2024 WORLD AQUATIC CHAMPIONSHIPS
Sarah Sjostrom revealed to Swedish media on Tuesday, February thirteenth that she won’t swim the 100 freestyle on the 2024 World Championships in Doha, after initially being entered into the occasion.
Sjostrom informed SVT Sport, “It’s simpler to enroll first and remorse it later…will probably be loads and I’ve been doing it for a few years. It’s tougher than you assume.”
Sjostrom was entered in three races in Doha: the 50 free, 100 free, and 50 butterfly. She has not competed for Sweden because the nation didn’t swim within the girls’s 4×100 freestyle relay on evening 1, an occasion they already certified for the Olympics. Sjostrom was the #2 seed within the 100 freestyle solely behind Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey. She is the highest seed in each the 50 free and 50 butterfly.
Notably, Sjostrom is the World Document holder in all three occasions in addition to within the 100 butterfly, an occasion she has not raced at a serious worldwide meet since ending seventh within the occasion on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Late final week, Sjostrom had already revealed her plans to not race within the 100 freestyle on the 2024 Paris Olympics. On the time, she nonetheless had plans to compete within the race in Doha. She had said that she is “pleased with the whole lot [she] has executed within the 100 free, from the world document to all of the silver medals.” This was why she had initially deliberate to not swim the occasion in Paris. She additionally had stated she deliberate to swim the occasion in Doha as a result of it could “be good to have a race there.”
Sjostrom received silver within the occasion on the 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022 LCM World Championships. She additionally received bronze within the occasion on the 2016 Rio Olympics. Her World Document within the occasion got here on the 2017 World Championships whereas main off Sweden’s 4×100 free relay.
Sjostrom didn’t race the 100 freestyle on the 2023 World Championships however led off Sweden’s 4×100 free relay in a 52.24, a time that may have been silver had she swam the person occasion.
