{"id":235712,"date":"2017-01-08T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=235712"},"modified":"2017-04-04T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:22:08","slug":"morning-splash-17-male-swimmers-watch-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/morning-splash-17-male-swimmers-watch-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Splash: 17 Male Swimmers to Watch in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

By David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

As professional\u00a0swimming has grown over the past several Olympiads, the average age of the world’s top swimmers has gone up, particularly on the men’s side. It’s hardly unusual anymore to findmen in their mid-to-late 20s standing on international podiums.<\/p>\n

Michael Phelps<\/strong> and\u00a0Ryan Lochte<\/strong> have performed with remarkable consistency over their respective long careers,\u00a035-year-old\u00a0Ant<\/strong>hony Ervin<\/strong>\u00a0became the oldest individual gold medalist ever in men’s swimming this summer in Rio. But after Ervin and Phelps, the next oldest man to\u00a0win Olympic gold this summer was Japan’s\u00a0Kosuke Hagino<\/strong>, who turned 22 on August 15\u2014two days after the swimming competition ended.<\/p>\n

Now, Phelps is retired (again\u2014he says this time for good) and Lochte is suspended. So maybe this sport is getting young again? That’s definitely a theme throughout our 17 male swimmers to watch this year.<\/p>\n

As with the women’s list<\/a>, this will not be exhaustive\u2014far more than 17 men will win medals at the World Championships this summer, and it’s improbable that each of these will all make the podium. But you should still keep an eye on them anyway.<\/p>\n

1. Adam Peaty<\/h3>\n

Really, this is a pretty clear choice for the No. 1 spot. Adam Peaty\u00a0<\/strong>won gold in the 100 breast in Rio in\u00a057.13, more than a second faster than anybody else has ever swum. His defense of World titles in both the 50 and 100 breast this year seems like a given.<\/p>\n

But what about the 200 breast, an event so deep in Great Britain that neither Peaty nor European champion Ross Murdoch<\/strong> qualified to swim the event in Rio? Can his 57-low 100 breast and that insane speed eventually carry over into the longer distance?<\/p>\n

And then in the 100 breast, there’s that 57-second barrier. Yes, it’s realistic to think someone could swim a 56 in a long course 100 breast.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

2. Ryan Murphy<\/h3>\n

Ryan\u00a0Murphy <\/strong>will kick off the\u00a0year\u00a0in the college arena, where he hopes to finish his career at Cal-Berkeley with fourth-straight NCAA titles in both the 100 and 200-yard back while leading the Bears to a national championship.<\/p>\n

And then, he will turn pro, and Murphy has gone on-record in saying that he hopes to keep swimming for as long as possible. It helps that he won three Olympic gold medals in Rio and is still 21 years old.<\/p>\n

Sure, he’ll go into the summer with a target on his back, having swept the backstroke events in Rio, but is he invincible? He has the world record in the 100 back at 51.85 but still has a long way to go to reach\u00a0Aaron Peirsol’s<\/strong> world record of 1:51.92 in the 200 back.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

3. Mack Horton<\/h3>\n

He out-dueled\u00a0Sun Yang<\/strong> for gold in the 400 free in Rio. He showed some range, too, recording the fastest split on Australia’s 800 free relay that finished just outside the medals and also finishing fifth in the mile after entering the Games ranked No. 2 in the world.<\/p>\n

Now, Mack\u00a0Horton<\/strong>\u00a0has some World Championships demons to exorcise. As a 19-year-old two years ago in Kazan, an ill Horton missed the finals in both the 400 and 1500 after entering as one of the top-ranked swimmers in the world in both events.<\/p>\n

His Olympic gold medal will ramp up the expectations a bit this time around.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

4. Joseph Schooling<\/h3>\n

After defeating\u00a0Michael Phelps<\/strong>\u00a0to win Olympic gold in the American’s final individual race, Schooling is looked upon as the man to chase in the 100 fly, even with veterans like\u00a0Chad le Clos<\/strong> and\u00a0Laszlo Cseh<\/strong> still in the picture. Schooling’s time of 50.39 cracked\u00a0Ian Crocker’s<\/strong>\u00a011-year-old\u00a0<\/strong>textile world record of 50.40\u2014could the 50-second barrier be on the horizon?<\/p>\n

Like Murphy, Schooling also has some NCAA requirements to take care of before he heads to the World Championships, and he will be gunning for three\u00a0titles in a row in both butterfly events and Texas for a third straight team championship.<\/p>\n

Schooling’s value to the Longhorns exceeds just his 100 fly skills\u2014he is the fastest 200-yard butterflyer in history and an ace on free relays. Come this summer, it might be time for Schooling to show off some of that versatility in the long course pool.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

5. Kyle Chalmers<\/h3>\n

On either side of the podium for the men’s 100 free in Rio were 27-year-old\u00a0Nathan Adrian<\/strong>, the uber-consistent defending gold medalist, and 28-year-old\u00a0Pieter Timmers<\/strong>, a breakout story at age 28.<\/p>\n

In the middle was an Australian, which was not so surprising\u2014except it was not pre-race favorite Cameron McEvoy<\/strong>. Winning gold was\u00a018-year-old\u00a0Kyle Chalmers<\/strong>, who blew everyone else away on the second 50. His gold was Australia’s first in the men’s\u00a0100 free in 48 years.<\/p>\n

Going into that final, it seemed that maybe, if the field was relatively slow, that Chalmers might be able to sneak in with a victory. But he touched in 47.58\u2014not “slow” by any stretch. And would it be at all surprising if, by this summer, the teenager gets even faster.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

6. James Guy<\/h3>\n

We now move on to the section where no more individual gold medalists from Rio will be permitted on the list. That begins with\u00a0James Guy<\/strong>, the World Champion in the 200 free in 2011 but a hard-luck fourth-place finisher in the 200 in Rio. He also finished sixth in the 400 free after holding a big lead through 250 meters.<\/p>\n

Guy did win some relay hardware with two silvers from Rio, but he left Brazil disappointed, particularly as his World title-winning time in the 200 free (1:45.14) would have been good for a silver in Rio.<\/p>\n

In an event without much separation among the top contenders, Guy bears watching.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: R-Sport \/ MIA Rossiya Segodnya<\/p><\/div>\n

7. Townley Haas<\/h3>\n

A second straight 200 freestyler and a second Texas Longhorn makes the list in\u00a0Townley Haas<\/strong>, whose NCAA debut could not have gone much better a year ago. In the 200-yard free, Haas posted a time of 1:30.46, demolishing the decade-old U.S. Open record of 1:31.20.<\/p>\n

He then won the 200 free at the U.S. Olympic Trials and went on to finish fifth in the final in Rio in 1:45.58. Not bad, right?<\/p>\n

Indeed, pretty good\u2014or so everyone thought at the time. A day later, Haas split 1:44.14 on the gold medal-winning U.S. 800 free relay. The split was tops in the entire field.<\/p>\n

Remember what I just said about the 200 free being relatively wide open? Yeah, watch Haas, too.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

8. Chad le Clos<\/h3>\n

Chad le Clos<\/strong> won two medals this summer in Rio, just none in the event he considered his best. In Rio, le Clos’ brave race plan paid off with a runner-up finish in the 200 free, and then minutes later he helped spawn #PhelpsFace prior to the 200 fly semifinals. Continually looking for\u00a0Michael Phelps<\/strong> in the 200 fly final, le Clos ended up finishing fourth. He then rounded out his week finishing in a three-way tie for silver in the 100 fly.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath, le Clos explained that he could hardly accept not winning gold in the 200 fly, let alone not winning a medal. But he did not have too long to be down on himself, returning to the pool in time to sweep all three butterfly events at the Short Course World Championships in December.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, le Clos is an excellent short course swimmer, and converting times is far from a perfect art, but\u00a0Swimming World’s<\/em> Time Converter<\/a>\u00a0equates le Clos’s short course 100 fly time of 48.08 to 49.38 long course. His 200 fly time of 1:48.76 comes out to 1:52.06.<\/p>\n

It’s bold to declare that he will swim that fast this coming summer, but certainly there’s reason to expect quicker swims from the 24-year-old South African than he put up in Rio.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Streeta Lecker \/ Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n

9. Mitch Larkin<\/h3>\n

Winning an Olympic silver medal in the 200 back and a bronze in the 400 medley relay was nice, but only a year earlier\u00a0Mitch Larkin\u00a0<\/strong>had stood atop the podium in both backstroke events at the World Championships.<\/p>\n

He’s the only one on this list so far with more than one Olympics worth of experience and at 23 years old, the oldest, but still far from past his prime. If there’s anyone who could give Murphy a scare in the 200 back in the foreseeable future, it’s Larkin.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

10. Josh Prenot<\/h3>\n

Josh Prenot<\/strong> came pretty darn close to winning Olympic gold in Rio, finishing just seven one-hundredths behind\u00a0Dmitriy Balandin\u00a0<\/strong>in the men’s 200 breast final. Prenot’s 2:07.14 in the event from the U.S. Olympic Trials ranks second all-time behind\u00a0Akihiro Yamaguchi’s\u00a0<\/strong>four-year-old world record of 2:07.01.<\/p>\n

Prenot could become the first man to break into the 2:07-range this year, but more intriguing might be his potential outside of the breaststroke events. His IM skills were on display earlier this year when he recorded the second-fastest time in history in the 400-yard IM at the NCAA championships (3:35.82).<\/p>\n

He scratched out of the 400 IM final at the U.S. Olympic Trials\u00a0and did not compete in the 200 IM at all, knowing that he would have a near-impossible task of making the Olympic team. But with Phelps and Lochte now out of the picture, it could be a chance for Prenot\u2014a sneaky-good butterflyer<\/a>\u2014to rejoin the fray.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

11-12. Masato Sakai & Tamas Kenderesi<\/h3>\n

With 50 meters to go in the men’s 200 fly final in Rio, all eyes were on\u00a0Michael Phelps<\/strong>, trying to hold on for gold in lane five, and his rival\u00a0Chad le Clos<\/strong>, seemingly closing in from lane six.<\/p>\n

Phelps was willing himself to the finish and looked to be pulling away as le Clos started to fade. But\u00a0in lane four, Hungary’s\u00a0Tamas Kenderesi<\/strong> was coming back into the mix, and in lane seven, so was Japan’s\u00a0Masato Sakai<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sakai looked like he had a chance to steal away the gold medal in the closing meters, if not for another magical Phelps finish. Sakai touched in 1:53.40 for silver, and Kenderesi was just behind in 1:53.61, picking up a bronze.<\/p>\n

Sakai is 21 years old, and Kenderesi just turned 20 in December.\u00a0Sure, the likes of le Clos and\u00a0Laszlo Cseh<\/strong> are still around, but this duo could be standing on 200 fly podiums for a while to come.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

13. Cameron McEvoy<\/h3>\n

Kyle Chalmers<\/strong> broke the streak of Australian futility in the men’s 100 free in Rio, but the man supposed to be in that position was\u00a0Cameron McEvoy<\/strong>. McEvoy, after all was the veteran with a World Championships silver and a Pan Pacs title under his belt, the one who had stopped the clock in 47.04 at Australia’s Olympic Trials to break\u00a0Eamon Sullivan’s\u00a0<\/strong>Australian record of 47.05.<\/p>\n

But in the race for Olympic medals, McEvoy was nowhere to be found. He was seventh in the 100 free final in Rio, touching in a lackluster time of 48.12. McEvoy, relatively small for a sprinter at 6’1″ and 75 kg (165 lbs), seemingly got caught up in the wake with Americans\u00a0Nathan Adrian\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Caeleb Dressel\u00a0<\/strong>on either side of him.<\/p>\n

Still, McEvoy has swum the 100 free much faster than anyone else in history in a textile suit, and he’s 22, turning 23 in May. His shot at redemption awaits.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Steve Christo\/Swimming Australia<\/p><\/div>\n

14. Gabriele Detti<\/h3>\n

Next up is a guy who, unlike McEvoy, used the Olympic stage as a big boost for his profile. Italy’s\u00a0Gregorio Paltrinieri\u00a0<\/strong>got more attention prior to Rio as the distance man to watch, but his countryman\u00a0Gabriele Detti<\/strong> put on a show of his own, using the best closing speed in the field to win bronze medals in both the 400 and 1500.<\/p>\n

Detti also won three individual medals at the European Championships earlier in 2016, gold in the 400 and silvers behind Paltrinieri in the 800 and mile. But he’s never won a World Championship medal, and he will have a chance to do so in all three distance events this summer in Budapest.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

15. Duncan Scott<\/h3>\n

This teenager made his Olympic debut in heat five of eight of the men’s 100 free in Rio and promptly took down the British record in the event, finishing in 48.01. Even after the circle-seeded heats, that time was good enough to qualify Scott third for the semifinals. Later that day, Scott won his first Olympic medal, posting the second-fastest split on Great Britain’s silver medal-winning 800 free relay.<\/p>\n

Scott went on to finish fifth in the 100 free final, tying his British record from prelims, and he won another silver as the anchor leg of his country’s 400 medley relay.<\/p>\n

He does not turn 20 until May. Yes, he may be the third British man to make the list, but the attention is deserved. Scott figures to be a big darkhorse in the 100 free\u2014and possibly even the 200 free\u2014this summer at the World Championships.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports<\/p><\/div>\n

16. Jesse Puts<\/h3>\n

A few months after just barely missing out on Olympic qualification,\u00a0Jesse Puts <\/strong>headed across the Atlantic\u00a0to Windsor and win a Short Course World title in the men’s 50 free, coming from out of lane seven to upset\u00a0Vladimir Morozov<\/strong> by four one-hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n

A week later, Puts broke\u00a0Pieter van den Hoogenband’s <\/strong>long course\u00a0Dutch\u00a0record in the event with a time of 21.82. Sure, that won’t win any long course World titles, but winning a Short Course World title in his first global meet means Puts\u00a0is doing things correctly.<\/p>\n

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17. Michael Andrew<\/h3>\n

Like Puts,\u00a0Michael Andrew<\/strong> won his first World title last month in Windsor after not qualifying for the Olympics\u2014he finished fourth in the 100 breast at U.S. Olympic Trials. But Andrew’s golden event, the 100 IM, does not exist in the long course pool.<\/p>\n

So if Andrew will make a mark internationally this summer, it will have to come in some other event\u2014at this point, the breaststrokes, the 200 IM and the 400 free relay appear to be the most plausible possibilities.<\/p>\n

Andrew has just over a year left to add to his ridiculous haul of National Age Group records\u2014he turns 18 in April\u2014and the next step figures to be earning spot on a senior U.S. team bound for a long course championships.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

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