The World Aquatics Swimming Championships 2024 is scheduled to take place in Budapest, Hungary. Although there is still significant time left for the event as it is slated for December 10-15, 2024, the recent announcement has made the swimming world sit up and take notice. As swimmers from all over the world will look to have a go, the authorities have recently released the qualification timings on social media. 

In a recently released Instagram post by the World Aquatics and World Swimming Championships, a full list of the qualification cut-offs has been posted for the athletes. The timings for both men and women across a total of eighteen categories have been released. For the Women’s 50m Freestyle, the cutoff timing mentioned stands at 24.44s(A) and 25.30s(B) respectively. Similarly, the timing given for men were 21.40s(A) and 22.15s(B) for the same category.

The other seventeen categories that will feature at the event are 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m freestyle, 50/100/200m backstroke, 50/100/200m breaststroke, 50/100/200m butterfly, and 100/200/400m individual medley. Taking place at the Duna Arena of the Hungarian capital, the event is touted as one of the major aquatic events after the conclusion of the Paris Olympics.

As a matter of fact, Budapest clinched the right to host the tournament way back in 2017. This was when they were granted permission to organize the 17th edition of the prestigious event by the World Aquatics unanimously with the General Congress. Soon after Budapest was declared as the host, the President of World Aquatics heaped praises on the choice of venue. 

World Aquatics Head confident about Budapest

Speaking about their decision to vest Budapest with the responsibility of organizing the event, President Husain Al-Musallam seemed pretty excited. He said, “We are extremely fortunate to have Budapest, sharing our passion for aquatics with an audience that fills Duna Arena to witness our stars in action. Athletes, teams, and fans have already expressed their enthusiasm for today’s announcement.” 

Echoing Al-Musallam’s sentiments, Dr. Sandor Wladar, the Hungarian Swimming Federation President stated that hosting previous events successfully has resulted in the higher authorities showing their trust in Hungary. Praising his team, Dr. Wladar termed them as the “best” and hoped to build on the good work and dedicatedly organize more such international events in the future. 

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