The 20th World Swimming Championships will be held July 14-30 in the Japanese city of Fukuoka. The event will host events in swimming pool and open water, synchronized swimming, water polo and springboard, will serve as a qualifier for the Paris Olympic Games and will measure the level of the main stars of the discipline in a rich calendar into events by next summer.

The pool will be the main attraction to see the best swimming stars. The United States are the favorites to reclaim the top of the medal table, especially after the 45 medals they won at the last World Cup in Budapest, led by seven-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky. We should not lose sight either of the hectometre breaststroke dominatrix Lidia Jacobi or the Olympic champion in the 800 and 1500 m freestyle Bobby Finke.

However, Australia wants to fight and will have as first swords Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers, who between them won eleven Olympic gold medals. In addition, Hungary, Canada and France present promising young people who are promised a bright future. It will therefore be necessary to be attentive to Kristof Milak, Summer McIntos and Leon Marchand respectively.

The race that promises the most emotions is the women’s 400 meters freestyle, which will see the participation of the current Olympic and world champion in the specialty, the aforementioned Katie Ledecky, winner of this event in 2019, the Australian Ariarne Titmus and Canada’s Summer McIntos, a just 16-year-old who is threatening to break the bank, as she set the specialty world record stopping the clock in 03:56.08 at the Trials of Canada, but failed to not yet faced its two biggest rivals. For his part, the 21-year-old Frenchman Léon Marchand can put an end to the last record of the Michael Phelps dynasty, that of 400 styles. Phelps achieved this milestone at the Beijing Games swimming in 04:03.84, while Marchand holds the European record for the event with 04:04.28.

Finally Kristof Milak wants to continue to make the history of the butterfly. He already has the European, world and Olympic triple crown in the 200 meters, in addition to gold in the 100. But now the Hungarian wants to go down 01:52 in the 200 meters and get the world record in the hectometre, which is owned by American Kaleb Dressel, who will not be in Fukuoka.

In reference to the Spanish delegation, their main medal options are synchronized and water polo. In artistic swimming, Spain are bidding after their big role at the last European Games in Krakow, where they won six medals and went for gold in the team routines as well as the free and mixed duets. Meanwhile, the men’s and women’s water polo teams arrive at the event in great shape after winning gold and bronze respectively a few weeks ago in the World League in Los Angeles.

Angels. The men’s team will not have an easy group as they are drawn with Serbia, Montenegro and South Africa, while the women’s team will play in the first phase against Kazakhstan, Israel and the Netherlands. Down.

The Swimming World Cup can be followed by Teledeporte and RTVE in morning and morning sessions, let’s remember that in Fukuoka there are seven hours more. Water polo will take place over the two weeks of the event while artistic swimming will take place from July 14-22 and pool and open water swimming will take place from July 23-30.