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2024 World Championships: Official SwimSwam Preview Index

2024 WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

In the strangest World Championships in several generations, we’re going to do our best to pick the medalists and finalists for the 2024 World Championships.

The 2024 World Aquatics Championships will kick off on Feb. 2, and pool swimming will get underway on Feb. 11 and run through the 18th.

As the meet approaches, we will be previewing all 42 pool events that are set to take place at the meet, though due to this being a non-traditional World Championships during the Olympic year, and thus a severely pared down field compared to a normal World Championship, we’ll be publishing previews by discipline: sprint, mid-distance and distance free, along with back, breast, fly, IM and relays in their own articles for men and women, plus a mixed relay preview article.

Keep track of all of SwimSwam’s discipline-by-discipline previews below, with medalist picks listed out for every event.

We’ll also keep track of a projected medal table based on our picks at the bottom of this article.

WOMEN’S EVENTS

ARTICLE EVENT GOLD SILVER BRONZE
Sprint Free 50 Free Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) Shayna Jack (AUS) Katarzyna Wasick (POL)
100 Free Siobhan Haughey (HKG) Shayna Jack (AUS) Sarah Sjostrom (SWE)
Mid-Distance Free 200 Free Siobhan Haughey (HKG) Marrit Steenbergen (NED) Erika Fairweather (NZL)
400 Free Erika Fairweather (NZL) Li Bingjie (CHN) Isabel Gose (GER)
Distance Free 800 Free Simona Quadarella (ITA) Erika Fairweather (NZL) Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (FRA)
1500 Free Simona Quadarella (ITA) Li Bingjie (CHN) Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (FRA)
Back 50 Back Lauren Cox (GBR) Iona Anderson (AUS) Claire Curzan (USA)
100 Back Claire Curzan (USA) Iona Anderson (AUS) Ingrid Wilm (CAN)
200 Back Claire Curzan (USA) Anastasiya Shkurdai (NIA) Jaclyn Barclay (AUS)
Breast 50 Breast Ruta Meilutyte (LTU) Benedetta Pilato (ITA) Lara Van Niekerk (RSA)
100 Breast Ruta Meilutyte (LTU) Mona McSharry (IRL) Benedetta Pilato (ITA)
200 Breast Kate Douglass (USA) Tes Schouten (NED) Kotryna Teterevkova (LTU)
Fly 50 Fly Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) Kate Douglass (USA) Claire Curzan (USA)
100 Fly Claire Curzan (USA) Lana Pudar (BIH) Angelina Kohler (GER)
200 Fly Lana Pudar (BIH) Helena Bach (DEN) Laura Stephens (GBR)
IM 200 IM Kate Douglass (USA) Yu Yiting (CHN) Sydney Pickrem (CAN)
400 IM Freya Colbert (GBR) Anastasia Gorbenko (ISR) Sara Franceschi (ITA)
Relays 4×100 Free Australia Netherlands China
4×200 Free Australia China Great Britain
4×100 Medley Sweden USA Australia

MEN’S EVENTS

ARTICLE EVENT GOLD SILVER BRONZE
Sprint Free 50 Free Cameron McEvoy (AUS) Ben Proud (GBR) Michael Andrew (USA)
100 Free Pan Zhanle (CHN) Alessandro Miressi (ITA) Hwang Sunwoo (KOR)
Mid-Distance Free 200 Free Hwang Sunwoo (KOR) Pan Zhanle (CHN) Luke Hobson (USA)
400 Free Daniel Wiffen (IRL) Ahmed Hafnaoui (TUN) Lukas Märtens (GER)
Distance Free 800 Free Daniel Wiffen (IRL) Ahmed Hafnaoui (TUN) Mykhailo Romanchuk (UKR)
1500 Free Daniel Wiffen (IRL) Ahmed Hafnaoui (TUN) Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA)
Back 50 Back Hunter Armstrong (USA) Isaac Cooper (AUS) Ksawery Masiuk (POL)
100 Back Hunter Armstrong (USA) Ksawery Masiuk (POL) Pieter Coetze (RSA)
200 Back Roman Mityukov (SUI) Bradley Woodward (AUS) Luke Greenbank (GBR)
Breast 50 Breast Nic Fink (USA) Adam Peaty (GBR) Michael Andrew (USA)
100 Breast Arno Kamminga (NED) Nic Fink (USA) Adam Peaty (GBR)
200 Breast Arno Kamminga (NED) Caspar Corbeau (NED) Dong Zhihao (CHN)
Fly 50 Fly Michael Andrew (USA) Diogo Ribeiro (POR) Shaine Casas (USA)
100 Fly Shaine Casas (USA) Nyls Korstanje (NED) Chad le Clos (RSA)
200 Fly Krzysztof Chmielewski (POL) Tomoru Honda (JPN)  Martin Espernberger (AUT)
IM 200 IM Duncan Scott (GBR) Shaine Casas (USA) Carson Foster (USA)
400 IM Carson Foster (USA) Daiya Seto (JPN) Alberto Razzetti (ITA)
Relays 4×100 Free Great Britain Italy Australia
4×200 Free Great Britain South Korea USA
4×100 Medley USA Italy China

MIXED RELAYS

GOLD SILVER BRONZE
Mixed Relays 4×100 Free Australia USA Italy
4×100 Medley USA Netherlands Australia

PROJECTED POOL SWIMMING MEDAL TABLE

NATION TOTAL MEDALS GOLD SILVER BRONZE
USA 26 13 5 8
Great Britain 10 5 2 3
Australia 14 4 6 4
Netherlands 8 3 5
Ireland 4 3 1
Sweden 4 3 1
Italy 11 2 4 5
Lithuania 3 2 1
Hong Kong 2 2
China 9 1 5 3
Poland 4 1 1 2
South Korea 3 1 1 1
New Zealand 3 1 1 1
Bosnia 2 1 1
Switzerland 1 1
Germany 3 3
South Africa 3 3
Tunisia 3 3
Japan 2 2
France 2 2
Denmark 1 1
NIA (Individual Neutrals) 1 1
Portugal 1 1
Austria 1 1
Canada 2 2
Ukraine 1 1
Israel 1 1

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CanSwimFan
9 months ago

Canada projected to be last place. Ouch. I know the big guns are not going to Doha but I’m hoping Canada will exceed swimswam predictions.

Admin
Reply to  CanSwimFan
9 months ago

Welllllllll last place among countries that win medals. Which makes them 26th place out of 1XX countries, so top quarter.

CanSwimFan
Reply to  Braden Keith
8 months ago

I know. But it’s still a big fall from their placements at big meets in recent years. Paris will be a different story, though!

Admin
Reply to  CanSwimFan
8 months ago

For sure. Summer by herself could be top 5-6 if she’s really on one.

Chris Bailey
9 months ago

Looking forward to the relay predictions Some teams taking it very seriously in order to qualify for Paris whiles struggling to field a team.

Tencor
9 months ago

“Keep tabs on all of our event previews for the 2024 World Championships in Doha, where Sarah Sjostrom is favored in all three of her events.”

Haughey: Am I a joke to you

CanSwimFan
9 months ago

When are you going to do some more women’s events? Worlds is drawing near and only breaststroke for the women so far.

CanSwimFan
Reply to  CanSwimFan
9 months ago

Oops! Missed the women’s mid-distance free preview.

Admin
Reply to  CanSwimFan
9 months ago

The staff was more interested in women’s events than men’s, so I wound up taking men’s stuff. I generally work faster than they do, so more men’s events are up than women’s (I’ve done 3/4 men’s events that are up so far).

They’ll catch up, I promise.

CanSwimFan
Reply to  Braden Keith
9 months ago

Thanks for the follow-up!

KatyJ
9 months ago

Pretty sure Duncan Scott will medal in 200Free too

Alison England
Reply to  KatyJ
9 months ago

Matt Richards should.

Hank
9 months ago

SwimSwam on the payroll of Ceasar’s now?

Admin
Reply to  Hank
9 months ago

I wish. If you know anybody over there who would like to pay us, please let me know.

Hank
Reply to  Braden Keith
9 months ago

They should hire you as consultants

peter robinson
9 months ago

Why is the drug cheat from Lithuania competing?

Mark69
Reply to  peter robinson
9 months ago

If you knew anything about Ruta’s story, you wouldn’t refer to her a a drug cheat. Coleman did a podcast with her a couple of years ago – maybe you should listen to it. She was suspended for missing 3 drug tests – at a time when she had effectively retired from swimming but hadn’t filled in the paperwork, so the drug testers still turned up at her previously nominated location, but Ruta was elsewhere. She didn’t make any excuses, but accepted the punishment and retired. At the time she was also going through mental health issues and an eating disorder, so filling in retirement paperwork was hardly front of mind. Her comeback, both to full health and to swimming… Read more »

Jackie O
Reply to  peter robinson
9 months ago

So full of confidence and yet so wrong.

dave
9 months ago

so no projected medal for NZL’s Erika Fairweather in 400m freestyle?

Joshua Liendo-Edwards-Smith
Reply to  dave
9 months ago

They haven’t covered that event yet

About James Sutherland

James Sutherland

James swam five years at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, specializing in the 200 free, back and IM. He finished up his collegiate swimming career in 2018, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics. In 2019 he completed his graduate degree in sports journalism. Prior to going to Laurentian, James swam …

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