2024 PARIS OLYMPICS OPEN WATER SWIMMING
The ladies’s 10km is ready to kick off the open water occasions on the 2024 Paris Olympics in only a matter of hours. With the boys’s race approaching Friday, we now have the official begin lists for each the boys’s and ladies’s 10km, which you could find under.
START LISTS
Initially, it seems we’re forging forward with the open water occasions as they battle with water high quality within the Seine. After Tuesday’s coaching was cancelled because of the deteriorating water high quality, swimmers took to the Seine for coaching on Wednesday. Tuesday’s “familiarization session” was canceled when water high quality measurements had been worse than they’d been on earlier days.
Information dropped a number of days in the past that American David Johnston had dropped out of the boys’s 10km after a optimistic COVID take a look at. With Johnston pulling out of the race as he recovers from COVID, Ivan Puskovitch would be the solely American within the males’s race.
This can be a robust discipline within the males’s 10km right here in Paris. On the high, we’ve got the likes of Germany’s Florian Wellbrock, Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri within the combine. Wellbrock received gold on this occasion again on the Tokyo Olympics 3 years in the past. He additionally received gold within the 10km on the 2023 and 2019 World Championships, in addition to gold within the 5km on the 2022 World Champs, and a 4×1500 open water relay gold in 2022 in addition.
In the meantime, Paltrinieri, it’s protected to say is likely one of the most adorned males’s distance swimmers of all time. Within the pool, Paltrinieri received gold within the 1500 free on the 2016 Rio Olympics, and has earned 2 silver medals and a bronze. He earned silver within the 1500 free a number of days in the past right here in Paris, whereas he additionally earned bronze within the 800 free final week. In Tokyo, Paltrinieri earned the bronze medal within the 10km. The 29-year-old has additionally received World Champs gold within the 10km in 2022, in addition to gold within the open water relay in 2023. He’s earned a trio of World Champs silvers within the open water occasions – a pair of silvers within the 5km in 2022 and 2023, and a silver within the relay in 2019. Paltrinieri additionally earned bronze within the open water relay on the 2022 World Champs. On high of that, the veteran is a 6-time European Championships open water gold medalist.
Paltrinieri swam higher than Wellbrock within the pool right here in Paris, however that isn’t essentially predictive of how they’ll race within the open water, because it’s so totally different from pool swimming.
With Wellbrock and Paltrinieri coming in as favorites on this race, there’s additionally Eire’s Daniel Wiffen to control. Wiffen received gold within the 800 free final week in a spectacular race, then earned bronze within the 1500 free a number of days in the past. Wiffen doesn’t have essentially the most prolific open water background on this discipline, however he raced nice within the pool in Paris, so he’s definitely a reputation to look at.
A younger swimmer who must be enjoyable to look at is Turkey’s Kuzey Tuncelli. The 16-year-old had a popping out social gathering within the 1500 right here in Paris, making it by way of to the ultimate from a non-circle-seeded warmth in prelims. He would then go on to complete in fifth within the occasion in finals on Sunday. After all, he doesn’t have the deepest open water background on this discipline both, nevertheless, a younger rising star is all the time reside to make some noise.
Flipping to the ladies’s race, it appears like we’ve maintained the unique entries. There shall be 24 ladies competing within the race within the morning.
Maybe essentially the most prolific swimmer on this discipline is Dutch 30-year-old Sharon van Rouwendaal. Van Rouwendaal received gold within the ladies’s 10km on the Rio 2016 Olympics, in addition to silver within the occasion in Tokyo. On high of that, she’s a 3-time World Championships gold medalist in open water swimming, twice within the 10km (2022 and 2024) and as soon as within the 5km (2024). She has, in complete, received 11 open water World Champs medals in her profession. After all, she’s additionally been extremely profitable on the European Championships, the place she has additionally received 10 medals in open water occasions. That listing contains 8 gold medals, 3 of which got here within the 10km, and the latest in 2022.
There’s additionally American Katie Grimes, who suits an analogous mould to van Rouwendaal. Grimes, 18, is the one swimmer apart from van Rouwendaal to have earned a medal in pool swimming and open water swimming on the similar World Championships. That occurred final summer time on the World Championships in Fukuoka, the place Grimes earned silver within the ladies’s 400 IM and bronze within the 10km. Grimes wasn’t on the high of her sport within the 1500 free right here in Paris final week, nevertheless, as talked about above, that isn’t actually all that indicative of how she’ll race in open water. Grimes can also be a 2-time World Junior Open Water Championships gold medalist.
We additionally want to say defending Olympic Champion Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil. She received gold within the 10km again in Tokyo 3 years in the past, beating van Rouwendaal out by simply 0.9 seconds on the end. The 32-year-old has an extended and storied open water profession. She’s received 16 World Championships medals in her profession, all of which have are available in open water occasions. She’s additionally the considerably uncommon open water swimmer who’s simply pretty much as good within the “brief” race, the 5km, as she is within the longest race, the 25km. Cunha has received World Championships gold within the 25km 5 instances in her profession, whereas she’s received 5km gold twice, and bronze 4 instances. In complete, she’s received 7 World Championships golds in her profession.
