By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam
World Aquatics has officially confirmed the 34 athletes who earned “wild card” selection to the 2026 SC World Championships in Beijing, some of which are major medal contenders.
In July, the organization announced the procedure for qualifying via a wild card spot. Swimmers who competed in at least two of the three stops would be eligible, and if they finished within the top three in an individual event while achieving an ‘A’ standard, they would be in line to earn an entry.
The rules stipulated that each country may have no more than one wild card entry per individual event, and that each federation would receive a maximum of three wild-card athletes regardless of gender.
It is also important to note that these athletes do not count against roster limits or the two-per-country rule in individual events. This means that a country could sweep the podium in a given individual event.
The official list has been released, and a few countries took advantage of all three wild card spots. Russia, South Africa, The Netherlands, Canada, and Belgium all qualified three athletes to the meet.
There were a few big names that earned qualification this way as well, including world record holders Marrit Steenbergen and Caspar Corbeau from The Netherlands, Cameron McEvoy from Australia, and Egor Kornev, from Russia.. Other big names who qualified this way include Pieter Coetze, and Siobhan Haughey.
Steenbergen, Corbeau, and the third Dutch athlete, Sean Niewold, were all named to the Netherlands roster last week, but Tatjana Smith recently announced she would be part of the Dutch team and was not part of the roster, which suggests that they could still add athletes.
Canada’s Taylor Ruck, Finlay Knox, and Blake Tierney were also named to their country’s original roster back in September.
A few athletes who were relying on roster spots to qualify also earned spots including Cameron McEvoy. The Australian world record holder did not race at the Australian SC National Championships, which meant the wild card spots were his only opportunity to race at SC Worlds.
As SwimSwam previously reported, Luke Barr and Anna Peplowski earned the wild card spots for the United States, which they also needed after not racing at the SC World Trials.
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Name NF 1 COOPER Isaac AUS 2 MCEVOY Cameron AUS 3 GASPARD Florine BEL 4 HENVEAUX Lucas Pierre A BEL 5 VANOTTERDIJK Roos BEL 6 PEKARSKI Grigori BLR 7 KNOX Finlay CAN 8 RUCK Taylor CAN 9 TIERNEY Blake CAN 10 CHEN Juner CHN 11 YU Yiting CHN 12 CEJKA Jan CZE 13 LAHTINEN Laura FIN 14 COLBERT Freya Constance GBR 15 WOOD Abbie GBR 16 HAUGHEY Siobhan HKG 17 RAZZETTI Alberto ITA 18 KOBORI Waka JPN 19 OGATA So JPN 20 CORBEAU Caspar NED 21 NIEWOLD Sean NED 22 STEENBERGEN Marrit NED 23 DEANS Caitlin NZL 24 CALDWELL Matthew RSA 25 COETZE Pieter RSA 26 HOULIE Michael RSA 27 BORODIN Ilia RUS 28 KORNEV Egor RUS 29 PRIGODA Kirill RUS 30 GAN Ching Hwee SGP 31 TEONG Tzen Wei SGP 32 JUNEVIK Sara SWE 33 BARR Luke USA 34 PEPLOWSKI Anna USARead the full story on SwimSwam: 34 Swimmers including Cam McEvoy, Marrit Steenbergen, and Egor Kornev earn Wild Card Spots for SC Worlds
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