By way of James Sutherland on SwimSwam
After an unheard of 12 months of racing that incorporated the Olympics sandwiched between the Lengthy Route and Brief Route International Championships, it’s time to begin liberating our 5th annual Most sensible 100 checklist—take a look at final 12 months’s ratings right here.
As in earlier years, we’ve taken a statistically pushed method reliant essentially upon international ratings and medals received on the Olympics, and to a lesser extent, Brief Route Worlds and the 2024 Worlds in Doha. We’ve additionally taken under consideration issues similar to attainable, long run medal alternatives, accidents, and flexibility. Lengthy path is weighted greater than quick path, regardless that efficiency attainable in each codecs is factored in.
After a big contingent of Russian and Belarusian swimmers raced on the Brief Route Worlds in December, the ones swimmers have began to transport again up the ratings. They have been low at the lists final 12 months because of a loss of festival.
We’ll be breaking down the highest 100 into a couple of installments, so stay an eye fixed out as they’re launched.
Those lists are, by means of nature, subjective. Should you disagree, go away your ideas/ranks within the feedback.
Thanks to Daniel Takata for his lend a hand with the knowledge and compiling the ratings.
Males’s Scores:
#100 – #91
#90 – #81
#80 – #71
#70 – #61
#60 – #51
#50 – #41
#40 – #31
#30 – #21
#20 – #11
#10 – #1
#90: Simone Cerasuolo, Italy (2024 Rank: NR)
Cerasuolo has been an elite dash breaststroker since 2021, specifically briefly path meters and within the 50-meter match. For the reason that’s the place his power lies, he’s been hard-pressed to achieve a lot traction at primary lengthy path championship meets, regardless that he did declare silver within the 50 on the 2022 Euros within the large pool. After lacking the Italian Olympic group, with eventual gold medalist Nicolo Martinenghi and Ludovico Viberti forward of him within the 100 breast, Cerasuolo closed the 12 months sturdy, striking 4th within the 50 breast at SC Worlds in a PB of 25.62 The 21-year-old additionally set a easiest time of 56.28 within the 100 breast one month previous, and could have medal alternatives in each dash occasions at SC Euros.
#89: Nandor Nemeth, Hungary (2024 Rank: 79)
Multiple 2d clear of the Olympic gold medalist Pan Zhanle of China, Nemeth completed 4th on the Olympic Video games within the 100 unfastened. He was once simply .02 seconds clear of the silver medalist Kyle Chalmers, regardless that. Nemeth, 25, was once simply 18th within the 100 unfastened at a house International Brief Route Championships in December, however has at all times been higher within the lengthy path pool and has a penchant for turning in large swims when it counts. In early 2024, he snagged the primary particular person International Championship medal of his occupation, incomes bronze within the 100 unfastened in Doha.
#88: Michael Andrew, USA (2024 Rank: 53)
We all know that Michael Andrew had almost certainly the worst 12 months of his occupation in 2024. He wasn’t specifically on the subject of making the Olympic Group, needed to go away the International Cup early with sickness, and made just one particular person ultimate at Brief Route Worlds, 4th within the 100 IM. Nonetheless, there are large adjustments at the horizon for Andrew, who’s 25. He’s coaching with Herbie Behm at Arizona State College, the primary time in his existence the place he’s had a number one trainer who wasn’t his dad – and Behm has a sizzling hand presently with sprinters (see: Ilya Kharun). I’m prime on that fluctuate, and whilst this plan goes to take a protracted adaption procedure, and we would no longer see the total rewards till 2026 or past, be expecting Andrew to begin turning issues round in 2025.
#87: Dare Rose, USA (2024 Rank: 38)
After a leap forward 2023 that noticed him win a person lengthy path medal within the 100 fly on the International Championships, Rose regressed in 2024, completing third on the U.S. Olympic Trials and lacking the group. Nonetheless, his 50.84 wasn’t a foul time – regardless that it was once four-tenths slower than his easiest. His time from Trials would were Fifth on the Olympics. Rose is best 22, so there’s no reason why to name both 2023 or 2024 an anomaly moderately than only a blip. 2025 might be a extra determinant season, and in addition his final season of collegiate eligibility.
#86: Evgenii Somov, Russia (2024 Rank: NR)
Somov, one in every of 15 Russian neutrals on the Paris Olympic Video games throughout all sports activities, grew to become numerous heads in Would possibly when he swam 58.72 within the 100 breaststroke on the Speedo Atlanta Vintage. The American-trained swimmer had by no means been beneath 1 minute within the 100 breast sooner than in lengthy path. He broke a minute once more on the Olympics, however couldn’t qualify for the overall, completing thirteenth within the semis. He’s best 25, so there’s no reason why he can’t get again to that 58.72. He ranked Fifth on the earth within the match, regardless that it best took 59.0 to win gold. There are many questions in regards to the 4 swimmers forward of him within the International Scores (Qin, Peaty, Fink, and Kamminga) and their respective futures within the recreation. This score was once a in reality tricky one – Somov may have been out of the highest 100 altogether, or he may just win the International Championship within the 100 breaststroke and deserve a place within the most sensible 25.
#85: Gui Caribe, Brazil (2024 Rank: NR)
Caribe’s coaching spouse on the College of Tennessee Jordan Crooks (within the most sensible 50 in this checklist) appears to be turning a nook in lengthy path. If Caribe can do the similar, he’ll be the following large factor in Brazilian sprinting. His school season is already off to a super get started and he’s means forward of the place he most often is at this level within the season. He got here clear of the 2024 Brief Route International Championships with two silver medals within the dash freestyle occasions.
#84: Genki Terakado, Japan (2024 Rank: NR)
You will have neglected Terakado’s season as a result of he positioned best fifteenth in his easiest match, the 200 fly, on the Olympic Video games, however he has been slowly creeping up the arena ratings. After clocking 1:54.80 in a home meet in 2023, he went 1:54.0 at Japan’s Olympic Trials. He struggled on the Olympic Video games, his first large senior global meet, however he’s not off course for a large long run in Japan – each within the 200 fly, and with attainable within the 100 as smartly.
#83: Daiya Seto, Japan (2024 Rank: 35)
Seto’s longevity as one of the crucial international’s easiest IMers has been spectacular, however whilst he’s nonetheless elite, the 30-year-old’s easiest days seem to be in the back of him. He received six instantly SC international titles within the 400 IM from 2012 till 2022, and noticed that streak snapped in December, striking ninth whilst competing with a cracked rib. Whilst it’s no longer challenging to look Seto returning to International Championship medal territory briefly path, he’s been teetering as a podium danger in lengthy path the previous few years, and with out SC Worlds in 2025, his medal possibilities might be restricted. The Jap celebrity ranked ninth on the earth in 2024 in each the 200 and 400 IM, striking seventh in each races on the Paris Olympics.
#82: Carles Coll Marti, Spain (2024 Rank: NR)
Without a Brief Route International Championship in 2025, Coll Marti’s deficiency in lengthy path hurts him in those ratings. The 200 breaststroke quick path international champion best had one swim, the lads’s 400 medley relay prelims, on the Olympics, and Spain was once DQed. He has a number of time to drop to be seeking any lengthy path medals. Nonetheless, he confirmed growth in 2024, going 1:00.63 within the 100 breast and a couple of:10.58 within the 200 breast, representing drops of six-tenths and one-tenth, respectively. He’s best 23, and could have medal alternatives on the Ecu Brief Route Championships on the finish of the 12 months.
#81: Mewen Tomac, France (2024 Rank: 80)
Tomac wasn’t in a position to mount a podium in entrance of a house crowd on the Paris Olympic Video games, however a easiest time within the 200 again gave him a French File and Fifth-place end. The 23-year-old is now coaching as a part of what has been almost certainly the arena’s easiest males’s backstroke workforce, and without a doubt america’ easiest males’s backstroke workforce, over the past decade. That may best be a good for him.
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