Britain is keeping its Olympic pool swimmers at home for the 2024 European Championships, to be held in June, just about a month before the Paris Games, but the country's open water Olympians will be in Belgrade, Serbia. It is reported that he will make an expedition to
This was reported by British swimming news site Pullbuoy. hector pardo, toby robinsonand Leah Crisp He will represent Great Britain on Ada Ciganlija, a peninsula in the course of the Sava River that flows through Belgrade.
Swimmers in the pool will be selected with an eye to the future after next week's British Championships, based on “athletes who are on track to finish on the podium at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics”. However, the players competing in the European Junior Championships in Lithuania from July 2 to July 7 are not expected to be included in Britain's Euro squad.
At the 2024 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, last month, 22-year-old Pardot won bronze in the men's 10km race, becoming the first British open water swimmer since his Welsh compatriot to win a medal at the World Championships. . david davis Robinson, 27, finished 15th in the men's 10k at last month's world championships. Crisp, 22, was 24th in the women's 10km at the World Championships last year and 17th this year.
This schedule makes it slightly easier for open water Olympians to manage Euro doubles. Open swimming will take place on the Seine from June 10-13 before the pool portion of the European Championships and from August 8-9 after the pool swim at the Paris Olympics. A pool athlete only has about five weeks between his two bouts, compared to about seven weeks for an open water athlete.
The European Championships are traditionally moved to the spring during the Summer Olympics, but this year's calendar is unusual, with the 2024 World Championships postponed to February. The Netherlands will not send swimmers to this year's European Championships, citing a “crowded” schedule.
The 2024 European Championship was originally scheduled to be held in Kazan, Russia, before the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
