USA Swimming Releases 2024 World Championship Selection Procedure
With the early-season 2024 World Championships taking place in an Olympic year, the U.S. will not host a qualifying meet.
But USA Swimming has released its selection criteria for the unprecedented situation.
The meet takes place Feb. 11-18 in Doha. It was originally scheduled for November of 2023, but was pushed after the postponement of the 2022 World Championships.
Without a qualifying meet, USA Swimming will select swimmers based on their times from Oct. 1, 2022 to Nov. 1, 2023.
Just one swimmer in each event will be selected, meaning, there will be 14 men and 14 women selected for a complete team of 28, much smaller than usual.
Because of the timing of the meet, several of the big names of the sport are expected to opt out of this World Championships. If that happens, USA Swimming’s process will go to the second person and so on, through 10. If all of the top 10 swimmers in an event opt out, then no one from the U.S. will swim in that particular event.
Two swimmers could competed in an event if the second swimmer qualified in another event, but has an “A” standard in that event, they could swim a second event.
Relays will be comprised of a combination of the 14.