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 principally as a result of heats of the ladies’s 1500 free that can be happening in the course of the session this morning, however there are extra occasions immediately 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 many of the motion can be occurring in semis and finals, the ball nonetheless has to get rolling this morning. Out the gates we’ll have the lads’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 remains to be on the beginning lists. Milak at his peak is way 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 unbelievable race when the ultimate rolls round.
After the 200 fly, we’ll have the lads’s 100 free, the place China’s Pan Zhanle and Romania’s David Popovici should battle it out amidst a really robust area. Popovici is recent off his first Olympic gold within the 200 free final night time. Each swimmers have been 46.8 of their careers, so this could make for an ideal race because the phases progress. American Jack Alexy went 47.08 on the US Trials final month, so he’s one to keep watch over as nicely.
The ladies’s 1500 free prelims will in fact see Katie Ledecky trying to safe her lane for the ultimate tomorrow night time. She’s the highest seed by 17 seconds, so there’s not that a lot to have a look at there.
The ladies’s 100 free ought to be an ideal 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 closing final night time, 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 nicely. World Report holder Sarah Sjostrom is within the combine as nicely, and can’t be ignored. Although Sjostrom is far nearer to the tip of her profession than the start, she has confirmed that age is only a quantity on the subject of her racing. She remains to be the quickest 50 freestyler on the planet and can 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 season final 12 months, breaking the World Report within the occasion with a 2:05.48. Qin can be up in opposition to reigning Olympic champion and Olympic Report holder Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner (Australia), so he’ll have his work reduce out for him.
MEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY – HEATS
- Kristof Milak (HUN) – 1:53.92
- Ilya Kharun (CAN) – 1:54.06
- Noe Ponti (SUI) – 1:54.77
- Alberto Razzetti (ITA) – 1:54.78
- Martin Espernberger (AUT) – 1:5.19
- Leon Marchand (FRA) – 1:55.26
- Michal Chmielewski (POL) – 1:55.28
- Wang Kuan-Hung (TPE) – 1:55.32
- Krzysztof Cmielewski (POL) – 1:55.42
- Kregor Zirk (Estonia) – 1:55.42
- Thomas Heilman (USA) – 1:55.74
- Giacomo Carini (ITA) – 1:55.81
- Genki Terakado (JPN) – 1:55.82
- Arbidel Gonzalez (ESP) – 1:55.86
- Kim Minseop (KOR) -1:56.02
- Richard Marton (HUN) – 1:56.03
This morning kicked off with the lads’s 200 fly, the place Bulgarian Petar Mitsin took the first of 4 heats in 1:57.03. That was an excellent swim for Mitsin, coming in lower than a second off his private finest.
The 2nd warmth this morning noticed Canadian Ilya Kharun put up a really robust efficiency, profitable in 1:54.06. He was out fairly quick, splitting 25.19 on the opening 50m, then went 29.03, 29.92, and 29.92 respectively the remainder of the best way. Although Kharun didn’t go the quickest time total this morning, he was notably the one swimmer within the area to maintain all 4 of his 50s underneath 30 seconds.
American Luca Urlando was swimming within the 2nd warmth as nicely. He put up a strong morning swim of 1:56.18. Sadly for Urlando, his bid fell simply brief, as he completed seventeenth total this morning, one spot away from advancing. Urlando had pulled into the lead over Kharun in the course of the race, splitting 28.34 and 29.84 respectively on the 2nd and third 50s, nevertheless, he paid for that pace, coming house in 32.41 on the ultimate 50, which noticed him fade from 1st all the best way to fifth within the warmth.
The third warmth featured World Report holder Kristof Milak, who led from begin to end. Milak clocked a really encouraging 1:53.92 to win the warmth. That point would stand because the quickest of the morning when all was stated and executed. He was fairly aggressive early within the race this morning, splitting 24.61 and 28.84 on the primary pair of 50s for a 53.45 on the opening 100m. He stored it underneath 30 seconds on the third 50, splitting 29.82, then got here house in 30.65. His swim this morning was proper on the 1:53.58 he swam in prelims in Tokyo 3 years in the past.
Swiss swimmer Noe Ponti was wonderful within the third warmth as nicely, swimming a 1:54.77 for 2nd. He established himself as 2nd within the warmth early, splitting a 54.00 on the opening 100m, which was 0.55 seconds behind Milak. He would cut up 30.60 on the third 50, then truly ended up coming house the quickest of anybody within the warmth, splitting 30.17 on the ultimate 50.
The ultimate warmth was most likely the perfect race of the 4, with Italian Alberto Razzetti swimming a 1:54.78. Leon Marchand was additionally within the warmth, sitting in 2nd for many of the race. Marchand, swimming the primary of two races this morning as he’s additionally within the males’s 200 breast later, clocked a 1:55.26 for 2nd. He completed sixth total with the time, in the meantime, Razzetti was 4th.
American Thomas Heilman, 17, made it by means of to semifinals, swimming a 1:55.74, which was good for eleventh.
MEN’S 100 FREESTYLE – HEATS
- Jack Alexy (USA) – 47.57
- Maxime Grousset (FRA) – 47.70
- David Popovici (ROU) – 47.92
- Nandor Nemeth (Hungary) – 47.93
- Jordan Crooks (CAY) – 48.01
- Kyle Chalmers (AUS) – 48.07
- Alessandro Miressi (ITA) – 48.24
- Chris Giuliano (USA)/Josha Salchow (GER) – 48.25 (TIE)
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- Andrej Barna (SRB)/Josh Liendo (CAN) – 48.34 (TIE)
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- Guilherme Santos (BRA) – 48.35
- Velimir Stjepanovic (SRB)/Matt Richards (GBR)/Pan Zhanle (CHN) – 48.40 (TIE)
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- Hwang Sunwoo (KOR) – 48.41
Within the first of the circle seeded heats, American Jack Alexy pulled into the lead with about 10m to go within the race. He would get his hand on the wall 1st within the warmth with a 47.57. Alexy swam a superb race, going out in 22.69 and coming house in 24.88. His time would show to be the quickest of the morning, incomes him the lane 4 place within the 2nd semifinals warmth tonight.
That 1st circle seeded warmth additionally noticed France’s Maxime Grousset and Jordon Crooks (Cayman Islands) put up robust performances. Grousset clocked a 47.70, which might stand because the 2nd quickest time of the morning when all was stated and executed. He was out barely quicker than Alexy, swimming a 22.62 on the opening 50m. Crooks, in the meantime, got here in third within the warmth with a 48.01. That point was fifth total this morning.
Within the 2nd circle seeded warmth, 200 free champion David Popovici closed very quick to get his hand on the wall 1st. The Romanian19-year-old clocked a 47.92, touching out Hungarian Nandor Nemeth by simply 0.01 seconds. Povici and Nemeth had been third and 4th total respectively. As we’d anticipate, Popovici had the quickest 2nd 50 cut up within the area this morning, clocking a blistering 24.62 coming house.
American Chris Giuliano was within the 2nd circle seeded warmth as nicely, completed third with a 48.24. That point was loads quick sufficient for Giuliano to advance to semifinals, as Giuliano completed eighth total. It was an vital swim for Giuliano, as he didn’t advance to semifinals within the 200 free two days in the past.
Australian veteran Kyle Chalmers swam a 48.07 to win the ultimate warmth of the morning. Chalmers time would solely be sixth total this morning, He was one other swimmer who was nice on the again half, swimming a 24.81 to shut it out this morning.
Of be aware, World Report holder Pan Zhanle had a detailed name this morning, touchdown in a 3-way tie for thirteenth with a time of 48.40. That wasn’t an ideal swim for the star, who posted the World Report of 46.80 in February of this 12 months.
Nice Britain’s duo of Matt Richards and Jacob Whittle had been a bit off as nicely. Richards was additionally in tha tie for thirteenth, whereas Whittle got here in 18th this morning with a 48.47.
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 Successful Time: 15:37.34
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 15:58.96
- Katie Ledecky (USA) – 15:47.43
- Simona Quadarella (ITA) – 15:51.19
- Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (FRA) – 15:52.46
- Isabel Gose (GER) – 15:53.27
- Moesha Johnson (AUS) – 16:04.02
- Li Bingjie (CHN) – 16:05.26
- Beatriz Dizotti (BRA) – 16:05.40
- Leonie Martens (GER) – 16:08.69
In a shock flip of occasions, Australia’s Lani Pallister scratched out of the ladies’s 1500 free preliminaries. Pallister examined optimistic for COVID, which is a growing story. She was the fifth seed within the occasion.
In a in no way stunning flip of occasions, Katie Ledecky clocked the highest time of the morning within the girls’s 1500 free. It was truly a fairly sluggish 1500 for Ledecky, nevertheless, she gained her warmth by over 17 seconds and clocked the highest time this morning by about 4 seconds. She was out fairly nicely, then settled into 31-high 50 splits.
Simona Quadarella out of Italy was the 2nd-fastest this morning. She put up a robust prelims swim of 15:51.19, profitable the 2nd warmth. Quadarella gained the 1500 on the World Championships in Doha in February of this 12 months.
France’s Anastasiia Kirpichnikova was proper behind Quadarella within the 2nd warmth this morning, swimming a 15:52.46. She and Quadarella had been swimming stroke-for-stroke for giant sections of the race.
Of be aware, American Katie Grimes didn’t qualify for the ultimate, as she completed tenth with a time of 16:12.11. Grimes gained the silver medal within the girls’s 400 IM final night time.
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 Successful Time: 51.96 – Emma McKeon, AUS
- 2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 53.71
- Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) – 52.99
- Siobhan Haughey (HKG) – 53.02
- Yang Junxuan (CHN) – 53.05
- Marrit Steenbergen (NED) – 53.22
- Mollie O’Callaghan (AUS) – 53.27
- Shayna Jack (AUS) – 53.40
- Torri Huske (USA) – 53.53
- Gretchen Walsh (USA) – 53.54
- Beryle Gastaldello (FRA) – 53.65
- Anna Hopkin (GBR)/Kayla Sanchez (PHI) – 53.67
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- Marie Wattel (FRA) – 53.70
- Wu Qingfeng (CHN) – 54.03
- Michelle Coleman (SWE) – 54.10
- Neza Klancar (SLO) – 54.12
- Maggie MacNeil (CAN) – 54.16
World Report holder Sarah Sjostrom (Sweden) led the best way in prelims of the ladies’s 100 free this morning in Paris. The WR holder within the girls’s 50 free and 100 free, Sjostrom was out quick this morning, splitting a 25.44 on the opening 50m. She then got here house in 27.55, securing the win in warmth 2 and placing up the highest time of prelims.
Behind Sjostrom, Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey gained warmth 4 this morning in a time of 53.02. The 200 free bronze medalist from final night time clocked a 53.02. She was out in 25.38, a contact quicker than Sjostrom.
Talking of going out quick, it was American Gretchen Walsh who clocked the quickest first 50 cut up within the area this morning. She was out in 25.21. Her 28.33 on the again half of the race wasn’t nearly as good as it can have to be tonight, however it was loads adequate for this morning, and Walsh ended up eighth total with a 53.54.
Fellow American Torri Huske, the champion of the ladies’s 100 fly, completed simply forward of Walsh with a 53.53 for seventh total.
200 free champion Mollie O’Callaghan clocked a 53.27 for fifth this morning. O’Callaghan posted the quickest 2nd 50 within the area this morning, swimming a 27.12 on the again half.
Canadian Maggie MacNeil clocked a 54.16 for sixteenth this morning, advancing to the semifinals tonight. it was a giant swim for MacNeil, who we usually solely see racing fly occasions on the worldwide LCM stage.
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-Prepare dinner, AUS (2021)
- 2021 Successful Time: 2:06.38 – Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner, AUS
- 2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 2:09.95
- Cho Sung Jae (KOR) – 2:09.45
- Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner (AUS) – 2:09.49
- Leon Marchand (FRA) – 2:09.55
- Caspar Corbeau (NED) – 2:09.78
- Ippei Watanabe (JPN) – 2:09.86
- Dong Zhihao (CHN) – 2:09.91
- Yu Hanaguruma (JPN)/Erik Persson (SWE) – 2:10.35 (TIE)
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- Anton McKee (Iceland) – 2:10.36
- Josh Matheny (USA) – 2:10.39
- Matt Fallon (USA) – 2:10.49
- Arno Kamminga (NED) – 2:10.53
- Lyubomir Epitropov (BUL) – 2:10.59
- Joshua Yong (AUS) – 2:10.68
- Qin Haiyang (CHN) – 2:10.98
- Denis Petrashov (KGZ) – 2:10.99
In a prelims that was fairly a bit slower than the Tokyo’s 3 years in the past, solely 6 males had been underneath 2:10 within the 200 breast this morning. Maybe most notably, China’s Qin Haiyang, the World Report holder on this occasion from final summer season, almost didn’t make it again, ending fifteenth total with a 2:10.98. Qin’s WR stands at 2:05.48, so we’ll see the place he’s at tonight within the semifinals.
Australian Zac-Stubblety-Prepare dinner, the previous World Report holder and reigning Olympic Champion on this occasion, put collectively an unbelievable race this morning. ZSC is understood for his again half on the 200 breast, however, boy, it was on full show this morning. He regarded out of the race in his warmth this morning, going 1:03.62 on the opening 100m. He was accountable for his race, nevertheless, and threw down a blistering 32.26 on the ultimate 50 to really pull forward and win his warmth. His time of two:09.49 was 2nd total.
South Korea’s Cho Sung Jae clocked the highest time of the morning with a 2:09.45. He set an excellent tone early, splitting 1:02.36 on the primary 100, then got here house in 1:07.09.
Netherlands’ Caspar Corbeau had an ideal race this morning as nicely, clocking a 2:09.78 for 4th total.
Leon Marchand managed to seize the third seed for tonight’s closing, swimming his 2nd race of the morning. Having opened up the session with a 200 fly this morning, Marchand regarded lengthy and clean on his breaststroke this morning, clocking a 2:09.55.
The American duo of Josh Matheny and Matt Fallon got here in tenth and eleventh respectively.
MEN’S 4×200 FREESTYLE RELAY – HEATS
- World Report: 6:58.55 – USA (2009)
- Olympic Report: 6:58.56 – USA (2009)
- 2021 Successful Time: 6:58.58 – Nice Britain
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 7:07.73
- Nice Britain – 7:05.11
- United States – 7:05.57
- France – 7:05.61
- Australia – 7:05.63
- Germany – 7:06.20
- China – 7:07.72
- South Korea – 7:07.96
- Japan/Israel – 7:08.43 (TIE)
First issues first. There was a tie for eighth within the males’s 4×200 free relay this morning. Each Japan and Israel, swimming in warmth 1, touched in 7:08.43. Now, earlier than you get too excited a couple of relay swim-off (like I did), there isn’t a swim-off and each groups can be advancing to the ultimate tonight. Per the principles revealed by the IOC, “For particular person occasions of 200m or much less, ties for the final qualification or reserve place (from heats and semi-finals) could also be damaged by swim-offs. In longer distance occasions and relays, if athletes or groups are tied for the final qualification place, all tied athletes or groups will participate within the closing (most of 10 lanes). If greater than three athletes or groups are tied for the final qualification place, a swim-off could also be held. There aren’t any different tie-breaking guidelines for rating.”
The Individuals took the primary warmth of the lads’s 4×200 free relay this morning. Drew Kibler led the US crew off in 1:46.43, then Brooks Curry dove in and gave the Individuals a really robust morning swim of 1:45.96. Veteran Blake Pieroni was regular as at all times, giving the US a 1:46.44, and Chris Giuliano bounced again from his disappointing prelims 200 free earlier within the meet and gave his workforce the warmth win with a 1:46.74 on the anchor. Giuliano notably raced within the 100 free prelims earlier this morning.
The French workforce, which, in fact, didn’t function Leon Marchand, regarded excellent this morning. Hadrien Salvan (1:47.80), Amazigh Yebba (1:46.04), Yann le Goff (1:46.55), and Roman Fuchs (1:45.22) teamed up for a 7:05.61. It’s unclear whether or not Marchand would discover his approach onto this relay tonight, as he has semifinals of each the 200 fly and 200 breast, nevertheless, we all know he’s world class freestyler in the identical approach he’s a world class every thing. Regardless, this French relay can be an fascinating one to keep watch over tonight, as they’ll absolutely be boosted in morale by the rowdy crowd in Paris.
Nice Britain regarded nice within the 2nd warmth of the race this morning. That was largely because of an enormous entrance half from James Man, who led off in 1:45.04, and Jack McMillan, who clocked a 1:45.68 on the 2nd leg. From there, Kieran Hen swam a 1:47.68 on the third leg, and Tom Dean anchored in 1:46.71. That put the British workforce into the end in 7:05.11, simply forward of the Individuals’ mark from the earlier warmth. Nice Britain appears to be like nice heading into the ultimate tonight, as we all know they’ll be swapping in some phenomenal 200 freestylers as they appear to repeat as Olympic champions within the occasion.
Australia had the other relay because the Brits. They got here on very robust on the finish, seeing Flynn Southam clock a 1:45.62 0n the third leg, and Thomas Neill anchor in 1:45.36. Kai Taylor led the Aussies off in 1:47.60, whereas Zac Incerti clocked a 1:47.05 on the 2nd leg. They completed in 7:05.63, good for 4th total.
We are going to finish the morning and allow you to ponder this thought.
Does Marchand eschew his Soiled Double of the 200 Breast and 200 Fly Semis and make it a Tortuous Triple with the 4×200 Free Relay?
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