We’re in the home stretch of the Olympic Trials season but still going strong with a lineup of meets yet to come in May and June.
The Brazilian Swimming Trophy and Sydney Open highlight the early weeks while the Canadian Trials and Mare Nostrum Series are also taking place in May.
Below are the elite meets slated next month with those designated by World Aquatics as Olympic qualifiers noted with a ‘*’.
04/30 – 05/05 XVI African Aquatics Swimming Championships (ANG)
05/02 – 05/04 52nd Meeting International Swann Oberson (SUI)
05/02 – 05/04 Latvian Championships (LAT)*
05/02 – 05/05 Selection Tournament for Olympic Games (PER)*
05/02 – 05/04 Turkey Youth, Junior, and Open Age National Team Selection Meet (TUR)*
05/03 – 05/05 Open Water National & Junior National Championships (USA)
05/05 – 05/08 Ukrainian National Championships*
05/06 – 05/11 Brazilian Swimming Trophy (BRA)*
05/08 – 05/11 Vienna International Swim Meet (AUT)
05/09 – 05/11 Faroe Islands Championships (DEN)
05/09 – 05/11 Grand Prix Pardubice (CZE)
05/09 – 05/11 Sydney Open (AUS)
05/11 – 05/12 Olympic Invitational Trial I (HKG)*
05/13 – 05/19 Canadian Olympic & Paralympic Trials (CAN)*
05/13 – 05/17 Kazakhstan National Championships (KAZ)*
05/15 – 05/18 Argentinian Open Championships 2024 (ARG)*
05/15 – 05/18 Atlanta Classic (USA)*
05/17 – 5/19 Greek National Swimming Championships (GRE)*
05/17 – 05/18 Belgrade Trophy (SRB)
05/22 – 05/26 Irish Open Championships (IRL)*
05/24 – 05/26 Grand Prix Burgas (BUL)*
05/24 – 05/26 Grand Prix Slovakia (SVK)*
05/25 – 05/26 Mare Nostrum – Meeting International de Canet-en-Roussillon (FRA)*
05/25 – 05/27 AP Race London International (GBR)*
05/29 – 05/30 Mare Nostrum – Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona (ESP)*
05/30 – 06/01 Serbian Open (SRB)
Cannot wait to see Summer Mcintosh absolutely smoke Katie Ledecky and Ariane Titmus in Paris.
I think this is highly likely unfortunately and I’m an Australian.
You are a lost sole if you think Summer is going to beat the Terminator . I don’t think it is a given she will swim the 400 free anyway she may do the 100 fly on day one instead
I doubt swimming 100 fly individually is even a consideration.
Pretty positive you’re going to be wrong.
Has poor Retta even had any sleep over the past month?
Thank you for thinking of me, haha!
Perhaps the definition of “high level” needs to be changed. No disrespect to Faroe Islands but that meet can’t be described that way.
It’s a tall task for Summer to generate as much traffic in May as all the April meets have so far 🙂
How many of her 5 events will she be #1 in by the end of trials?
The Altanta Classic will the last chance to make a good impression prior to 2024 USA Swimming Olympc Team Trials.
W 200 FR – K. Ledecky, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?
W 200 BR – K. Douglass, ?
W 200 FL – R. Smith, ?
W 400 IM – A. Walsh, E. Weyant
Ledecky is the only one of the 4 going to ATL
Katie Ledecky is the consummate professional.
If neither Alex Walsh or Emma Weyant can’t be bothered to show up and post a time in the W 400 IM (LCM), I’m cheering for Leah Hayes to finish second behind Katie Grimes.
Quite frankly, I’m more interested in the question marks. Kate Douglass and Regan Smith should have first place locked up in the respective events.
Dude, chill. The ATL Classic is the weekend after finals at a lot of universities in the US. Going straight from finals to a meet hours away would be exhausting for Alex and Emma.
The last day of final exams for the 2024 spring semester at the University of Florida is 3 May 2024.
Have the full Mare Nostrum entry lists been released?
Time to commence the 2024 USA Olympic Team Trials event previews before sidetracked by the Canadian trials and Aussie trials.
Wonder if it’s a better idea to have Olympic Trials 2-3 months before the real deal like GER + CHN + CAN or whether it’s better to have it just one month before like USA + AUS.
King Bob elaborates on the topic.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3OZYXfXG2A
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This year there’s another thing to wonder about – Swimmers who participated in the Febuary Doha World Championships seem to still be in a VERY good shape, which brings the question:
Is it better to peak early and keep training while you’re at the top, than it is to try to work your way up through the season and only peak at the main event like everyone used to?
USA and Australia have a lot of competition for spots so leaving it as late as you can makes sense.Better chance of making the right decisions where you have more than 2 qualifiers.The rest of the countries more or less know who is gonna make the team so lots of time to train and taper properly.China needs time to drug their swimmers but still have them come good in time for Paris.
Whilst I can largely agree that for many countries, the likely qualifiers are “known” beforehand in most events; having early Trials comes with it’s own issues. Namely that of swimmers needing to go through another further preparation …… and pray they get THAT taper right.
This was precisely the issue; that of too many not being able to replicate 3 months later; that finally forced Swimming AUS to ditch tradition and move to a shorter time frame in 2019. GBR …… will stick to their ways but they are a much smaller team and tend to focus on specific targets. CAN seems …. currently caught in the middle.