Paris Olympic Finals: A Swimfo Showcase

After 19 Olympic data, Greece’s first pool medalist since 1896, and the primary time we’ve seen any swimmer go as quick as Jason Lezak in a relay, one other Olympic Video games has come and gone. The Paris Video games didn’t disappoint, so let’s check out among the information behind the world’s quickest swimmers.

GEOGRAPHY

28 particular person occasions with eight swimmers in every remaining warmth, 224 lanes have been up for grabs throughout all finals classes. The map beneath options the federations that despatched at the least one swimmer to finals, with every of the six inhabited continents sending at the least 3 particular person swimmers. South America produced 3 (all from Brazil), Africa certified 4, Oceania had 24, Asia despatched 25, North America boasted 35, and Europe rounded out the 164-swimmer whole with 71 swimmers. (NOTE: Alina Zmushka and Anastasia Shkurdai competed as neutrals)

Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Nice Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Eire, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United States

The ten nations that occupied probably the most lanes in finals (out of 224):

1. United States: 37 (16.52%)
2. Australia: 30 (13.39%)
3. China: 17 (7.59%)
4. France: 16 (7.14%)
5. Canada: 15 (6.70%)
6. Germany/Nice Britain: 14 (TIE, 6.25%)
8. Italy: 12 (5.36%)
9. Japan: 10 (4.46%)
10. Netherlands: 6 (2.68%)

The ten nations sending probably the most swimmers to finals (out of 164):

1. United States: 25 (15.43%)
2. Australia: 22 (13.58%)
3. China: 14 (8.64%)
4. Nice Britain: 12 (7.41%)
5. Germany/France: 10 (TIE, 6.17%)
7. Japan/Canada: 9 (TIE, 5.56%)
9. Italy: 8 (4.94%)
10. Netherlands: 5 (3.09%)

AGE

One thing seen 12 months after 12 months, swimmers each younger and skilled discover success within the pool. Youngsters like Katie Grimes, Ilya Kharun, and Summer time McIntosh all introduced house medals for his or her nations, and veterans of the game like Florent Manaudou and Sarah Sjostrom continued to indicate their long-standing legacies of dominance. 21 youngsters (underneath the age of 20) made at the least one remaining this 12 months.

Youngest Finalists:

• Kuzey Tuncelli, Turkey (16 years, 11 months, 12 days)
• Mizuki Hirai, Japan (17 years, 5 months, 4 days)
• Claire Weinstein, United States (17 years, 5 months, 10 days)
• Eneli Jefimova, Estonia (17 years, 7 months, 15 days)
• Mio Narita, Japan (17 years, 7 months, 24 days)

Oldest Finalists:

• Florent Manaudou, France (33 years, 8 months, 30 days)
• Satomi Suzuki, Japan (33 years, 6 months, 13 days)
• Damien Joly: France (32 years, 2 months, 7 days)
• Katarzyna Wasick, Poland (32 years, 4 months, 20 days)
• Nic Fink, United States (31 years, 1 month, 8 days)

Oldest Particular person Medalists:

• Florent Manaudou, France (33 years, 8 months, 30 days)
• Nic Fink, United States (31 years, 1 month, 8 days)
• Cam McEvoy, Australia (30 years, 2 months, 29 days)
• Wang Shun, China (30 years, 6 months)
• Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden (30 years, 11 months, 25 days)

Youngest Particular person Medalists:

• Summer time McIntosh, Canada (17 years, 11 months, 24 days)
• Katie Grimes, United States (18 years, 7 months, 3 days)
• Tomoyuki Matsushita, Japan (19 years, 10 days)
• Ilya Kharun, Canada (19 years, 6 months, 4 days)
• Pan Zhanle, China (20 years, 7 days)

Seen beneath are the common ages of every remaining, damaged down by gender. Similar to in Fukuoka, the ladies’s 400 IM was by far the youngest occasion, supplemented by the youth of Grimes, McIntosh, and Mio Narita, all underneath the age of 19. The lads’s 50 freestyle was the oldest occasion, with two swimmers over the age of 30 (McEvoy and Manaudou) not solely making an look within the remaining, however on high of the rostrum.

BIRTHDAYS

Beneath is a calendar that includes every finalist’s birthday. The commonest birthdays seen amongst finalists are January 28 (with Katharine Berkoff, Benedetta Pilato, Yu Hanaguruma, Wu Qingfeng) and June 25 (Kyle Chalmers, Katie Shanahan, Luke Hobson, Chris Guiliano). Each days function a number of medalists, with the January date having Berkoff and Wu and the June date having Chalmers, Hobson, and Guiliano. Different multiple-medalist birthdays embrace January 19 (Jack Alexy, Jamie Perkins), July 3 (Nic Fink, Maximillian Giuliani), August 1 (Nicolo Martinenghi, Tomoyuki Matsushita), and November 6 (Bobby Finke, Shayna Jack). There’s a particular span of six days in August (16-21) with six medalists having back-to-back birthdays– Caeleb Dressel on the sixteenth, Sarah Sjostrom on the seventeenth, Summer time McIntosh on the 18th, Xu Jiayu on the nineteenth, Josh Liendo on the twentieth, and Mona McSharry on the twenty first.