2024 Short Course World Championships - (Tag)

Jordan Crooks Followed Unique Path to Becoming Fastest Man Ever The run to becoming a world-record holder was not without its stumbles for the best swimmer to ever come from the Cayman Islands, a country of less than 100 square miles and a population of under 100,000. Jordan Crooks was first pegged ...

World records are some of the most exciting moments in swimming. The 2024 Short Course World Championships in Budapest was loaded with them. How loaded? How about 30 in one meet. While short-course worlds usually has more world records than other big-time meets, 30 is just an astounding number, espe...

FLASH! Jordan Crooks Visits Uncharted Territory; Blasts WR and Goes Sub-20 in 50 Freestyle In early 2023, Jordan Crooks joined a special club when became just the second man in history - along with Caeleb Dressel - to break the 18-second barrier in the 50-yard freestyle. Now, Crooks is in even more ...

Budapest 2024, Day 2 Prelims: Jordan Crooks Rattles 100 Free World Record Jordan Crooks rattled the 100 free world record in day two prelims at the World Short-Course Championships in Budapest. The Cayman Islands swimmer went joint-third all-time alongside Vlad Morozov in 44.95, a championship and A...

Budapest 2024, Day 4 Finals: Isabel Gose Golden; Jillian Cox Gets Bronze from Morning Heat in 1,500 The 1,500 freestyle is a marathon in the pool, but it was nothing compared to the wait for Jillian Cox Friday in Budapest. Isabel Gose came in with the fastest time in the final of the women’s 1500 fr...

FLASH! Regan Smith Takes Down 200 Back World Record, Completes 50-100-200 Sweep; McIntosh Sets WJR Her earlier wins in the 50 and 100 backstroke were not particularly close, but as Regan Smith aimed to win her third backstroke gold medal of the Short Course World Championships, she faced a familiar ...

Chris Plumb to Lead U.S. Swim Team at Short Course Worlds (Full USA Swimming Staff) After joining the Olympic team coaching staff for the first time this summer, Chris Plumb will be the head coach of a senior-level international team for the first time when he helms the U.S. roster bound for Budapes...

FLASH! Summer McIntosh Sets World Record In 200 Fly; Lowers Mireia Belmonte's 10-Year Standard Summer McIntosh set a world record of 1:59.32 in the 200 fly in Budapest as she lowered Mireia Belmonte's 2014 mark set when the Canadian was eight years old. McIntosh set a WJR of 2:01.96 in prelims, a ti...

FLASH! Gretchen Walsh Takes Down Seventh World Record of Week For 100 Fly Gold In less than 36 hours, Gretchen Walsh of the United States has redefined the imaginable in the short course meters edition of the 100 butterfly. No woman had ever been under 54 seconds before Walsh arrived at Duna Arena f...

Budapest 2024, Day 4 Finals: Luke Hobson Downs Paul Biedermann 200 Free WR; U.S. Wins 800 FR Whatever else has befallen the American men’s program, the relays seem gloriously unaffected. And in Luke Hobson, the U.S. has another tentpole to build the future around. Hobson blasted away the last super-...

FLASH! USA Women's 4x100 Free Relay Crush  Australia's WR In Budapest The USA women's 4x100 free relay took 0.42 off Australia's WR as the records kept tumbling at the short-course worlds in Budapest. The quartet of Kate Douglass, Katharine Berkoff, Alex Shackell and Gretchen Walsh were inside WR pa...

FLASH! Gretchen Walsh Lowers 50 Fly Record; First Woman Inside 24 Secs Gretchen Walsh lowered the 50 fly WR she set in prelims to 23.94 to become the first woman through the 24-second barrier in Budapest. The USA athlete went 24.02 in prelims to slice 0.36 from Therese Alshammar's record that had st...

Budapest 2024, Day 1 Prelims: Summer McIntosh & Noè Ponti Shine As Short-Course Worlds Get Underway Summer McIntosh and Noè Ponti were among the swimmers to make clear their intentions in the first prelims session of the World Short-Course Championships underway in Budapest. Gretchen Walsh set a shu...

Poll: What Individual Men's World Record Was Most Impressive at the World Short Course Champs (VOTE HERE!) The World Short Course Championships in Budapest wrapped up on Sunday, and the competition at Duna Arena certainly put an exciting cap on what has been a sensational year of international racin...

Budapest 2024, Day 6 Finals: Ruta Meilutyte Defends Title in 50 Breaststroke; Claims Fourth Overall Gold in Event When Ruta Meilutyte was locked out of the final of the 100-meter breaststroke earlier in the week, it appeared the Lithuanian might be off form at the World Short Course Championships in...

FLASH! USA Men's 4x100 Free Relay Take Down World Record; CR For Jack Alexy On Lead-Off The USA men's 4x100 free relay lowered Italy's WR as the first night of the short-course worlds ended in Budapest with six new global standards having been set. The quartet were inside the previous standard throu...

A Special Week: Gretchen Walsh Achieves Greatest Short Course Performance Ever Surprised by the sheer dominance that Gretchen Walsh imposed on the world's best sprinters at the Short Course World Championships? Then you haven't been paying close enough attention to the 21-year-old's trajectory over ...

Bob Bowman Talks Gretchen Walsh & The World Record Rush In Budapest The World Short-Course Championships ended on Sunday 15 December after six whirlwind days that featured 30 world records of which nine were set on individual basis by Gretchen Walsh with the American playing a part in 11 overall. Lo...

Budapest 2024, Day 3 Semifinals: Sara Curtis Lowers Her WJR In 50 Back, Noè Ponti Sets 100IM CR Sara Curtis lowered her 50 back WJR to 26.03 as she progressed fifth into Friday's final at the World Short-Course Championships in Budapest. The Italian split 12.78/13.25 to dip 0.05 inside her own recor...

Marchand Record Mania to Continue? Frenchman Sets Sights on Short Course Meters World records in short course meters swimming often lack the credibility of their long course counterparts, largely because of elite swimmers eschewing opportunities to race in the 25-meter course. European swimmers typi...