witnessed 3 WR, 3 AR, one medal and one relay olympic quota for China. I am going to watch the finals on court in coming days. Hopefully so happy everyday. I am already in love with Fukuoka.

Timezone advantage for China and Australia 💪

[phelps 6,893]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

And another massive WR

 

I know in athletics it's the shoes in middle and longer distances especially these days, what is the thing in swimming? Is it the suits that always keep improving that much, considering the massive amount of WR's we so often see specifically in swimming?

it's the Olympics! they're coming in 12 months...

[phelps 6,893]

3 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Damn you Chalmers... Italy winning would have been amazing  

it would have been undeserved...

 

I mean, all the guys did their best given the situation (especially Zazzeri, just coming off a long pause for a severe anaphylactic shock that could have cost him his life), but now we know that  are by far the best now (and I fear they won't do anything stupid like Today in Paris)

 

for us this silver medal is already a really big achievement, but we need to improve a lot in the next 12 months if we want to try and get another Olympic medal in this kind of relay

 

on the other hand, the rest of the team is just a disaster...a series of epic fails...nobody getting even close to their best clockings 

 

it's gonna be a really painful championship for us

[Josh 5,765]

Day 1 Finals Summary (I'll update since @Topicmaster1010 forgot)

 

Men's 400m Freestyle Final

1.  Sam Short (3:40.68), 2.  Ahmed Hafnaoui (3:40.70), 3.  Lukas Martens (3:42.20), 4.  Guilherme Costa (3:43.58), 5.  Woomin Kim (3:43.58), 6.  Antonio Djakovic (3:44.22), 7.  Elijah Winnington (3:44.26), 8.  Felix Auboeck (3:44.33)

 

Women's 100m Butterfly (Through to Finals)

Zhang Yufei  →  Torri Huske →  Maggie MacNeil →  Emma McKeon → Angelina Kohler → Gretchen Walsh →  Brianna Throssel →  Marie Wattel

 

Men's 50m Butterfly (Through to Finals)

 Maxime Grousset →  Dare Rose →  Jacob Peters →  Thomas Ceccon → Abdelrahman El-Araby →  Ben Proud →  Diogo Ribeiro →  Simon Bucher

 

Women's 400m Freestyle Final

1. Ariarne Titmus (3:55.38/WR), 2.  Katie Ledecky (3:58.73), 3. Erika Fairweather (3:59.59), 4.  Summer McIntosh  (3:59.94), 5.  Li Bingje (4:01.65), 6. Lani Pallister (4:05.17), 7.  Isabel Gose (4:05.27), 8.  Bella Sims (4:05.37)

 

Men's 100m Breastroke (Through to Finals)

 Qin Haiyang  →  Lucas Matzerath →  Nic Fink →  Yan Zibei → Arno Kamminga → Josh Matheny →  Nicolo Martinenghi →  Berkay Ogretir

 

Women's 200m Individual Medley (Through to Finals)

 Alex Walsh →  Yu Yiting →  Marrit Steenbergen →  Jenna Forrester →  Yui Ohashi → Kate Douglass →  Ye Shiwen →  Anastasia Gorbenko

 

Men's 400m Individual Medley Final

1.  Leon Marchand (4:02.50/WR), 2.  Carson Foster (4:06.56), 3.  Daiya Seto (4:09.41), 4. Chase Kalisz (4:10.23), 5.  Brendon Smith (4:10.37), 6.  Lewis Clareburt (4:11.29), 7.  Alberto Razzetti (4:11.73), 8.  Balazs Hollo (4:13.36)

 

Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final

1. Australia (3:27.96/WR), 2. United States (3:31.93), 3. China (3:33.40), 4. Great Britain (3:33.90), 5. Sweden (3:34.17), 6. Netherlands (3:35.41), 7. Canada (3:36.62), 8. Japan (3:38.61)

 

Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Final

1. Australia (3:10.16), 2.  Italy (3:10.49), 3.  United States (3:10.81), 4.  China (3:11.38), 5.  Canada (3:12.05), 6.  Brazil (3:12.71), 7. Israel  (3:14.53), 8.  Spain (3:14.64)

Edited July 23, 2023 by Josh

[Adriano 455]

I could watch final session from today? I missed this....

[rybak 2,694]

Not that good day for us, but after all we had mens relay 4x100m! 

[Topicmaster1010 2,384]

Just got to say that it was really nice seeing so much participation in this thread yesterday after what felt like a dead 2022 World Championships thread.

 

Looking forward to the 2nd day of competition

[Topicmaster1010 2,384]

Wow, Ceccon and Armstrong barely make it to the semis