2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
After a busy prelims session on Tuesday, this morning’s prelims session shall be quick and candy. There are solely 3 races that shall be competed this morning: the ladies’s 200 breast, males’s 200 again, and ladies’s 200 fly. The session is scheduled to final simply 66 minutes.
DAY 5 PRELIMS SCHEDULE
- Ladies’s 200 Breaststroke – Prelims
- Males’s 200 Backstroke – Prelims
- Ladies’s 200 Butterfly – Prelims
There are solely 3 heats and 23 whole swimmers entered within the girls’s 200 breast this morning. American Kate Douglass is available in as the highest seed with a 2:19.30. Netherlands’ Tes Schouten can be entered below 2:20 with a 2:19.81. 100 Breast champion Tatjana Smith (South Africa) is available in because the third seed with a 2:20.80. Additionally within the combine is American Lilly King, who completed simply 0.01 seconds off the rostrum within the 100 breast just a few days in the past. In Tokyo, King bounced again from a disappointing silver end within the 100 breast by incomes her first medal of her profession within the 200 breast. We’ll see if she will observe the identical sample right here in Paris.
The lads’s 200 again is certain to be an thrilling occasion, simply because the 100 again was just a few days in the past. Hungarian Hubert Kos is available in as the highest seed with a 1:54.14, although Individuals Ryan Murphy and Keaton Jones, in addition to Spaniard Hugo Gonzalez are all entered with 1:54’s as effectively. The race may even function 100 again champion Thomas Ceccon of Italy, although he usually doesn’t fare as effectively within the 200 again as he does within the 100.
The showdown between Canadian Summer time McIntosh and American Regan Smith within the girls’s 200 fly will begin this morning. McIntosh enters with a 2:04.06, whereas Smith is a 2:04.80. McIntosh was off on Tuesday after successful gold within the 400 IM on Monday night time, in the meantime, Smith raced the 100 again final night time, the place she earned silver. There’s additionally reigning Olympic champion and Olympic File holder Zhang Yufei (China) within the combine. Zhang received the occasion final Olympics in 2:03.86.
WOMEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE – HEATS
- World File: 2:17.55 – Evgeniia Chikunova, RUS (2023)
- World Junior File: 2:19.64 – Viktoriya Gunes, TUR (2015)
- Olympic File: 2:18.95 – Tatjana Smith, RSA (2021)
- 2021 Successful Time: 2:18.95 – Tatjana Smith, RSA
- 2021 Time to Advance to Semifinals: 2:24.27
- Tatjana Smith (RSA) – 2:21.57
- Tes Schouten (Netherlands) – 2:23.08
- Kate Douglass (USA) – 2:23.44
- Ye Shiwen (CHN) – 2:23.67
- Satomi Suzuki (JPN) – 2:23.80
- Kaylene Corbett (RSA) – 2:23.85
- Mona McSharry (IRL) – 2:23.98
- Jenna Strauch (AUS) – 2:24.38
- Jessica Vall (ESP) – 2:24.52
- Kotryna Teterevkova (LTU) – 2:24.59
- Lilly King (USA) – 2:24.91
- Kelsey Wog (CAN) – 2:25.11
- Sydney Pickrem (CAN) – 2:25.45
- Ella Ramsey (AUS) – 2:25.61
- Francesca Fangio (ITA) – 2:25.85
- Kristyna Horska (CZE) – 2:26.28
Prelims of the ladies’s 200 breast was a bit slower this morning than it was in Tokyo 3 years in the past. In Tokyo, it took a 2:24.27 to make it again for the semifinals, whereas this morning is took a 2:26.28. Regardless, the sector was very bunched up this morning, seeing 100 breast champion Tatjana Smith end 1st with a 2:21.57, then there have been 6 swimmers who went 2:23 behind her.
Smith, nonetheless driving excessive after her victory within the 100 breast just a few nights in the past, regarded robust and clean within the race this morning. The defending Olympic champion within the occasion, Smith was quick this morning, splitting 1:07.58 on the opening 100m.
Netherlands’ Tes Schouten was the 2nd-fastest this morning, clocking a 2:23.08. Coincidentally, Schouten had the 2nd-fastest opening 100m within the discipline, getting out to a 1:08.20.
American Kate Douglass, the highest seed coming into the meet, got here in third total this morning after successful the ultimate warmth. She clocked a 2:23.44, placing up the quickest remaining 50m within the discipline with a 37.11.
Fellow American Lilly King did sufficient to make it again, clocking a 2:24.91. It wasn’t a good time for King, nonetheless, it appears prefer it needs to be a straightforward repair tonight within the semifinals, as she was solely out in a 1:09.62 this morning.
South Africa’s Kaylene Corbett, the fifth place finisher on this occasion in Tokyo, had a pleasant displaying this morning, taking sixth with a 2:23.85.
Of notice, 35-year-old Jessica Vall from Spain was ninth this morning, swimming a 2:24.52. Vall holds the Spanish File within the occasion with a 2:22.56, a time which she swam again in 2016.
MEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE – HEATS
- World File: 1:51.92 – Aaron Peirsol, USA (2009)
- World Junior File: 1:55.14 – Kliment Kolesnikov, RUS (2017)
- Olympic File: 1:53.27 – Evgeny Rylov, ROC (2021)
- 2021 Successful Time: 1:53.27 – Evgeny Rylov, ROC
- 2021 Time to Advance to Semifinals: 1:57.96
- Roman Mityukov (SUI) – 1:56.62
- Lukas Martens (GER) – 1:56.89
- Pieter Coetze (RSA) – 1:56.92
- Hubert Kos (HUN) – 1:57.01
- Ryan Murphy (USA) – 1:57.03
- Hugo Gonzalez (ESP) – 1:57.08
- Apostolos Christou (GRE) – 1:57.18
- Hidekazu Takehara (JPN) – 1:57.23
- Apostolos Siskos (GRE) – 1:57.26
- Juho Lee (KOR) – 1:57.39
- Keaton Jones (USA) – 1:57.54
- Oliver Morgan (GBR) – 1:57.56
- Mewan Tomac (FRA) – 1:57.62
- Thomas Ceccon (ITA) – 1:57.69
- Yohann Ndoye-Brouard (FRA) – 1:57.92
- Adam Telegdy (HUN) – 1:57.98
The lads’s 200 backstroke noticed Switzerland’s Roman Mityukov clock the highest time of the morning with a 1:56.62. Having turned 24 years outdated yesterday, Mityukov was out the quickest of anybody within the discipline this morning, swimming a 56.76 on the opening 100m. He then managed to return dwelling below 1:00 on the again half, the place he cut up 59.86.
Germany’s Lukas Martens, who’s displaying his versatility right here in Paris, was the next-fastest swimmer this morning, swimming a 1:56.89. He put collectively a superb again half, coming dwelling in 59.56.
South African Pieter Coetze additionally went 1:56 this morning, taking third total in 1:56.92. Having damaged the African File within the 100 again just a few nights in the past, Coetze is coming into this occasion with a number of momentum.
Prime-seeded Hubert Kos out of Hungary swam a really attention-grabbing race this morning. Kos was out in 58.95, which was simply the slowest opening 100m of everybody who made the semifinals. He then actually turned it on, coming dwelling in a really speedy 58.06 on the 2nd 100. Meaning Kos negative-split the race this morning, so we will anticipate one thing a lot quicker out of him tonight.
Of notice, China’s Xu Jiayu didn’t swim the race this morning. We’re nonetheless ready on information as to why the 100 again silver medalist missed the race.
Individuals Ryan Murphy and Keaton Jones each made it by way of with a problem. Murphy swam a 1:57.03, taking fifth total, whereas Jones was 1:57.54 for eleventh.
WOMEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY – HEATS
- World File: 2:01.81 – Liu Zige, CHN (2009)
- World Junior File: 2:04.06 – Summer time McIntosh, CAN (2023)
- Olympic File: 2:03.86 – Zhang Yufei, CHN (2021)
- 2021 Successful Time: 2:03.86 – Zhang Yufei, CHN
- 2021 Time to Advance to Semifinals: 2:15.36
- Zhang Yufei (CHN) – 2:06.55
- Regan Smith (USA) – 2:06.99
- Abbey Lee Connor (AUS) – 2:07.13
- Helena Bach (DEN) – 2:07.34
- Alex Shackell (USA) – 2:07.49
- Summer time McIntosh (CAN) – 2:07.70
- Keanna MacInnes (GBR) – 2:08.46
- Elizabeth Dekkers (AUS) – 2:08.97
- Airi Mitsui (JPN) – 2:09.12
- Boglarka Kapas (HUN) – 2:09.28
- Chen Luying (CHN) – 2:09.31
- Lana Pudar (BIH) – 2:09.32
- Georgia Damasioti (GRE) – 2:09.55
- Laura Stephens (GBR) – 2:10.46
- Hiroko Makino (JPN) – 2:10.79
- Laura Cabanes (ESP) – 2:10.82
With solely 19 swimmers competing within the girls’s 200 fly this morning, solely 3 didn’t advance to semifinals. Whereas that feels like a really small discipline, in Tokyo, solely 16 swimmers competed within the occasion, which suggests all of them made it again to semis. Defending champion Zhang Yufei (China) clocked the highest time of the morning with a really stable 2:06.55. That swim was a second quicker than the two:07.55 she clocked within the heats again in Tokyo, when she would, in fact, go on to win the occasion in finals. Yufei broke the Olympic File in Tokyo along with her successful time of two:03.86, so she’ll be a critical risk as we advance by way of the phases.
Regan Smith (USA) was 2nd this morning with a 2:06.99. Smith got here dwelling very effectively this morning, splitting a 33.46 on the ultimate 50m of the race. She regarded content material with the race after ending, which is an efficient signal for her as she heads into semifinals.
Fellow American Alex Shackell regarded superb in her first particular person race of the meet, swimming a 2:07.49 for fifth. Swimming subsequent to Smith, Shackell was out simply forward of her American teammate, however closed the race simply barely slower.
Canadian Summer time McIntosh, who has already received gold within the 400 IM right here in Paris, regarded probably the most relaxed I’ve ever seen anybody after ending a 200 fly this morning. McIntosh turned in a 2:07.70 this morning, which was good for sixth.
Hungary’s Boglarka Kapas had a really stable swim this morning, taking tenth in 2:09.28. The notable factor about her race this morning is that she closed the quickest of anybody within the discipline, coming dwelling in 33.04.
