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The swimming competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held from 27 July to 9 August 2024. Pool events (27 July to 4 August) took place at the Paris La Défense Arena, with the two-day marathon swimming (8 to 9 August) staged at Pont Alexandre III through the Seine River.
Unlike all of the swimming events in the pool, the men's and women's marathon 10 kilometre races are held in open water. No preliminary heats are held, with only the single mass-start race being contested. The race is held using freestyle swimming, with a lack of stroke regulations. [4]
[4] [5] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 15:05.49 for this event. [4] In total, 24 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, two athletes qualified through universality places and two athletes qualified through achieving the OCT.
SwimSwam later said that Matsushita's silver medal "might have been the most unexpected" swim at the Paris Olympics. [15] Foster finished the race in third with 4:08.66, winning the bronze. [13] Great Britain's Max Litchfield finished fourth for the third consecutive Olympics with a time of 4:08.85—a new national record. [16] [17]
The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 2 to 3 August 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena. [1]Defending Olympic champion Caeleb Dressel of the USA was the favourite going into the event, while defending Olympic silver medallist Kristóf Milák of Hungary, Canada's Josh Liendo and France's Maxime Grousset were also favourites.
Three former world record holders, Australia's Ariarne Titmus, USA's Katie Ledecky, and Canada's Summer McIntosh fell well short of their best times in the women's 400 freestyle event at the 2024 ...
Canadian Summer McIntosh led from beginning to end, swimming ahead of the world record until 200 m and finishing over five seconds ahead of second place with a time of 4:27.71. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The USA 's Katie Grimes also retained second place from start to finish, while Emma Weyant of the USA progressed from fifth to third over the final ...
Eve Thomas qualified as the representative for New Zealand for a second consecutive time following her win at the 2024 New Zealand Swimming Championships. She qualified with a time of 16:07.46, finishing over 20 seconds ahead of Deans Caitlin in second place. [8] [9] She was officially named on the squad on 30 April 2024. [10]