88 days until the world championships: updated swimming world ranking

We have 88 days left until the start of the 17th FINA World Championships and these days world rankings are changing minute by minute. Still, we intend to provide a momentary status report about where the top competitors are at the moment.

April is very busy for swimmers, since some of the powerhouses organise their national championships this month, such as Australia, Russia, Japan, Italy, China or even Hungary (19-22 April in Debrecen).

The best swimmers of the world fight for making the world championships team and improving the number 1 times continuously.

As for men, the year of 2017 brought a world record already in January, when in 200 m breaststroke 20-year-old Japanese Ippei Watanabe broke the previous record with a time of 2:06.67 in Tokyo.

Since then there has not been any world records, only national ones. Last time on Friday Russian Vladimir Morozov swam a Russian record in 50 m freestyle with 21.44. Australian Cameron McEvoy also excelled in the Australian Championships, he owns the best time in the ‘top event’, 100 m freestyle.

Sun Yang shone in the Chinese, Chad Le Clos in the SouthAfrican and Evgeny Rylov in the Russian championships. Also, Adam Peaty swam excellent times in 100 and 200 m breaststroke in March in a competition held in Indianapolis.

There is a Hungarian world ranking leader, too, namely Dávid Verrasztó, who holds the number 1 time of 2017 in 400 individual medley with a time of 4:10.01. However, two Japanese swimmers went close to him on Day 1 of the Japanese championships.

Latest men’s world ranking times:

50 m freestyle:

1. Vladimir Morozov (Russian) 21.44 Moscow, 14 April. (Russian Championships)
2. Cameron McEvoy (Australian) 21.55 Brisbane, 13 April. (Australian Championships)
3. Evgeny Sedov (Rusdian) 21.74 Moscow, 14 April. (Russian Championships)

100 m freestyle:

1. Cameron McEvoy (Australian) 47.91 Brisbane, 9 April. (Australian Championships)
2. Nathan Adrian (US) 48.18 Mesa, 13 April (Arena Pro Swim Series)
2. Kyle Chambers (Australian) 48.20 Brisbane, 12 April. (Australian Championships)

200 m freestyle:

1. Sun Yang (Chinese) 1:44.91 Qingdae, 8 April (Chinese Champs)
2. Gabriele Detti (Italian) 1:46.38 Riccione, 6 April. (Italian Champs)
3. Shun Wang 1:46.57 Qingdae, 8 April (Chinese Champs)

400 m freestyle:

1. Sun Yang (Chinese) 3:42.16 Qingdae, 8 April (Chinese Champs)
2. Gabriele Detti (Italy) 3:43.36 Riccione, 6 April. (Italian Champs)
3. Mack Horton (Australian) 3:44.18 Brisbane, 9 April (Australian Championships)

800 m freestyle:

1. Gabriele Detti (Italian) 7:41.64 Riccione, 6 April. (Italian Champs)
2. Gregorio Paltrinieri (Italian) 7:47.27 Riccione, 6 April (Italian Champs)
3. Sun Yang (Chinese) 7:48.33 Qingdae, 8 April (Chinese Champs)

1500 m freestyle:

1. Gregorio Paltrinieri (Italian) 14:37.08 Riccione, 6 April (Italian Champs)
2. Gabriele Detti (Italian) 14:48.21 Milan, 11 March. (VII. Milano Trophy)
3. Mack Horton (Australian) 14:51.21 Brisbane, 9 April (Australian Championships)

50 m backstroke:

1. Evneny Rylov (Russian) 24.52 Moscow, 8 April. (Russian Championships)
2. Junya Koga (Japanese) 24.53 Sydney, 3 March (New South Wales Open)
3. Marek Ulrich (German) 24.90 Eindhoven, 6 April (Swim Cup)

100 m backstroke:

1. Jiayu Xu (Chinese) 51.86 Qingdae, 8 April (Chinese Champs)
2. Evgeny Rylov (Russian) 53.13 Moscow, 8 April. (Russian Championships)
3. Matt Grevers (US) 53.31 Austin, 15 January (Arena Pro Swim Series)

200 m backstroke:

1. Evgeny Rylov (Russian) 1:53.81.Moscow, 13 April. (Russian Championships)
2. Jiayu Xu (Chinese) 1:55.04 Indianapolis, 3 March. (Arena Pro Swim Series)
3. Kliment Koleshnikov (Russian) 1:54.49 Moscow, 13 April (Russian Championships)

50 m breaststroke:

1. Adam Peaty (British) 26.86 Indianapolis, 3 March. (Arena Pro Swim Series)
2. Nicolo Martinenghi (Italian) 26.97 Riccione, 6 April. (Italian Champs)
3. Kirill Prygoda (Russian) 27.12 Moscow, 8 April. (Russian Championships)

100 m breaststroke:

1. Adam Peaty (British) 58.86 Indianapolis, 4 March. (Arena Pro Swim Series)
2. Zibei Yan (Chinese) 58.92 Qingdae, 8 April (Chinese Champs)
3. Yasuhiro Koseki (Japanese) 59.26 Aichi, 13 April (Japanese Champs)

200 m breaststroke:

1. Ippei Watanabe (Japanese) 2:06.67 Tokyo, 27 January (Kitajima Cup)
2. Erik Persson (Swedish) 2:07.85 Stockholm, 8 April (Swim Open)
3. Anton Chupkov (Russian) 2:08.03 Moscow, 8 April (Russian Championships)

50 m butterfly:

1. Oleg Kostin (Russian) 23.27 Moscow, 8 April (Russian Championships)
2. Benjamin Proud (British) 23.29 Marseilles, 3 April (Golden Tour)
3. Zhuhao Li (Chinese) 23.36 Qingdae, 8 April (Chinese Champs)

100 m butterfly:

1. Chad Le Clos (South African) 51.29 Durban, 7 April (SA National Aquatic Championships)
2. Zhuhao Li (Chinese) 51.34 Indianapolis, 2 March. (Arena Pro Swim Series)
3. David Morgan (Australian) 51.81 Brisbane, 9 April (Australian Championships)

200 m butterfly:

1. Chad Le Clos (South African) 1:55.00 Durban, 5 April. (SA National Aquatic Championships)
2. Zhuhao Li (Chinese) 1:55.09 Qingdae, 8 April (Chinese Champs)
3. Kenderesi Tamás (Hungarian) 1:55.20 Nizza, 4 February (Golden Tour)

200 m medley:

1. David Morgan (Australian) 1:55.70 Brisbane, 9 April. (Australian Championships)
2. Irvine Grant (Australian) 1:56.05 Brisbane, 9 April (Australian Championships)
3. Shun Wang (Chinese) 1:56.16 Qingdae, 8 April (Chinese Champs)

400 m medley:

1. Verrasztó Dávid (Hungarian) 4:10.01 Marseilles, 3 March (Golden Tour)
2. Daiya Seto (Japanese) 4:10.22 Indianapolis, 3 March (Arena Pro Swim Series)
3. Kosuke Hagino (Japanese) 4:10.45 Aichi, 13 April (Japenese Champs)

Women’s swimming world ranking

Let us see the curiosities while examining the women’s rankings! In the contrary of men there was no big bang at the beginning of the year, moreover there has not been any world record until now. (We do hope that the best swimmers save their best for July.)