2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
- Pool Swimming: July 27 – August 4, 2024
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- Men’s 400 IM- Final
- Women’s 100 Fly – Final
- Men’s 200 Free- Semifinals
- Women’s 100 Breast- Semifinals
- Men’s 100 Back- Semifinals
- Men’s 100 Breast- Final
- Women’s 200 free- Semifinals
Three finals and four semifinals will compete tonight on night 2 of swimming in Paris. The men’s 400 IM will kick the night off as Leon Marchand swam to a top seed in the event touching in a 4:08.30 this morning swimming with the crowd behind him in the stands. Marchand enters as the favorite as he is also the World Record holder at the event.
2016 Rio bronze medalist Daiya Seto swam next to Marchand for about half of the race this morning and fell off slightly touching in a 4:10.92. Seto will swim next to Marchand tonight. Next to Marchand in lane 5 will be Great Britain’s Max Litchfield who swam a 4:09.51 this morning.
The women’s 100 fly is a stacked heat with World Record holder and now Olympic Record holder Gretchen Walsh swimming out of lane 4 after a 55.38 last night. After finishing 4th in Tokyo, Torri Huske of the US seeks revenge and looks to stand on the podium this time around after the 2nd fastest time last night with a 56.00.
All three of the Tokyo medalists will compete tonight with Maggie MacNeil of Canada (56.55 in semis), Zhang Yufei of China (56.15), and Emma McKeon of Australia (56.74) advancing through semifinals as well.
David Popovici of Romania and Danas Rapsys of Lithuania were the only men under 1:46 in the 200 free this morning. Popovici is the World Junior Record holder and was the top seed in the event coming into the meet. He will look to earn his spot in a middle lane for tomorrow night. Rapsys will look to return to the Olympic final in the event after finishing 8th in Tokyo.
South Africa’s Tatjana Smith led the way with a 1:05.00 in prelims of the women’s 100 breast and will look to have a chance at standing on the podium again after winning silver in Tokyo. She will swim next to Lilly King of the US tonight and King won bronze in Tokyo and gold in Rio so she will look to make her 3rd appearance on the podium tomorrow night. China’s Tang Qianting swam a 1:05.63 for the 2nd fastest time of prelims and has been in the 1:04 range before.
Three men were under the 53-second mark this morning in the 100 back as Hungary’s Hubert Kos led the way with a 52.78, swimming a best time and national record in the process. Kos won the World title in the 200 back last summer and will look to position himself towards his first Olympic medal tomorrow night. Ryan Murphy of the US is the highest returner from Tokyo after winning bronze then and is the 4-seed tonight (53.06) as he will swim next to Pieter Coetze of South Africa who posted a 52.90 this morning.
Adam Peaty of Great Britain will look to win his 3rd gold medal in the men’s 100 breaststroke in a row after capturing gold in Rio and Tokyo. Peaty is the world record holder in the event and enters as the top seed with a 58.83. The only other swimmer to break into the 58-mark so far is China’s Qin Haiyang who won the World Championship in all three breaststroke events last summer.
Tokyo silver and bronze medalists Arno Kamminga (Netherlands) and Nicolo Martinenghi (Italy) return to the final once again. Kamminga swam a 59.12 in semifinals while Martinenghi swam a 59.28.
The night will conclude with semifinals of the women’s 200 free where Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan swam the fastest time during prelims with a 1:55.79. O’Callaghan is the former World Record holder in the event. Canada’s Mary Sophie-Harvey had the 2nd fastest time of prelims with a 1:56.21, finishing ahead of current World Record holder in the event Ariarne Titmus who was 3rd in prelims. Titmus is coming off of gold in the women’s 400 free last night.
torri moved a little on the start, just saying…
Gutted for Litchfield…
The free link for the nbc ny channel won’t work. Any other links ?
It would be great to see the rest of the field, though
The crowd is electric for Marchand. Chills
Just thinking. Some people have talked about Leon breaking 4:00. At this point in time I thought they were all nut jobs. But…
Fukuoka: prelim 4:10.88; final 4:02.50; a drop of 8.38 seconds, prelims to finals.
This morning in Paris: prelim 4:08.30 — drop 8.38 from that — 3:59.92. No. Really.
I want to cry. Even for having such thoughts pass through my cerebral cortex. I’m relating to the photos in Cleo Lemon’s post.
He’d need to average a drop of 0.65 each hundred. That doesn’t sound so impossible no, does it? That would be:
:54.01 (:54.66)
1:01.33 (1:55.34) (1:01.98)
1:06.99 (3:02:33) (1:07.64)
:57.57 (3:59.90) (:58.22)
3:59.90 (4:02.50)
Over the last three years, Leon… Read more »
Gretchen is winning gold. Bookmark it or whatever, that’s how confident I am.
I’m so excited for her
Quite honestly I wouldn’t be shocked if the 100 Breast was won in 59.0 (although it’d suck). Both Peaty and Qin looked like they legitimately died rather than held back yesterday. Although if I was a betting man I’d still say the winning time is 58-mid.
If that’s the case, Finke has a chance.