Via James Sutherland on SwimSwam
After an remarkable 12 months of racing that incorporated the Olympics sandwiched between the Lengthy Direction and Brief Direction International Championships, it’s time to start out liberating our 5th annual Most sensible 100 checklist—take a look at remaining 12 months’s ratings right here.
As in earlier years, we’ve taken a statistically pushed way reliant basically upon international ratings and medals gained on the Olympics, and to a lesser extent, Brief Direction Worlds and the 2024 Worlds in Doha. We’ve additionally taken under consideration issues similar to possible, long term medal alternatives, accidents, and flexibility. Lengthy direction is weighted greater than quick direction, despite the fact that efficiency possible in each codecs is factored in.
After a big contingent of Russian and Belarusian swimmers raced at Brief Direction Worlds in December, the ones swimmers have began to transport again up the ratings when they have been low at the lists remaining 12 months because of loss of festival.
We’ll be breaking down the highest 100 into a couple of installments, so stay a watch out as they’re launched.
Those lists are, by way of nature, subjective. In case you disagree, go away your ideas/ranks within the feedback.
Thanks to Daniel Takata for his assist with the information and compiling the ratings.
Girls’s Ratings:
#100 – #91
#90 – #81
#80 – #71
#70 – #61
#60 – #51
#50 – #41
#40 – #31
#30 – #21
#20 – #11
#10 – #1
#100: Alina Gaifutdinova, Russia (2024 Rank: NR) – A relative unknown, Gaifutdinova had a breakout 12 months in 2024 racing in Russia, maximum particularly clocking 27.54 within the 50 again (LC), coming inside three-tenths of the Russian Report and rating seventh on this planet for the 12 months. The nineteen-year-old additionally logged LC PBs of 24.91 within the 50 loose and 59.87 within the 100 again and has the prospective to make some noise shifting ahead as she continues to support. Gaifutdinova made her world debut at SC Worlds in December, swimming on a couple of prelim relays.
#99: Roos Vanotterdijk, Belgium (2024 Rank: NR) – Any other up-and-coming sprinter, Vanotterdijk had an excellent Olympic debut in Paris, hanging Tenth in each the 100 again (59.86) and 100 fly (57.25), environment a brand new Belgian Report within the latter. The 20-year-old, who was once 19 right through her swims remaining 12 months, ranked within the best 31 on this planet in 3 occasions, led by way of the 100 fly the place she was once 18th. She additionally gained 3 particular person medals on the Eu Championships in June, together with gold within the 100 fly. Even if she wasn’t in motion at Brief Direction Worlds in December, she did set 4 Belgian SCM data competing in Denmark, doing so within the ladies’s 100 loose (52.61), 50 again (26.51), 50 fly (25.32) and 100 IM (57.92).
#98: Liu Yaxin, China (2024 Rank: 94) – A flexible freestyler, Liu anchored China’s 4×200 loose relay to Olympic bronze in Paris, splitting 1:55.32, and positioned Tenth within the 400 loose on the Video games in 4:04.39. That ranked her thirteenth on this planet for 2024, and he or she was once additionally seventeenth within the 200 again, twenty third within the 200 loose, and 67th within the 100 loose. The 25-year-old additionally gained the 400 loose on the Shanghai leg of the International Cup in SCM.
#97: Bella Sims, USA (2024 Rank: 44) – Sims was once now not at her very best on the U.S. Olympic Trials remaining June, and in consequence, ignored qualifying for Paris after she gained a silver medal on the Tokyo Olympics at the 4×200 loose relay (prelims) on the age of 16. Now 19, turning 20 later this 12 months, Sims’ skill a ways exceeds what she confirmed remaining 12 months, particularly in lengthy direction the place she infrequently raced. She was once a finalist within the 200 loose (sixth) and 400 loose (eighth) on the 2023 International Championships, and now having began to seek out her footing on the College of Florida, she’s one to look forward to a rebound 12 months in 2025.
#96: Ageha Tanigawa, Japan (2024 Rank: 62) – Tanega has had disappointing swims within the prelims of the 400 IM at back-to-back primary championships, hanging ninth on the 2023 International Championships after which thirteenth on the Olympic Video games. Alternatively, the 21-year-old did set a large very best time of four:35.60 within the tournament on the Jap Trials, which might put her within the medal hunt if delivered on the proper time (4:34.93 gained bronze in Paris).
#95: Rikako Ikee, Japan (2024 Rank: NR) – Ikee has been some of the game’s feel-good tales of the remaining 5 years, going from being some of the best feminine swimmers on this planet in 2018 to being recognized with leukemia in early 2019. Even if she hasn’t slightly gotten again to her very best instances from 2017 and 2018, Ikee has continuously been getting sooner. She was once a finalist within the 50 fly on the 2023 Worlds (seventh) after which positioned Twelfth remaining summer season within the 100 fly on the Olympics. The 24-year-old ranked 4th on this planet within the 50 fly remaining 12 months (25.33), indicating she’s searching for a medal on the 2025 Worlds in Singapore. Within the 100 fly, she ranked 14th on this planet (57.03), her quickest time since 2018.
#94: Rhyan White, USA (2024 Rank: 47) – White fell sufferer to the stacked ladies’s backstroke team in the USA, lacking out at the Olympic crew in 2024 with a couple of Fifth-place finishes within the 100 and 200 again. That got here after she was once 4th within the 200 again on the Tokyo Olympics, after which gained bronze on the 2022 International Championships and was once sixth in 2023. The 24-year-old ranked seventh on this planet remaining 12 months within the 200 again (2:07.38) and 14th within the 100 again (59.07), and despite the fact that it’s a tall order, doing sufficient to get at the U.S. International Championship crew places her in a medal place.
#93: Kotryna Teterevkova, Lithuania (2024 Rank: 77) – Teterevkova has established herself as some of the best breaststrokers on this planet during the last couple of years, particularly coming off a Fifth-place end within the 200 breast on the Olympics in Paris. The soon-to-be 23-year-old was once additionally a semi-finalist within the 100 breast and positioned 4th in that tournament at Worlds in Doha after which was once eighth within the 100 at SC Worlds. She completed the 12 months ranked sixteenth on this planet within the 100 breast (1:06.02) and 14th within the 200 breast (2:23.35) in LC.
#92: Eve Thomas, New Zealand (2024 Rank: NR) — Eve Thomas, 23, is continuously at the verge of breaking into the overall on the primary senior world meet of the 12 months within the ladies’s distance occasions and has continuously racked up Tenth-Twelfth position finishes at occasions just like the International Championships. She took benefit of the absences in Doha and featured within the 400/800/1500 freestyle finals, completing 4th within the latter two occasions. Thomas swam bests in all her number one occasions this 12 months (4:05.87/8:22.27/16:07.46) within the lead-up to the Olympics. She couldn’t mirror the ones instances in Paris and earned two Twelfth-place finishes within the 800/1500 freestyle. If Thomas may also be at her very best on the proper second, she may earn a finals lane on the large world meet of the 12 months, however in a different way, it is going to be laborious to damage into the overall when the entire stars are in attendance.
#91: Helena Rosendahl Bach, Denmark (2024 Rank: NR) — 2024 was once an atypical 12 months, with two International Championships, an Olympics, and a Eu Championships. Every swimmer selected to take on this 12 months in a different way, whilst the crowdedness of the 12 months led to a couple meets, specifically the 2024 long-course International Championships, lacking some large stars. Helena Rosendahl Bach, a 200 butterfly specialist, took complete benefit of this 12 months’s alternatives. She started her 12 months successful silver in Doha. Then, she upgraded from silver on the 2022 Eu Championships to gold in Belgrade. After hitting an entire life very best 2:06.65 within the Olympic semifinals, Bach tied for fourth with Elizabeth Dekkers within the Paris ultimate. Bach’s energy is the 200 butterfly, which is an tournament that’s slightly crowded on the best with two swimmers so obviously forward of the remainder of the pack, however at 24, she’s proven she will persistently make the overall on the senior world meet and will take benefits of alternatives once they seem.
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