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Leon Marchand is entered in the 400 IM where he has a chance to sweep the IMs and win the meet title for the second time this series. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
Kate Douglass and Regan Smith were once-again separated by a close margin, with Smith winning the Incheon leg of the World Cup over Douglass by .2.
Tampa, where the men won the 2024 NCAA Division II title, pulled off a head-turning upset over a partial-squad Florida team on Friday at home.
17-year-old Milla Jansen of Australia continued to impress on day 3 in Incheon, snagging 100m free bronze in a new Aussie Age Record.
Leon Marchand is entered in the 400 IM where he has a chance to sweep the IMs and win the meet title for the second time this series.
Pan Zhanle, world record holder in the men’s LCM 100 freestyle, put on a show in the 800m free tonight in Incheon to close out the 2nd World Cup stop.
Australian multi-Olympic medalist Kyle Chalmers reflects on a stressful time in Paris with post-men’s 100m freestyle drama.
After breaking the World Record in the 100 back, Regan grabbed an American Record in the 200 back – and the top prize for the Incheon stop of…
Nation-leading 200 fly times, multiple sub-1:23 medley relays, 50-point backstroke, school records, last night had it all…and it’s only October.
October 26th, 2024
Day 3 Finals Start List
It’s the final session of the Incheon stop of the 2024 World Cup Series, and the race to the top of the overall rankings is on.
Kate Douglass won the Shanghai stop and seemed to be on track to claim the crown again here, but no-showed the 200 IM prelims this morning. That was her last individual event of the stop, which means she’s locked in at 59.2 points. That gives fellow American Regan Smith a chance to sneak by and upgrade her overall silver from Shanghai. The newly minted 100 backstroke SCM world record holder is entered in the 200 backstroke. (See a more in-depth breakdown of the scoring system here.)
On the men’s side, Pieter Coetze currently leads the standings. He won both the 50 and 200 backstroke and has the chance at making it a sweep in the 100 tonight. He’ll have to get through some stiff competition, including top seed Kacper Stokowski and LCM world record holder Thomas Ceccon. Regardless of who claims the overall crown, there will definitely be a shuffle amongst the top five after the 200 breast has settled. Caspar Corbeau, Qin Haiyang, and Ilya Shymanovich are only 2.4 points apart from one another so the finish order will matter.
We’ll see Leon Marchand in action to kick off the session. After dropping both the 200 breast and 200 free this morning, he is all-in on the 400 IM. A win there could push him back atop the ranking after he won the overall crown in Shanghai. He topped the field last time, but world record holder Daiya Seto has entered the mix.
Another exciting race to watch out for will be the men’s 50 fly, where Noe Ponti is the top seed. He broke the world record at the last stop and was the only swimmer to break 22-seconds this morning.
The men’s 800 free and 200 free will also be contested tonight alongside the women’s 100 fly, 50 breast, 100 free, and 200 IM.
Top 8:
Leon Marchand completed a sweep of the men’s IM races, lowering his French record from last week in the process (3:58.30). He was out over two seconds slower than his Shanghai performance, but had a much improved back-half to break 4:00 for the first time. He also cracks the top 10 all-time list for the first time, jumping up from #18 to #10.
It was world record Daiya Seto who set the pace, holding a lead over Marchand and the rest of the field from the start through the 350. He and Marchand separated themselves from the rest of the field early. Seto took the race out aggressively (54.19/1:00.66) to lead by over
Alberto Razzetti was in bronze position for the entirety of the race, though he was slightly off his Shanghai performance.
After the race, Marchand commented on his improved pacing while Seto declared his intent to chase his own world record at Worlds in December.
Top 8:
Pan Zhanle, best known to the world as a sprinter, completed the distance sweep in Incheon with a World Cup record in the 800 free. The Chinese star held strong from lane 8, splitting consistent 14-mids for the majority of the race. His stroke looked incredibly smooth as well, before he dropped a 25.80 closing split to clinch the race. That also represents a new Chinese record, surpassing Fei Liwei‘s time from 2022 (7:37.74).
The race for gold was conducted across the pool, as Kim Junwoo took it out hard in front of a home crowd in lane 2. The 17-year-old led through the halfway mark, but was passed by Pan at 575 meters. Still, he had built up enough of a lead to hang onto silver.
The middle of the pool looked even for most of the race, but Shanghai 1500 champion Charlie Clark started to pull away towards the middle of the race. He looked to have bronze secured until another 17-year-old, Kazushi Imafuku, scorched 26.17 on the final 50 to make it a full Asian podium.
Top 8:
While she didn’t match her Finnish record from last week, Laura Lahtinen once again took home the win in the 100 fly. Like her Shanghai performance, she used a strong back-half to claim the win. Lahtinen was the only athlete to crack the 56-second barrier.
Lily Price improved by just over a tenth of a second for silver, also using a strong 50 to move up from 5th. That adds to her silver from the 50 butterfly last night.
Yu Yiting earned bronze, about 0.3-seconds slower than her silver outing in Shanghai. She just out-touched Louise Hansson, who faded on the final 25 meters.
Top 8:
DQ: Teong Tzen Wei (SGP)
Noe Ponti once again won gold in the 50 fly, but it was Nyls Korstanje who was out first at the 25 (9.9 to 10.08). Ponti roared home with the only sub-12 split of the field to miss his world record by under a tenth.
Korstanje held strong for silver, just missing his Dutch record of 21.96 from last week.
There was a tie for bronze between Marius Kusch and Isaac Cooper, who split the race nearly identically (10.15/12.15 vs. 10.16/12.14).
Top 8:
According to the broadcast, Regan Smith needed a 2:00.50 in this event to win the overall stop. She blew past that entirely, clocking 1:59.60 to overtake Missy Franklin‘s American record from 2011. That improves on the time she put up in Shanghai by nearly a second. Smith was strong throughout her race, descending her second, third, and fourth 50s.
Anastasiya Shkurdai took silver once again, adding just 0.2-seconds from last week. It looked like it would be a repeat of the Shanghai podium until the final 25, as Ingrid Wilm stormed past Beata Nelson down the stretch. Wilm split 14.97 coming home, though both athletes were a little off their series best.
With that, Smith moves into the overall meet lead.
Top 8:
Pieter Coezte completed the backstroke sweep in Incheon, recording the only sub-50 time of the field for the win. He was off his African record from last week, but it was enough to grab the win over Kacper Stokowski. Coetze had the best closing speed (25.55).
The top three were the same as Shanghai, with Stokowski and Thomas Ceccon trading places. Ceccon didn’t show the same opening speed as he did last week, and moved through the field from 5th to 3rd in the second 50.
Top 8:
Tang Qianting repeated as winner of the 50 breast, leading wire-to-wire to win by almost half-a-second. Tang split 13.28/15.75 to clock 29.03, off her Asian record from Shanghai but plenty for the win.
World junior record holder Benedetta Pilato repeated for silver, dropping 0.25-seconds from last week. She improved on both laps of the race to clearly separate herself from the rest of the field.
Alina Zmushka, who tied for 4th last week, made it onto the podium with a 29.80. That drops just over a tenth from her outing there. The top four finishers held their positions for the entire race.
Top 8:
Up until this point, every Shanghai champion claimed a second win (with the exception of the men’s 800 freestyle, which was first contested in the series this week). That streak came to an end in the 200 breast, as long course WR holder Qin Haiyang held off a late charge from Joshua Yong.
Swimming out of lane 8, Qin grabbed an early lead. Yong narrowly took over in the last 75, but Qin’s final 25 of 15.44 (to Yong’s 15.99) closed the door on another win for the Australian. Both swimmers hit 2:01s last week.
Caspar Corbeau picked up another bronze, just over a second off the 2:02.42 he put up last week.
Top 8:
Siobhan Haughey repeated as 100 free champion, improving her time by 0.15-seconds. All of that drop came from her back-half, as she split 25.08/26.65 compared to 24.99/26.90 last week.
Kasia Wasick had a redemptive swim from last week, where she was in medal position until the final lap. Here, she earned silver with 52.19 for a 0.37-second improvement.
Milla Jansen earned another World Cup bronze with a new personal best. That caps off a trio of freestyle medals for the Australian teenager at this meet. She eked past Yang Junxuan in the final lap.
Top 8:
Duncan Scott just missed his own British record as he repeated as champion in the men’s 200 free.
Scott was actually leading Paul Biedermann‘s world record by nearly half a second at the 150, but as we’ve seen many times before Biedermann’s closing 50 sped away from him. (Biedermann closed in 24.65; Scott was 26.06 today.) Still, it was a dominant performance from Scott, whose nearest competitor was 1.71-seconds behind.
Danas Rapsys upgraded to silver here, improving from his 1:42.35 effort in Shanghai. He was followed by Kieran Smith, who also dropped time from last week. Hwang Sunwoo, seemingly powered by the home crowd, was in 2nd for most of the race but couldn’t hold off Rapsys and Smith on the final 50.
Top 8:
A new 200 IM champion for the series was crowned in Kate Douglass‘ absence. (The commentator noted that she did not pull out of prelims due to illness.)
In her second swim of the night, Yu Yiting topped the podium after picking up bronze in the 100 fly. Yu led from start to finish, clocking a final time of 2:04.73. That’s within striking distance of her Chinese record from 2021 (2:04.48).
Mary-Sophie Harvey was right on her best time, also from 2021 (2:05.15), for silver. That gives her a full set of IM medals in Incheon alongside her 400 free gold.
Tara Kinder rounded out the podium, hitting a new PB of 2:06.56.
Regan Smith took home the meet win on the women’s side by just 0.2 points. In Shanghai, Douglass was 0.1 points ahead of Smith. Siobhan Haughey repeated for 3rd.
On the men’s side, Noe Ponti just got past Leon Marchand for the win by 0.1 points. They swapped positions from Shanghai where Marchand had over a point lead. Pieter Coetze was 3rd by a comparably comfortable margin.
Women (Top 10)
Men (Top 10)
Marchand DQ in the 200 IM. The back to breast turn was too good.
I’m sad Douglass didn’t swim 2IM. do we know why?
I find it weird the articles aren’t really touching on this!
It may cost her the overall title since Regan Smith has improved in the W 100 BK, W 200 BK since the first stop of the series. In addition, Regan Smith is overdue for a massive personal best time in the W 50 BK.
Kate in her interview in Shanghai after the 200IM said she wasn’t loving that event at the moment.
Kate Douglass could have swam another event on Day 3, the W 100 FL (2x NCAA DI Women’s Champion).
Could have swum….
maybe they both decided Regan would get this one…
Are you saying the competition is rigged?
DANG IT JOSHUA YONG SO CLOSE TO SAVING US from Mr TMZ
Michael Andrew could learn a thing or two about how the best sprinter in history trains. 😂😂
That ship has grounded on the beaches of Costa Rica.
Imafuku is a great name
do you think Thorpe would’ve won the 800m in Sydney & Athens? Can Pan win 1,2,4,8 in LA?
Lol. There is a big difference between SCM and LCM when it comes to distance. Pan will stick to 100 and 200 in LCM.
There is indeed a big difference, however that doesn’t necessarily rule Pan out. As per the race summary, Pan was typically making up distance over the water rather than on the turns – something you’d expect the opposite of for a sprinter. In my SCY yards experience, poorer walls have usually translated to a better LCM comparative performance.
Not to say Pan will necessarily blow Finke’s WR out of the water, but I think the situation may be more nuanced than “LCM different than SCM”
Both would’ve been an Aussie 1-2 in 2000/2004.
No, Pan can’t have the speed to win the 100 and the endurance to win the 800 in the same meet.
Humming until the 150 “Scott the Scot, Scott the Scot”!!
Once again, no Aussies on the podium.
Did you like skip the whole article and go straight to the comments? Might want to check again
It’s obvious you did not watch the podium ceremony upon conclusion of Stop #2.
USA LETS GO
only because Kaylee withdrew rhough
Shanghai – Douglass, Smith, Haughey
Incheon – Smith, Douglass, Haughey
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