2022 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, December 13 to Sunday, December 18, 2022
- Melbourne Sports and Aquatics Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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Mixed 4×50 Medley Relay Start List
Great Britain and Germany brought their ‘A’ team in prelims and are sticking with them (Medi Harris, Adam Peaty, Ben Proud, and Anna Hopkin for Britain and Ole Braunschweig, Anna Elendt, Marius Kusch, and Angelina Kohler for Germany.) Both teams are opting for different strategies than the typical male-male-female-female order, as is Japan who is alternating female-male-female-male. Japan’s relay will be the same as prelims, but swapping out Moe Tsuda for AJ Soma.
There seems to be an increase in teams going F-M-F-M, including the Netherlands who also made a few changes from their prelims race. They are placing Maaike de Waard on breast instead of Nyls Korstanje and then placing Thom de Boer on anchor instead of Valerie van Roon.
Team USA swapped out Shaine Casas and is having Ryan Murphy lead off instead. This will be a bit of a warmup for Murphy who is the top seed in the 100 back final later this session. Nic Fink is replacing Michael Andrew on the breaststroke leg; Fink is also in the 100 breast semifinal later. Kate Douglass is still on fly while Torri Huske is now anchoring on freestyle.
China switched up their prelims relay by swapping in Yan Zibei and Zhang Yufei. Yufei has the 50 fly at the end as well, but this will be Zibei’s only race this session. Italy’s only change is putting Nicolo Martinenghi in on breast after saving him in prelims. China, Italy, and the U.S. are the only teams opting for the most common order, M-M-F-F
Kylie Masse will lead off for Canada instead of Wilm and Maggie Macneil will anchor instead of Smith. The Canadians are placing their two male swimmers in the middle.
Women’s 4×200 Free Relay Start List
Behind the blocks of the women’s 4×200 free relay will look very similar to prelims. There are no lineup changes between prelims and finals for Japan, Brazil, New Zealand, China, or the Netherlands (the latter two countries with small order changes.) The Netherlands moved Imani de Jong to anchor instead of Marrit Steenbergen who is now 2nd while China bumped up Yaxin Liu to leadoff and Wu Qinfeng to 2nd.
The U.S. added Alex Walsh to their relay in the leadoff position, replacing Erika Brown from prelims. Walsh will hand it off to Hali Flickinger, then Erin Gemmell (replacing Jillian Cox) and Leah Smith is on anchor.
Australia’s relay looks the most different; they are putting in Madison Wilson, Mollie O’Callaghan, and Lani Pallister (despite Pallister’s 800 free individual race), and moving Leah Neale to anchor. This will be a busy finals session for Wilson, who has the 100 free semifinal, O’Callaghan, who is the top seed in 100 back, and Pallister, the top seed in the women’s 800 free.
There was an order switch for Canada who has placed Rebecca Smith on leadoff and moved Mary-Sophie Harvey to 3rd, Katerine Savard is now 2nd, and Taylor Ruck on anchor. This frees up Pickrem (who is in the 100 breast semifinal.)