2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
The wait is lastly over.
SwimSwam is on the scene and reporting reside from the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials, which kick off this morning from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
The competitors will begin with the heats of the ladies’s 100 butterfly, and it is going to be adopted by the ladies’s 400 free, males’s 100 breast and males’s 400 free for a four-event opening session.
A number of of the highest feminine swimmers on the Trials might be competing proper from the soar with Torri Huske, Gretchen Walsh, Regan Smith and Claire Curzan set to tackle the ladies’s 100 fly.
Katie Ledecky headlines the ladies’s 400 free with an opportunity to guide a ticket to her fourth Olympic group in tonight’s closing, whereas reigning world champion Nic Fink leads the lads’s 100 breast and comparatively vast open males’s 400 free has David Johnston and Kieran Smith coming in as high seeds.
WOMEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – PRELIMS
- World File: 55.48, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) – 2016 Olympic Video games
- American File: 55.64, Torri Huske – 2022 World Championships
- U.S. Open File: 55.66, Torri Huske (USA) – 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials
- World Junior File: 56.20, Claire Curzan (USA) – 2021 TAC Titans Premier Invitational
- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Torri Huske, 55.66
- 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 57.92
Semi-Closing Qualifiers:
- Gretchen Walsh (NAC), 55.94
- Torri Huske (AAC), 56.26
- Regan Smith (TXLA), 56.68
- Alex Shackell (CSC), 57.07
- Kelly Pash (TXLA), 57.66
- Beata Nelson (UN-WI), 57.68
- Claire Curzan (TAC-NC), 58.17
- Abby Arens (WOLF), 58.19
- Emma Sticklen (TXLA), 58.22
- Lillie Nordmann (ALTO), 58.38
- Leah Shackley (BRY), 58.47
- Josephine Fuller (TENN), 58.56
- Annika Parkhe (PAC), 58.58
- Olivia Bray (TXLA), 58.67
- Charlotte Crush (LAK), 58.68
- Dakota Luther (TXLA), 58.73
Gretchen Walsh couldn’t have requested for a greater begin to the 2024 Olympic Trials.
Coming off a standout NCAA season that was highlighted by her earth shattering document within the 100 fly, Walsh grew to become simply the seventh lady in historical past to interrupt 56 seconds within the lengthy course pool, clocking 55.94 to grow to be the second-fastest American of all-time.
Walsh extinguished her earlier greatest time of 56.14 to overhaul Dana Vollmer for the #2 spot in American historical past, and he or she additionally moved as much as #6 all-time.
All-Time Performers, Girls’s 100 Butterfly (LCM) – Sub-56
- Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 55.48 – 2016 Olympic Video games
- Maggie MacNeil (CAN), 55.59 – 2021 Olympic Video games
- Zhang Yufei (CHN), 55.62 – 2020 Chinese language Nationals
- Torri Huske (USA), 55.64 – 2022 World Championships
- Emma McKeon (AUS), 55.72 – 2021 Olympic Video games
- Gretchen Walsh (USA), 55.94 – 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials
- Dana Vollmer (USA), 55.98 – 2012 Olympic Video games
American File holder Torri Huske adopted Walsh’s swim by producing the #2 time of the morning within the closing warmth, touching in 56.26.
Huske sits atop the world rankings this season together with her blistering time of 55.68 from the Professional Swim Sequence cease in San Antonio.
Regan Smith topped the primary circle-seeded warmth in a time of 56.68, having set a PB of 56.26 earlier this 12 months.
Smith notably had the quickest again half within the discipline at a scorching 29.57.
Qualifying 4th general was Carmel’s Alex Shackell, who chipped 15 one-hundredths off her earlier better of 57.22 in 57.07, sustaining her place because the #3 performer of all-time within the ladies’ 17-18 age group.
After breaking 58 seconds for the primary time earlier this season, Beata Nelson had a promising opening swim to the Trials, resetting her greatest time in 57.68 to comfortably qualify sixth into the semis.
Lakeside’s Charlotte Crush dropped practically three-tenths from her greatest time to earn a semi-final berth in fifteenth, clocking 58.68 to fit into tenth all-time within the 15-16 age group.
In Warmth 5, Jersey Wahoos standout Audrey Derivaux kicked off her first Olympic Trials with a powerful displaying, notching a lifetime better of 59.25 to maneuver into #2 all-time within the ladies’ 13-14 age group.
The cut-off for the semi-finals ended up being markedly faster than it was in 2021—58.73 in comparison with 59.05 three years in the past.
WOMEN’S 400 FREESTYLE – PRELIMS
- World File: 3:55.38, Ariarne Titmus (AUS) – 2023 World Championships
- American File: 3:56.46, Katie Ledecky (USA) – 2016 Olympic Video games
- U.S. Open File: 3:57.94, Katie Ledecky (USA) – 2018 TYR Professional Swim Sequence
- World Junior File: 3:56.08, Summer season McIntosh (CAN) – 2023 World Championships
- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Katie Ledecky, 4:01.27
- 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 4:07.90
Closing Qualifiers:
- Katie Ledecky (GSC), 3:59.99
- Paige Madden (NYAC), 4:04.83
- Jillian Cox (TXLA), 4:06.35
- Madi Mintenko (PPA), 4:07.53
- Erin Gemmell (NCAP), 4:08.42
- Aurora Roghair (ALTO), 4:09.67
- Katie Grimes (SAND) / Anna Peplowski (ISC), 4:09.87
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Katie Ledecky asserted her dominance proper from the get-go within the ladies’s 400 freestyle, taking out the ultimate warmth at a blistering tempo alongside Claire Weinstein earlier than pulling away to a decisive victory.
Ledecky soared dwelling to a time of three:59.99, her twenty ninth time beneath the 4:00 barrier.
The 27-year-old holds the highest seed heading into tonight’s closing by practically 5 seconds, with fellow Tokyo Olympic finalist Paige Madden qualifying 2nd in 4:04.83. Madden is coming off setting a greatest time earlier this season in 4:03.02.
Longhorn Aquatics’ Jillian Cox chipped a quarter-second off her greatest time to advance in third at 4:06.35, whereas 16-year-old Madi Mintenko broke 4:08 for the primary time to maneuver as much as #6 all-time within the ladies’ 15-16 age group.
The most important story popping out of the ladies’s 400 free is who didn’t make the ultimate.
Weinstein was out quick with Ledecky early however light down the stretch, splitting 2:14-plus over the second 200 to completed thirtieth in 4:14.20—practically 10 seconds shy of her greatest time.
Bella Sims was in Weinstein and Ledecky’s warmth however was by no means actually within the battle on the entrance, trailing all through and touching in 4:12.49 to put twentieth.
Additionally lacking out was Leah Smith, the 2016 Olympic bronze medalist within the occasion, who was tenth in 4:10.09.
Smith revealed in April that she handled a torn labrum earlier this 12 months.
Weinstein (4:04.54) and Smith (4:06.80) ranked third and 4th amongst People this season coming into the meet, trailing solely Ledecky and Madden.
One of many swimmers who took benefit of a number of the massive names slipping up was Alto Swim Membership’s Aurora Roghair. The 21-year-old set a greatest time of 4:09.46 in Could, and was primarily proper on that (4:09.67) to make the ultimate in sixth place, forward of a Seventh-place tie between Katie Grimes and Anna Peplowski.
MEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE— PRELIMS
- World File: 56.88, Adam Peaty (GBR) – 2019 World Championships
- American File: 58.14, Michael Andrew – 2021 Olympic Trials
- U.S. Open File: 58.14, Michael Andrew (USA) – 2021 Olympic Trials
- World Junior File: 59.01, Nicolo Martinenghi (ITA) – 2017 World Junior Championships
- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Michael Andrew – 58.73
- 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 59.49
Semi-Closing Qualifiers:
- Nic Fink (NYAC), 59.24
- Josh Matheny (ISC), 59.34
- Charlie Swanson (NOVA), 59.44
- Jake Foster (RAYS), 59.59
- Michael Andrew (MASA), 59.72
- Liam Bell (CAL), 1:00.15
- Brian Benzing (TUS), 1:00.16
- Luke Rodarte (CAL) / Tommy Cope (CW), 1:00.23
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- Noah Nichols (CA-Y), 1:00.24
- Matt Fallon (UPN), 1:00.35
- Cody Miller (SAND), 1:00.45
- Daniel Roy (TDPS), 1:00.57
- AJ Pouch (VT), 1:00.61
- Will Licon (TXLA), 1:00.78
- Danny Kovac (TRI) / Ben Cono (TOC), 1:00.80
Reigning world champion Nic Fink led a gaggle of 5 males sub-1:00 within the heats of the 100 breast, clocking 59.24 out of the eleventh and closing warmth forward of Jake Foster (59.59).
Fink and Foster had been the 2 U.S. representatives on this occasion on the 2024 World Championships, producing respective instances of 58.57 and 59.48 in Doha which ranked them 1-2 amongst People this season coming into the meet.
The penultimate warmth noticed Michael Andrew take issues out quick for the early lead earlier than he was overtaken by Josh Matheny (59.34) and Charlie Swanson (59.44) down the stretch, with Andrew rounding out the highest 5 in 59.72.
The swim for Swanson marked a brand new lifetime greatest, knocking off his earlier mark of 59.89 set final summer season.
Placing up monstrous greatest instances to qualify sixth and Seventh had been Liam Bell and Brian Benzing, who each got here in with greatest instances within the 1:01.1 vary and took off primarily a full second, with Bell at 1:00.15 and Benzing in 1:00.16.
The #3 seed coming in, Noah Nichols, and the 2016 Olympic bronze medalist, Cody Miller, had been among the many group of swimmers within the 1:00-mid-range qualifying for the semis. Nichols and Miller each got here in with season-bests of 1:00.2 and put up instances of 1:00.24 and 1:00.45, respectively.
Tying for sixteenth was Danny Kovac and Ben Cono in 1:00.80, which means we’ll possible see a swim-off for the final spot within the semis.
The swim for Kovac was a brand new lifetime greatest, his first time sub-1:01, whereas Cono’s PB of 1:00.18 stems from the 2021 Olympic Trials.
MEN’S 400 FREESTYLE — PRELIMS
- World File: 3:40.07, Paul Biedermann (GER) – 2009 World Championships
- American File: 3:42.78, Larsen Jensen – 2008 Olympic Video games
- U.S. Open File: 3:43.53, Larsen Jensen (USA) – 2008 Olympic Trials
- World Junior File: 3:44.31, Peter Mitsin (BUL) – 2023 European Junior Championships
- 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Kieran Smith — 3:44.86
- 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 3:46.78
Semi-Closing Qualifiers:
