World Championships Entry List Released: Leon Marchand Entered in All Four Gold-Medal Events
World Aquatics has released the entry list for the 42 pool swimming events that will be contested at the organization’s upcoming signature event in Singapore. These entries contain the swimmers entered in each event in alphabetical order by country, not in order of seed times. The pool swimming competition will take place July 27-August 3 at a special venue at the Singapore Sports Hub.
View the full entry list here.
Little new information can be gleaned from these initial entries as each national federation had staged selection meets or announced their rosters heading to Singapore. However, these lists do confirm that Leon Marchand is entered in all four individual events in which he won Olympic gold last summer in Paris. It was unclear if he would attempt both the 200 butterfly and 200 breaststroke in addition to the individual medley events. Previously, he skipped the 200 breast at global meets in 2022 and 2023.
Marchand did not race at the French Championships in June, but he did post some reminders of his 2024 dominance at the Longhorn Elite Invitational in May, where his times included the world’s best 400 IM this year.
Summer McIntosh is the headliner on the women’s side, with the 18-year-old Canadian set to swim five individual events following her historic performance at Canadian Trials. McIntosh will be the top seed in both medley events, the 400 free and 200 fly and the No. 2 seed behind Katie Ledecky in the 800 free.
One unresolved entry was cleared up with this release: James Guy will be the second British representative in the 200 free along with 2023 world champion Matt Richards. Guy had tied with Duncan Scott for the win in the event at the British Championships, but only one spot was available with Richards pre-selected by virtue of his Paris Olympic silver in the event. Guy receives the nod while Scott has several other individual events and relays on his Singapore slate.
For the United States, this list confirms several adjustments to the roster that took place following U.S. Nationals. Bobby Finke has opted out of the 400 IM to focus on the distance freestyle races, ceding his spot to Rex Maurer, while both Katie Ledecky and Torri Huske declined spots in the 200 free, putting Erin Gemmell in position for the individual nod alongside Claire Weinstein.
While the pool events are still more than two weeks away, the World Championships officially begin Friday with water polo action taking place over two weeks (July 11-24). Open water swimming will follow with competition starting July 15.
