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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.
The United States led the final medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games, with 40 gold and 126 total medals, while China finished second with 40 gold and 91 medals in total. [15] The occasion marked the first time a gold medal tie among the two most successful nations has occurred in Summer Olympics history. [ 16 ]
2020 Tokyo details: Caeleb Dressel United States: 21.07 OR: Florent Manaudou France: 21.55 Bruno Fratus Brazil: 21.57 2024 Paris details: Cameron McEvoy Australia: 21.25 Benjamin Proud Great Britain: 21.30 Florent Manaudou France: 21.56
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
The 1904 Olympics' races were the only ones ever measured in yards, instead of the usual metres. A 100-metre pool was built for the 1908 Olympics and was located in the centre of the main stadium's track and field oval. The 1912 Olympics, held in the Stockholm harbor, marked the beginning of electrical timing.
However, their official name remained 2020 Summer Olympics with swimming events set for 24 July–1 August 2021 [1] and marathon swimming set for 4–5 August 2021. [ 2 ] Swimming featured a record total of 37 events (18 for each gender and 1 mixed), with the addition of the men's 800 m freestyle, women's 1500 m freestyle, and the mixed 4 × ...
The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a National Olympic Committee (NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.
5 All-time medal table 1912–2024. 6 See also. ... 2020 Tokyo details: Emma McKeon ... List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World ...