2022 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- June 18-25, 2022 (pool swimming)
- Budapest, Hungary
- Duna Arena
- LCM (50-meter format)
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- SwimSwam Pick ’em Contest
The World Championships are finally here, and that means our SwimSwam Pick’em contest is officially underway. This is a post you may want to bookmark if you’re participating in the contest, as this post is dedicated to recording all contestants’ responses, so you can come back and check them and refresh yourselves on your picks.
As always with the Pick’ems contests, we’ll be announcing daily winners via posts on our website and overall winners at the end of the Championships, so keep an eye out for those if you’re playing along!
The table below contains all responses from every SwimSwam reader who entered in the contest. For the privacy of our contestants, we have removed all identifying information except for the chosen screen names. There are quite a few contestants entered, so if you’re looking for your picks, rather than scrolling until you find it, we suggest using the “CTRL + F” function to search for your screen name.
Women’s 400 free: I correctly picked 7 of the 8 finalists (had Li Bingjie making the final instead of Melverton)
Men’s 400 free: I correctly picked 5 of the 8 finalists (had Horton/Galossi/Djakovic making the final over Kim/Costa/Freeman)
Men’s 400 IM: I correctly picked 6 of the 8 finalists (had Sates/Kos making the final over Honda/Hollo)
Overall still happy with my picks, maybe except for picking both chinese girls to make the 400 free final although they hadn’t done anything this year so far.
First impression: Chinese (lockdown?) and hungarian (probably overestimated the impact of the home advantage) so far are worse than i expected. Will be interesting to see how athletes like Mihalyvari-Farkas, Molnar, Padar, Cheng,… Read more »