2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Welcome to day 8 finals of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Although the swimming portion of the Olympics is now winding down, tonight’s finals session is about to be one of the crucial motion packed of the meet. Tonight’s lineup contains the ultimate of the boys’s 100 fly, girls’s 200 IM, girls’s 800 free, and combined 4×100 medley relay, in addition to the semifinals of the ladies’s 50 free.
DAY 8 FINALS SCHEDULE
- Males’s 100 Butterfly – Last
- Ladies’s 50 Freestyle – Semifinal
- Ladies’s 200 IM – Last
- Ladies’s 800 Free – Last
- Combined 4×100 Medley Relay – Last
Issues will kick off with the boys’s 100 fly remaining. Hungarian star Kristof Milak led the sphere by way of prelims and semifinals, having gone 50.19 in prelims yesterday morning and 50.38 in semis final evening. Milak appeared like he was on a mission yesterday within the occasion after taking silver within the 200 fly, his greatest occasion, behind Leon Marchand.
The 24-year-old has his work reduce out for him, nevertheless, as he has Josh Liendo and Maxime Grousset on both aspect of him. In actual fact, this must be among the finest races we’ve seen all week by way of the warmth as an entire. The highest seed and eighth seed have been separated by simply 0.70 seconds in semifinals.
The subsequent remaining would be the girls’s 200 IM, and we must always all simply hope it lives as much as the hype. The warmth will function (in no explicit order) Summer season McIntosh, Kate Douglass, Alex Walsh, and Kaylee McKeown, every of whom have a really actual shot at gold and any of whom may find yourself breaking the Olympic Report tonight. It was Walsh who led semis final evening, swimming a 2:07.45. There are sufficient variations in strengths and weaknesses between them that this must be an distinctive race to observe.
After the IM, will probably be the Katie Ledecky present. Ledecky earned the highest seed for the ladies’s 800 free remaining along with her 8:16.62 in prelims yesterday. That is Ledecky’s greatest occasion, and she or he’s chasing her 14th profession Olympic medal tonight. If she will get it, she’ll take sole possession of the title of probably the most adorned American feminine Olympic of all-time.
Observe together with SwimSwam’s Coleman Hodges as he does a reside watch get together for tonight’s session:
MEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – FINAL
- Kristof Milak (Hungary) – 49.90
- Josh Liendo (Canada) – 49.99
- Ilya Kharun (Canada) – 50.45
- Noe Ponti (Switzerland) – 50.55
- Maxime Grousset (France) – 50.75
- Nyls Korstanje (Netherlands) – 50.83
- Matthew Temple (Australia) – 51.10
- Naoki Mizunuma (Japan) – 51.11
Hungary’s Kristof Milak obtained the job finished tonight, getting his palms on the wall 1st in 49.90 after main this occasion in each prelims and semifinals as effectively. Milak was 4th on the 50m flip, however he swam his race completely, constructing on the sphere by way of the again half of the race. On the end, he merely had a greater contact than Josh Liendo, and it made the distinction in Milak profitable gold.
Liendo was 2nd on the first 50 of the race, swimming a 23.24. He then had an exceptional flip, popping out forward of the sphere with the clear lead. Liendo was holding that lead and appeared like he would win, however as said above, his end simply wasn’t timed up in addition to Milak’s. With the efficiency, Liendo broke his personal Canadian Report, and took the Canadian Report within the occasion underneath 50 seconds for the first time.
This was an unimaginable race for Canada, as Ilya Kharun would seize the bronze medal. Kharun was seventh on the 50, however got here dwelling 2nd-fastest solely to Milak and it was sufficient.
Early on it appeared like Frenchman Maxime Grousset could have the higher hand, however he didn’t come off the flip effectively and ended up falling again to fifth by the point the race was over.
WOMEN’S 50 FREESTYLE – SEMIFINALS
- World Report: 23.61 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2023)
- World Junior Report: 24.17 – Claire Curzan, USA (2021)
- Olympic Report: 23.81 – Emma McKeon, AUS (2021)
- 2021 Successful Time: 23.81 – Emma McKeon, AUS
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 24.32
WOMEN’S 200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – FINAL
- World Report: 2:06.12 – Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2015)
- World Junior Report: 2:06.89 – Summer season McIntosh, CAN (2023)
- Olympic Report: 2:06.58 – Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2016)
- 2021 Successful Time: 2:08.52 – Yui Ohashi, JPN
- 2021 Time to Win Bronze: 2:09.04
WOMEN’S 800 FREESTYLE – FINAL
MIXED 4×100 MEDLEY RELAY – FINAL
- World Report: 3:37.58 – Nice Britain (2021)
- Olympic Report: 3:37.58 – Nice Britain (2021)
- 2021 Successful Time: 3:37.58 – Nice Britain
- 2021 Time to Win Bronze: 3:38.95
