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Olympic medalists Claire Weinstein (above) and Katie Grimes will join the lineup for the final stop of the 2024 Swimming World Cup in Singapore. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
Australian Olympic swim coach Michael Palfrey, after being fired from his coaching job at home, has emerged in Jiangsu Province in China.
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.
Australian multi-Olympic medalist Kyle Chalmers reflects on a stressful time in Paris with post-men’s 100m freestyle drama.
Kim Seo-yeong was responsible for two of the new National Records set at the Incheon stop of the Swimming World Cup this week.
El chino Pan Zhanle concretó plusmarca en los 800 libre en piscina de 25 metros, en la etapa que concluyó este sábado en Corea del Sur.
October 27th, 2024
With the second stop of the Swimming World Cup tour underway in Incheon, South Korea, organizers of the meet’s 3rd stop have unveiled athletes and entries expected for the finale in Singapore.
The Singapore stop will start to bring more tension as athletes jockey for position to earn a share of the $524,000 overall series prizes divided among the top 8 scoring swimmers of each gender, with the top male and top female each taking home $100,000.
That includes American Kate Douglass, who has stuck with the same 8 entries that she’s used throughout the series so far: the 50/100/200 breast, the 50/100 free, the 50 fly, and the 200 IM.
The entry lists, with highlights here from the host committee, remain very similar to Incheon. Notably, World Aquatics has not listed Kaylee McKeown on their official web listing, though the host committee still has her listed – she is not expected to race after leaving the first stop in Shanghai early.
The most notable change is the presence of Katie Grimes, Claire Weinstein, and Luke Ellis, young teenagers from the United States’ elite Sandpipers of Nevada training group. The trio are entered in the Open Water World Cup race in Hong Kong this weekend, and as coach Ron Aitken told SwimSwam in September, are joining the World Cup for its final stop in Singapore.
That makes them eligible to earn prize money for the stop, but not partake in the big awards available for series-long achievements.
Grimes, who represented the US in both open water and the pool at the Paris Olympics, is entered in six events: the 400/800 frees, the 100 IM, the 400 IM, the 100 back, and the 200 back. That list includes the shortest and longest IMs, but not the 200 in between. She won silver in the 400 IM at the Olympics.
Weinstein, 17, was Grimes’ Olympic teammate, winning silver on the 800 free relay in Paris. She is entered in the 100, 200, 400, and 800 freestyles in Singapore.
Ellis, the 2024 Junior Pan Pacs Champion in the 800 free, is entered in all three IM races, the 200 free, the 400 free, and the 1500 free.
While a limited new field of participants late in the series is a bit different than what we have historically seen in the World Cup, it does provide an element that World Aquatics has been chasing (and incentivizing financially) in recent years: a sustainable series where top swimmers can complete the entire series and begin to develop the season-long connections to fans that could turn the property into a bigger entertainment entity.
Mary-Sophie Harvey will have competition in the 4IM with Grimes coming to the last stop perhaps blocking her from a triple crown but I’m rooting for you MSH!!
Moesha Johnson and Iona Anderson also joining the World Cup tour in Singapore.
Talking of the Open Water in Hong Kong, the Australian teams came 1st and 4th in the mixed relay. Great job after winning gold in this event in Doha.
Yes, showing some real depth in this discipline lately. Happy for a couple of the younger ones to get amongst the relay medals also after their stunning individual swims.
In other news:
@Braden Keith, According to famous swim blogger Khanswim, Michael Palfrey is now coaching in the province of Jiangsu in China.
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5094228684444765
Good find!
UVA will truly have it all if Grimes keeps preforming in the backstrokes like she did at trials
They don’t really need her in backstroke, they have Curzan lol
Oops yeah I forgot
The University of Virginia also has Reilly Tiltmann, if she can return to her 2022 NCAA DI Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships form.
She’ll do the mile and 400 IM and 2 fly probably
The W 1650 FR and W 200 FL are scheduled on the same day at the NCAA DI Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships.
The World Cups are great, but I do so miss the ISL!
Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers’ Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …
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