2024 Olympics Race Information Breakdown: Males’s 1500 Free

The French governing physique for swimming (Fédération Française de Natation) lately launched a knowledge evaluation booklet of every occasion raced on the Paris Olympics. On this data-packed information, info together with swimmers’ 25m splits, time spent underwater, complete stroke rely, and extra are specified by a desk with a breakdown of every finalist’s info. Over the following few days, I’ll be selecting a few of my favourite races from the Olympics and analyzing the info behind the world’s quickest swimmers.

This information gold mine, all in French, has 4 distinct sections: Laps (splits), Events Nagées (Components of the race swum), Events Non Nagées (Components of the race not swum, together with the beginning, underwaters, and end), and Mouvements (complete strokes and such).

LOOKING BACK

Bobby Finke closed out the meet with a really giant bang, breaking Solar Yang’s long-standing world document of 14:31.02 from the 2012 Olympics. Finke touched the wall in 14:30.67, turning into the primary man to go underneath 14:31 and profitable the USA males’s solely particular person gold medal within the midnight hour. Longtime distance mogul Gregorio Paltrinieri earned his fifth Olympic medal, ending second behind Finke, and Daniel Wiffen took dwelling Eire’s second-ever male medal within the pool. The swimmers completed as follows:

1. Bobby Finke, United States (WR) – 14:30.67
2. Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italy – 14:34.55
3. Daniel Wiffen, Eire – 14:39.63
4. David Betlehem, Hungary – 14:40.91
5. Kuzey Tuncelli, Turkey – 14:41.22
6. Ahmed Jaouadi, Tunisia – 14:43.35
7. David Aubry, France – 14:44.66
8. Damien Joly, France – 14:52.61

LAPS (SPLITS)

I received’t bore you with all 240 50-meter splits from the sphere (30×50 for every of the eight swimmers), so right here’s a recap of every swimmer’s quickest splits, slowest splits, and common splits. As a result of long-distance nature of this occasion, this text can be just a little totally different than the dash ones I’ve beforehand recapped.

Quickest 100:

1. Jaouadi: 55.18 (closing 100)
2. Finke: 55.34 (closing 100)
3. Betlehem: 55.51 (closing 100)
4. Paltrinieri: 56.02 (opening 100)
5. Tuncelli: 56.08 (closing 100)
6. Wiffen: 56.36 (opening 100)
7. Aubry: 57.06 (opening 100)
8. Joly: 57.61 (opening 100)

Slowest 100:

1. Finke: 58.76 (500-600)
2. Paltrinieri: 58.93 (100-200)
3. Wiffen: 59.31 (900-1000)
4. Betlehem: 59.34 (1000-1100)
5. Aubry: 59.43 (300-400)
6. Tuncelli: 59.55 (200-300)
7. Joly: 1:00.16 (300-400)
8. Jaouadi: 1:00.42 (1200-1300)

This information is attention-grabbing, seeing that Ahmed Jaouadi had each the quickest 100 cut up and the sphere in addition to the slowest. He had a sooner closing 100 than Bobby Finke did, one thing that we very not often see, however he was additionally considerably extra inconsistent than Finke was. Each of the Frenchmen had their quickest 100 through the opening of their race, and had their slowest 100 through the fourth 100.

Common 100 cut up (in seconds):

1. Finke: 58.04
2. Paltrinieri: 58.30
3. Wiffen: 58.64
4. Betlehem: 58.73
5. Tuncelli: 58.75
6. Jaouadi: 58.89
7. Aubry: 58.98
8. Joly: 59.51

Common 100 (neglecting first and final 100):

1. Finke: 58.45
2. Paltrinieri: 58.50
3. Wiffen: 58.83
4. Betlehem: 59.13
5. Tuncelli: 59.15
6. Aubry: 59.25
7. Jaouadi: 59.33
8. Joly: 59.74

Normal Deviation of 100 splits throughout center 1300 meters:

Normal Deviation measures, on common, how far a swimmer was from their common 100 cut up. The decrease the quantity, the extra constant the swimmer’s occasions had been. The upper, the extra erratic.

1. Aubry: 0.09
2. Betlehem: 0.18
3. Paltrinieri: 0.20
4. Finke/Tuncelli: 0.24
5. .
6. Joly: 0.29
7. Wiffen: 0.36
8. Jaouadi: 0.57

David Aubry was by far probably the most constant within the discipline, with solely 0.29 seconds separating his quickest 100 cut up and his slowest through the center 1300 meters. Ahmed Jaouadi, who had a discrepancy of two.07 seconds between his quickest and slowest, featured the biggest normal deviation in his occasions.

The next graphs present the final tendencies between every swimmer’s 100 splits, discover how they largely kind to an arch form, with the quickest 100s being firstly and finish of the races.

The next graph exhibits the rostrum swimmers’ splits compared with the others. Discover how these graphs by no means overlap.

The next chart exhibits the consistency of Aubry subsequent to Kuzey Tuncelli, who was round common together with his splits, and Ahmed Jaouadi, who was rather more variant.

PARTIES NAGÉES (PARTS OF THE RACE SWUM)

This part offers the swimmers’ occasions whereas “swimming,” accounting for the whole lot besides the beginning, activate each wall, and the end. The next rating is their complete time spent “swimming.”

1. Finke: 13:09.81
2. Aubry: 13:18.68
3. Betlehem: 13:21.59
4. Wiffen: 13:29.26
5. Tuncelli: 13:30.89
6. Paltrinieri: 13:31.94
7. Joly: 13:36.10
8. Jaouadi: 13:36.28

Extra on this within the subsequent part.

PARTIES NON NAGÉES (PARTS OF THE RACE NOT SWUM)

This part highlights the beginning, flip, and end of the race, together with response occasions, time spent underwater, and distance lined underwater, amongst different issues. The next rating is the overall distance spent underwater:

1. Aubry: 204.3 meters
2. Finke: 198.0 meters
3. Betlehem: 191.8 meters
4. Joly: 181.6 meters
5. Wiffen: 176.0 meters
6. Jaouadi: 171.7 meters
7. Tuncelli: 169.8 meters
8. Paltrinieri: 163.3 meters

Time spent underwater:

1. Aubry: 1:25.98
2. Finke: 1:20.86
3. Betlehem: 1:19.32
4. Joly: 1:16.51
5. Wiffen: 1:10.37
6. Tuncelli: 1:10.33
7. Jaouadi: 1:07.07
8. Paltrinieri: 1:02.61

Taking a look at these rankings, it once more turns into exceedingly evident that there’s nobody method to win a race. Finke spent virtually 35 meters extra underwater than Paltrinieri did, and devoted 18 extra seconds to being underwater. David Aubry spent by far probably the most time and distance underwater, however nonetheless completed in seventh place. Quite the opposite, Paltrinieri spent by far the least time and distance underwater, however completed second.

Every swimmer had their very own race technique and executed it in a approach that labored for them. I’m certain that occasions could be drastically totally different if we noticed Paltrinieri and Aubry swap race plans for his or her underwaters.

MOUVEMENTS (STROKE)

This ultimate part modeled the overall strokes that every swimmer took through the race, and the next rating exhibits from most strokes to least.

1. Betlehem: 1236
2. Tuncelli: 1167
3. Paltrinieri: 1136
4. Joly: 1028
5. Finke: 1009
6. Jaouadi: 983
7. Wiffen: 965
8. Aubry: 906

Once more, race technique is vital right here. David Betlehem took 330 extra strokes than David Aubry did, however the pair solely completed 4 seconds aside. Bobby Finke solely took 19 strokes lower than Damien Joly, however the American beat the Frenchman by 22 seconds. The important thing right here is maximing your stroke effectivity, the place Bobby Finke is on one other stage. He didn’t have to have the quickest turnover price between strokes and even one of the best distance per stroke; discovering that blissful medium labored completely for him in the long term and allowed him to interrupt the world document.

For the earlier information breakdowns, see the next articles:

For the complete breakdown: see the booklet right here.