You are working on Staging1

Popovici, Schoenmaker Among Athletes Not Racing In Doha

2024 WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

  • February 11th – February 18th (pool swimming)
  • Doha, Qatar
  • LCM (50m)
  • Meet Central

While we’re still anticipating the unveiling of the actual entries per event for next month’s World Aquatics Championships, the sport’s governing body’s website reveals the entered athletes per nation for the Doha, Qatar competition.

We’ll be combing through the entries and comparing them to already-published rosters, pointing out who potentially is missing and who has been added now that the pre-Paris 2024 elite meet is just days away.

Right off the bat, we noticed that the Romanian roster is missing World Record holder David Popovici.

The 19-year-old speedster was a question mark about racing in Doha but it now appears he will not try to upgrade his 6th place finish in the 100m freestyle from Fukuoka.

On the women’s side, two-time medalist from Fukuoka Tatjana Schoenmaker no longer seems to be racing for South Africa next month.

Schoenmaker was originally named to the 16-strong South African lineup for Doha but is missing from the list appearing on World Aquatics’ website. And she’s not the only one in that same situation. Emma Chelius, Kaylene Corbett and Rebecca Meder were also originally expected to race for RSA but are absent from the cluster of entered athletes.

Look for additional posts with insights as we await the official psych sheets.

In This Story

21
Leave a Reply

Subscribe
Notify of

21 Comments
newest
oldest most voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Troyy
9 months ago

List of everyone’s lineups:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/es2ytzgl3137cg3ccsmzk/2024-Doha-entries.txt?rlkey=50ddcgfouqap40dmxi0vz5d2j&dl=0

Surprised to see Shayna doing the individual 200.

Jenna Forrester and Abbey Connor were announced as part of the roster but are missing from the entries

flicker
Reply to  Troyy
9 months ago

wonder why Forrester’s no longer going she was the favourite for gold after Grimes dropped out

Leoyu
Reply to  Troyy
9 months ago

Zhang zhanshuo is gonna be busy

Sub13
Reply to  Troyy
9 months ago

Agreed. Obviously my check earlier wasn’t very thorough lol.

However, depending on who is there she might be able to medal with a 1:55 low-mid

TheSalmon
9 months ago

hmmmmm how will this affect the caesers odds

Last edited 9 months ago by TheSalmon
Noah
9 months ago

KATE DOUGLASS EASY WORLD CHAMP🙏🙏 Really wanted to see her and Schoenmaker race though!

Willswim
9 months ago

Although this is shaping up to be a sub-par world championships when it comes to the level of competition, it might end up being the most difficult Pick ‘Em contest we’ve ever had. In some people’s eyes swimmers might have an asterisk next to their wins, but the Pick ‘em winners should get an exclamation point on theirs.

Imonar
9 months ago

Tatiana Schoenmaker is current world and Olympic champion. Saying she’s two time medalist from Fukuoka doesn’t do her justice.

Sub13
9 months ago

It appears that you can see specific entries on the website now, but in the clunky format and not a convenient list or pdf: https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/2969/world-aquatics-championships-doha-2024/results?discipline=SW&disciplines=&event=214d920a-b1b2-44a8-89fb-9a7af2fb0427

No major eyebrow raises that I can see from my very brief review. I notice Aus and USA are entered in every relay but can’t imagine they’ll swim them all. Also Throssell is skipping the 200 fly but swimming the 200 free so seems like her goal is just to do the relay in Paris.

Last edited 9 months ago by Sub13
Sub13
Reply to  Sub13
9 months ago

Also Cooper going full MA and swimming only 3 x 50s.

Should be enough info there now to get prediction articles (although a lot of them will just be saying there is only e competitive entry in the event and they’ll clear easily)

Imonar
Reply to  Sub13
9 months ago

Cooper going full MA and refuse to train for 100 will bite him in the ass if he doesn’t qualify for Paris.

Troyy
Reply to  Imonar
9 months ago

He already said months ago that he isn’t targeting the 100s for Doha but would be for Paris.

Sub13
Reply to  Imonar
9 months ago

He’s said he’s doing the 100 back at trials. But yeah, since he doesn’t do free he better hope he hits top 2 and QT in either 50 free or 100 back.

Strong possibility he misses both, but if his 50 free keeps improving he could medal

Troyy
Reply to  Sub13
9 months ago

He’s doing the 100 free at trials as well.

Sub13
Reply to  Troyy
9 months ago

I didn’t know that. But also he has 0 chance of top 6 in that.

Hank
9 months ago

What about Pan Zhanle?

Sapiens Ursus
Reply to  Hank
9 months ago

He’s on the roster.

Bill Lumberg
9 months ago

Schoenmaker better be on her A game in Paris because K Douglass is coming for blood

Willem Coetzee
Reply to  Bill Lumberg
9 months ago

The same as King was in 2021 🤣

Bill Lumberg
Reply to  Willem Coetzee
9 months ago

Guess you missed that 2:19.3 she just swam IN SEASON. Derp.

About Braden Keith

Braden Keith

Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

Read More »