2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Right here we go: day 3 finals of the 2024 Olympics! Like this morning’s prelims session, tonight’s finals are a bit lighter, each when it comes to the occasions swum and the time of the session. There shall be 5 finals swum tonight and 1 semifinal, with the full time of the session projected to be lower than 90 minutes.
DAY 3 FINALS SCHEDULE
- Girls’s 400 IM – Ultimate
- Males’s 200 Freestyle – Ultimate
- Girls’s 100 Backstroke – Semifinals
- Males’s 100 Backstroke – Ultimate
- Girls’s 100 Breaststroke – Ultimate
- Girls’s 200 Freestyle – Ultimate
Tonight’s finals session ought to kick off with a bang, as Canadian teenage phenom Summer time McIntosh shall be up first within the ladies’s 400 IM. McIntosh has been dominant on this occasion over the previous two years, having damaged the World Report a number of instances, most not too long ago on the Canadian Trials this spring. Although she is seeded third tonight, make no mistake, she’s far and away the favourite tonight.
Following McIntosh and firm within the 400 IM, Romanian David Popovici shall be seeking to win his first Olympic gold medal within the males’s 200 free. Popovici, who’s certainly one of just a few males in historical past to have gone underneath 1:43 within the occasion, appeared robust in semifinals final evening, swimming the highest time of 1:44.53.
China’s Xu Jiayu was the one swimmer who fared significantly properly within the semifinals of the boys’s 100 again final evening, placing up a stable swim of 52.02. He was the one swimmer underneath 52.5 final evening, however he has his work lower out for him, as this remaining of the boys’s 100 again is extraordinarily powerful. World Report holder Thomas Ceccon and Olympic Champion Ryan Murphy are two names to maintain an in depth eye on tonight as properly.
American Lilly King shall be seeking to reclaim her Olympic crown within the ladies’s 100 breaststroke tonight after incomes Bronze within the occasion again in Tokyo. King, the World Report holder within the occasion (1:04.13), got here in 2nd in semifinals final evening, swimming a 1:05.64. It was South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker who clocked the highest time, swimming a 1:05.00. Schoenmaker earned the silver medal on this occasion again in Tokyo.
The evening will conclude with the ladies’s 200 freestyle, which is certain to be an outstanding race. The pair of Aussies within the race, Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O’Callaghan, are the 2 quickest swimmers in historical past within the occasion, with Titmus holding the World Report at 1:52.23. Titmus led semis final evening in 1:54.64, whereas O’Callaghan was a hair behind in 1:54.70.
WOMEN’S 400 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY — FINALS
- Summer time McIntosh (CAN) – 4:27.71
- Katie Grimes (USA) – 4:33.40
- Emma Weyant (USA) – 4:34.93
- Freya Colbert (GBR) – 4:35.67
- Ella Ramsey (AUS) – 4:38.01
- Mio Narita (JPN) – 4:38.83
- Katie Shanahan (GBR) – 4:40.17
- Ellen Walshe (IRL) – 4:40.70
The ladies’s 400 IM noticed Summer time McIntosh soar out the lead instantly and by no means look again. She was distinctive from begin to end, splitting 58.50 on fly, 1:07.09 on again, 1:19.36 on breast, and 1:02.76 on free, for a 4:27.71. Whereas that point was properly off McIntosh’s World Report of two:24.38 from earlier this 12 months, she nonetheless dominated this Olympic remaining by properly over 5 seconds.
American Katie Grimes established herself because the silver medalist from the start as properly, going out simply behind McIntosh. Grimes was 59.85 on fly and 1:07.30 on again, which put her into the 200m flip jut 1.56 seconds behind McIntosh and almost 5 seconds forward of the next-closest swimmer. Breaststroke is Grimes weak spot, nonetheless, however to her credit score she clocked a 1:22.76 on that leg tonight, hanging firmly within the 2nd place. A 1:03.49 coming house loads for her to seal the deal and win the silver medal.
Fellow American Emma Weyant was in a dogfight for mainly the complete race, however managed to wind up on the rostrum. Weyant was fifth on the 200m flip, however a 1:18.59 on the breaststroke moved her into 4th, and the 1:02.20 free break up was the quickest within the discipline tonight and sufficient for her to get her hand on the wall third.
MEN’S 200-METER FREESTYLE – FINALS
- David Popovici (ROU) – 1:44.72
- Matt Richards (GBR) – 1:44.74
- Luke Hobson (USA) – 1:44.79
- Duncan Scott (GBR) – 1:44.87
- Lukas Martens (GER) – 1:45.46 (TIE)
- Danas Rapsys (LTU) – 1:45.46 (TIE)
- Maximillian Giuliani (AUS) – 1:45.57
- Katsuhiro Matsumoto (JPN) – 1:46.26
In a wild end, Romania’s David Popovici received his hand on the wall first to win his first Olympic gold of his profession. The teenager was properly off his profession better of 1:42.97, but it surely doesn’t matter, as he managed to drag out the win for himself and his nation. He was out 2nd, splitting 24.10 on the opening 50m, then went 27.02 on the 2nd 50 earlier than clocking 26.86 and 26.74 coming house.
American Luke Hobson appeared like he had the win locked up, as he got here off the ultimate flip within the lead with an ideal breakout. Nonetheless, Nice Britain’s Matt Richards and Popovici each shortly evened issues out, and the trio tore into the end. Unable to inform who touched the wall first by the bare eye, the display screen instructed us what we would have liked to know: Popovici 1st, Richards 2nd, Hobson third, separated by simply 0.07 seconds.
Fellow British swimmer Duncan Scott was additionally proper there within the combine, taking 4th with a 1:44.87. Scott was sitting in fifth via the 150m flip however managed to show it on coming house and pull into 4th.
Germany’s Lukas Martens was out with the lead, splitting a 50.52 on the opening 100m. He couldn’t maintain on, nonetheless, and light to fifth down the stretch.
WOMEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE—SEMIFINALS
- Regan Smith (USA) – 57.97
- Kaylee McKeown (AUS) – 57.99
- Katharine Berkoff (USA) – 58.27
- Iona Anderson (AUS) – 58.63
- Kylie Masse (CAN) – 58.82
- Ingrid Wilm (CAN) – 59.10
- Beryl Gastaldello (FRA) – 59.29
- Emma Terebo (FRA) – 59.50
American Regan Smith appeared easy and in management as she sped to victory within the 1st semifinals warmth of the ladies’s 100 again tonight. She pulled distant from the warmth on the 2nd 50 of the race, going from being within the lead by simply 0.05 seconds on the flip, to successful the warmth by 0.85 seconds. She was out in 28.19 and residential in 29.78, which was good for a 57.97 and the X seed for tomorrow evening’s remaining.
Smith and Australia Kaylee McKeown have been in a back-and-forth battle with the World Report for a number of years. Smith at the moment holds the WR with a 57.13, a time she clocked on the US Olympic Trials final month.
McKeown would go within the 2nd warmth of semis, which she would win in a decent race with American Katharine Berkoff. McKeown clocked a 57.99, simply 0.02 seconds off Smith’s time from the first warmth. Berkoff can be proper behind, touching 2nd in that warmth with a 58.27. Berkoff swam a 57.99 in prelims this morning, which implies we have now what must be an superior remaining arrange for tomorrow evening.
Australia’s 2nd swimmer, Iona Anderson, was proper within the combine in that 2nd warmth as properly, swimming a 58.63. She superior because the 4th seed for tomorrow evening with a really robust swim this night. Canadian Kylie Masse, who previously held the World Report within the occasion, got here in fifth general with a 58.82.
France managed to get each their swim. Beryl Gastaldello got here in seventh with a 59.29, whereas Emma Terebo clocked a 59.50 for eighth.
MEN’S 100-METER BACKSTROKE – FINALS
WOMEN’S 100-METER BREASTSTROKE – FINALS
- World Report: 1:04.13 – Lilly King, USA (2017)
- World Junior Report: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU (2013)
- Olympic Report: 1:04.82 – Tatjana Smith (Schoenmaker), RSA (2021)
- 2021 Successful Time: 1:04.95 – Lydia Jacoby, USA
- 2021 Bronze Medal Time: 1:05.54
WOMEN’S 200-METER FREESTYLE – FINALS
