2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Day 1 Prelims Warmth Sheets
Bonjour, Mes Amis. C’est l’heure queue noue attendions. It’s lastly right here. Whereas only a shortened quad of three years, it nonetheless appears like an entirety from when the Tokyo Video games began, and whereas these video games had been memorable in their very own proper, these Video games really feel like a serious second within the sport.
Not solely on the macro scale but in addition on the micro-scale. Whereas the return of crowds to the stadium and the heated battle for supremacy on the medal desk are main storylines, it’s the person one which we, as followers, get caught up in. The variety of feedback alone on all of the Olympic preview articles is a testomony to the ability of those occasions, and day 1 definitely has its fair proportion of them.
For starters, Adam Peaty, the best dash breaststroke ever and the quickest man throughout each the 50 and 100, begins his quests for the ‘Three-Peaty” after having claimed gold in each Rio and Tokyo. He has had his ups and downs, and his path to Paris (by way of the Chunnel, sure I’m bringing it again) has been extra turbulent than others, however his will to compete is just not solely a testomony to himself however to what these Video games imply to every one in all these athletes competing and whereas we don’t have the house nor bandwidth to cowl every of them, all of them deserve recognition for all they’ve sacrificed to get right here.
Nonetheless, that doesn’t imply the Brit is simply going to be handed the 100 Breaststroke crown. Peaty, in his lone particular person occasion, is the second seed and finds himself behind China’s Qin Haiyang, who shocked the world final summer season, sweeping the medals on the World Championships. Whereas these two have separated themselves from the pack, that doesn’t imply that they don’t pose a menace. Arno Kamminga is the third quickest performer within the occasion ever and can line up subsequent to Qin within the prelims, and Nic Fink enters because the third seed and because the reigning World Champion.
But, let’s not leap the gun, because the morning begins off with the Girls’s 100 Butterfly. We’ll see Gretchen Walsh‘s first-ever Olympic swim in warmth 4 as she leads a strong discipline crammed with competitors, each home and international. Fellow American Torri Huske is the second seed and will probably be on the lookout for that first particular person Olympic medal. The ever-dangerous Zhang Yufei and 2021 Olympic Champion Maggie MacNeil lurk within the discipline as nicely and will probably be trying to discover a manner again to the rostrum.
The longest race of the morning rapidly follows, however it is usually some of the extremely anticipated races of the meet. Australian freestyle ace Ariarne Titmus will start her title protection within the Girls’s 400 Free, and whereas she is the world document holder, it’s definitely not a assured victory. Within the prelims warmth, she will probably be flanked on one facet by 2021 bronze medalist Li Bingjie and on the opposite by the 2021 silver medalist and one of many biggest swimmers of all time, Katie Ledecky. Regardless of these accolades, Titmus’s litmus check will come within the warmth earlier than teen phenom Summer season McIntosh, a former WR holder within the occasion, enters the waters within the hunt for her first Olympic medal.
The boys’s 100 breaststroke separates the ladies’s 400 free from the lads’s 400, which is the final particular person occasion of the morning. A plethora of males led by Germany’s Lukas Märtens and Australia’s Sam Quick will probably be chasing after the oldest particular person LCM document nonetheless on the books, Paul Biedermann’s 3:40.07. Each enter with occasions inside a second, and whereas is unlikely that they’ll be gunning for it this morning, they nonetheless might want to put in robust performances to make the ultimate as their compatriots Oliver Klement and Elijah Winnington will look to additionally stress that document as will 2024 World Champion Kim Woo-min.
Whereas swimming is, by its nature, a person sport, among the most memorable occasions within the sport happen when teamwork is concerned, and this morning will present two excellent demonstrations of that.
The ladies’s 4×100 Free Relay will see the dominance of Australia on show as they appear to defend their Olympic gold medal and make it 4 in a row. The World Document holding group seemingly gained’t use their greatest swimmers, however such is the depth of Australia’s sprinting that they need to face no problem to the ultimate. That mentioned, the relay is just not a foregone conclusion; this race would be the begin of many swimmer’s week and can assist set the tone not just for themselves however for his or her nation.
The morning concludes with the lads’s model of the occasion, the place the USA, based mostly on entry occasions, seems to be the favourite. Nonetheless, not till the final hand has struck the wall and the officers don’t name any disqualifications will we all know the outcomes, so all that the USA, who owns the WR) and for the matter all of the group can do is simply swim as quick as they will and hope it’s sufficient for a spot in tonight’s remaining.
Girls’s 100 Butterfly – Prelims
- World Document: 55.18 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2024)
- World Junior Document: 56.43 – Claire Curzan, USA (2021)
- Olympic Document: 55.48 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2016)
- 2021 Profitable Time: 55.59 – Maggie MacNeil, CAN
- 2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 58.08
Prime 16
- Zhang Yufei (CHN) – 56.50
- Mizuki Hirai (JPN) – 56.71
- Torri Huske (USA) – 56.72
- Gretchen Walsh (USA) – 56.75
- Emma McKeon (AUS) – 56.79
- Angelina Koehler (GER) – 56.90
- Maggie MacNeil (CAN) – 57.00
- Alexandria Perkins (AUS) – 57.46
- Barbora Seemanova (CZE) – 57.50
- Marie Wattel (FRA) – 57.54
- Roos Vanotterdijk (BEL) – 57.54
- Louise Hansson (SWE) – 57.57
- Erin Gallagher (RSA) – 57.80
- Rikako Ikee (JPN) – 57.82
- Tessa Giele (NED) – 57.89
- Keanna MacInnes (GBR) – 57.90
And identical to that we have now our first Olympic swims. Profitable the primary warmth was Denmark’s Helena Roesndahl Bach. The Dane lead from begin to end, taking the race out in 27.46 and coming house in 30.99 to complete in 58.45, just a bit off her entry time of 58.13.
Warmth 2 went Zhang Yufei‘s manner. The defending 2021 silver medalist was second on the flip, trailing Australia’s Emma McKeon by simply .01, however pulled away on the final 50, outsplitting her rival by .30 to take the warmth win in 56.50. McKeon would take second, additionally dipping beneath 57, hitting the wall in 56.79. Dwelling favourite Marie Wattel moved up from 4th on the 50 to third to hit the wall in 57.54.
American and the #2 seed Torri Huske regarded easy and in command of the penultimate warmth. Out in 26.01, Huske held off a late cost from the defending Olympic Champion, Maggie MacNeil, to complete in a time of 56.72. MacNeil, who handed Louise Hansson within the final 50, would contact 2nd in 57.00, .28 again of Huske. Australian Alexandria Perkins additionally put in an important final 50 to maneuver from fifth on the 50 (26.77) to the touch third total in 57.46.
The final warmth of the morning, warmth 4, noticed the newly minted world document holder, Gretchen Walsh, kick off her Olympic Marketing campaign. The College of Virginia swimmer was out first in 25.98, a trademark speedy opening break up. On the 50, she was over half a second forward of Mizuki Hirai, who touched 2nd in 26.54. Hirai, nonetheless, was not content material to only sit in 2nd and pulled out a pace of 30.17 on the final 50 to go Walsh within the final meters to take the warmth win in 56.71. Walsh closed .6 slower with a break up of 30.77 to cease the clock in 56.75. 2024 World Champ Angelina Koehler made a powerful transfer on the final 50, like Hirai, to maneuver into third, touching the wall in 56.90.
In 2021, it took 58.08 to advance to the semifinals, whereas this morning, it took 57.97.
Girls’s 400 Freestyle – Prelims
Prime 8
- Katie Ledecky (USA) – 4:02.19
- Ariarne Titmus (AUS) – 4:02.46
- Erika Fairweather (NZL) – 4:02.55
- Summer season McIntosh (CAN) – 4:02.65
- Jamie Perkins (AUS) – 4:03.30
- Paige Madden (USA) – 4:03.34
- Maria Fernanda Costa (BRA) – 4:03.47
- Isabel Gose (GER) – 4:03.83
Leonie Martens of Germany put up the quickest time within the first warmth with a time of 4:09.62, however her time wouldn’t final lengthy atop the rankings as the subsequent warmth was the beginning of the circle-seeded heats.
New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather led from begin to end however was continually shadowed by Summer season McIntosh. The pair had been separated by simply .1 on the 100-meter mark, 57.67 vs 57.77. By the 200, Fairweather pried the hole to a bigger margin of .31, and by the 300, it was .4. Nonetheless, McIntosh put in a powerful efficiency on the final 50, outsplitting Fairweather by .38 however lacked the pool house to run her down utterly. Fairweather would maintain on to win the warmth in a time of 4:02.55, with McIntosh simply .1 behind at 4:02.65.
Whereas these two had been duking it out for first, Jamie Perkins of Australia closed in the one sub-30 break up of the warmth, 29.67, to maneuver up from fifth to third within the warmth, ending in 4:03.30. Paige Madden of the USA, had been in third, completed simply .04 behind in 4:03.47, about 1.5 seconds behind her time from the US Trials, however quicker than her Trials prelims swim of 4:04.83.
The final warmth noticed all the podium from the 2021 Olympics take to the water. Defending gold medalist Ariarne Titmus regarded easy and in command of the race, opening up in 57.10 and flipping on the midway mark in 1:58.16. Katie Ledecky shadowed the Australian for a lot of the opening lengths of the race, going out in 57.87 and was .9 again on the 200, flipping in 1:59.06. However the American began to crawl again from that almost one-second deficit by out-splitting her rival over the subsequent 150 so that every flipped equal on the 350 mark. Ledecky closed in 30.16 to win the warmth in 4:02.19. Titmus was shut behind, splitting 30.43 on the final 50 to take second within the warmth with a time of 30.43. China’s Li Bingjie was third up by means of the 100 mark and traded that place with Germany’s Isabel Gose however was unable to generate sufficient pace, and she or he completed 4th within the warmth in 4:03.96, and ninth total, .13 again of creating the ultimate.
Males’s 100 Breaststroke – Prelims
- World Document: 56.88 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2019)
- World Junior Document: 59.01 – Nicolo Martinenghi, ITA (2017)
- Olympic Document: 57.13 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2016)
- 2021 Profitable Time: 57.37 – Adam Peaty, GBR
- 2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 59.68
Prime 16
- Caspar Corbeau (NED) – 59.04
- Adam Peaty (GBR) – 59.18
- Ilya Shymanovich (NIA) – 59.25
- Nicolo Martinenghi (ITA)/Arno Kamminga (NED) – 59.39
- James Wilby (GBR) – 59.40
- Melvin Imoudu (GER) – 59.49
- Lucas Matzerath (GER) – 59.52
- Qin Haiyang (CHN) -59.58
- Nic Fink (USA) – 59.66
- Bernard Reitshammer (AUT) – 59.68
- Joshua Yong (AUS) – 59.75
- Evgenii Somov (NIA) – 59.83
- Charlie Swanson (USA) – 59.92
- Ludovico Viberti (ITA) – 59.93
- Ron Polonsky (ISR) – 1:00.00
Up by means of the circle-seeded heats, the early chief was Anton McKee. The Icelandic swimmer, who attended the College of Alabama, posted a mark of 1:00.62 out of warmth 2.
Warmth 3, the primary of the circle-seeded heats, noticed Dutch nationwide however US-born Caspar Corbeau take the win. Corbeau, who swam collegiately for the College of Texas however nows trains within the Netherlands, led from begin to end, taking the primary 50 out in 27.69. Corbeau additionally had the quickest final 50 of 31.35 to take the warmth win in 59.04. Behind him was the American Nic Fink. Fink, a 2021 Olympian within the 200, was third on the 50, in 28.07, however used his backhalf pace to beat Joshua Yong and take second in 59.66, to Yong’s 59.75. The time ought to be quick sufficient to make the highest 16 (in 2021, it took 59.68), however it’s a little worrying for the American as he was 59.24 within the prelims on the US trials.
Warmth 4 went the best way of the World Document holder Nice Britain’s Adam Peaty. Peaty displayed his trademark pace, attacking the primary 50 and hitting the flip wall in 27.21. Not far behind him was Ilya Shymanovich, a Belarussian swimmer competing as a Impartial Unbiased Athlete. Shymanovich additionally has a penchant for pace as he’s the world document holder within the quick course model of the occasion and was not far behind Peaty, hitting the flip in 27.35. Shymanovich closed quicker than Peaty, 31.90 vs 31.97, but it surely wasn’t sufficient because the Brit completed in 59.18 to Shymanovich’s 59.25. Peaty’s teammate, James Wilby, has the quickest final 50 of 31.49, but it surely wasn’t quickest sufficient to run down Nicolo Martinenghi for third because the pair completed separated by simply .01 in occasions of 59.39 vs 59.40.
The final warmth gave the impression to be constructed for pace, with the second and third quickest swimmers of all time, but it surely was reasonably gradual compared to the previous heats. Arno Kamminga took the warmth win in 59.39 and was simply third on the 50 (27.83), passing each Qin, who was 1st on the flip 27.56, and Solar Jiajun, who was 2nd in 27.63. Kamminga wasn’t the one swimmer to make a transfer on the again half, although; Germany’s Melvin Imoudu, who lately gained the 2024 Europeans, moved up from fifth on the flip to the touch forward of Qin by .09 in a mark of 59.49. Qin would end third within the warmth in 59.58.
These outcomes had been a lot slower in comparison with 2021, because it took 59.68 to make the semis in Tokyo. Regardless of the slowness of the occasion, a number of huge names missed out on the finals. China’s Solar completed seventeenth in 1:00.20, and Australia’s Sam Williamson, who entered because the ninth seed along with his PB of 58.80, completed twenty fourth in 1:00.50.
Males’s 400 Freestyle – Prelims
- World Document: 3:40.07 — Paul Biedermann, GER (2009)
- World Junior Document: 3:44.31 — Petar Mitsin, BUL (2023)
- Olympic Document: 3:40.14 — Solar Yang, CHN (2012)
- 2021 Profitable Time: 3:43.36 – Ahmed Hafnaoui, TUN
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 3:45.68
Prime 8
- Lukas Martens(GER) – 3:44.13
- Guilherme Costa (BRA) – 3:44.23
- Fei Liwei (CHN) – 3:44.60
- Elijah Winnington (AUS) – 3:44.87
- Samuel Quick (AUS) – 3:44.88
- Aaron Shackell (USA) – 3:45.45
- Kim Woomin (KOR) – 3:45.52
- Oliver Klemet (GER) – 3:45.75
Up by means of the circle-seeded heats, China’s Fei Liwei had the highest time of the morning, posting a swim of three:44.60, slicing 1.36 off his seed time of three:45.96. Whereas above, McKee’s time was whipped off the board rapidly, Fei’s time would have positioned 2nd within the subsequent warmth as solely Brazil’s Guilherme Costa was quicker.
The Brazilian slowly and steadily moved his manner up by means of the sector after flipping seventh on the 50 and fifth on the 100 (54.08). By the midway mark, he had clawed himself into third (1:50.63) however stored up the tempo on the backhalf, closing in 27.57 to submit the quickest time of the morning to this point at 3:44.23. Australian Sam Quick was not that far behind on the finish and had led for a lot of the race, however got here house in simply 28.34, practically a second slower than Costa to the touch in 3:44.88. American Aaron Shackell’s final 50 of 27.95 might need been quick sufficient to earn him a spot in tonight’s remaining as he handed Korea’s Kim Woomin in the previous couple of meters, out-touching him 3:45.45 to three:45.52. American Kieran Smith was additionally on this warmth however struggled to get issues going. eighth on the 200 mark (1:51.78), Smith might solely claw his manner as much as sixth within the warmth, ending in 3:46.47.
The ultimate warmth introduced the pace as Lukas Martens, the highest seed, and Elijah Winnington, the third seed, dueled it out and traded the lead forwards and backwards. The pair had been beneath World Document tempo at first of the race, with Winnington flipping on the 200 flip in 1:48.58 with Winnington simply .02 again in 1:48.60. Nonetheless, a mixture of the pair slowing down and Biedermann’s again half pace, the pair quickly fell off the document, with Martens taking the win and posting the quickest time of the morning of 3:44.13. Winnington was not that far again, hitting the wall in 3:44.87.
Girls’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay – Prelims
- World Document: 3:27.96 – Australia: M. O’Callaghan, S. Jack, M. Harris, E. McKeon (2023)
- World Junior Document: 3:36.19 – Canada: T. Ruck, P. Oleksiak, R. Smith, Ok. Sanchez (2017)
- Olympic Document: 3:29.69 – Australia: B. Campbell, C. Campbell, M. Harris, E. McKeon (2021)
- 2021 Profitable Time: 3:29.69 – Australia: B. Campbell, C. Campbell, M. Harris, E. McKeon
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 3:35.93
Prime 8
- Australia – 3:31.57
- USA – 3:33.29
- China – 3:34.31
- Sweden – 3:34.35
- France – 3:35.25
- Canada – 3:35.29
- Nice Britain – 3:36.13
- Italy – 3:36.28
The US regarded easy and in command of the primary warmth, because the squad of Abbey Weitzeil (53.60), Simone Manuel (53.23), Erika Connolly (53.83), and Kate Douglass (52.63) mixed to take the warmth win in a time of three:33.29. The People led for the whole thing of the race besides the primary 50, when Nice Britain’s Anna Hopkin flipped first on the first flip.
For the US, it was a powerful efficiency because the time was quicker than the relay’s prelims swim from Tokyo (3:34.80) and from final summer season’s World Championships (3:33.34). Of the 4, Weitzeil improved probably the most from trials, the place she was 53.70 within the particular person remaining.
Nice Britain began out quick, however Anna Hopkin fell from first to 3rd over the course of her 100, touching in 54.08. The Brits completed 4th in Tokyo in a then-national document of three:33.90, with Lucy Hope and Freya Anderson splitting 53.53 and 52.51, respectively. Nonetheless, this morning, the pair had been nicely off that tempo, splitting 54.74 and 53.47. They’ve been conserving some power, however the group must be a lot quicker tonight in the event that they want to replicate that 4th place end.
After not fielding a group in Tokyo and ending ninth final summer season, the Italians have made big jumps within the occasion to complete third within the warmth. Sofia Morini led off in 53.92 and Sara Curtis’ had a 3rd leg break up of 53.93 to have the group end third within the warmth in a time of three:36.28.
Opposite to what it might have seemed to be, the Australians had been by no means in any hazard of shedding this relay. Whereas the Aussies led off with the rookie Olivia Wunsch (53.94) and veteran Bronte Campbell (53.46) most of the different relays high loaded their groups with France’s quickest swimmer Beryl Gastaldello (53.54) touching first on the first trade, simply forward of 2016 Olympic champion Penny Oleksiak.
Michelle Coleman of Sweeden wasn’t too far behind the leaders, touching third and handing issues off to World Document holder Sarah Sjostrom. The spriting star, who’s entered within the particular person occasion, recorded the second quickest break up of the morning, hitting the wall in a blazing 51.99. Sweden, who was then within the lead, stored it by means of the 250 flip however gave approach to the ability and would possibly of Australia’s final two legs, Meg Harris and Emma McKeon.
Harris, who has lengthy been a key leg on Australia’s relays, break up 52.23 and handed issues over to McKeon. The 2021 Olympic Champion within the particular person 100, McKeon pulled the double with 100 fly prelims this morning, and whereas MacNeil, Walsh, Huske and Zhang all sat off the relay, McKeon dropped a hammer of a break up, swimming beneath 52 once more, recording a mark of 51.94, Altogether the Australian’s recorded a mark of three:31.57, a time that might have gained silver at each the 2021 Olympics and 2023 Worlds.
China bought off to a gradual begin and was sitting fifth on the 300, however current nationwide document holder Yang Junxuan turned issues round rapidly, passing three different swimmers within the final 100 to deliver the Chinese language up into second place in a time of three:34.31. Her break up of 52.47 was the 4th quickest of the warmth and fifth quickest total.
Males’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay – Prelims
- World Document: 3:08.24 — United States: M. Phelps, G. Weber-Gale, C. Jones, J. Lezak (2008)
- World Junior Document: 3:15.49 — United States: D. Diehl, M. Williamson, H. Williams, J. Zhao (2023)
- Olympic Document: 3:08.24 — United States: M. Phelps, G. Weber-Gale, C. Jones, J. Lezak (2008)
- 2021 Profitable Time: 3:08.97 — United States: C. Dressel, B. Pieroni, B. Becker, Z. Apple
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 3:13.13
Prime 8
- China – 3:11.62
- Australia – 3:12.25
- Nice Britain – 3:12.49
- USA- 3:12.61
- Canada – 3:12.77
- Italy – 3:12.94
- Hungary – 3:12.96
- Germany – 3:13.15
The primary of two heats was an in depth affair till Pan Zhanle closed in 46.98 to guide the Chinese language relay to not solely a warmth win however to the quickest time total. Hungary frontloaded their relay, going with Nandor Nemeth (48.07) and Szebaztian Szabo (48.02), and was main Germany on the midway level by near half a second. However Nice Britain and China had different plans as the 2 international locations pulled into the lead with a 47.91 break up by Alexander Cohoon and 47.93 by Ji Xinjie.
Separated by .22 at this level, Pan’s 46.98 left Tom Dean in his rearview mirrors because the Brit’s break up of 48.07 was not sufficient to keep up contact because the Chinese language relay gained in 3:11.62, practically a full second forward of the Brits 3:12.49. Very like the Chinese language Girls’s relay, the Italian males had been simply sixth on the 300-meter mark however used a powerful anchor to tug themselves again into rivalry. The 2021 silver medalists within the occasion had been anchored by Manuel Frigo, whose 47.80 break up was second ot solely Pan’s within the warmth.
The second warmth was a slower affair, with solely three groups advancing into tonight’s remaining—2nd, 4th, and fifth. The lead jumped round lots, with three totally different groups holding it over the course of the 400.
Jack Cartwright bought the Aussies into pole place, opening up in a break up of 48.51, albeit simply .01 forward of the USA’s Ryan Held. The second leg noticed Brazil’s Marcelo Chierighini take over the lead as he break up 48.21 to present his nation the lead over Israel, who was 4th on the 100, however Gal Cohen Groumi’s 48.22 pulled them into 2nd. After some disappointing splits from William Yang (48.39) and Matt King (48.40), the Aussies and People righted the ship with a 47.91 from Flynn Southam and a blistering 47.50 from Hunter Armstrong.
Armstrong, who completed 4th at US trials in 47.78, had pulled the People into the lead by .39 of a second over the Australians (2:24.42 vs 2:24.81) and turned issues over to Caeleb Dressel. Dressel was out fast in 22.86 however couldn’t maintain the USA within the lead as Australia’s Chalmers cruised by his rival, splitting 47.44 to the touch first in a time of three:12.25. Dressel would wind up splitting 48.19, and the American completed behind the Aussie in a time of three:12.61.
Sitting fifth on the midway level, Group Canada went with a powerful backhalf as Javier Acevedo break up 48.15 to deliver the Canadians up into third. 1.10 seconds again of the People, Josh Liendo posted the second-fastest break up of all the discipline, 47.25, closing the hole to only .16 because the Canadians touched in 3:12.77
