Arguably one of the best session we’ve seen up to now within the Paris Olympics, tonight’s session didn’t disappoint. We noticed our first world report with Pan Zhanle’s 46.40 100 freestyle (sure, you learn that proper. 46.40), a number of Olympic information, with Leon Marchand within the males’s 200 butterfly and the 200 breaststroke, and in addition stellar swims from Sarah Sjostrom within the 100 freestyle and Katie Ledecky within the ladies’s 1500 freestyle. America added their first gold medal to their tally since night time one. There have been many thrilling semifinal races, hopefully resulting in an thrilling few finals tomorrow night time, with these three 200s and the ladies’s 4×200 freestyle relay. Right here’s some enjoyable details in regards to the day 5 finals session:
WOMEN’S 100 FREESTYLE
- Sarah Sjostrom turned the primary medalist within the historical past of the ladies’s 100 freestyle to win medals in non-consecutive Olympics. She received a bronze medal within the Rio Video games, and after profitable this yr’s gold medal, she joins six different swimmers who’ve received a number of Olympic medals.
- Siobhan Haughey is the primary girl in swimming historical past to win medals in each the 100 and 200 freestyles at two back-to-back video games. She received silver in Tokyo in each occasions, and she or he’ll deliver dwelling two bronze medals from the Paris video games. With this 100 freestyle medal, Haughey has received her fourth Olympic medal, and she or he stays as Hong Kong’s solely medalist in swimming.
- Along with her 52.29 silver-medal efficiency, Torri Huske turned the eleventh quickest swimmer within the occasion’s historical past. She turned the second quickest American behind Simone Manuel, who holds the American report within the 100 freestyle.
MEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY
- Leon Marchand, along with his new Olympic report time of 1:51.21, turned the second-fastest swimmer of all time on this occasion. His new time locations him forward of Michael Phelps.
- That is the primary time France has ever received the 200 butterfly, and the primary time since 2000 that Japan has not medaled within the occasion.
- Bronze medalist Ilya Kharun turns into Canada’s first medalist within the males’s 200 butterfly, and their first general medalist since 2012. The 19-year-old completed with a time of 1:52.80, breaking his outdated report within the course of and bumping him as much as the seventh quickest performer of all time.
- Switzerland’s Noe Ponti tied his personal Swiss nationwide report of 1:54.14, which he set within the semifinals yesterday. Martin Espernberger of Austria additionally took down a nationwide report, swimming a 1:54.17 to complete sixth within the Olympic closing.
WOMEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY
- Boglarka Kapas, the 14th place finisher on this yr’s semifinals, holds the particular honor of with the ability to compete in the identical finals session as her husband, fellow Hungarian swimmer Adam Telegdy. Telegdy positioned thirteenth within the 200 backstroke, swimming a 1:57.58 out of semifinal #1.
- 18-year-old Lana Pudar turned Bosnia and Herzegovina’s best-ever finisher on this occasion, incomes a twelfth place end with a time of two:08.74. The nation’s earlier greatest Olympic efficiency got here from 1992, the place Anja Margetić positioned twenty seventh.
- If Regan Smith or Alex Shackell make the rostrum tomorrow night time, they’ll assist the USA to their first back-to-back Olympic podium end since 1988 (Mary T. Meagher) and 1992 (Summer season Sanders). In the event that they each earn medals, this Olympics would be the second Video games in a row the place the USA has featured each swimmers on the rostrum (Tokyo had Smith and Hali Flickinger in Silver/Bronze).
- Zhang Yufei has the prospect to repeat her gold medal from Tokyo. If she does so, she’ll be the primary girl in historical past to win the occasion twice.
WOMEN’S 1500 FREESTYLE
- Katie Ledecky repeated her win from Tokyo, swimming a time of 15:30.02. It is a new Olympic report, and is the eighth quickest efficiency of all time. After this swim, Ledecky is now tied for the most-ever Olympic gold medals and complete medals received by an American girl.
- With this time, Ledecky claims the highest 20 performances within the occasion, bumping out Lotte Friis’ 2013 efficiency of 15:38.88.
- Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (France, Silver) and Isabel Gose (Germany, Bronze) each received their first Olympic medals, with Gose profitable Germany’s second medal within the 1500 freestyle. Kirpichnikova turned the fourth greatest performer of all time on this occasion, and Gose turned the sixth.
MEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE
- If fourth-seed Lukas Märtens wins a medal throughout tomorrow’s closing, he would be the first male swimmer to win medals in each the 400 freestyle and the 200 backstroke throughout the identical video games. (Fellow German swimmer Dagmar Hase accomplished the medal double in 1992, profitable gold within the 400 free and silver within the 200 again)
- With Ryan Murphy inserting tenth within the semifinals and Luke Greenbank’s DQ on this morning’s prelims, not one of the Tokyo medalists will defend their medals in Paris. This opens the door for a lot of nations to win their first medals on this occasion.
- International locations like Greece (Apostolos Christou), Switzerland (Roman Mityukov), and South Africa (Pieter Coetze) will all have their first finalists within the males’s 200 backstroke.
WOMEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE
- Tatjana Smith, Lilly King, and Satomi Suzuki all have an opportunity to win their second medals on this occasion, with Smith being in competition to win her second gold. If she wins, she’ll be a part of Rebecca Soni as the one swimmer in Olympic historical past to win in back-to-back years.
- The highest three finalists, Kate Douglass, Smith, and Tes Schouten, all had the identical response time of 0.67 seconds off the blocks.
- If Tes Schouten medals tomorrow night time, she would be the first medalist from the Netherlands to win a medal since Nel van Vliet, who received gold in 1948.
MEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE
- In profitable each the 200 butterfly and the 200 breaststroke in the identical night time, Marchand turns into the primary swimmer to win two particular person occasions in the identical night time since East Germany’s Kornelia Ender, who swam the 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly in 1976. Other than Ender and Marchand, solely two different swimmers have completed the identical feat: Alfréd Hajós in 1896 (swimming the 1200 freestyle and the 100 freestyle for Hungary), and Fred Lane in 1900 (swimming the 200 freestyle and the 200 meter impediment course race for Australia).
- On high of this already wonderful feat of profitable two golds in the identical night time, Marchand broke the Olympic report in each occasions, regardless of being up towards previous and current world report holders.
- Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner turns into the primary man to win back-to-back medals on this occasion since Kosuke Kitajima in 2004/2008. He’s the primary Australian man to ever accomplish that within the 200 breaststroke.
- Caspar Corbeau wins the primary swimming medal for the Netherlands at this video games, with a bronze medal in a time of two:07.90. This medal continues the Netherlands’ streak, as Arno Kamminga completed second on this occasion in Tokyo.
- With Stubblety-Prepare dinner and Corbeau on the rostrum, Australia and the Netherlands add one other Olympics in a row of being on the rostrum collectively, with Stubblety-Prepare dinner and Kamminga ending 1-2 in Tokyo.
MEN’S 100 FREESTYLE
- Pan Zhanle turns into the primary swimmer of the meet to interrupt a world report, and he does so in a time of 46.40, shaving an entire 0.40 seconds off of his greatest time. This win comes with the widest margin of victory since Johnny Weissmuller’s victory over István Bárány in 1928, 96 years in the past. At this level within the sport’s historical past, occasions had been nonetheless recorded to the tenth– the hundredth place wouldn’t be added till 1972.
- Making this an much more spectacular swim, Pan received the primary ever medal within the males’s 100 freestyle for China. Romania’s David Popovici did the identical for his nation, taking dwelling the bronze medal.
- Kyle Chalmers, in profitable his third medal on this occasion, joined a choose group of two different swimmers with three 100 freestyle medals (Duke Kahanamoku and Alexander Popov).
