By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam
2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup – Incheon
- Friday, October 24th – Sunday, October 26th
- Shanghai, China
- Prelims at 9:30am local (8:30pm ET previous night)/Finals at 6:30pm local (6:30am ET)
- SCM (25m)
- Meet Central
- Event Schedule
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Hello, everyone and welcome to the first night of finals at the Incheon stop of the 2024 Swimming World Cup series. It’s the same order of events as the first night in Shanghai, which means it’s going to be a packed slate.
Noe Ponti and Kate Douglass are the top seeds in two events each. Ponti is fresh off record-setting performances in Shanghai, including a world record in the 50-meter butterfly. The day before that swim, he set European and World Cup records in the 100 butterfly (48.40). That’s his first event of the night; he swam a 49.58 in prelims this morning. Dutch star Nyls Korstanje joined him under the 50-second mark (49.74), while Andrei Minakov and Teong Tzen Wei are further back with 50-points.
Ponti led the way in the men’s 100 IM heats as well, clocking 51.84. Once again, this is a stacked final: Leon Marchand is in the mix and so is Daiya Seto, who has simply dominated the SCM IM scene for years. Douglass leads the women’s 100 IM (57.90), more than a half-second ahead of Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey (who’s top seed in the 400 freestyle). She’s got an even bigger lead in the women’s 200 breaststroke, checking in as the only swimmer sub-2:20 in the heats with a 2:18.25. Douglass won both these events in Shanghai and will look to continue her quest for both Triple Crowns in Incheon.
Women’s 400m Freestyle – Final
- World Record: 3:51.30 – Li Bingjie, China (2022)
- World Cup Record: 3:52.80 – Summer McIntosh, Canada (2022)
- World Junior Record: 3:52.80 – Summer McIntosh, Canada (2022)
Podium:
- Mary-Sophie Harvey (CAN) — 3:56.78
- Siobhan Haughey (HKG) — 3:58.06
- Kobori Waka (JPN) — 4:04.09
100 and 200 freestyle specialist Siobhan Haughey took the lead in this 400 freestyle final early, splitting 56.97 at the 100 and 1:57.36 at the 200. She was over a second ahead of the top seed, Mary-Sophie Harvey, who had pulled herself solidly into second place.
Over the last year, Harvey has had a big breakout in the long-course 200 meter freestyle. But in this race, Harvey used the back 200 meters to make her move. She negative split the race and slowly cut into Haughey’s lead until she finally overtook her with about 25 meters to go. Haughey had no answer for the Canadian in the closing stretch, so Harvey pulled away to win the race in a huge lifetime best of 3:56.78. It’s her first time sub-4:00 in the event.
Haughey, who said after the race that entering the event was a last minute decision, finished firmly in second place with a 3:58.06. Japan’s Kobori Waka took third place with a 4:04.09.
Men’s 400m Freestyle – Final
- World Record: 3:32.25 – Yannick Agnel, France (2012)
- World Cup Record: 3:32.77 – Paul Biedermann, Germany (2009)
- World Junior Record: 3:37.92 – Matthew Sates, South Africa (2021)
Podium:
- Pan Zhanle (CHN) — 3:36.43
- Duncan Scott (GBR) — 3:37.04
- Kieran Smith (USA) — 3:37.15
The entire Shanghai podium–Duncan Scott, Kieran Smith, and Danas Rapsys–was back in the mix for the men’s 400 freestyle. Add in Pan Zhanle and Kim Woo-min and this was a stacked final. These five main contenders did not wait to jmp on this race and were all 1:47-point at the 200 meters, with Smith and Kim tied at 1:47.10.
Kim, the Olympic medalist in the long-course version of this race, couldn’t hold the pace on the back half but the other four weren’t separated by much as they charged over the final meters. Pan did not lead the entire race–he was losing ground out of the turns then catching up to the other three after the first few strokes. He put in a huge effort on the final 25 meters, splitting 12.31 to get his hand on the wall first in 3:36.43.
Scott, last week’s winner, was less than a tenth off his time from Shanghai, continuing to hang in the neighborhood of James Guy‘s British record. It came down to the touch between second through fourth; Scott was just .11 seconds ahead of Kieran Smith, who got ahead of Rapsys for third.
Women’s 50m Backstroke – Final
- World Record: 25.25 – Maggie MacNeil, Canada (2022)
- World Cup Record: 25.36 – Kaylee McKeown, Australia (2024)
- World Junior Record: 26.08 – Sara Curtis, Italy (2024)
Podium:
Men’s 200m Backstroke – Final
- World Record: 1:45.63 – Mitch Larkin, Australia (2015)
- World Cup Record: 1:46.11 – Arkady Vyachanin, Russia (2009)
- World Junior Record: 1:48.02 – Kliment Kolesnikov, Russia (2017)
Podium:
Women’s 200m Fly – Final
- World Record: 1:59.61 — Mireia Belmonte Garcia, Spain (2014)
- World Cup Record: 2:00.78 — Liu Zige, China (2009)
- World Junior Record: 2:02.96 — Suzuka Hasegawa, Japan (2017)
Podium:
Men’s 100m Fly – Final
- World Record: 47.78 – Caeleb Dressel, United States (2020)
- World Cup Record: 48.40 — Noe Ponti, Switzerland (2024
- World Junior Record: 49.03 – Ilya Kharun, Canada (2022)
Podium:
Women’s 200m Breaststroke – Final
- World Record: 2:14.57 – Rebecca Soni, United States (2009)
- World Cup Record: 2:15.42 – Leisel Jones, Australia (2009)
- World Junior Record: 2:14.70 – Evgeniia Chikunova, Russia (2022)
Podium:
Men’s 100m Breaststroke – Final
- World Record: 55.28 – Ilya Shymanovich, NIA (2021)
- World Cup Record: 55.61 – Cameron van der Burgh, South Africa (2009)
- World Junior Record: 56.66 – Simone Cersuolo, Italy (2021)
Podium:
Women’s 50m Freestyle – Final
- World Record: 22.93 – Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Netherlands (2017)
- World Cup Record: 22.93 – Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Netherlands (2017)
- World Junior Record: 23.69 – Anastasyia Shkurdai, NIA (2020)
Podium:
Men’s 50m Freestyle – Final
- World Record: 20.16 – Caeleb Dressel, United States (2020)
- World Cup Record: 20.48 – Vladimir Morozov, Russia (2018)
- World Junior Record: 20.98 – Kenzo Simons, Netherlands (2019)
Podium:
Women’s 100m IM – Final
- World Record: 56.51 – Katinka Hosszu, Hungary (2017)
- World Cup Record: 56.51 – Katinka Hosszu, Hungary (2017)
- World Junior Record: 57.59 – Anastasyia Shkurdai, NIA (2020)
Podium:
Men’s 100m IM – Final
- World Record: 49.28 – Caeleb Dressel, United States (2020)
- World Cup Record: 50.26 – Vladimir Morozov, Russia (2018)
- World Junior Record: 50.63 – Kliment Kolesnikov, Russia (2018)
Podium:
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