2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Welcome to day 7 finals of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Tonight’s finals session will function finals of the boys’s 50 free, ladies’s 200 again, and males’s 200 IM, in addition to semifinals of the boys’s 100 fly and girls’s 200 IM. Of word, prelims of the combined 4×100 medley relay happened this morning, nevertheless, the finals of that relay received’t happen till tomorrow’s (Saturday) finals session. With that being mentioned, right now’s finals session is a brief one, scheduled to final simply over an hour.
DAY 7 FINALS SCHEDULE
- Males’s 50 Freestyle – Ultimate
- Girls’s 200 Backstroke – Ultimate
- Males’s 200 IM – Ultimate
- Males’s 100 Butterfly – Semifinals
- Girls’s 200 IM – Semifinals
The session will kick off with the ultimate of the boys’s 50 freestyle, the place American Caeleb Dressel will probably be going through the primary race of his double tonight. Dressel was fifth within the semifinals of the 50 free final night time, swimming a 21.58. He’s the reigning Olympic champion within the occasion, having set the Olympic Document again in Tokyo along with his profitable time of 21.07. Dressel has his arms very full on this subject, nevertheless, as Nice Britain’s Ben Proud and Australia’s Cam McEvoy each went 21.38 within the semifinals final night time. Moreover, the final seed on this warmth was nonetheless 21.69 within the semis final night time, simply 0.31 seconds slower than the highest seeds. This must be an outstanding race.
Dressel will then have the boys’s 100 fly semifinals later within the session. He’ll have a giant of downtime between the occasions, however not a lot. The turnaround is scheduled to be about 35 minutes. This morning, Dressel clocked a 50.83 within the 100 fly, then later swam a 50.10 on the combined medley relay. His aim for tonight will probably be to easily safe a lane, any lane, for tomorrow night time’s ultimate.
Hungarian Kristof Milak seemed glorious in prelims of the 100 fly this morning, dashing to a 50.19. Milak earned the silver medal within the 200 fly earlier within the meet. It is a loaded subject, and, if the instances from this morning maintain, it’ll doubtless take beneath 51 seconds to advance to the ultimate.
The ladies’s 200 backstroke will function one of many showdowns we’ve been wanting ahead to most. This race marks spherical 2 as Australian Kaylee McKeown will go up towards American Regan Smith. McKeown, the World Document holder within the 200 again, received gold within the 100 again a couple of nights in the past, whereas Smith took silver. They received’t be subsequent to one another tonight, as Smith is out in lane 7, since she was racing in final night time’s semifinals after taking silver within the ultimate of the 200 fly. American Phoebe Bacon will probably be in the midst of the pool tonight and may be very able to making a number of noise as effectively.
The boys’s 200 IM will function France’s Leon Marchand as he tries to win his 4th particular person gold medal of the meet. Having already received the 400 IM, 200 fly, and 200 breast, Marchand is available in as the highest seed within the 200 IM tonight after clocking a 1:56.31 in semifinals. This race will mark Marchand’s final particular person race of the meet, so we’re absolutely in for a present as the group will get behind him.
American Carson Foster and Nice Britain’s Duncan Scott each seemed nice within the semifinals final night time as effectively, and will push Marchand tonight.
The ladies’s 200 IM semifinals tonight have an fascinating dynamic occurring. It simply so occurs that Summer season McIntosh, Kate Douglass, Alex Walsh, and Kaylee McKeown, who’re the 4 strongest gold medal contenders, are all proper subsequent to one another within the 2nd warmth of semis. It ought to act as slightly preview of the ultimate tomorrow night time, although with much less on the road. The one wrinkle on this race is that McKeown will probably be coming off the 200 again ultimate, so she received’t be as contemporary because the others. Nonetheless, she’s scheduled to have about an hour between races, so it’s not the worst double we’ve seen.
MEN’S 50 FREESTYLE – FINAL
WOMEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE – FINAL
MEN’S 200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – FINAL
- World Document: 1:54.00 – Ryan Lochte, USA (2011)
- World Junior Document: 1:56.99 – Hubert Kos, HUN (2021)
- Olympic Document: 1:54.23 – Michael Phelps, USA (2008)
- 2021 Profitable Time: 1:55.00 – Wang Shun, CHN
- 2021 Time to Win Bronze: 1:56.17
MEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – SEMIFINALS
WOMEN’S 200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – SEMIFINALS
- World Document: 2:06.12 – Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2015)
- World Junior Document: 2:06.89 – Summer season McIntosh, CAN (2023)
- Olympic Document: 2:06.58 – Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2016)
- 2021 Profitable Time: 2:08.52 – Yui Ohashi, JPN
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 2:10.59
