Held in Qatar’s capital city (February 2 – February 18), the competition will provide the final opportunity for athletes to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Covering six aquatic disciplines – swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo – the championships will bring together some of the world’s top competitors looking to find form and podium places ahead of the busy summer schedule.
Loughborough University-linked athletes set to compete include:
Open water
Hector Pardoe (current student – Great Britain)
Tobias Robinson (current student – Great Britain)
Asterios Daldogiannis (current student – Greece)
Pool
Lauren Cox (current student – Great Britain)
Freya Colbert (current student – Great Britain)
Laura Stephens (current student – Great Britain)
Sophie Hansson (current student – Sweden)
Conor Ferguson (current student – Ireland)
Daniel Wiffen (current student – Ireland)
Felix Auboeck (current student – Austria)
Louise Hansson (alumna / part of the University Swimming Team – Sweden)
Abbie Wood (alumna – Great Britain)
Luke Greenbank (alumnus – Great Britain)
Joe Litchfield (alumnus – Great Britain)
James Wilby (alumnus – Great Britain)
Lucas Henveaux (studying at Loughborough University next year / part of the University Swimming Team – Belgium)
Andreas Vazaios (alumnus – Greece (potentially competing)