In about two weeks, the 20th World Swimming Championships will begin in the Japanese pools with many headliners expected in the water.
Initially, the Fukuoka World Swimming Championships should have taken place from May 13 to 29, 2022. Due to the health context, Japan had made a request for postponement which was accepted by the International Swimming Federation. They have been postponed to July 2023, from July 14 to 30. Those scheduled in Qatar are impacted by this change in schedule. They too have been pushed back a few months. Normally organized in November 2023, they will finally be held from February 2 to 18, 2024.
These long-pool swimming events will take place one year before the Paris Olympic Games. It is almost a big general rehearsal and on this occasion, all the swimmers should be present. The nugget Leon Marchand is expected like Caeleb Dresse who are both in the footsteps of a certain Michael Phelps. Among the women, Katie Ledecky is clearly the favorite with Ariarne Titmus and Katie Grimes.
Where are the World Swimming Championships held?
Twenty-two years later, the city of Fukuoka in Japan is hosting the World Long Course Swimming Championships.
What is the program for the World Swimming Championships?
During the two weeks of competition, there will be 6 disciplines and 75 events. The complete and precise calendar has not yet been revealed even if the dates of the finals of the other aquatic events are more or less known.
- July 14: opening ceremony
- July 15 – 22: Open water swimming, artistic swimming and diving finals
- 23 – 30 July: sports swimming finals
- July 27 – 28: High Diving Finals
- July 28: final of the women’s water polo tournament
- July 29: final of the men’s water polo tournament and closing ceremony
What TV broadcast for the world swimming championships?
These World Championships in Japan can be followed live on france.tv and France 4 with Alexandre Boyon and Camille Lacourt.
Who are the engaged French?
For the World Championships in Japan, the tricolor delegation is important with 32 French people. Among them there is Florent ManaudouCharlotte Bonnet or Léon Marchand who is eagerly awaited.
- David Aubry (1500m nl)
- Max Berg (4x100m relay)
- Clement Bidard (4x100m 4n relay)
- Charlotte Bonnet (200m 4n)
- Pacôme Bricout (800m nl)
- Cyrielle Duhamel (400m 4n)
- Logan Fontaine (400m nl)
- Roman Fuchs (4x200m relay)
- Beryl Gastaldello (4x100m relay)
- Maxime Grousset (50m nl, 100m nl, 100m butterfly)
- Guillaume Guth (4x100m relay)
- Mélanie Hénique (50m nl, 50m butterfly)
- Antoine Herlem (200m backstroke)
- Stanislas Huille (4x100m 4n relay)
- Damien Joly (800m, 1500m)
- Anastasiyaz Kirpichnikova (400m, 800m, 1500m)
- Fantine Lesaffre (200m 4n, 400m 4n)
- Pauline Mahieu (100m backstroke)
- Florent Manaudou (50m nl)
- Antoine Marc (200m breaststroke)
- Léon Marchand (200m breaststroke, 200m nl, 200m butterfly, 200m 4n, 400m 4n)
- Mary-Ambre Moluh (50m backstroke)
- Yohann Ndye-Brouard (100m backstroke)
- Lison Nowackzyk (4x100m relay)
- Analia Pigrée (50m backstroke, 100m backstroke)
- Hadrien Salvan (4x200m relay and 4x100m relay)
- Emma Terebo (200m backstroke)
- Enzo Tesic (4x200m relay nl)
- Mewen Tomac (100m backstroke, 200m backstroke)
- Assia Touati (4x100m relay nl)
- Marie Wattel (50m nl, 100m nl, 100m butterfly)
- Amazigh Yebba (4x200m relay nl)
Like Kylian Mbappé in football or Victor Wembanyama in basketball, Léon Marchand continues to be talked about. He belongs to this young generation of precocious French athletes in performance. At 21, he is already world champion in the 200m medley and the 400m medley. In the 200m butterfly, he is world vice-champion. During the 2023 French Championships in Rennes in June 2023, the Toulousain took gold in the 5 events in which he entered. But the most impressive thing is that he broke a Michael Phelps record in the 200m medley at the Pro Swim Series last April. His adversaries have been warned!
Out of breath? Florent Manaudou has not left an image of a swimmer tired of success in recent weeks. Laure Manaudou’s little brother won the gold medal in his favorite stroke, the 50m freestyle. Better, he achieved in Rennes on June 15, the best world performance of the year. Florent Manaudou will arrive in Japan with certainties and once again unshakable confidence. It is the first time that he will swim again during the World Championships in long course. His last appearance in this competition dates back to 2015.