World Championships Psych Sheet Released: Entries Ranked for All 42 Pool Events
The start of the pool competition at the World Championships is days away, and the list of entries for each event has been released on the Omega Timing website. The document is essentially a psych sheet, ranking the swimmers or relay teams in each event in seed-time order.
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Swimmers still have the option to withdraw from events prior to the creation of start lists each day, but no one new will be added. There are no unexpected reveals in this list. As expected, Summer McIntosh is the top seed in four individual events, both individual medley races plus the 400 freestyle and 200 butterfly, and the second seed behind Katie Ledecky in the 800 freestyle. The other female swimmers with multiple top-seeded times are Ledecky (1500 free, 800 free), the United States’ Gretchen Walsh (100 fly, 50 fly, 50 free) and Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan (200 free, 100 free).
For the men, Leon Marchand is still listed first in all four of his individual races, but he is only expected to contest the IM events while skipping the 200 butterfly and 200 breaststroke. Kliment Kolesnikov is the only other swimmer listed first in multiple events (100 back, 50 back).
A large contingent of neutral athletes will be competing in Singapore. Swimmers listed under the moniker “Neutral Athletes A,” including 50 breast top seed Ilya Shymanovich, are natives of Belarus, while “Neutral Athletes B” indicates Russia. Kolesnikov and Evgeniia Chikunova are world-record holders making their return to long course international competition with the “NAB” tag.
A pair of swimmers who would be ranked first are listed further down on the entry list because their top-ranked swims took place after the entry deadline. Those are Romania’s David Popovici in the 200 freestyle (1:43.64) and South Africa’s Pieter Coetze in the 100 backstroke (51.99).
There are a pair of already-known absences in the breaststroke events. Japan’s Shin Ohashi is not part of his country’s team in Singapore despite recently breaking the world junior record in the 200 breast, while Italy’s Ludovico Viberti will only swim the 100-meter race. He is absent from the 50 despite holding the world’s top time, with countrymen Simone Cerasuolo and Nicolo Martineghi entered for Italy instead. As for the 200 breast, Australia’s Zac Stubblety-Cook is still listed despite pulling out of the meet.
