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2024 KB Financial Group Korea Swimming Championships 2024 - Gimcheon (KOR) March 22nd - March 27th 2024 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 1500m Freestyle Kim Woomin Men's 200m Breaststroke Cho Sungjae Men's 200m Butterfly Kim Minseop The following 9 swimmers have been selected for the Olympic Team Men (7): Cho Sungjae - 200m Breaststroke Choi Dongyeol - 100m Breaststroke, 4x100m Medley Relay Hwang Sunwoo - 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle Relay, 4x100m Medley Relay Ji Yuchan - 50m Freestyle Kim Minseop - 200m Butterfly Kim Woomin - 200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle, 1500m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle Relay Lee Hojoon - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Lee Juho - 100m Backstroke, 200m Backstroke Women (2): Kim Seoyeong - 200m IM (*100m Butterfly OCT) Lee Eunji - 200m Backstroke (*100m Backstroke OCT) *Final relay spots will be confirmed at a later date Source

British Qualification Tracker (after Day 1) Priority 1: 1st place finishers with nomination time (guaranteed selection) Freya Colbert - W 200m Freestyle, W 4x200m Freestyle Relay Keanna MacInnes - W 200m Butterfly Adam Peaty - M 100m Breaststroke Priority 2: Relay swimmers (guaranteed selection) Medi Harris - W 4x200m Freestyle Relay Lucy Hope - W 4x200m Freestyle Relay Abbie Wood - W 200m Freestyle , W 4x200m Freestyle Relay Priority 5: 2nd place finishers with nomination time Laura Stephens - W 200m Butterfly Candidates for Priority 4 - Discretionary Picks Freya Anderson - W 100m Freestyle, W 200m Freestyle Kieran Bird - M 400m Freestyle James Wilby - M 100m Breaststroke

Thanks for posting this Josh! Stay tuned for event previews everyone! I'll try to cover all the major races.

Guerrero and Bichette aren't the biggest problem (though they can be better), it's the bottom 2/3rds of the lineup that's horrendous. Trading Teoscar Hernandez for a relief pitcher and trading Lourdes Gurriel/Gabriel Moreno for Dalton Varsho completely killed the offense. Then this offseason, we let Matt Chapman and Whit Merrifield hit free agency who while not the greatest hitters, are still better than some of the guys hitting now. The problems were already there at the end of last year and the Jays decided to fix that by signing a 39 year old Justin Turner and a below average Isiah Kiner-Falefa. The Orioles and Rays both have much better depth offensively than the Jays.

2024 Helsinki Swim Meet - Helsinki (FIN) March 31st - April 1st 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved

2024 Bulgarian Open Team Championships - Sofia (BUL) March 29th - March 31st 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved

Thought it was a swimswam April Fool's joke at first. Think my jaw hit the floor when I saw the editor's note saying it wasn't an April Fool's joke.

Entry list link leads to the selection policy. Here's a better link!

An interesting development to keep track of heading into Paris. Arguably the greatest coach of all time, Bob Bowman (Michael Phelps old coach) has shockingly left his head coaching position at ASU to go to Texas 2 days after winning the NCAA title. He was coaching college swimmers like Leon Marchand, Hubert Kos, Ilya Kharun, Zalan Sarkany, and also pros like Regan Smith, Chase Kalisz, Ryan Held, Olivia Smoliga, Simone Manuel, Taylor Ruck, Paige Madden, Drew Kibler and Jay Litherland are also training at ASU. I believe the sprinters are lead by the assistant/now head coach so they'll probably be fine but it'll be interesting to see what kind of an effect this move will have on the mid-distance and distance swimmers, especially Marchand. Texas currently has swimmers like Carson Foster, Luke Hobson and Shaine Casas.

If the Jays don't fire somebody this season, I'm going to eat a sock. They did nothing to improve the offense during the off season and expected to contend this season.

Since everyone's posting entry lists for notable meets, here's the one for the Malmsten Swim Open the following weekend.

Looks like it'll be streamed on CBC!

Psych sheets for the Canadian Open A lot of big names present.

Ivan Girev is the only Russian swimmer that's been approved by World Aquatics but doesn't have any OQTs yet. For Belarus, Shkurdai, Shymanovich and Zmushka all have OQTs and should all be going to Paris.

That's been the story of the Angels ever since Trout entered the league (besides 2014). At least he had Ohtani to keep him company for a few years.

Julia Tunks now in the 36th qualifying position (32 qualify for Paris). 19 points away from the athlete in 32nd position.

2024 Japan Selection Trial for Olympic Games - Tokyo (JPN) March 17th - March 24th 2024 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 100m Backstroke Riku Matsuyama~ Men's 100m Breaststroke Yamato Fukasawa* Yu Hanaguruma# Taku Taniguchi~ Ippei Watanabe# Men's 100m Butterfly Takeshi Kawamoto* Men's 200m Butterfly Daiya Seto# Riku Tanbo* Genki Terakado Women's 400m Freestyle Miyu Namba* Women's 800m Freestyle Waka Kobori~ Women's 1500m Freestyle Airi Ebina* Women's 100m Butterfly Mizuki Hirai Shiho Matsumoto# Women's 200m Butterfly Chiho Mizuguchi* Women's 200m Breaststroke Satomi Suzuki Women's 400m Individual Medley Waka Kobori~ *Not selected for Olympic Team ~Selected as relay-only swimmer #Selected in a different event The following 27 swimmers have been selected for the Olympic Team Men (14): Yu Hanaguruma - 200m Breaststroke Tomoru Honda - 200m Butterfly Hidenari Mano - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Katsuo Matsumoto - 200m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly, 4x200m Freestyle Relay Tomoyuki Matsushita - 400m IM Riku Matsuyama - 4x100m Medley Relay Naoki Mizunuma - 100m Butterfly Tatsuya Murasa - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Daiya Seto - 200m IM Shuichi Takahara - 200m Backstroke Taku Taniguchi - 4x100m Medley Relay Genki Terakado - 200m Butterfly Ippei Watanabe - 200m Breaststroke Konosuke Yanagimoto - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Women (13): Reona Aoki - 100m Breaststroke Mizuki Hirai - 100m Butterfly, 4x100m Medley Relay Rikako Ikee - 100m Butterfly, 4x100m Medley Relay Nagisa Ikemoto - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Waka Kobori - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Hiroko Makino - 200m Butterfly, 4x200m Freestyle Relay Shiho Matsumoto - 200m IM Airi Mitsui - 200m Butterfly Mio Narita - 400m IM Yui Ohashi - 200m IM Rio Shirai - 4x200m Freestyle Relay, 4x100m Medley Relay Satomi Suzuki - 100m Breaststroke, 200m Breaststroke, 4x100m Medley Relay Ageha Tanigawa - 400m IM *Individual events have yet to be confirmed, swimmers could still swim other events Source

The latest world rankings are from March 19. We should hopefully get a ranking update today.

Freestyle Ace Freya Anderson 'Unlikely' To Race At British Trials (swimswam.com) Not ideal (especially for the relays)

2024 Giant Open - St. Germain en Laye (FRA) March 23rd - March 24th 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved

2024 Baltic States Championships - Vilnius (LTU) March 23rd - March 24th 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved

2024 Spring Prix of Zilina - Zilina (SVK) March 22nd - March 24th 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved

2024 Linkoping Water Games - Linkoping (SWE) March 21st - March 24th 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved

2024 BASA Nationals - Christ Church (BAR) February 27th - March 3rd 2024 Meet Results No new OQTs were achieved

Japanese Olympic Trials: Day 8 Final day of competition say 4 more qualification times and 3 new individual qualifiers. Men's 100m Butterfly: 1. Katsuhiro Matsumoto - 50.96 Q 2. Naoki Mizunuma - 51.23 Q 3. Genki Terakado - 51.33 4. Takeshi Kawamoto - 51.59 Matsumoto goes under 51 seconds to qualify for his 2nd individual event. 2022 World Championship silver medallist Mizunuma also manages to qualify. Also getting under the JASF QT was Genki Terakado. With the 100m butterfly results, we also know that Japan will send their men's 4x100m medley relay to the games. Women's 200m IM: 1. Yui Ohashi - 2:09.17 Q 2. Shiho Matsumoto - 2:09.90 Q 3. Mio Narita - 2:10.39 Just like Seto yesterday, Yui Ohashi qualifies for the Olympics at the last opportunity and will have a small chance to defend her 200 IM Olympic title. 2:09.17 is her fastest time since the Tokyo Olympics. Shiho Matsumoto also had the swim of her life after missing qualifying in the 100m butterfly by 0.01 seconds. Mio Narita was also under the JASF QT and just missed qualifying for her 2nd individual event. Women's 800m Freestyle: 1. Waka Kobori - 8:26.62 As with many others at these trials, Waka Kobori was under the AQUA OQT but missed the JASF QT. Though she'll likely get a spot as a relay swimmer so maybe she'll be allowed to swim this event. Nobody was close to qualifying in either the women's 50m freestyle or men's 1500m freestyle. And now we wait for the official team announcement. It should look something similar to below. Some relay-only swimmers may be removed/replaced, discretionary picks may be selected and qualified swimmers may add other events to their lineup. Probable Japanese Olympic Team (27 athletes) *relay-only swimmers are not confirmed Men (14): Yu Hanaguruma - 200m Breaststroke Tomoru Honda - 200m Butterfly Hidenari Mano - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Katsuhiro Matsumoto - 200m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly, 4x200m Freestyle Relay Tomoyuki Matsushita - 400m IM Riku Matsuyama - 4x100m Medley Relay Naoki Mizunuma - 100m Butterfly Tatsuya Murasa - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Daiya Seto - 200m IM Hidekazu Takahara - 200m Backstroke Taku Taniguchi - 4x100m Medley Relay Genki Terakado - 200m Butterfly Ippei Watanabe - 200m Breaststroke Konosuke Yanagimoto - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Women (13): Reona Aoki - 100m Breaststroke Mizuki Hirai - 100m Butterfly, 4x100m Medley Relay Rikako Ikee - 100m Butterfly, 4x100m Medley Relay Nagisa Ikemoto - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Waka Kobori - 4x200m Freestyle Relay Hiroko Makino - 200m Butterfly, 4x200m Freestyle Relay Shiho Matsumoto - 200m IM Airi Mitsui - 200m Butterfly Mio Narita - 400m IM Yui Ohashi - 200m IM Rio Shirai - 4x200m Freestyle Relay, 4x100m Medley Relay Satomi Suzuki - 100m Breaststroke, 200m Breaststroke, 4x100m Medley Relay Ageha Tanigawa - 400m IM