Day 2 Prelims Dwell Recap

2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES

We’ve made it to day 2 of swimming on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games. As we speak marks the primary look of France’s Léon Marchand, anticipated to change into a breakout star of those house video games. This morning, he’ll contest the prelims of the 400 IM the place he’s the world file holder. Final summer time, Marchand took down Michael Phelps‘ legendary file underneath the tutelage of Bob Bowman, Phelps’ coach.

There are solely two heats of the lads’s 400 IM, and eight lanes within the ultimate. Different main gamers embody the U.S.’s Carson Foster, Japan’s Daiya Seto, and reigning Olympic champion Chase Kalisz additionally of the USA.

However first, Romania’s David Popovici will take to the water within the males’s 200 freestyle. He’s the third quickest performer in historical past, and the one athlete to dip into the 1:42s exterior of the supersuit period. We’ll additionally see final evening’s 400 free gold medalist Lukas Maertens hit the water, in addition to Nice Britain’s Duncan Scott and Matt Richards who swam the relay final evening.

The ladies’s 100 breaststroke will characteristic world file holder Lilly King, however she isn’t the favourite on this race. As an alternative, that honor goes to China’s Tang Qianting, whose finest time from this season is only a quarter of a second behind King’s 2017 file. Hold a watch out for Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania, who in recent times has staged a heroic comeback after breaking out with Olympic gold on this occasion at simply 15-years-old in 2012. There’s additionally Olympic file holder Tatjana Smith (née Schoenmaker), who will look to enhance on her Tokyo silver.

With Russian athletes out of the sector, it appeared the highway was huge open for American Ryan Murphy to reclaim the 100 again title. Nonetheless, after dropping the second-fastest cut up on the 4×100 freestyle final evening, teammate Hunter Armstrong can be one to be careful for. There’s additionally world file holder Thomas Ceccon to deal with; he had Italy’s second-fastest cut up on their bronze medal relay final evening.

Lastly, the session will conclude with the Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O’Callaghan present within the ladies’s 200 free. They’re in a league of their very own after dropping the quickest two instances in historical past at Australian Trials. Each athletes have already earned gold thus far at these Video games; Titmus within the 400 free and O’Callaghan within the 4×100 free relay. The frontrunners for bronze are Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong, the defending silver medalist, and Yang Junxuan of China, contemporary off an Asian file within the 100 free.

All in all, it guarantees to be an thrilling session the place we’ll see many extra athletes in motion.

Males’s 200-Meter Freestyle – Prelims

• World File: 1:42.00 – Paul Biedermann, GER (2009)
• World Junior File: 1:42.97 – David Popovici, ROU (2022)
• Olympic File: 1:42.96 – Michael Phelps, USA (2008)
• 2021 Successful Time: 1:44.22 – Tom Dean, GBR
• 2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 1:46.69

1. David Popovici (Romania) – 1:45.65
2. Danas Rapsys (Lithuania) – 1:45.91
3. Lucas Henveuax (Belgium) – 1:46.04
4. Hwang Sunwoo (South Korea) – 1:46.13
5. Maximillian Giuliani (Australia) – 1:46.15
6. Matt Richards (Nice Britain) – 1:46.19
7. Katsuhiro Matsumoto (Japan) – 1:46.23
8. Luke Hobson (USA) – 1:46.23
9. Thomas Neill (Australia) – 1:46.27
10. Lukas Maertens (Germany) – 1:46.33
11. Duncan Scott (Nice Britain) – 1:46.34
12. Kim Woomin (South Korea) – 1:46.64
13. Rafael Miroslaw (Germany) – 1:46.81
14. Denis Loktev (Israel) – 1:47.01
15. Alessandro Ragaini (Italy) – 1:47.31
16. Filippo Megli (Italy) – 1:47.39

David Popovici entered the water for the primary time at these Video games and took the lead and didn’t look again. Hwang Sunwoo and Luke Hobson had been hanging in 2nd and third up till the final 50, when Lucas Henveaux confirmed some nice closing pace out of lane 8 to rise to 2nd. Popovici posted the highest time of the morning, however solely the second sub-1:46 time (1:45.65).

Three leaders separated themselves in warmth 3: Duncan Scott, Danas Rapsys, and final evening’s 400 free gold medalist Lukas Maertens. Although Maertens led the primary three laps, Rapsys dug deep to shut in 26.81 to Maertens’ 27.39, posting the primary sub-1:46 swim of the morning (1:45.91).

The sector regarded extremely shut as warmth 2 entered the water. Japan’s Katsuhiro Matsumoto had the lead on the 100, splitting 51.62, however couldn’t maintain off a storming Maximilian Giuliani or Matthew Richards. Giuliani used an enormous third 50 (27.07) to get the sting over Richards, as they completed in 1:46.15 and 1:46:19 respectively to take excessive two instances of the morning.

Velimir Stjepanovic of Serbia grabbed an early lead within the first warmth and didn’t look again, ending two seconds again of his nationwide file in 1:47.56.

There have been three no-shows this morning: Felix Auboeck (Austria), Nandor Nemeth (Hungary), and Guilherme Costa (Brazil).

Males’s 400-Meter Particular person Medley – Prelims

1. Leon Marchand (France) – 4:08.30
2. Max Litchfield (Nice Britain) – 4:09.51
3. Daiya Seto (Japan) – 4:10.92
4. Carson Foster (USA) – 4:11.07
5. Tomoyuki Matsushita (Japan) – 4:11.18
6. Alberto Raxzeetti (Italy)/Lewis Clareburt (New Zealand)/Cedric Buessing (Germany) – 4:11.52 (TIE)
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With solely 16 entrants, there have been solely two heats of the lads’s 400 IM vying for a finals berth this morning.

The primary warmth was all Carson Foster, who grabbed maintain of the lead on the 100 and didn’t relinquish it. Italy’s Alberto Razzetti was using in 2nd up till the freestyle leg, when Japan’s Tomoyuki Matsushita dropped the quickest cut up of the sector (58.04) to raise himself from 4th to 2nd. Razzetti settled for third.

Nobody within the first warmth was underneath the time it took to make finals in Tokyo, which stands at a stiff 4:10.20.

Léon Marchand made his first look in warmth 2 to the delight of the group, but it surely was Daiya Seto who held the lead after the butterfly leg. After a heartbreaking Ninth-place miss in Tokyo, Seto regarded unwilling to make the identical mistake once more.

However as predicted on this race, it was all Marchand after after that. The Frenchman took over the the lead on the backstroke leg, after which dropped a field-best breaststroke cut up to increase it.

As we noticed within the first warmth, the 2nd-place finisher used a robust closing cut up to safe their place. This time, it was Nice Britain’s Max Litchfield, who handed Seto to safe 2nd.

Solely Marchand and Litchfield had been underneath the time it took to qualify in Tokyo.

Girls’s 100-Meter Breaststroke – Prelims

• World File: 1:04.13 – Lilly King, USA (2017)
• World Junior File: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU (2013)
• Olympic File: 1:04.82 – Tatjana Smith (Schoenmaker), RSA (2021)
• 2021 Successful Time: 1:04.95 – Lydia Jacoby, USA
• 2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 1:06.96

1. Tatjana Smith (South Africa) – 1:05.00
2. Tang Qianting (China) – 1:05.63
3. Mona McSharry (Eire) – 1:05.74
4. Satomi Suzuki (Japan) – 1:06.04
5. Lilly King (USA) – 1:06.10
6. Benedetta Pilato (Italy) – 1:06.19
7. Anastasia Gorbenko (Israel) – 1:06.22
8. Eneli Jefimova (Estonia) – 1:06.24
9. Lisa Angiolini (Italy) – 1:06.27
10. Ruta Meilutyte (Lithuania) – 1:06.34
11. Alina Zmushka (Particular person Impartial Athlete) – 1:06.37
12. Angharad Evans (Nice Britain) – 1:06.38
13. Sophie Hansson (Sweden) – 1:06.66
14. Tes Schouten (Netherlands) – 1:06.69
15. Kotryna Teterevkova (Lithuania) – 1:06.76
16. Macarena Ceballos (Argentina) – 1:06.89

The quickest girl on the earth this season, Tang Qianting, led from wire-to-wire within the ultimate warmth. Tang cut up 30.45/35.18 to show within the second 1:05 effort of the morning. Eire’s Mona McSharry added simply two tenths from seed for 2nd (1:05.74).

Ruta Meilutye and Tatjana Smith (née Schoenmaker) featured within the second circle-seeded warmth. Meilutyte confirmed some robust early pace, splitting 30.18 on the 50. However Smith dropped the hammer coming homing, turning within the quickest closing 50 of the sector to clock 1:05.00 and win the warmth by over a second. Meilutyte settled for third (1:06.34) whereas Satomi Suzuki obtained in-between them for 2nd (1:06.04).

Anna Elendt was first to the wall within the first circle-seeded warmth, delivering a cut up of 30.71. World file holder Lilly King was proper there together with her (30.77). Elendt paid for her opening pace coming house, slipping all the way in which to sixth (1:07.00), whereas King held robust for the win (1:06.10). Anastasia Gorbenko took benefit to take third within the warmth, delivering a 1:06.22 effort.

Malaysia’s Tan Ruoxin received warmth 1, including simply over a second to her entry time (1:12.50). Warmth 2 went to Australia’s Jenna Strauch, who was lower than 0.5-seconds off her entry time in 1:07.27.

The ladies’s 100 breast was the primary occasion of the morning to require a quicker time that Tokyo to make semifinals, although it was solely by seven-hundredths of a second.

Males’s 100-Meter Backstroke – Prelims

• World File: 51.60 – Thomas Ceccon, ITA (2022)
• World Junior File: 52.34 – Miron Lifintsev, RUS (2024)
• Olympic File: 51.85 – Ryan Murphy, USA (2016)
• 2021 Successful Time: 51.98 – Evgeny Rylov, ROC
• 2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 53.77

1. Hubert Kos (Hungary) – 52.78
2. Pieter Coetze (South Africa) – 52.90
3. Apostolos Christou (Greece) – 52.95
4. Ryan Murphy (USA) – 53.06
5. Ksawery Masuik (Poland) – 53.08
6. Yohann Ndoye-Brouard (France) – 53.20
7. Xu Jiayu (China) – 53.20
8. Evangelos Makrygiannis (Greece) – 53.24
9. Hunter Armstrong (USA) – 53.34
10. Miroslav Knedla (Czech Republic) – 53.41
11. Oliver Morgan (Nice Britain) – 53.44
12. Thomas Ceccon (Italy) – 53.45
13. Mewen Tomax (France) – 53.51
14. Hugo Gonzalez (Spain) – 53.68
15. Blake Tierney (Canada) – 53.89
16. Jonny Marshall (Nice Britain) – 53.93

Ksawery Masiuk of Poland posted the primary 53-point swim of the morning, splitting 25.14/27.94 to guide wire-to-wire. France’s Yohann Ndoye-Brouard used a robust ultimate 50 to maneuver from sixth to 2nd, stopping the clock in 53.20.

Hubert Kos raised within the bar in warmth 5, clocking a brand new Hungarian file and his first time breaking 53-seconds (52.78). He was solely fourth on the 50, trailing Pieter Coetze, Hunter Armstrong, and Evangelos Makrygiannis, however handed all of them down the stretch to take excessive time of the morning. Coetze additionally dipped underneath 53 seconds.

Kos’ time stood by way of the ultimate warmth, which noticed Apostolos Christou of Greece lead Tokyo bronze medalist Ryan Murphy wire-to-wire. Christou hit the wall in 52.95, making it three sub-53s this morning.

Bermuda’s Jack Harvey received warmth 1 (55.78). Maximillian Wilson of U.S. Virgin Islands hit a brand new private finest the win in warmth 2 (54.49). Kai van Westering (Netherlands) received the ultimate non-circle seeded warmth, hitting the wall in 54.21.

This occasion continues the development of the sixteenth place time being slower than it was in Tokyo.

Girls’s 200-Meter Freestyle – Prelims

• World File: 1:52.23 – Ariarne Titmus, AUS (2024)
• World Junior File: 1:53.65 – Summer time McIntosh, CAN (2023)
• Olympic File: 11:53.50 – Ariarne Titmus, AUS (2021)
• 2021 Successful Time: 1:53.50 – Ariarne Titmus, AUS
• 2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 1:58.33

1. Mollie O’Callaghan (Australia) – 1:55.79
2. Mary-Sophie Harvey (Canada) – 1:56.21
3. Ariarne Titmus (Australia) – 1:56.23
4. Li Bingjie (China) – 1:56.28
5. Siobhan Haughey (Hong Kong) – 1:56.38
6. Claire Weinstein (USA) – 1:56.48
7. Erika Fairweather (New Zealand) – 1:56.54
8. Maria Fernanda Costa (Brazil) – 1:56.65
9. Yang Junxuan (China) – 1:56.83
10. Barbora Seemanova (Czech Republic) – 1:57.02
11. Erin Gemmell (USA) – 1:57.23
12. Valentine Dumont (Belgian) – 1:57.50
13. Minna Abraham (Hungary) – 1:57.77
14. Aimee Canee (South Africa) – 1:57.81
15. Snaefridur Sol Jorunnardottir (Iceland) – 1:58.32
16. Rebecca-Aimme Diaconescu (Romania) – 1:59.29

There have been solely 4 heats of the ladies’s 200 free this morning, which means after India’s Dhinidhi Desinghu took the primary warmth win (2:06.96) we moved proper into the circle-seeded heats.

Tokyo silver medalist Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong hit the water for the primary time this meet. She had nice opening pace on the 100, delivering 56.59 to American Claire Weinstein‘s 56.90. Maria Fernanda Costa and Li Binjie had been shut behind. In a redemptive swim after lacking the 400 free finals yesterday, Li cut up a field-best 29.34 on the way in which house to take the warmth win (1:56.28). The following two finishers had been separated by precisely a tenth every, as Haughey (1:56.38) and Weinstein (1:56.48) turned within the subsequent two quickest performances.

It appears unusual to say after she’s been such a pressure on the worldwide stage, however Mollie O’Callaghan made her particular person occasion debut on the Olympics within the penultimate warmth. She was working 2nd on the 150 mark, simply 0.14-seconds behind Erika Fairweather, however used her signature closing pace to put up the quickest time of the morning (1:55.79). Primarily based on how O’Callaghan swam that race (27.48/29.74/30.06/28.51), she seems to have much more within the tank. Fairweather’s splits additionally present she has a better ceiling (27.57/29.52/30.05/29.40).

Lastly, world file holder Ariarne Titmus took to the water within the ultimate prelims warmth of the morning. She led by way of the 150, however in a stunning twist was handed down the stretch by Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey (1:56.21) by simply two-hundredths (1:56.23). Harvey’s time was lower than a second off her time from Canadian Trials earlier this 12 months. Titmus didn’t appear fazed by her place, and primarily based on how she dealt with her 2nd seed yesterday within the 400 free, we shouldn’t learn an excessive amount of into her kind from a prelims efficiency. Yang Junxuan, contemporary off a Chinese language file within the 100 free, completed third in 1:56.83.

The Individuals obtained a second consultant into semis as Erin Gemmell held on for 4th within the ultimate warmth. Gemmell was a shock entrant within the occasion after each Katie Ledecky and Paige Madden turned down a person spot.

Hungary’s Nikolett Padar was disqualified in warmth 3. The reason being unknown, but it surely seemed to be a 15-meter underwater violation.