2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Day 1 Prelims Warmth Sheets
Bonjour, Mes Amis. C’est l’heure queue noue attendions. It’s after all right here. Whilst only a shortened quad of 3 years, it nonetheless seems like an entirety from when the Tokyo Video games began, and whilst the ones video games have been memorable in their very own proper, those Video games really feel like a big second within the recreation.
No longer most effective at the macro scale but in addition at the micro-scale. Whilst the go back of crowds to the stadium and the heated struggle for supremacy at the medal desk are main storylines, it’s the person one who we, as fanatics, get stuck up in. The collection of feedback by myself on all of the Olympic preview articles is a testomony to the ability of those occasions, and day 1 definitely has its fair proportion of them.
For starters, Adam Peaty, the best dash breaststroke ever and the quickest guy throughout each the 50 and 100, starts his quests for the ‘3-Peaty” after having claimed gold in each Rio and Tokyo. He has had his ups and downs, and his trail to Paris (by way of the Chunnel, sure I’m bringing it again) has been extra turbulent than others, however his will to compete is not just a testomony to himself however to what those Video games imply to every any such athletes competing and whilst we don’t have the gap nor bandwidth to hide each and every of them, all of them deserve reputation for all they’ve sacrificed to get right here.
Then again, that doesn’t imply the Brit is simply going to be passed the 100 Breaststroke crown. Peaty, in his lone particular person match, is the second one seed and reveals himself in the back of China’s Qin Haiyang, who surprised the arena final summer time, sweeping the medals on the Global Championships. Whilst the ones two have separated themselves from the pack, that doesn’t imply that they don’t pose a risk. Arno Kamminga is the 3rd quickest performer within the match ever and can line up subsequent to Qin within the prelims, and Nic Fink enters because the 3rd seed and because the reigning Global Champion.
But, let’s now not leap the gun, because the morning begins off with the Girls’s 100 Butterfly. We’ll see Gretchen Walsh‘s first-ever Olympic swim in warmth 4 as she leads a formidable box stuffed with pageant, each home and overseas. Fellow American Torri Huske is the second one seed and might be in search of that first particular person Olympic medal. The ever-dangerous Zhang Yufei and 2021 Olympic Champion Maggie MacNeil lurk within the box as smartly and might be having a look to discover a as far back as the rostrum.
The longest race of the morning briefly follows, however it is usually some of the extremely expected races of the meet. Australian freestyle ace Ariarne Titmus will start her name protection within the Girls’s 400 Unfastened, and whilst she is the arena file holder, it’s on no account a assured victory. Within the prelims warmth, she might be flanked on one facet by means of 2021 bronze medalist Li Bingjie and at the different by means of the 2021 silver medalist and some of the biggest swimmers of all time, Katie Ledecky. Regardless of the ones accolades, Titmus’s litmus check will come within the warmth prior to teenager phenom Summer time McIntosh, a former WR holder within the match, enters the waters seeking her first Olympic medal.
The boys’s 100 breaststroke separates the ladies’s 400 unfastened from the boys’s 400, which is the final particular person match of the morning. A plethora of guys led by means of Germany’s Lukas Märtens and Australia’s Sam Quick might be chasing after the oldest particular person LCM file nonetheless at the books, Paul Biedermann’s 3:40.07. Each input with instances inside of a moment, and whilst is not likely that they’ll be gunning for it this morning, they nonetheless will want to installed robust performances to make the overall as their compatriots Oliver Klement and Elijah Winnington will glance to additionally force that file as will 2024 Global Champion Kim Woo-min.
Whilst swimming is, by means of its nature, a person recreation, one of the maximum memorable occasions within the recreation happen when teamwork is concerned, and this morning will supply two best possible demonstrations of that.
The ladies’s 4×100 Unfastened Relay will see the dominance of Australia on show as they appear to protect their Olympic gold medal and make it 4 in a row. The Global File protecting workforce most likely received’t use their easiest swimmers, however such is the intensity of Australia’s sprinting that they will have to face no problem to the overall. That stated, the relay isn’t a foregone conclusion; this race would be the get started of many swimmer’s week and can lend a hand set the tone now not just for themselves however for his or her country.
The morning concludes with the boys’s model of the development, the place america, according to access instances, seems to be the favourite. Then again, now not till the final hand has struck the wall and the officers don’t name any disqualifications will we all know the effects, so all that america, who owns the WR) and for the topic all of the workforce can do is simply swim as rapid as they are able to and hope it’s sufficient for a place in this night’s ultimate.
Girls’s 100 Butterfly – Prelims
Global File: 55.18 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2024)
Global Junior File: 56.43 – Claire Curzan, USA (2021)
Olympic File: 55.48 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2016)
2021 Profitable Time: 55.59 – Maggie MacNeil, CAN
2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 58.08
Most sensible 16
Zhang Yufei (CHN) – 56.50
Mizuki Hirai (JPN) – 56.71
Torri Huske (USA) – 56.72
Gretchen Walsh (USA) – 56.75
Emma McKeon (AUS) – 56.79
Angelina Koehler (GER) – 56.90
Maggie MacNeil (CAN) – 57.00
Alexandria Perkins (AUS) – 57.46
Barbora Seemanova (CZE) – 57.50
Marie Wattel (FRA) – 57.54
Roos Vanotterdijk (BEL) – 57.54
Louise Hansson (SWE) – 57.57
Erin Gallagher (RSA) – 57.80
Rikako Ikee (JPN) – 57.82
Tessa Giele (NED) – 57.89
Keanna MacInnes (GBR) – 57.90
And similar to that we have got our first Olympic swims. Profitable the primary warmth was once Denmark’s Helena Roesndahl Bach. The Dane lead from begin to end, taking the race out in 27.46 and coming house in 30.99 to complete in 58.45, just a bit off her access time of 58.13.
Warmth 2 went Zhang Yufei‘s method. The protecting 2021 silver medalist was once moment on the flip, trailing Australia’s Emma McKeon by means of simply .01, however pulled away at the final 50, outsplitting her rival by means of .30 to take the warmth win in 56.50. McKeon would take moment, additionally dipping beneath 57, hitting the wall in 56.79. House favourite Marie Wattel moved up from 4th on the 50 to third to hit the wall in 57.54.
American and the #2 seed Torri Huske seemed easy and in regulate of the penultimate warmth. Out in 26.01, Huske held off a overdue price from the protecting Olympic Champion, Maggie MacNeil, to complete in a time of 56.72. MacNeil, who handed Louise Hansson within the final 50, would contact second in 57.00, .28 again of Huske. Australian Alexandria Perkins additionally installed an excellent final 50 to transport from fifth on the 50 (26.77) to the touch third total in 57.46.
The final warmth of the morning, warmth 4, noticed the newly minted international file holder, Gretchen Walsh, kick off her Olympic Marketing campaign. The College of Virginia swimmer was once out first in 25.98, a hallmark rapid opening break up. On the 50, she was once over part a moment forward of Mizuki Hirai, who touched second in 26.54. Hirai, then again, was once now not content material to simply sit down in second and pulled out a velocity of 30.17 at the final 50 to go Walsh within the final meters to take the warmth win in 56.71. Walsh closed .6 slower with a break up of 30.77 to prevent the clock in 56.75. 2024 Global Champ Angelina Koehler made a powerful transfer at the final 50, like Hirai, to transport into third, touching the wall in 56.90.
In 2021, it took 58.08 to advance to the semifinals, while this morning, it took 57.97.
Girls’s 400 Freestyle – Prelims
Most sensible 8
Katie Ledecky (USA) – 4:02.19
Ariarne Titmus (AUS) – 4:02.46
Erika Fairweather (NZL) – 4:02.55
Summer time McIntosh (CAN) – 4:02.65
Jamie Perkins (AUS) – 4:03.30
Paige Madden (USA) – 4:03.34
Maria Fernanda Costa (BRA) – 4:03.47
Isabel Gose (GER) – 4:03.83
Leonie Martens of Germany publish the quickest time within the first warmth with a time of four:09.62, however her time wouldn’t final lengthy atop the scores as the following warmth was once the beginning of the circle-seeded heats.
New Zealand’s Erika Fairweather led from begin to end however was once repeatedly shadowed by means of Summer time McIntosh. The pair have been separated by means of simply .1 on the 100-meter mark, 57.67 vs 57.77. Through the 200, Fairweather pried the distance to a bigger margin of .31, and by means of the 300, it was once .4. Then again, McIntosh installed a powerful efficiency at the final 50, outsplitting Fairweather by means of .38 however lacked the pool area to run her down utterly. Fairweather would cling directly to win the warmth in a time of four:02.55, with McIntosh simply .1 in the back of at 4:02.65.
Whilst the ones two have been duking it out for first, Jamie Perkins of Australia closed in the one sub-30 break up of the warmth, 29.67, to transport up from fifth to third within the warmth, completing in 4:03.30. Paige Madden of america, were in third, completed simply .04 in the back of in 4:03.47, about 1.5 seconds in the back of her time from the United States Trials, however quicker than her Trials prelims swim of four:04.83.
The final warmth noticed all of the podium from the 2021 Olympics take to the water. Protecting gold medalist Ariarne Titmus seemed easy and in regulate of the race, opening up in 57.10 and flipping on the midway mark in 1:58.16. Katie Ledecky shadowed the Australian for a lot of the hole lengths of the race, going out in 57.87 and was once .9 again on the 200, flipping in 1:59.06. However the American began to move slowly again from that just about one-second deficit by means of out-splitting her rival over the following 150 in order that each and every flipped equivalent on the 350 mark. Ledecky closed in 30.16 to win the warmth in 4:02.19. Titmus was once shut in the back of, splitting 30.43 at the final 50 to take moment within the warmth with a time of 30.43. China’s Li Bingjie was once third up throughout the 100 mark and traded that place with Germany’s Isabel Gose however was once not able to generate sufficient velocity, and he or she completed 4th within the warmth in 4:03.96, and ninth total, .13 again of creating the overall.
Males’s 100 Breaststroke – Prelims
Global File: 56.88 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2019)
Global Junior File: 59.01 – Nicolo Martinenghi, ITA (2017)
Olympic File: 57.13 – Adam Peaty, GBR (2016)
2021 Profitable Time: 57.37 – Adam Peaty, GBR
2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 59.68
Most sensible 16
Caspar Corbeau (NED) – 59.04
Adam Peaty (GBR) – 59.18
Ilya Shymanovich (NIA) – 59.25
Nicolo Martinenghi (ITA)/Arno Kamminga (NED) – 59.39
James Wilby (GBR) – 59.40
Melvin Imoudu (GER) – 59.49
Lucas Matzerath (GER) – 59.52
Qin Haiyang (CHN) -59.58
Nic Fink (USA) – 59.66
Bernard Reitshammer (AUT) – 59.68
Joshua Yong (AUS) – 59.75
Evgenii Somov (NIA) – 59.83
Charlie Swanson (USA) – 59.92
Ludovico Viberti (ITA) – 59.93
Ron Polonsky (ISR) – 1:00.00
Up throughout the circle-seeded heats, the early chief was once Anton McKee. The Icelandic swimmer, who attended the College of Alabama, posted a mark of one:00.62 out of warmth 2.
Warmth 3, the primary of the circle-seeded heats, noticed Dutch nationwide however US-born Caspar Corbeau take the win. Corbeau, who swam collegiately for the College of Texas however nows trains within the Netherlands, led from begin to end, taking the primary 50 out in 27.69. Corbeau additionally had the quickest final 50 of 31.35 to take the warmth win in 59.04. At the back of him was once the American Nic Fink. Fink, a 2021 Olympian within the 200, was once third on the 50, in 28.07, however used his backhalf velocity to conquer Joshua Yong and take moment in 59.66, to Yong’s 59.75. The time will have to be rapid sufficient to make the highest 16 (in 2021, it took 59.68), however this is a little being concerned for the American as he was once 59.24 within the prelims at the United States trials.
Warmth 4 went the best way of the Global File holder Nice Britain’s Adam Peaty. Peaty displayed his trademark velocity, attacking the primary 50 and hitting the flip wall in 27.21. No longer a ways in the back of him was once Ilya Shymanovich, a Belarussian swimmer competing as a Impartial Impartial Athlete. Shymanovich additionally has a penchant for velocity as he’s the arena file holder within the quick direction model of the development and was once now not a ways in the back of Peaty, hitting the flip in 27.35. Shymanovich closed quicker than Peaty, 31.90 vs 31.97, but it surely wasn’t sufficient because the Brit completed in 59.18 to Shymanovich’s 59.25. Peaty’s teammate, James Wilby, has the quickest final 50 of 31.49, but it surely wasn’t quickest sufficient to run down Nicolo Martinenghi for third because the pair completed separated by means of simply .01 in instances of 59.39 vs 59.40.
The final warmth gave the look to be constructed for velocity, with the second one and 3rd quickest swimmers of all time, but it surely was once somewhat gradual compared to the previous heats. Arno Kamminga took the warmth win in 59.39 and was once simply third on the 50 (27.83), passing each Qin, who was once 1st on the flip 27.56, and Solar Jiajun, who was once second in 27.63. Kamminga wasn’t the one swimmer to make a transfer at the again part, despite the fact that; Germany’s Melvin Imoudu, who lately received the 2024 Europeans, moved up from fifth on the flip to the touch forward of Qin by means of .09 in a mark of 59.49. Qin would end third within the warmth in 59.58.
Those effects have been a lot slower in comparison to 2021, because it took 59.68 to make the semis in Tokyo. Regardless of the slowness of the development, a number of giant names overlooked out at the finals. China’s Solar completed seventeenth in 1:00.20, and Australia’s Sam Williamson, who entered because the ninth seed together with his PB of 58.80, completed twenty fourth in 1:00.50.
Males’s 400 Freestyle – Prelims
Global File: 3:40.07 — Paul Biedermann, GER (2009)
Global Junior File: 3:44.31 — Petar Mitsin, BUL (2023)
Olympic File: 3:40.14 — Solar Yang, CHN (2012)
2021 Profitable Time: 3:43.36 – Ahmed Hafnaoui, TUN
2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 3:45.68
Most sensible 8
Lukas Martens(GER) – 3:44.13
Guilherme Costa (BRA) – 3:44.23
Fei Liwei (CHN) – 3:44.60
Elijah Winnington (AUS) – 3:44.87
Samuel Quick (AUS) – 3:44.88
Aaron Shackell (USA) – 3:45.45
Kim Woomin (KOR) – 3:45.52
Oliver Klemet (GER) – 3:45.75
Up throughout the circle-seeded heats, China’s Fei Liwei had the highest time of the morning, posting a swim of three:44.60, reducing 1.36 off his seed time of three:45.96. While above, McKee’s time was once whipped off the board briefly, Fei’s time would have positioned second within the subsequent warmth as most effective Brazil’s Guilherme Costa was once quicker.
The Brazilian slowly and frequently moved his method up throughout the box after flipping seventh on the 50 and fifth on the 100 (54.08). Through the midway mark, he had clawed himself into third (1:50.63) however saved up the tempo at the backhalf, final in 27.57 to put up the quickest time of the morning thus far at 3:44.23. Australian Sam Quick was once now not that a ways in the back of on the finish and had led for a lot of the race, however got here house in simply 28.34, just about a moment slower than Costa to the touch in 3:44.88. American Aaron Shackell’s final 50 of 27.95 would possibly were rapid sufficient to earn him a place in this night’s ultimate as he handed Korea’s Kim Woomin in the previous few meters, out-touching him 3:45.45 to three:45.52. American Kieran Smith was once additionally on this warmth however struggled to get issues going. eighth on the 200 mark (1:51.78), Smith may most effective claw his method as much as sixth within the warmth, completing in 3:46.47.
The overall warmth introduced the rate as Lukas Martens, the highest seed, and Elijah Winnington, the third seed, dueled it out and traded the lead from side to side. The pair have been beneath Global File tempo originally of the race, with Winnington flipping on the 200 flip in 1:48.58 with Winnington simply .02 again in 1:48.60. Then again, a mix of the pair slowing down and Biedermann’s again part velocity, the pair quickly fell off the file, with Martens taking the win and posting the quickest time of the morning of 3:44.13. Winnington was once now not that a ways again, hitting the wall in 3:44.87.
Girls’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay – Prelims
Global File: 3:27.96 – Australia: M. O’Callaghan, S. Jack, M. Harris, E. McKeon (2023)
Global Junior File: 3:36.19 – Canada: T. Ruck, P. Oleksiak, R. Smith, Okay. Sanchez (2017)
Olympic File: 3:29.69 – Australia: B. Campbell, C. Campbell, M. Harris, E. McKeon (2021)
2021 Profitable Time: 3:29.69 – Australia: B. Campbell, C. Campbell, M. Harris, E. McKeon
2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 3:35.93
Most sensible 8
Australia – 3:31.57
USA – 3:33.29
China – 3:34.31
Sweden – 3:34.35
France – 3:35.25
Canada – 3:35.29
Nice Britain – 3:36.13
Italy – 3:36.28
The US seemed easy and in regulate of the primary warmth, because the squad of Abbey Weitzeil (53.60), Simone Manuel (53.23), Erika Connolly (53.83), and Kate Douglass (52.63) blended to take the warmth win in a time of three:33.29. The American citizens led for the whole thing of the race aside from the primary 50, when Nice Britain’s Anna Hopkin flipped first on the first flip.
For the United States, it was once a powerful efficiency because the time was once quicker than the relay’s prelims swim from Tokyo (3:34.80) and from final summer time’s Global Championships (3:33.34). Of the 4, Weitzeil stepped forward probably the most from trials, the place she was once 53.70 within the particular person ultimate.
Nice Britain began out rapid, however Anna Hopkin fell from first to 3rd over the process her 100, touching in 54.08. The Brits completed 4th in Tokyo in a then-national file of three:33.90, with Lucy Hope and Freya Anderson splitting 53.53 and 52.51, respectively. Then again, this morning, the pair have been smartly off that tempo, splitting 54.74 and 53.47. They’ve been holding some power, however the workforce must be a lot quicker this night in the event that they need to mirror that 4th position end.
After now not fielding a workforce in Tokyo and completing ninth final summer time, the Italians have made massive jumps within the match to complete third within the warmth. Sofia Morini led off in 53.92 and Sara Curtis’ had a 3rd leg break up of 53.93 to have the workforce end third within the warmth in a time of three:36.28.
Opposite to what it’ll have gave the impression to be, the Australians have been by no means in any risk of shedding this relay. Whilst the Aussies led off with the rookie Olivia Wunsch (53.94) and veteran Bronte Campbell (53.46) most of the different relays best loaded their groups with France’s quickest swimmer Beryl Gastaldello (53.54) touching first on the first trade, simply forward of 2016 Olympic champion Penny Oleksiak.
Michelle Coleman of Sweeden wasn’t too a ways in the back of the leaders, touching 3rd and handing issues off to Global File holder Sarah Sjostrom. The spriting famous person, who’s entered within the particular person match, recorded the second one quickest break up of the morning, hitting the wall in a blazing 51.99. Sweden, who was once then within the lead, saved it throughout the 250 flip however gave solution to the ability and would possibly of Australia’s final two legs, Meg Harris and Emma McKeon.
Harris, who has lengthy been a key leg on Australia’s relays, break up 52.23 and passed issues over to McKeon. The 2021 Olympic Champion within the particular person 100, McKeon pulled the double with 100 fly prelims this morning, and whilst MacNeil, Walsh, Huske and Zhang all sat off the relay, McKeon dropped a hammer of a break up, swimming beneath 52 once more, recording a mark of 51.94, Altogether the Australian’s recorded a mark of three:31.57, a time that will have received silver at each the 2021 Olympics and 2023 Worlds.
China were given off to a gradual get started and was once sitting fifth on the 300, however fresh nationwide file holder Yang Junxuan became issues round briefly, passing 3 different swimmers within the final 100 to convey the Chinese language up into moment position in a time of three:34.31. Her break up of 52.47 was once the 4th quickest of the warmth and fifth quickest total.
Males’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay – Prelims
Global File: 3:08.24 — United States: M. Phelps, G. Weber-Gale, C. Jones, J. Lezak (2008)
Global Junior File: 3:15.49 — United States: D. Diehl, M. Williamson, H. Williams, J. Zhao (2023)
Olympic File: 3:08.24 — United States: M. Phelps, G. Weber-Gale, C. Jones, J. Lezak (2008)
2021 Profitable Time: 3:08.97 — United States: C. Dressel, B. Pieroni, B. Becker, Z. Apple
2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 3:13.13
Most sensible 8
China – 3:11.62
Australia – 3:12.25
Nice Britain – 3:12.49
USA- 3:12.61
Canada – 3:12.77
Italy – 3:12.94
Hungary – 3:12.96
Germany – 3:13.15
The primary of 2 heats was once an in depth affair till Pan Zhanle closed in 46.98 to guide the Chinese language relay not to just a warmth win however to the quickest time total. Hungary frontloaded their relay, going with Nandor Nemeth (48.07) and Szebaztian Szabo (48.02), and was once main Germany on the midway level by means of just about part a moment. However Nice Britain and China had different plans as the 2 international locations pulled into the lead with a 47.91 break up by means of Alexander Cohoon and 47.93 by means of Ji Xinjie.
Separated by means of .22 at this level, Pan’s 46.98 left Tom Dean in his rearview mirrors because the Brit’s break up of 48.07 was once now not sufficient to take care of touch because the Chinese language relay received in 3:11.62, just about a complete moment forward of the Brits 3:12.49. Similar to the Chinese language Girls’s relay, the Italian males have been simply sixth on the 300-meter mark however used a powerful anchor to tug themselves again into rivalry. The 2021 silver medalists within the match have been anchored by means of Manuel Frigo, whose 47.80 break up was once moment ot most effective Pan’s within the warmth.
The second one warmth was once a slower affair, with most effective 3 groups advancing into this night’s ultimate—second, 4th, and fifth. The lead jumped round so much, with 3 other groups protecting it over the process the 400.
Jack Cartwright were given the Aussies into pole place, opening up in a break up of 48.51, albeit simply .01 forward of america’s Ryan Held. The second one leg noticed Brazil’s Marcelo Chierighini take over the lead as he break up 48.21 to offer his country the lead over Israel, who was once 4th on the 100, however Gal Cohen Groumi’s 48.22 pulled them into second. After some disappointing splits from William Yang (48.39) and Matt King (48.40), the Aussies and American citizens righted the send with a 47.91 from Flynn Southam and a blistering 47.50 from Hunter Armstrong.
Armstrong, who completed 4th at US trials in 47.78, had pulled the American citizens into the lead by means of .39 of a moment over the Australians (2:24.42 vs 2:24.81) and became issues over to Caeleb Dressel. Dressel was once out fast in 22.86 however may now not stay america within the lead as Australia’s Chalmers cruised by means of his rival, splitting 47.44 to the touch first in a time of three:12.25. Dressel would finish up splitting 48.19, and the American completed in the back of the Aussie in a time of three:12.61.
Sitting fifth on the midway level, Staff Canada went with a powerful backhalf as Javier Acevedo break up 48.15 to convey the Canadians up into third. 1.10 seconds again of the American citizens, Josh Liendo posted the second-fastest break up of all of the box, 47.25, final the distance to simply .16 because the Canadians touched in 3:12.77
