2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Buckle up everybody, after a really mild day 3 schedule, day 4 prelims goes to be a lot, for much longer. Now, that’s largely because of the heats of the ladies’s 1500 free that shall be going down in the midst of the session this morning, however there are extra occasions in the present day total.
DAY 4 PRELIMS SCHEDULE
- Males’s 200 Butterfly – Prelims
- Males’s 100 Freestyle – Prelims
- Ladies’s 1500 Freestyle – Prelims
- Ladies’s 100 Freestyle – Prelims
- Males’s 200 Breaststroke – Prelims
- Males’s 4×200 Freestyle Relay – Prelims
Although will probably be an extended session this morning, there are a ton of races to be enthusiastic about. Whereas a lot of the motion shall be occurring in semis and finals, the ball nonetheless has to get rolling this morning. Out the gates we’ll have the boys’s 200 fly, the place Hungarian Kristof Milak is trying to defend his Olympic title. Milak, the World Report holder within the occasion, is the #2 seed, behind France’s Leon Marchand, who continues to be on the beginning lists. Milak at his peak is much and away the quickest 200 flyer in historical past, holding the World Report at 1:50.34 from 2022. He hasn’t been fairly as quick of late, nevertheless, in the meantime Marchand simply retains getting quicker. It ought to make for an unimaginable race when the ultimate rolls round.
After the 200 fly, we’ll have the boys’s 100 free, the place China’s Pan Zhanle and Romania’s David Popovici should battle it out amidst a really robust subject. Popovici is recent off his first Olympic gold within the 200 free final evening. Each swimmers have been 46.8 of their careers, so this could make for an awesome race because the phases progress. American Jack Alexy went 47.08 on the US Trials final month, so he’s one to regulate as properly.
The ladies’s 1500 free prelims will in fact see Katie Ledecky trying to safe her lane for the ultimate tomorrow evening. She’s the highest seed by 17 seconds, so there’s not that a lot to take a look at there.
The ladies’s 100 free needs to be an awesome race as we undergo the phases. After giving the Australian duo of Mollie O’Callaghan and Ariarne Tirmus an actual battle within the 200 free ultimate final evening, Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey is available in as the highest seed within the 100 free. MOC is seeded 2nd on this occasion, whereas fellow Aussie Shayna Jack is excessive up there as properly. World Report holder Sarah Sjostrom is within the combine as properly, and can’t be missed. Although Sjostrom is way nearer to the tip of her profession than the start, she has confirmed that age is only a quantity relating to her racing. She continues to be the quickest 50 freestyler on the planet and shall be a risk on this race.
China’s Qin Haiyang is trying to proceed his stretch of nice racing within the males’s 200 breast. The 25-year-old was the story of the summer time final yr, breaking the World Report within the occasion with a 2:05.48. Qin shall be up towards reigning Olympic champion and Olympic Report holder Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner (Australia), so he’ll have his work minimize out for him.
MEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY – HEATS
MEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – HEATS
WOMEN’S 1500 FREESTYLE – HEATS
- World Report: 15:20.48 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2018)
- World Junior Report: 15:28.36 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2014)
- Olympic Report: 15:35.35 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2021)
- 2021 Profitable Time: 15:37.34
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 15:58.96
WOMEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – HEATS
- World Report: 51.71 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2017)
- World Junior Report: 52.70 – Penny Oleksiak, CAN (2016)
- Olympic Report: 51.96 – Emma McKeon, AUS (2021)
- 2021 Profitable Time: 51.96 – Emma McKeon, AUS
- 2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 53.71
MEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE – HEATS
- World Report: 2:05.48 – Qin Haiyang, CHN (2023)
- World Junior Report: 2:07.94 – Dong Zhihao, CHN (2024)
- Olympic Report: 2:06.38 – Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner, AUS (2021)
- 2021 Profitable Time: 2:06.38 – Zac Stubblety-Cook dinner, AUS
- 2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 2:09.95
MEN’S 4×200 FREESTYLE RELAY – HEATS
- World Report: 6:58.55 – USA (2009)
- Olympic Report: 6:58.56 – USA (2009)
- 2021 Profitable Time: 6:58.58 – Nice Britain
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 7:07.73
