rafalgorka

It's nearly 3am here. Stayed up for the WR!

Was easy after what she did last week and then the 50 yesterday made it pretty much certain.

OMG

By 0.12!!!!

WR!

Siobhan might have something big for us tomorrow in the 100! She's also overdue for a breakthrough in the 200 with how many times she's gone 1:53 high/1:54 low.

McKeown 57.33!!! 

@rafalgorka

I have to advise you: I'm terrible at predicting. Even worse about Rowing  

Day -2 Wed 24.07
 
M rugby sevens
M football - FRA match, ESP match
 
Day -1 Thu 25.07
 
M rugby sevens
W handball - I believe POL will play here
 
Day 0 Fri 26.07
 
Opening ceremony
 
Day 1 Sat 27.07
 
artistic gymnastics - M quali
M basketball - USA match
beach volleyball - POL match
fencing W epee - POL athletes
handball M prelims
road cycling - M ind TT mainly and W ind TT
M rugby sevens - semis and finals
shooting - mixed air rifle finals if POL is competing
swimming - elims if i can but evening session is a must
tennis - rd 1 singles if Iga or Hubert are playing
volleyball - Men POL game
 
Top 3:
Swimming evening sessions
Road cycling M ind TT
M Rugby sevens semis and finals

Day 0:
Opening ceremony (I usually only care for the parade of nations, so I can skip the beginning part )
 
Day 1:
Basketball - M group phase (if Greece qualifies and is playing)
Canoe Slalom - MC1 heats and WK1 heats
Rowing - Wherever there are Greeks, so for this day it will be M1X and hopefully some others can qualify (W1X, M2X, W2X)
Swimming - Various events
Table Tennis - If there is a Greek competing
Tennis - Various matches
Water Polo - W group phase (if Greece qualifies and is playing)

Honestly does the Dominican Republic have a B team?? 

Thanks for your boxing comments, i will leave the bronze medal for CPV for now, just for the fun of it. I will check it back later, when PanAm Games end, the same with a medal for Colombia.
 
Finalists:
 
W 50kg - Buse Cakiroglu TUR, Wu Yu CHN

W 66kg - Busenaz Surmeneli TUR, Yang Liu CHN
 
M 71kg - Sewon Okazawa JPN, Vahid Abasov SRB

Medal table in the end of day 11 (197 events, additional boxing bronze medals in W 50kg, W 66kg, M 71kg)
 
27-20-17---64
25-34-19---78
16-15-16---47
16-8-15---39
13-11-10---34
10-11-7---28
9-6-6---21
7-9-10---26
6-7-9---22
5-6-11---22
5-6-2---13
4-7-4---15
4-1-2---7
3-6-3---12
3-0-3---6
3-0-2---5
2-3-2---7
2-2-4---8
2-2-1---5
2-1-5---8
2-1-4---7
2-1-3---6
2-1-1---4
2-1-1---4
2-1-1---4
2-0-6---8
1-4-3---8
1-3-3---7
1-2-5---8
1-2-3---6
1-2-2---5
1-2-1---4
1-1-2---4
1-1-2---4
1-1-2---4
1-1-1---3
1-1-1---3
1-1-1---3
1-1-1---3
1-1-0---2
1-0-1---2
1-0-1---2
1-0-1---2
1-0-0---1
1-0-0---1
1-0-0---1
1-0-0---1
0-2-2---4
0-2-1---3
0-2-1---3
0-1-3---4
0-1-2---3
0-1-2---3
0-1-1---2
0-1-0---1
0-1-0---1
0-1-0---1
0-1-0---1
0-1-0---1
0-0-3---3
0-0-2---2
0-0-2---2
0-0-2---2
0-0-2---2
0-0-2---2
0-0-2---2
0-0-1---1
0-0-1---1
0-0-1---1
0-0-1---1
0-0-1---1
0-0-1---1
0-0-1---1
0-0-1---1
0-0-1---1
0-0-1---1
0-0-1---1
0-0-1---1

of course I'm not gonna miss a minute of all the sports I'm interested in
 
and you know what I'm gonna miss   

you're doing an awesome job here. The only thing missing here is the names of all the swimmers who have OQT from NOCs who have more than 2 swimmers with OQT

Perhaps another one in the 100 tomorrow 

Another improvement of her own national record for Schouten and another victory over Strauch who won silver ahead of her at the world championships.

2023 Swimming World Cup Budapest - Day 1 Results
 
 
Women's 400m Freestyle:
1.  Erika Fairweather - 4:02.35
2.  Lani Pallister - 4:03.43
3.  Barbora Seemanova - 4:06.09
 
Men's 400m Freestyle:
1.  Samuel Short - 3:44.51 
2.  Kieran Smith - 3:46.80
3.  Danas Rapsys - 3:47.00
 
Women's 50m Backstroke:
1.  Kaylee McKeown - 26.86 (World Record)
2.  Ingrid Wilm - 27.68
=2.  Kylie Masse - 27.68  
 
Men's 200m Backstroke:
1.  Roman Mityukov - 1:56.96
2.  Thomas Ceccon - 1:56.97
3.  Apostolos Christou - 1:58.62
=3.  Adam Telegdy - 1:58.62
 
Women's 200m Butterfly:
1.  Zhang Yufei - 2:05.65 (WC Record)
2.  Lana Pudar - 2:08.19
3.  Boglarka Kapas - 2:10.27
 
Men's 100m Butterfly:
1.  Noe Ponti - 51.38
2.  Matthew Sates - 51.66
3.  Jesse Jack Coleman - 51.88
 
Women's 200m Breaststroke:
1.  Tes Schouten - 2:21.52 (WC Record)
2.  Jenna Strauch - 2:22.83
3.  Kristyna Horska - 2:24.62
 
Men's 100m Breaststroke:
1.  Qin Haiyang - 57.82
2.  Arno Kamminga - 58.68
3.  Nic Fink - 59.21
 
Women's 50m Freestyle:
1.  Sarah Sjoestroem - 23.97
2.  Siobhan Haughey - 24.30
3.  Bronte Campbell - 24.42
=3.  Cate Campbell - 24.42
 
Men's 50m Freestyle:
1.  Benjamin Proud - 21.77
2.  Michael Andrew - 21.85
3.  Isaac Cooper - 21.92
 
Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay
1.  Australia (Maximilian Giuliani, Cody Simpson, Dylan Andrea, Zac Incerti) - 3:14.54
2.  Italy (Leonardo Deplano, Lorenzo Zazzeri, Manuel Frigo, Alessandro Miressi) - 3:18.53
3.  Hungary (Richard Marton, Szebasztian Szabo, Boldizsar Magda, Nandor Nemeth) - 3:18.88
 
Men's Overall Standings:
1.  Qin Haiyang - 136.2
2.  Thomas Ceccon - 129.5
3.  Matthew Sates - 127.2
4.  Michael Andrew - 125.1
5.  Danas Rapsys - 122.2
6.  Isaac Cooper - 110.7
7.  Kieran Smith - 108.6
8.  Arno Kamminga - 107.7
9.  Nic Fink - 99.6
10.  Dylan Carter - 95.6
 
Women's Overall Standings:
1.  Kaylee McKeown - 137.8 
2.  Zhang Yufei - 129.6
3.  Sarah Sjoestroem - 129.3 
4.  Siobhan Haughey - 127.1
5.  Erika Fairweather - 121.2
6.  Lani Pallister - 118.7
7.  Kylie Masse - 108.1
8.  Katie Grimes - 102.6
9.  Jenna Strauch - 102.3
10.  Ingrid Wilm - 100.7

My Top 10:
 
Ran Takahashi  (Volleyball)
Yuki Ishikawa  (Volleyball)
Micah Christenson  (Volleyball)
Brayelin Martinez  (Volleyball)
Luciano De Cecco  (Volleyball)
Chloe Covell  (Skateboard)
Nora Mork  (Handball)
Gustavo Ribeiro  (Skateboard)
Humana-Paredes & Brandie  (Beach Volleyball)
Fiji Rugby Team 
 
 

Shorttrack speedskating - Kim Boutin  
Tennis - Stan Wawrinka  
Tennis - Aryna Sabalenka  
Athletics - Miltiadis Tentoglou  
Athletics - Natalia Kaczmarek  
Road cycling - Wout van Aert  
Gymnastics - Rebeca Andrade  
Judo - Lukas Krpalek  
Speedskating - Isabelle Weidemann  
 
 
 

most of the athletes I used to support are no longer competing...  
 
however, I still admire all the champions in each sport I follow, so, there are way too many to be named
 
so, among those still in activity I love watching play "pound for pound" there are:
 
Baseball:  Shoei Ohtani,  Roki Sasaki,  Clayton Kershaw,  Mookie Betts
 
Hockey:  Anze Kopitar,  Alexander Ovechkin,  Leon Draisaitl,  Roman Josi
 
Alpine Skiing:  Mikaela Shiffrin,  Marco Odermatt
 
Speedskating:  Jutta Leerdam (well, maybe that's not because of her -however great- skills  )
 
Short Track Speedskating:  Hanne Desmet
 
Athletics:  Mondo Duplantis,  Yulimar Rojas,  Shaunae Miller-Uibo,  Faith Kipyegon,  Tom Walsh
 
Swimming:  Ariarne Titmus
 
Judo:  Uta Abe
 
Wrestling: the  and  athletes in general
 
Boxing:  Vasyl Lomachenko,  Oleksandr Usyk and  Naoya Inoue
 
Basketball:  Luka Doncic
 
Shooting:  Alessandra Perilli (and the  team in general)
 
and many, many more...

Forgot about  Alicia Schmidt, however it may not be for the reason you think it is… 

Not a big list like the others, but I have a few athletes I grew fond of because I watched them live at events in the Netherlands. In Paris I will cheer for:
 
 Volleybal Men team and Bartosz Kurek.
 
 Javelin thrower Anderson Peters
 
Other than that I am a big fan of  Nafi Thiam and  Kevin Mayer in the athletics multi events.

No. Mostly useless. The reason Ivanusa Gomes Moreira is so high on them is mostly because she was one of only 2 entries at the African Championships in 2022. She lost that fight.
Boxrec's rankings are also flawed but they are more accurate than the IBAs so if thats what you were basing your picks off then I would probably use boxrecs or maybe an aggregate of the two.

Cakiroglu, almost for sure
then, I think it's quite open and many contenders might get it