2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
- Pool Swimming: July 27 – August 4, 2024
- Open Water Swimming: August 8 – 9, 2024
- La Défense Arena — Paris, France
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Day 4 Prelims Event Lineup
- Men’s 200 butterfly
- Men’s 100 freestyle
- Women’s 1500 freestyle
- Women’s 100 freestyle
- Men’s 200 breaststroke
- Men’s 4×200 free relay
The men’s 200 fly will open the session as Leon Marchand enters as the top seed with a 1:52.43 and will look to win another gold in the meet after already winning the 400 IM in an Olympic Record time on night 2. Marchand will have a busy morning as he also is entered in the 200 breaststroke at at the end of the session.
Defending Olympic champion and current World Record holder Kristof Milak enters as the #2 seed with a 1:52.58. Silver medalist from Tokyo Tomoru Honda returns as the #3 seed with a 1:53.15.
China’s Pan Zhanle swam to an Olympic Record on night 1 in the men’s 100 free clocking a 46.92 while leading off the Chinese men’s 4×100 free relay. Pan is the World Record holder in the event as he swam a 46.80 in February at the 2024 World Championships. After winning gold in the 200 free last night, David Popovici of Romania will be back in action as the #2 seed in the 100 free. He has an entry time of a 46.88 and is the only other 46-point entry.
Katie Ledecky of the US will look to defend her title in the 1500 freestyle after winning in Tokyo, the first time that the event was ever contested at the Olympic level. Italy’s Simona Quadarella enters as the #2 seed and won bronze in the 800 free in Tokyo so she will look to be a first-time medalist in this event.
Like the men’s 100 freestyle, the women’s 100 free will also feature numerous swimmers who were in the 200 free. Bronze medalist last night in the 200 free Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong is the top seed with a 52.02. Haughey won silver in the event in Tokyo.
Mollie O’Callaghan who won gold in the 200 free last night is the #2 seed with a 52.08. O’Callaghan won the event at the 2023 World Championships. World Record holder Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden is the #3 seed in the event and is entered in the event after saying earlier this year that she would not contest the event.
China’s Qin Haiyang holds the World Record in the men’s 200 breast and won the event at 2023 Worlds. He is the top seed in the event and will swim next to Marchand who will be on the back half of his 200 fly, 200 breast double. Haiyang is coming off of a 7th place finish in the 100 breast on night 2. Zac Stubblety-Cook of Australia is the #2 seed and will look to position himself to stand on the top of the podium again. Matt Fallon of the US enters as the #3 seed after swimming an American Record of a 2:06.54 at US Trials.
The men’s 4×200 free relay will conclude the evening. Great Britain is the #1 seed and look to be set up well after Matt Richards won silver and Duncan Scott was 4th in the individual 200 free last night. The US is the #2 seed and look to be led by Luke Hobson who won bronze last night.