Daley dives right in!
By John Cushing, February 2024
It’s now just less than six months to go to the Olympic Games and one of the big precursors to the action in Paris - the 2024 World Aquatics Championships - gets underway in Doha this week.
Diving starts us off on Friday February 2nd with two time Olympian Grace Reid competing in the Women’s 1m Springboard at 7am UK time. But there’s a strong team of 13 British divers in action in all, packed full of Olympic, World and European medalists. Six medal winning divers from Fukuoka last year will be competing again - synchro pairings Jack Laugher & Anthony Harding in the 3m Synchro, Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix & Lois Toulson in the 10m Synchro and Yasmin Harper & Scarlett Mew Jensen in the 3m Synchro.
Tom Daley makes his return to international action for Britain, the first time since winning two Olympic medals in Tokyo 3 years ago. The 29 year old partners Noah Williams in the 10m synchro after an impressive display at the British Diving Cup in Edinburgh at the end of last year.
Here’s the full daily schedule for British divers at the World Aquatics Championships, Doha
Fri Feb 2
0700 Women 1m Springboard Prelims - Grace Reid
1230 Mixed 3m & 10m Team - Andrea Spendolini Sirieix, Dan Goodfellow, Matty Lee & Scarlett Mew Jensen
1600 Women 1m Springboard Final - Grace Reid?
Sat Feb 3
0700 Men 1m Springboard Prelims - Ross Haslam
1300 Mixed 10m Synchro
1600 Men 1m Springboard Final - Ross Haslam?
Sun Feb 4
0700 Women’s 10m Prelims - Andrea Spendolini Sirieix Lois Toulson
1230 Men’s 3m Synchro - Jack Laugher & Anthony Harding
Mon Feb 5
0700 Women’s 10m Semis - Andrea Spendolini Sirieix Lois Toulson?
1530 - Women’s 10m Final
Tue Feb 6
0700 Men’s 3m Springboard Prelims - Jack Laugher Ross Haslam
1530 Women’s 10m Synchro - Andrea Spendolini Sirieix & Lois Toulson
Wed Feb 7
0700 Men’s 3m Springboard Semis - Jack Laugher Ross Haslam?
1000 Women’s 3m Synchro - Scarlett Mew Jensen & Yasmin Harper
1530 Men’s 3m Springboard Finals
Thu Feb 8
0700 Women’s 3m Springboard Prelims - Grace Reid Yasmin Harper
1530 Men’s 10m Synchro - Noah Williams & Tom Daley
Fri Feb 9
0700 Women’s 3m Springboard Semis - Grace Reid Yasmin Harper?
0930 Men’s 10m Prelims - Noah Williams Kyle Kothari
1530 Women’s 3m Springboard Fina
Sat Feb 10
0700 Men’s 10m Semis - Noah Williams Kyle Kothari?
1030 Mixed 3m Springboard - Ross Haslam & Grace Reid
1530 Men’s 10m Final
The Men’s and Women’s 400m Freestyle and 4x100m Relays are the highlights of day one of the Swimming on Sunday Feb 11 - Olympic champion Tom Dean is down to compete in the relay - the only event the Tokyo 200m freestyle champion will be competing in. Also on day one, three time Olympic gold medalist Adam Peaty, the greatest men’s breaststroke swimmer in the history of the Games, makes his return to the Worlds after missing them in Japan last year. He competes in the men’s 100m heats along with GB team-mate James Wilby. There’s 17 more GB swimmers in Doha inc. nine medalists from Fukuoka in 2023.
Here is the full daily schedule - the heats are from 0600 with the Finals from 1600 UK time
Sun Feb 11
Women 400m Freestyle Final
Women 100m Butterfly
Women 200m Medley - Abbie Wood
Women 4x100m Freestyle Final
Men 400m Freestyle Final - Jack McMillan
Men 100m Breaststroke - Adam Peaty James Wilby
Men 50m Butterfly
Men 4x100m Freestyle Final - Tom Dean Jacob Whittle
Mon Feb 12
Women 100m Backstroke - Lauren Cox Kathleen Dawson
Women 100m Breaststroke
Women 100m Butterfly Final
Women 200m Medley Final - Abbie Wood?
Men 200m Freestyle - Jack McMillan Duncan Scott
Men 100m Backstroke - Luke Greenbank
Men 100m Breaststroke Final - Adam Peaty James Wilby
Men 50m Butterfly Final
Tue Feb 13
Women 200m Freestyle - Lucy Hope Abbie Wood
Women 1500m Freestyle Final
Women 100m Backstroke Final - Lauren Cox Kathleen Dawson?
Women 100m Breaststroke Final
Men 200m Freestyle Final - Jack McMillan Duncan Scott?
Men 100m Backstroke Final - Luke Greenbank?
Men 50m Breaststroke - Adam Peaty
Men 200m Butterfly - Max Litchfield
Wed Feb 14
Women 200m Freestyle Final - Lucy Hope Abbie Wood?
Women 50m Backstroke - Lauren Cox Kathleen Dawson
Women 200m Butterfly - Laura Stephens
Men 100m Freestyle - Matt Richards
Men 800m Freestyle Final
Men 50m Breaststroke Final - Adam Peaty?
Men 200m Butterfly Final - Max Litchfield?
Men 200m Medley - Duncan Scott
Mixed 4x100m Medley Final - Medi Harris
Thu Feb 15
Women 100m Freestyle - Anna Hopkin
Women 50m Backstroke Final - Lauren Cox Kathleen Dawson?
Women 200m Breaststroke
Women 200m Butterfly Final - Laura Stephens?
Women 4x200m Freestyle Final - Medi Harris
Men 100m Freestyle Final - Matt Richards?
Men 200m Backstroke - Luke Greenbank Brodie Williams
Men 200m Breaststroke
Men 200m Medley Final - Duncan Scott?
Fri Feb 16
Women 100m Freestyle Final - Anna Hopkin?
Women 200m Backstroke - Freya Colbert
Women 200m Breaststroke Final
Women 50m Butterfly
Men 50m Freestyle - Ben Proud
Men 200m Backstroke Final - Luke Greenbank Brodie Williams?
Men 200m Breaststroke Final
Men 100m Butterfly
Men 4x200m Freestyle Final - Joe Litchfield
Sat Feb 17
Women 50m Freestyle - Anna Hopkin
Women 800m Freestyle Final
Women 200m Backstroke Final - Freya Colbert?
Women 50m Breaststroke
Women 50m Butterfly Final
Men 50m Freestyle Final - Ben Proud?
Men 50m Backstroke
Men 100m Butterfly Final
Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Final - GB?
Sun Feb 18
Women 50m Freestyle Final - Anna Hopkin?
Women 50m Breaststroke Final
Women 400m Medley Final - Freya Colbert?
Women 4x100m Medley Final
Men 1500m Freestyle Final
Men 50m Backstroke Final
Men 400m Medley Final - Max Litchfield?
Men 4x100m Medley Final
There’s also Open Water, or some call it Marathon swimming, with Leah Crisp and Tokyo Olympian Hector Pardoe in action in the 10km on Sat Feb 3 and Sun Feb 4th respectively. Team GB can still book two places in Paris - the top 13 finishers, not including the three medalists from the last World Champs, will get a quota place for their nation.
In artistic swimming, Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe compete in the women’s Duet prelims on Friday Feb 2nd.
Great Britain's women's water polo team will also be returning to the World Championships for the first time in more than a decade after a brilliant 7th place finish in the Europeans. They’ve been drawn in Group D in Qatar alongside 2023 World Championship bronze medallists Italy, Canada and South Africa – who already have a place at this summer’s Olympic Games.
Sun Feb 4
1330 GB v Italy
Tue Feb 6
0900 Canada v GB
Thu Feb 8
0730 South Africa v GB
Good luck to all - keep an eye on our socials for the latest!
