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[5] [6] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 59.79 for this event. [5] In total, 21 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, 15 athletes qualified through universality places and two athletes qualified through achieving the OCT.
The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held from 25 July to 27 July 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the event's fourteenth consecutive appearance, having been held at every edition since 1968.
Kate Douglass, an understated star from the University of Virginia, touched in 2:19.24, setting an American record and clinching Team USA's fourth swimming gold of these Games.
Breaststroke is the slowest of the four official styles in competitive swimming.The fastest breaststrokers can swim about 1.70 meters (~5.6 feet) per second. It is sometimes the hardest to teach to rising swimmers after butterfly due to the importance of timing and the coordination required to move the legs properly.
In the 200-meter breaststroke Wednesday, Lilly King qualified for her last individual Olympic final and Josh Matheny finished seventh at Paris La Defense Arena. King was sixth out of two ...
PARIS (Reuters) -Kate Douglass underlined her remarkable versatility with gold in the women's 200 metres breaststroke at the Paris Olympics on Thursday, beating Tokyo champion Tatjana Smith who ...
The women's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held from 28 to 30 July 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. [1] It was the event's twenty-third consecutive appearance, having been held at every edition since 1924.
This close from Lilly King. 🔥 She will become the first U.S. swimmer to swim the 100m and 200m breaststroke in three straight Olympics. 📺 NBC & @peacock | #SwimTrials24 pic.twitter.com ...