Tom Daley and Adam Peaty named in Team GB squad for World Aquatics Championships 2024
Having made recent comebacks to competition, British stars set to return to major global competition for the first time since winning gold at Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Olympic champions Tom Daley and Adam Peaty were named in the Team GB squad for February's World Aquatics Championships in Qatar on Saturday (23 December).
Having taken a break from diving after winning Tokyo 2020 10m synchro gold with Matty Lee, 29-year-old Daley made a successful return to action earlier this month at the British Diving Cup.
Inspired by his son Robbie, Daley is bidding to make Paris 2024 and become the first British diver to appear at five Olympic Games.
Lee is also in the 13-strong diving squad along with fellow Olympic champion Jack Laugher.
A foot injury ruled three-time Olympic swimming gold medallist Peaty out of the 2022 World Championships in Budapest.
The 28-year-old then missed this year's edition in Fukuoka after opting to take a mental health break in March.
Peaty returned to action in October's World Cup meet in Berlin, finishing sixth in the 100m breaststroke - the event he has made his own - and third in the 50m race.
He was second in the 50m breaststroke a week later in Athens - again behind current world champion Qin Haiyang - and told World Aquatics afterwards, "This is the first race that I can say, 'I am getting back after two years.'"
Tom Dean, the winner of Britain's only other individual swimming title in Tokyo, is also in the 20-person swim squad along with relay gold medallists Duncan Scott, Matt Richards, Kathleen Dawson and Anna Hopkin.
Richards will defend his 200m freestyle world crown after beating Dean in Fukuoka with Romania's then-reigning champion David Popovici only fourth.
The World Aquatics Championships 2024 were initially scheduled for November 2023 but moved due to Fukuoka being held back as a result of the Tokyo Olympic postponement and further Covid pandemic measures.
They will now take place in Doha from 11-18 February with the United States - who will have just 18 swimmers in their squad - among a number of nations sending small teams due to the event being just five months before the Olympic Games Paris 2024.