2024 World Aquatics Championships
The qualifying relay lineups for the women’s and men’s 4×100 free relay have been announced, with many teams having their top athletes swim in the qualifying rounds.
The relay here in Doha is the most important as it will decide most of the places for the Paris Olympics. Each relay event will have a maximum of 16 qualified teams, according to the qualification system found here.
The top three teams from each relay in Fukuoka will automatically qualify, and the remaining 13 teams will be selected based on their fastest times from the 2023 World Championships and this event. If there is a tie for the final qualifying spot, a swim-off will be held to determine the final invitees.
Women’s 4×100 free relay
Australia, the defending champions of the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay, had only one of the four competitors return from the Fukuoka final.That swimmer Shayna JackAnd she will be anchoring Australian Forces this morning.butterfly specialist alexandria perkinsbackstroke genius Jaclyn Barclaybreaststroke abby harkin He plans to participate in the qualifying relay. Brianna Throssellowns a best time of 53 seconds and is widely expected to join the quartet in the final. Australia have won the competition three times in the past and are favorites to continue their winning streak in tonight’s final.
The Netherlands will swim next to Australia in the second heat and their quartet is: kim bush, Milou van Wijk, Janna Van Kootenand Kira Toussaint.search marit steenburgen She won a medal in the individual 100 free in Fukuoka and will be in the lineup for the final later today.
The Canadian AM team consists of: rebecca smith, Sarah Fournier, Ella Jansenand taylor ruck. Luck recently decided to train with the ASU Pro Group, so this game will be his first major check-in after the coaching change.
Attention is focused on the world record holder in breaststroke Ruta Meiltite In Heat 2, Lithuania will take the lead off. She competed individually in the freestyle event at her 2012 London Olympics, so it will be interesting to see what she measures up in the opening leg.
Top seeded participant in the individual 100 free, Siobhan Hoeyespecially absent from the Hong Kong broadcast.
Kayla SanchezShe, who recently changed her sporting nationality from Canada to the Philippines, will take the lead in the first heat. Keep an eye out for her splits on her first leg, as she has helped Canada win multiple medals in this relay over the past few years.
Men’s 4×100 free relay
The Australian men have opted to scratch this event and are the defending champions in Fukuoka. However, Team GB will stand out in Heat 1, Lane 0. Their lineup is as follows: Jacob Whittle, tom dean, duncan scottand Matthew Richards. They are getting a lot of attention from Whittle, who jumped a little early in his heat in Fukuoka. Team GB was already a gold medal candidate at the Fukuoka Games before the preliminary DQ, and is still aiming for a spot in Paris through this relay.
Team Italy will feature a very strong relay in the heats. lorenzo zazzeri, Paolo Conte Bonin, leonardo deplanoand Alessandro Milessi. Zazzeri and Milessi are returning from last year’s silver medal-winning relay.
Team USA submitted the following lineup. hunter armstrong, jack akins, luke hobsonand carson foster.expect matt king As the anchor of the relay that won the bronze medal in Fukuoka last year, he will be joining tonight’s lineup as a substitute.
full lineup
Women’s 4×100 free relay:
Heat 1:
- lane 1 – Chinese Taipei (Meicheng Huang, Yien Wu, Peiwan Lin, Applegene Gwin)
- lane 2 – Philippines (Kayla SanchezJasmine Alhardi, Siandi Chua, Teia Isabella Salvino)
- lane 3 – Brazil (Ana Carolina Vieira, Stefani Balduccini, midfielder da Silva Costa de Oliveira, Aline Rodriguez)
- lane 4 – China (Lyu Yue, Ma Yonghui, Gong Zhenqi, Ai Yanhan)
- lane 5 – Canada (rebecca smithSarah Fournier, Ella Jansen, taylor ruck)
- lane 6 – Ireland (Erin Riordan, Grace Davison, Maria Godden, Victoria Catterson)
- lane 7 – Serbia (Katarina Milutinovic, Nina Stanisavljevic, Janna Markovic, Martina Vukovic)
Heat 2:
- lane 1 – Slovenia (Neza Klancar, Janja Segel, Katja Fain, hana Sekuti)
- lane 2 – Lithuania (Ruta MeiltiteSylvia Statkevicius, Patricia Geriksonite, Smirte Plitnikaite)
- lane 3 – Italy (Sofia Morini, Costanza Coconcelli, Emma Virginia Menicucci, Chiara Tarantino)
- lane 4 – Australia (Alexandria Perkins, Jaclyn Barclay, Abbey Harkin, Shayna Jack)
- lane 5 – Netherlands (kim bushMilou van Wyk, Janna van Kooten, Kira Toussaint)
- lane 6 – Hong Kong (Hui Lam Tam, Camille Lily Mei Chen, Stephanie Oh, Sam Yiu Lee)
- lane 7 – Poland (Zuzanna Famrock, Julia Mike, Aleksandra Polanska, Cornelia Fiedkiewicz)
Men’s 4×100 free relay:
Heat 1:
- lane 0 – Bulgaria (Iosif Miladinov, Kaloyan Bratanov, Petar Mitsin, Yordan Yanchev)
- lane 1 – Lithuania (Tomas Naviconis, Daniil Panserevas, Tomas Rukminas, Rokas Jazdauskas)
- lane 2 – Singapore (Mikkel Lee, Jonathan Tan, Ardi Azman, Darren Lim)
- lane 3 – Spain (Luis Dominguez, Sergio de Celis Montalbán, Mario Mora Yanez)
- lane 4 – America (hunter armstrong, jack akins, luke hobson, carson foster)
- lane 5 – Canada (Javier Acevedo, Finlay Knox, Antoine Sauve, Stephen Calkins)
- lane 6 – Hungary (Szebasztian Szabo, Daniel Meszaros, Adam Jaszo, Nandor Nemeth)
- lane 7 – Sweden (Robin Hansson, Bjorn Seeliger, Isak Eliasson, Marcus Holmquist)
- lane 8 – Thailand (Duryawat Kaewsuriyong, Navapat Wongcharoen, Ratawit Tamanantachote, Thongnam Kantimol)
Heat 2:
- lane 0 – United Kingdom (Jacob Whittle, tom dean, duncan scottMatthew Richards)
- lane 1 – Mexico (Andreas Dupont Cabrera, Hector Rubalcaba, Jose Martinez, Jorge Iga)
- lane 2 – Poland (Kamil Sieracki, Kusaweri Masiuk, Mateusz Chowaniec, Kaczper Majzulzak)
- lane 3 – South Korea (Jaehoon Yang, Yuchan Ji, Yooyeon Lee, Minsuk Kim)
- lane 4 – Italy (lorenzo zazzeri, Paolo Conte Bonin, leonardo deplano, Alessandro Milessi)
- lane 5 – China (Wang Haoyu, Ji Xinjie, Zhang Zhanshou, Pan Zhanle)
- lane 6 – Serbia (Velimir Stepanovic, Andrei Varna, Uros Nikolic, Nikola Asin)
- lane 7 – Greece (Apostolos Christou, Stergios Marios Bilas, Kristian Gkolomeev, Andreas Vazaios)
- lane 8 – Vietnam (Hung Nguyen Tran, Huy Hoang Nguyen, Dinh Chuen Ngo, Quang Tuan Nguyen)
- lane 9 – Slovakia (Tibor Tistan, Matej Dousa, Richard Nagy František Jabrčnik)