2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Welcome to day 7 finals of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Tonight’s finals session will function finals of the boys’s 50 free, ladies’s 200 again, and males’s 200 IM, in addition to semifinals of the boys’s 100 fly and girls’s 200 IM. Of notice, prelims of the combined 4×100 medley relay came about this morning, nonetheless, the finals of that relay received’t happen till tomorrow’s (Saturday) finals session. With that being stated, in the present day’s finals session is a brief one, scheduled to final simply over an hour.
DAY 7 FINALS SCHEDULE
- Males’s 50 Freestyle – Remaining
- Girls’s 200 Backstroke – Remaining
- Males’s 200 IM – Remaining
- Males’s 100 Butterfly – Semifinals
- Girls’s 200 IM – Semifinals
The session will kick off with the ultimate of the boys’s 50 freestyle, the place American Caeleb Dressel will likely be dealing with the primary race of his double tonight. Dressel was fifth within the semifinals of the 50 free final evening, swimming a 21.58. He’s the reigning Olympic champion within the occasion, having set the Olympic File again in Tokyo together with his profitable time of 21.07. Dressel has his arms very full on this subject, nonetheless, as Nice Britain’s Ben Proud and Australia’s Cam McEvoy each went 21.38 within the semifinals final evening. Moreover, the final seed on this warmth was nonetheless 21.69 within the semis final evening, simply 0.31 seconds slower than the highest seeds. This must be an outstanding race.
Dressel will then have the boys’s 100 fly semifinals later within the session. He’ll have a giant of downtime between the occasions, however not a lot. The turnaround is scheduled to be about 35 minutes. This morning, Dressel clocked a 50.83 within the 100 fly, then later swam a 50.10 on the combined medley relay. His objective for tonight will likely be to easily safe a lane, any lane, for tomorrow evening’s last.
Hungarian Kristof Milak appeared wonderful in prelims of the 100 fly this morning, dashing to a 50.19. Milak earned the silver medal within the 200 fly earlier within the meet. This can be a loaded subject, and, if the occasions from this morning maintain, it should probably take underneath 51 seconds to advance to the ultimate.
The ladies’s 200 backstroke will function one of many showdowns we’ve been trying ahead to most. This race marks spherical 2 as Australian Kaylee McKeown will go up towards American Regan Smith. McKeown, the World File holder within the 200 again, received gold within the 100 again a number of nights in the past, whereas Smith took silver. They received’t be subsequent to one another tonight, as Smith is out in lane 7, since she was racing in final evening’s semifinals after taking silver within the last of the 200 fly. American Phoebe Bacon will likely be in the midst of the pool tonight and may be very able to making a variety of noise as nicely.
The boys’s 200 IM will function France’s Leon Marchand as he tries to win his 4th particular person gold medal of the meet. Having already received the 400 IM, 200 fly, and 200 breast, Marchand is available in as the highest seed within the 200 IM tonight after clocking a 1:56.31 in semifinals. This race will mark Marchand’s final particular person race of the meet, so we’re certainly in for a present as the gang will get behind him.
American Carson Foster and Nice Britain’s Duncan Scott each appeared nice within the semifinals final evening as nicely, and will push Marchand tonight.
The ladies’s 200 IM semifinals tonight have an attention-grabbing dynamic happening. It simply so occurs that Summer time McIntosh, Kate Douglass, Alex Walsh, and Kaylee McKeown, who’re the 4 strongest gold medal contenders, are all proper subsequent to one another within the 2nd warmth of semis. It ought to act as slightly preview of the ultimate tomorrow evening, although with much less on the road. The one wrinkle on this race is that McKeown will likely be coming off the 200 again last, so she received’t be as contemporary because the others. Nonetheless, she’s scheduled to have about an hour between races, so it’s not the worst double we’ve seen.
MEN’S 50 FREESTYLE – FINAL
- Cam McEvoy (Australia) – 21.25
- Ben Proud (Nice Britain) – 21.30
- Florent Manaudou (France) – 21.56
- Josh Liendo (Canada) – 21.58
- Kristian Gkolomeev (Greece) – 21.59
- Caeleb Dressel (United States) – 21.61
- Leonardo Deplano (Italy) – 21.62
- Jordan Crooks (Cayman Islands) – 21.64
First issues first: this was a really quick last of the boys’s 50 free right here in Paris tonight. Cayman Islands’ Jordan Crooks got here in eighth with a 21.64, which might have been good for fifth again in Tokyo 3 years in the past.
In a bunched up subject, Australia’s Cam McEvoy completed the mission, profitable gold with a time of 21.25. With the efficiency, McEvoy grew to become Australia’s first ever gold medalist within the 50 free. He managed to get his hand on the wall simply earlier than Nice Britain’s Ben Proud, who earned silver with a 21.30.
Swimming in entrance of a raucous dwelling crowd, France’s Florent Manaudou received on the rostrum as nicely, touching in 21.56 for bronze. Manaudou was simply the most recent efficiency for the French crowd to get behind.
Canada’s Josh Liendo discovered himself simply off the rostrum, taking 4th in 21.58. Liendo and American Caeleb Dressel are each swimming the 100 fly semifinals later within the session. Dressel took Sixth within the 50 with a 21.61.
WOMEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE – FINAL
- Kaylee McKeown (Australia) – 2:03.73
(Olympic File) - Regan Smith (United States) – 2:04.26
- Kylie Masse (Canada) – 2:05.57
- Phoebe Bacon (United States) – 2:05.61
- Katie Shanahan (Nice Britain) – 2:07.53
- Peng Xuwei (China) – 2:07.96
- Honey Osrin (Nice Britain) – 2:08.16
- Anastasiya Shkurdai (Particular person Impartial Athletes) – 2:10.23
Kaylee McKeown made historical past tonight, sweeping the ladies’s backstroke occasions in back-to-back Olympics. She did it in document trend, taking down Missy Franklin’s longstanding Olympic File of two:04.06. McKeown put collectively a incredible race, coming dwelling quick to go Regan Smith and get her arms on the wall first. Her efficiency of two:03.73 stands because the Sixth-fastest 200 again of all-time.
McKeown swam the race expertly, splitting 29.17 and 31.35 on the primary pair of 50s for a 1:00.52 on the opening 100. She then clocked a 31.36 on the third 50 and got here dwelling in 31.85, for a 1:03.21 on the again half of the race. McKeown now has to prepare for the ladies’s 200 IM semifinal, which is the final occasion of this session.
American Regan Smith discovered herself incomes the silver medal as soon as once more, swimming a 2:04.26 for 2nd tonight. She was main via the 150m flip, however simply wasn’t fairly capable of maintain on. Smith was out in 59.90 on the opening 100, then clocked a 31.80 on the third 50. It caught as much as her, nonetheless, and he or she got here dwelling in 32.56, which was simply sufficient off her tempo for McKeown to go her up.
Canadian Kylie Masse had a incredible swim, incomes the bronze medal in 2:05.57. Masse was sitting in 2nd between Smith and McKeown on the 100m flip, flipping in 1:00.37. She then got here dwelling slightly slower than each of them, falling into third however nonetheless touchdown on the medal stand. Masse earned the silver medal on this occasion again in Tokyo.
American Phoebe Bacon discovered herself simply off the rostrum, ending 4th in 2:05.61. Bacon improved on her fifth place end from Tokyo 3 years in the past, nonetheless, she nonetheless was simply off the medal stand. She had moved into third place on the third 50 of the race tonight, nonetheless, she pale fairly laborious on the ultimate 50, and fell out of that place.
MEN’S 200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – FINAL
- World File: 1:54.00 – Ryan Lochte, USA (2011)
- World Junior File: 1:56.99 – Hubert Kos, HUN (2021)
Olympic File: 1:54.23 – Michael Phelps, USA (2008)- 2021 Successful Time: 1:55.00 – Wang Shun, CHN
- 2021 Time to Win Bronze: 1:56.17
- Leon Marchand (France) – 1:54.06 (Olympic File)
- Duncan Scott (Nice Britain) – 1:55.31
- Wang Shun (China) – 1:56.00
- Carson Foster (United States) – 1:56.10
- Tom Dean (United States) – 1:56.46
- Alberto Razzetti (Italy) – 1:56.82
- Daiya Seto (Japan) – 1:57.21
- Finlay Knox (Canada) – 1:57.26
22-year-old Leon Marchand can’t be stopped. The overall consensus was that there was a reasonably good probability he wouldn’t be within the lead on the midway level of the race, however that his again half is so good, it wouldn’t matter. Effectively, it turned out none of it mattered. Marchand was 24.72 on fly and 28.83 on again, which put him into the 100m flip 1st with a surprising cut up of 53.55. It was over at that time. He then tacked on a surprising 32.36 on the breast leg of the race, then sped dwelling in 28.15, placing up a 1:00.51 on the 2nd 100.
Marchand hit the 150m flip 0.60 seconds underneath Ryan Lochte’s legendary World File tempo, however didn’t come dwelling fairly as quick as Lochte did, and ended up touching simply 0.06 seconds off the document. Nonetheless, Marchand’s efficiency of 1:54.06 marks a brand new Olympic File, in addition to a brand new European File. He is also now the #2 performer all-time within the occasion behind Lochte, and his swam was the 2nd-fastest efficiency of all-time.
That swim represented Marchand’s final particular person race of the meet. He went 4-for-4 on gold medals right here in Paris in entrance of the house crowd.
Nice Britain’s Duncan Scott had a terrific efficiency himself, to not be overshadowed by Marchand’s swim. He clocked a 1:55.31, which is available in simply 0.03 seconds off his personal British File of 1:55.28. Scott swam that document again within the last of this occasion in Tokyo, the place he earned the silver medal there as nicely. As common, Scott was nothing wanting unbelievable on the ultimate 50 of the race, dashing to an outstanding 27.67 on the freestyle lap.
China’s Wang Shun, the defending Olympic champion within the occasion, took third tonight in 1:56.00. The efficiency was precisely 1 second slower than he swam to win gold again in Tokyo. Wang was out quick, splitting 24.65 on the fly 50, which was the quickest fly cut up within the subject. He put up a superb 29.10 on again as nicely, hitting the 100m flip in 2nd, nonetheless, a 34.03 on breaststroker did him in, and he pale to third.
American Carson Foster completed simply off the rostrum with a 1:56.10. Foster was seventh on the first flip, splitting 25.01 on the fly lap. He struggled on breaststroke a bit as nicely, splitting 34.07.
MEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – SEMIFINALS
- Kristof Milak (Hungary) – 50.38
- Maxime Grousset (France) – 50.41
- Josh Liendo (Canada) – 50.42
- Nyls Kortsanje (Netherlands) – 50.59
- Noe Ponti (Switzerland) – 50.60
- Ilya Kharun (Canada) – 50.68
- Matthew Temple (Australia) – 50.95
- Naoki Mizunuma (Japan) – 51.08
The boys’s 100 fly semifinals noticed Kristof Milak lead the sector as soon as once more, this time clocking a 50.38. Whereas that point was only a bit off the 50.19 he swam within the heats this morning, Milak nonetheless grabbed lane 4 for tonight’s last. Milak is on a mission for gold after taking silver within the 200 fly, his greatest occasion. He did seem like trying out one thing together with his fingers after his race tonight, which may very well be one thing to control, although he didn’t seem like in important discomfort or ache.
After swimming the 50 free at the start of the session, Canada’s Josh Liendo received it completed within the 100 fly, taking third general with a 50.42. Managing that swim with a good turnaround after the 50 bodes nicely for Liendo within the last tomorrow evening when he’s brisker.
Canada was the one nation to see each their swimmers make it via to the ultimate, Ilya Kharun got here in Sixth tonight with a 50.68, so he will likely be becoming a member of Liendo tomorrow evening.
Maybe the most important information from the race is that defending Olympic Champion Caeleb Dressel didn’t make it via to the ultimate. Dressel, who can also be the World File holder within the occasion, was clearly not absolutely recovered from the his 3 different races he’s completed in the present day, and clocked a 51.57 for thirteenth general. Dressel was 50.83 within the heats of the 100 fly this morning, which might have been good for eighth tonight. He additionally clocked a 50.10 on the combined medley relay this morning.
Giving the French crowd one more race to ecstatically cheer for, Maxime Grousset clocked a 50.41 for the 2nd-fastest time within the subject tonight. He was out quick, splitting 23.15 on the opening 50m.
WOMEN’S 200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – SEMIFINALS
- World File: 2:06.12 – Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2015)
- World Junior File: 2:06.89 – Summer time McIntosh, CAN (2023)
- Olympic File: 2:06.58 – Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2016)
- 2021 Successful Time: 2:08.52 – Yui Ohashi, JPN
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 2:10.59
- Alex Walsh (United States) – 2:07.45
- Summer time McIntosh (Canada) – 2:08.30
- Kate Douglass (United States) -2:08.59
- Abbie Wooden (Nice Britain) – 2:09.64
- Sydney Pickrem (Canada) – 2:09.65
- Yu Yiting (China) – 2:09.74
- Kaylee McKeown (Australia) – 2:09.97
- Ella Ramsey (Australia) – 2:10.16
The ladies’s 200 IM last tomorrow evening goes to look similar to the sector that race in Tokyo, with one notable exception. Japan’s Yui Ohashi, the gold medalist on this occasion from 3 years in the past, got here in twelfth tonight with a 2:10.94. Ohashi received the occasion in 2:08.52 again in Tokyo.
Australia’s Kaylee McKeown, contemporary off profitable gold within the 200 again earlier within the session, almost didn’t make it again as nicely, however the backside line is she received in. McKeown swam a 2:09.97, which was good for seventh. She’ll be in an outdoor lane tomorrow evening for the ultimate, however she’ll undoubtedly be extra contemporary for the race.
On the opposite finish of the spectrum, American Alex Walsh, for whom that is her solely particular person race, appeared incredible tonight as she sped to the highest time of two:07.45. She swam a superb race, splitting 27.19 on fly, 32.73 on again, 36.70 on breast, and 30.83 on free. Apparently, none of her 50s have been the quickest within the subject, nonetheless, they have been all quick sufficient with respect to the opposite swimmers that she posted the quickest general time by almost a second.
Summer time McIntosh put up a strong swim tonight as nicely, swimming a 2:08.30 for 2nd general. McIntosh was out quick, splitting 26.94 on fly and 32.10 on again for a 59.04 on the opening 100m. She wasn’t nice on the breaststroke leg tonight, splitting 38.66, nonetheless, a 30.60 coming handmade up for it a bit.
Kate Douglass got here in third tonight with a 2:08.59. She was sturdy on the again half this night, splitting 37.06 on breast and 30.63 on free, for a 1:07.69 on the 2nd 100m.
