Day 3 Finals Reside Recap

2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS

The Paris Olympic roster guarantees to develop by a big margin tonight with 5 of the six occasions on tonight’s schedule being finals, and two of them with relay berths up for grabs.

The evening will kick off with the ultimate of the ladies’s 400 IM, the place Tokyo silver medalist Emma Weyant and two-time World Championship silver medalist Katie Grimes are the overwhelming favorites to assert the 2 American roster spots after cruising to the highest two seeds this morning.

Subsequent up we’ll see the boys’s 200 free, the primary relay choice last of the competitors which might be a must-see showdown.

The highest three seeds, Luke Hobson, Kieran Smith and Drew Kibler, all broke 1:46 within the semis and determine to be the three males battling for the 2 accessible particular person slots on the Video games, whereas the remainder of the sphere might be combating it out for the remaining relay slots.

One man within the hunt for a kind of spots is Blake Pieroni, the 28-year-old veteran who briefly retired from the game and has come again with a newfound fireplace over the past 12 months. Pieroni has an opportunity to qualify for his third straight Olympics if he finishes inside one of many relay spots, which might be formally the highest 4 tonight and certain the highest six on the meet’s finish.

Tokyo Olympians Brooks Curry and Jake Mitchell, 400 free Olympic qualifier Aaron Shackell and one of many 100 free favorites, Chris Guiliano would be the different swimmers within the hunt. Shackell acquired into the ultimate after profitable a tightly contested swim-off on Sunday evening.

The third last of the evening would be the males’s 100 again, the place Ryan Murphy goals to earn his third straight Olympic berth and start his pursuit of reclaiming the gold medal he received in Rio. On the final Olympics in Tokyo, Murphy received bronze behind Russians Evgeny Rylov and Kliment Kolesnikov, who might be absent in Paris.

Hunter Armstrong is anticipated to land the opposite Olympic spot within the occasion, having positioned ninth on the Video games in Tokyo (lacking the ultimate by .01). Armstrong is coming into tonight’s last after avoiding a scare within the semis, having slipped off the blocks and rallying to erase an early deficit.

Considered one of simply seven males in historical past to have damaged 52 seconds, Armstrong might be out in Lane 6 tonight after clocking 53.57 within the semis, trailing Adam Chaney (53.08) and Jack Aikins (53.23) who each set greatest instances within the semis.

The ladies’s 100 breaststroke last guarantees to be fascinating, with house crowd favourite Lilly King main the cost after a dominant exhibiting within the semis. Defending Olympic champion Lydia Jacoby is poised for a showdown with Kaitlyn Dobler and Emma Weber, and perhaps even Kaelyn Gridley and Alex Walsh, for the second spot in any case 5 have been separated by simply 45 one-hundredths within the semis.

The session’s finale will certainly carry fireworks with Katie Ledecky and Claire Weinstein prepared for one more showdown and Simone Manuel possible having one other trick up her sleeve within the girls’s 200 free.

Manuel could have one other alternative to offer some exterior smoke, because the two-time Olympian might be located out in Lane 8 tonight after she confirmed some unimaginable front-half pace within the semis. Nonetheless, it initiatives to be Ledecky, Weinstein and doubtlessly Paige Madden and Erin Gemmell, within the battle for particular person spots.

The opposite 4 girls might be battling for the ultimate two relay spots: Katie Grimes, Alex Shackell, Anna Peplowski and Manuel.

We’ll additionally see the semi-finals of the ladies’s 100 again tonight, and world document watch might be in impact after Regan Smith made her 57.93 prelim swim look manner too straightforward.

WOMEN’S 400 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – FINAL

• World Report: 4:24.38, Summer time McIntosh (CAN) – 2024 Canadian Trials
• American Report: 4:31.12, Katie Hoff – 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials
• U.S. Open Report: 4:28.61, Summer time McIntosh (CAN) – 2022 U.S. Open
• World Junior Report: 4:24.38, Summer time McIntosh (CAN) – 2024 Canadian Trials
• 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Emma Weyant, 4:33.81
• 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 4:38.53

1. Katie Grimes (SAND), 4:35.00
2. Emma Weyant (FLOR), 4:35.56
3. Lilla Bognar (TG), 4:37.86
4. Leah Smith (TXLA), 4:39.87
5. Leah Hayes (TIDE), 4:41.32
6. Lucy Bell (ALTO), 4:41.40
7. Zoe Dixon (FLOR), 4:42.01
8. Audrey Derivaux (JW), 4:46.89

Lucas Oil Stadium was dropped at its ft over the ultimate 100 meters of an exhilarating last within the girls’s 400 IM, as early chief Katie Grimes was caught by Emma Weyant and Lilla Bognar on the breaststroke leg and the three swimmers went toe to toe coming house to search out out who would lock in a spot on the Paris Olympic group.

After main by greater than three seconds on the 200, rapidly Grimes discovered herself in third place on the 300-meter flip, however she didn’t panic. Grimes produced the highest freestyle break up within the subject to tug forward of Bognar after which locked in a stroke-for-stroke battle with Weyant, getting the perfect of her over the closing meters to guide the win in a time of 4:35.00.

Though the time is properly shy of her lifetime and season-best instances, the efficiency does safe Grimes a berth on the pool swimming roster for Paris after she certified in open water final 12 months.

Weyant, the Tokyo silver medalist, had a stable efficiency to earn the runner-up end and one other Olympic berth, touching in 4:35.56. The swim is her quickest this season by greater than three seconds.

Staff Greenville’s Bognar dropped greater than three seconds from her private greatest, clocking 4:37.86 to position third and transfer into ninth all-time within the ladies’ 17-18 age group. The 17-year-old had beforehand been 4:40.97 final 12 months at Junior Worlds.

The 29-year-old veteran Leah Smith, who handled a torn labrum earlier this 12 months, moved up from seventh on the 250 to assert 4th in 4:39.87, whereas 14-year-old Audrey Derivaux rode the momentum from the group to take a seat in 2nd early earlier than fading to eighth in 4:46.89—nonetheless a really spectacular efficiency after her huge drop this morning.

MEN’S 200 FREESTYLE — FINAL

• World Report: 1:42.00 — Paul Biedermann (GER), 2009
• American Report: 1:42.96 — Michael Phelps, 2008
• U.S. Open Report: 1:44.10 — Michael Phelps (USA), 2008
• World Junior Report: 1:42.97 — David Popovici (ROU), 2022
• 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion:  Kieran Smith, 1:45.29
• 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 1:47.06

1. Luke Hobson (LAKE), 1:44.89
2. Chris Guiliano (ND), 1:45.38
3. Drew Kibler (NYAC), 1:45.60
4. Kieran Smith (RAC), 1:45.61
5. Brooks Curry (CAL), 1:45.89
6. Blake Pieroni (ISC), 1:46.09
7. Jake Mitchell (FLOR), 1:46.48
8. Aaron Shackell (CSC-IN), 1:47.37

Luke Hobson made the decisive transfer on the third 50 within the last of the boys’s 200 freestyle, taking on the lead in a bunched up subject and solely extending it coming house, clocking 1:44.89 to safe his first Olympic berth.

Hobson, who continues the Texas Longhorn legacy of male Olympic qualifiers within the 200 free/800 free relay, was simply two one-hundredths shy of his lifetime greatest set on the 2023 World Championships.

The race behind Hobson was a wild one, together with his former Longhorn teammate Drew Kibler wanting like he was tightening his grip on it as he held the lead by means of the 100 and nonetheless sat in 2nd on the 150. Nonetheless, Notre Dame’s Chris Guiliano refused to accept a relay spot on the Olympics, he battled house in 27.15 to overhaul Kibler and snag the second particular person spot in Paris in 1:45.38, a large new private greatest.

Kibler certified for his second straight Olympic group by touching third in 1:45.60, as did Florida’s Kieran Smith, who represented the U.S. individually three years in the past in Tokyo and can return in Paris for relay duties (and the 400 free).

Smith was .01 again of Kibler in 1:45.61, whereas Brooks Curry broke 1:46 for the primary time to position fifth and certain earn a ticket to Paris (1:45.89).

The sixth and last Olympic relay spot, assuming roster numbers permit it, will go to Blake Pieroni, because the 28-year-old (possible) books a spot on his third Olympic group after briefly retiring from the game post-Tokyo. Pieroni’s time of 1:46.09 tied his prelim swim, which was the 2nd-fastest of his profession.

WOMEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE – SEMI-FINALS

• World Report: 57.33, Kaylee McKeown (AUS) – 2023 World Cup – Budapest
• American Report: 57.51, Regan Smith – 2024 NOVA Speedo Grand Problem
• U.S. Open Report: 57.51, Regan Smith (USA) – 2024 NOVA Speedo Grand Problem
• World Junior Report: 57.57, Regan Smith (USA) – 2019 World Championships
• 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: 58.35, Regan Smith
• 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 59.99

Finals Qualifiers:

1. Regan Smith (TXLA), 57.47 AR
2. Katharine Berkoff (WOLF), 57.83
3. Josephine Fuller (TENN) / Kennedy Noble (WOLF), 58.79
4. –
5. Rhyan White (WOLF) / Claire Curzan (TAC-NC), 59.08
6. –
7. Leah Shackley (BRY), 59.25
8. Phoebe Bacon (UW), 59.33

After Katharine Berkoff made historical past by turning into simply the fifth lady in historical past to interrupt 58 seconds within the first semi of the 100 again, Regan Smith one-upped her within the subsequent warmth.

Smith, who has had an air of invincibility thus far this week exhibiting unimaginable type, blasted her approach to a time of 57.47 within the second semi, decreasing the American Report of 57.51 she set final month. The swim for Smith additionally tied for the 4th-fastest efficiency ever, with Kaylee McKeown proudly owning the three quickest and having additionally been 57.47 as soon as.

Previous to that, Berkoff joined the sub-58 membership in 57.83, shifting her as much as #4 all-time as she overtakes Australia’s Mollie O’Callaghan, who simply final week went underneath 58 for the primary time on the Australian Trials in 57.88.

All-Time Performers, Ladies’s 100 Backstroke (LCM)

1. Kaylee McKeown (AUS), 57.33 – 2023 Budapest World Cup
2. Regan Smith (USA), 57.47 – 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials
3. Kylie Masse (CAN), 57.70 – 2021 Canadian Olympic Trials
4. Katharine Berkoff (USA), 57.83 – 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials
5. Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS), 57.88 – 2024 Australian Olympic Trials

Josephine Fuller and Kennedy Noble, who each broke 59 seconds for the primary time this morning, produced matching 58.79s to advance to the ultimate in a tie for third, Fuller’s swim marking a brand new PB by .01.

MEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE — FINAL

• World Report: 51.60 — Thomas Ceccon (ITA), 2022
• American Report: 51.85 — Ryan Murphy, 2016
• U.S. Open Report: 51.94 — Aaron Peirsol (USA), 2009
• World Junior Report: 52.53 — Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS), 2018
• 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Ryan Murphy, 52.33
• 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 53.74

1. Ryan Murphy (CAL), 52.22
2. Hunter Armstrong (NYAC), 52.72
3. Jack Aikins (SA), 52.74
4. Adam Chaney (FLOR), 53.44
5. Justin Ress (MVN), 53.57
6. Will Modglin (ZSC), 53.69
7. Jack Wilkening (MICH), 53.79
8. Tommy Janton (ND), 53.87

Ryan Murphy‘s run of home dominance within the males’s 100 backstroke continued on Monday evening, because the 28-year-old booked his ticket to a 3rd consecutive Olympic Video games with a wire-to-wire victory.

Murphy and Hunter Armstrong flexed their early pace on the opening 50, distancing themselves from the sphere with opening splits of 25.28 and 25.36, respectively. Murphy had extra to offer on the again half, pulling forward of The Magic Man and powering to the wall in a time of 52.22, tying his Tenth-fastest efficiency ever.

Armstrong needed to fend off a hard-charging Jack Aikins on the second 50, however had simply sufficient to carry on for 2nd and guide a possible Olympic berth in a time of 52.72, 4 one-hundredths shy of his season-best 52.68.

Aikins, who took a redshirt 12 months from the NCAA to concentrate on the Olympic Trials, adopted up his 53.23 PB from the semis by rocketing to a time of 52.74, breaking 53 for the primary time and narrowly lacking upsetting Armstrong. Aikins was additionally third within the 200 again on the 2023 World Trials, and primarily based on his type, might be one to observe in that occasion later within the week.

Adam Chaney set a greatest time of 53.08 final evening, and after blazing out to a 25.56 opening 50, pale a tad down the stretch however nonetheless took 4th in 53.44.

WOMEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE — FINAL

• World Report: 1:04.13 — Lilly King (USA), 2017
• American Report: 1:04.13 — Lilly King, 2017
• U.S. Open Report: 1:04.45 — Jessica Hardy (USA), 2009
• World Junior Report: 1:04.35 — Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
• 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Lilly King, 1:04.79
• 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 1:06.79

1. Lilly King (USC), 1:05.43
2. Emma Weber (CA-Y), 1:06.10
3. Lydia Jacoby (STSC), 1:06.37
4. Kaitlyn Dobler (TDPS), 1:06.77
5. Kaelyn Gridley (DUKE), 1:07.03
6. Alex Walsh (NAC), 1:07.38
7. McKenzie Siroky (UN-MI), 1:07.71
8. Ella Nelson (NAC), 1:07.83

Similar to Murphy within the males’s 100 again, Lilly King is just plain within the girls’s 100 breaststroke on U.S. soil.

King, who has been getting a large pop from the Indianapolis devoted all week, jumped out to the early lead within the last and by no means loosened her grip, extending her benefit down the again half to the touch 1st by a comparatively huge margin in a time of 1:05.43.

The time dips underneath King’s season-best of 1:05.57 set in final evening’s semis.

It was an unimaginable battle for 2nd, with Kaitlyn Dobler scorching on King’s heels over the primary 50 earlier than Emma Weber charged by means of into the runner-up place. Reigning Olympic champion Lydia Jacoby began to make a giant transfer with 25 meters to go, but it surely was too late, as Weber held agency to the touch 2nd in 1:06.10, one other greatest time, to possible guide her ticket to her first Olympics.

Jacoby, who has been as quick as 1:05.74 this season, has appeared perhaps only a spark off in every of the three rounds to date, and although it was a gallant effort coming house within the last, she received’t have the chance to defend her Olympic gold medal in Paris after putting third in 1:06.37.

Dobler (1:06.77), Kaelyn Gridley (1:07.03) and Alex Walsh (1:07.38) all added a little bit of time from the semis to position 4th, fifth and sixth, respectively.

WOMEN’S 200 FREE — FINAL

• World Report: 1:52.23 — Ariarne Titmus (AUS), 2024
• American Report: 1:53.61 — Allison Schmitt, 2012
• U.S. Open Report: 1:54.13 — Summer time McIntosh (CAN), 2023
• World Junior Report: 1:53.65 — Summer time McIntosh (CAN), 2023
• 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Katie Ledecky, 1:55.11
• 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 1:57.26