Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2023

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Interesting to see that Turkey is still irrelevant at senior level after having great success at junior level for quite some time. Also i expected a bit more from Spain, but maybe Titley needs a bit more time. Will be interesting to follow the development of those two nations in the next couple of years.

[OlympicsFan 860]

France (and/or GB) might end up with more/as many individual finals in olympic events as China, which would be a huge surprise (at least for me).

[Topicmaster1010 6,556]

As expected, Marchand won't swim the 200 Breast as the semis come right before the 200 IM final.

 

More surprisingly, Anna Hopkins scratches the 100 Free. Had a great chance at making the final so this is kind of puzzling

[Josh 13,440]

Another video review 

[Topicmaster1010 6,556]

Slow prelims session this morning

[Topicmaster1010 6,556]

Day 5 Prelims Summary

 

Women's 100m Freestyle (advancing to semifinals):

 Haughey,  Weitzeil,  McKeon,  Wattel,  Coleman,  Steenbergen,  O'Callaghan,  Cheng,  Balduccini,  Gastaldello,  Douglass,  Yang,  Morini,  Canny,  Bro,  Ikee

 

Men's 200m Backstroke (advancing to semifinals):

 Woodward,  Mityukov,  Kos,  Murphy,  Siskos,  Morgan,  McNeill,  Lasco,  Williams,  Gonzalez,  Lee,  Tomac,  Yanagawa,  Kovacs,  Herlem,  Takehara

 

Women's 200m Breaststroke (advancing to semifinals):

 Schouten,  Schoenmaker,  Blomsterberg,  King,  Teterevkova,  Harkin,  Silva,  Imai,  Douglass,  Wog,  Ye,  Hansson,  Carraro,  Ceballos,  Mamie,  Mc Sharry

 

Men's 200m Breaststroke (advancing to semifinals):

 Stubblety-Cook,  Corbeau,  Fallon,  Savickas,  Qin,  Matheny,  Dong,  Watanabe,  McKee,  Kamminga,  Persson,  Marc,  Epitropov,  Mattsson,  Sato,  Ovchinnikov

 

Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay (advancing to finals):

 United States,  Australia,  Great Britain,  China,  Netherlands,  Canada,  Hungary,  Brazil

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Even in our current poor state, especially on the women's side, we still find a way into the women's 4x200 free final. 

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Yay, Savickas also achieving OQT in 200m breaststroke!!

[dodge 1,041]

15 nations qualified for the women’s 200m breaststroke semis. Getting close to 16 different nations!

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13 hours ago, Federer91 said:

How bummed can one be, that the best WR's, those of Phelps and Pellegrini, were the ones, that had to be broken...  

In terms of big names, sure, but in the end....every super suit WR that's being broken is a good thing in my opinion