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Chris Guiliano Clocks 47.25 100 Free To Become Third-Fastest American Ever

2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS

In the semi-finals of the men’s 100 freestyle at the 2024 U.S. Olympic trials, Chris Guiliano clocked a time of 47.25 to head into finals as the top overall seed. He now becomes the third-fastest American ever in the event, as well as the 13th-fastest performer of all-time.

Guiliano improved from his best time of 47.49, set during long course time trials after the 2024 ACC Championships.

All-Time Top U.S. Performers, Men’s 100-Meter Freestyle (LCM):

  1. Caeleb Dressel — 46.96 (2019/2021)
  2. Jack Alexy — 47.08 (2024)
  3. Chris Guiliano — 47.25 (2024)
  4. David Walters — 47.33 (2009)
  5. Ryan Held — 47.39 (2019)

Compared to his previous best time, Guiliano had the exact same speed on his back half. However, he was 0.14 seconds faster going out, which made the difference in his improvement.

Splits Comparison: 

Chris Guiliano, 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials semi-finals Chris Guiliano, 2024 post-ACC Championships time trials
50m 22.61 22.85
100m 24.64 24.64
Total 47.25 47.49

Headed into finals, with Caeleb Dressel, Jack Alexy, and Guiliano all qualifying, the three fastest Americans in history will all be in contention to qualify for the Paris Olympic team in the 100 free and the 4×100 free relay.

Guiliano is already qualified to swim the 200 freestyle at the Paris Olympic Games. On Wednesday night, he has a chance to add a second event to his lineup.

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Italian Fan
5 months ago

Is he of Italian descent? If so, I am almost certain they misspelled the surname of his forefathers at Ellis Island…

saltie
5 months ago

crazy that the top 4 legitimate performers all time could end up on a relay together.

Also crazy that one of the three fastest ever won’t even go in the individual 100 free

Andy
Reply to  saltie
5 months ago

How are Popovici, McEvoy and Chalmers not legitimate?

HeGetsItDoneAgain
Reply to  Andy
5 months ago

He’s talking about the Us list u buffoon

John
Reply to  Andy
5 months ago

This US trials, not the Olympics, he’s talking about the two person limit per country for ind. entries.

We also time to the 100th and not the 1000th anymore as well

saltie
5 months ago

Dressel only went 46.96 once. his best in 2021 was 47.02

it’s the 50 free where he went the same time in both years (21.04)

DLswim
5 months ago

When was the last time someone made the Oly team in the individual 100 and 200 frees?

Robert Gibbs
Reply to  DLswim
5 months ago

If you meant man or woman, then Missy Franklin in 2012.

Genevieve Nnaji
5 months ago

Funny thing about m100 free textile WR (I am discounting rubber for the purpose of continuity) in the past 50 years is that they were almost never broken in individual final in a major championships.

Popov swam and broke WR 48.21 in Monte Carlo 1994

Michael Klim 48.18 relay lead off Sydney 2000

Pieter VDH 47.84 semifinal Sydney 2000

James Magnussen 47.49 relay lead off Shanghai 2011

James Magnussen 47.10 Australian trials 2012

Cameron McEvoy 47.04 Australian trials 2016

Caeleb Dressel 46.96 Gwangju 2019, this is the first time 100 free textile WR broken in individual 100 free final at major championships final since Jim Montgomery did it in 1976 Montreal

David Popovici 46.86 Rome 2022

Pan Zhanle 46.80 relay… Read more »

Chris Breedy
Reply to  Genevieve Nnaji
5 months ago

J0nty Skinner 76 US Nationals 49.44 breaking Montgomery’s fresh Olympic time-@Kelly Pool Philadelphia

MPalota
Reply to  Chris Breedy
5 months ago

Crazy swim. Seriously, one of the very best ever. Absolute crap pool. Maybe 4′ deep from the start end to at least 20m and low-tech ropes. Chop & waves all over the place. 49.44 and it stood ’till Rowdy beat it in a time trail 5 years later!! FYI, 49.44 would have won Gold in ’84 by almost .5 seconds!!

Martinfamily
Reply to  MPalota
5 months ago

Absolutely loved swimming there. Remember after one meet watching the crazy kids ride bicycles off the top diving tower into the diving well. Ah…good times….

Hank
Reply to  Genevieve Nnaji
5 months ago

Eamon Sullivan also on a relay.

Genevieve Nnaji
Reply to  Hank
5 months ago

Rubber

Alex Dragovich
5 months ago

I’ve gotten bullish on him & think he’ll be top 2 tomorrow. Don’t know how well that will age 🤷🏻‍♂️ but dude looks phenomenal.

Taa
5 months ago

I think lane 4 is not optimal for finals.

Sapiens Ursus
5 months ago

Here’s a swimflation stat: 29/50 of the top men’s 100 free performances of all time have occurred after 2020

Last edited 5 months ago by Sapiens Ursus

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