| Swimming at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |
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 _%25E2%2580%2593_Paris_2024.svg) Pictograms for swimming (top) and marathon swimming (bottom)[1] | |
| Venue | Paris La Défense Arena (pool) Pont Alexandre III (marathon) |
| Dates | 27 July – 4 August 2024 (pool) 8–9 August 2024 (marathon) |
| No. of events | 35 (pool) 2 (marathon) |
| Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |||
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| Qualification | |||
| Freestyle | |||
| 50 m | men | women | |
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| 400 m | men | women | |
| 800 m | men | women | |
| 1500 m | men | women | |
| Backstroke | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| Breaststroke | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| Butterfly | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| Individual medley | |||
| 200 m | men | women | |
| 400 m | men | women | |
| Freestyle relay | |||
| 4 × 100 m | men | women | |
| 4 × 200 m | men | women | |
| Medley relay | |||
| 4 × 100 m | men | mixed | women |
| Marathon | |||
| 10 km | men | women | |
Theswimming competitions at the2024 Summer Olympics inParis were held from 27 July to 9 August 2024. There were 35 swimming events in the pool and twomarathon swimming events in the open water. The pool events took place from 27 July to 4 August at theParis La Défense Arena, and the marathon swimming events took place from 8 to 9 August betweenPont Alexandre III andPont de l'Alma in theSeine river.
France'sLéon Marchand won all four individual events he entered at the Games. Four world records were broken, by:Pan Zhanle in themen's 100 m freestyle,Bobby Finke in themen's 1500 metre freestyle, andteam United States in thewomen's 4 × 100 metre medley andmixed 4 × 100 metre medley relays. Some slower than expected performances contributed to media speculation that the Paris 2024 pool was slow.
Pool swimming featured a total of 35 events (17 each for men and women and one mixed event). All pool events were contested in along course (50 metres long) pool atParis La Défense Arena, which was converted to a swimming pool arena for the events.[2]
The following events were contested for both men and women (distances are in meters):[3]
In addition, there was one event which included athletes of both genders: the mixed 4 × 100 metres medley relay.[3]
Marathon swimming consisted of two events: the men's and women's 10 kilometer races.[4] Both were contested betweenPont Alexandre III andPont de l'Alma in theSeine river.[5]
France’sLéon Marchand won all four individual events he entered at the 2024 Games: the200 breaststroke, the200 butterfly, and the200 and400 individual medleys. Eric Goodman fromNBC called Marchand's 200 breaststroke and 200 butterfly double win "unprecedented", as both events were on the same night.[6] It was the first time a swimmer had won both these events at the Olympics, and the first time since 1976 that a swimmer had won two individual events on the same night.[7][8]
Pan Zhanle ofChina won themen's 100 m freestyle in a world record time of 46.40 seconds, finishing over a second ahead of silver medalistKyle Chalmers – the longest time between first and second place in that event since 1928.[9] In themixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay, theUnited States set a new world record of 3:37.43.[10] The US'sBobby Finke set a new world record of 14:30.67 in themen's 1500 metre freestyle,[11] and in thewomen's 4 × 100 metre medley relay, the United States set another world record with a time of 3:49.63.[12] China became the first country to beat the USA to Olympic gold in themen's 4 × 100 metre medley relay since the event was introduced in 1960.[13]
During the first five days of the swimming events, one world record was broken. This compared with six that had been broken five days into theTokyo 2020 Olympics swimming events and eight that had been broken in the first five days ofthe 2016 Rio Olympics.[14] This, along with other slower than expected performances, contributed to media speculation that the Paris 2024 pool was "slow".[14][15][16] Speculation centred around the possible explanation that the shallowness of the pool was to blame, since the pool was 2.15 metres deep—shallower than the pools at both Tokyo and Rio, which were both 3 metres deep.[14] Outlets reported that this shallowness may have caused greater waves in the pool, which could have slowed down swimmers.[14][16][15] Other possible explanations given for the apparent slowness of the swimmers were the pool being a temporary structure, the pool being slightly longer than 50 metres,[quantify] the pool ventilation system not being working effectively on the surface of the water, andathlete psychological challenges at the Games.[15][14]
For the pool events preliminary rounds ran in the morning, followed by the semifinal and final sessions in the evening.[3] The program extended to nine days for the first time at the Olympics, compared to the eight day schedule at the previous Olympics.[17] Sophie Kaufman fromSwimSwam speculated the extra day would likely be used to space out events more to give swimmers more rest.[18]
In February 2024, a change was announced to the original schedule for Days 5 and 6, after lobbying by the French swimming governing body to giveLéon Marchand a chance to win both the men's 200 metre butterfly and 200 metre breaststroke events.[19][20] All events remained on the originally planned days, but the event order was modified to create a longer gap between the 200 metre butterfly and 200 metre breaststroke events.[17][21]
| H | Heats | ½ | Semi-finals | F | Final |
| Date → | 27 Jul | 28 Jul | 29 Jul | 30 Jul | 31 Jul | 1 Aug | 2 Aug | 3 Aug | 4 Aug | 8 Aug | 9 Aug | |||||||||||
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| Event ↓ | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E |
| 50 m freestyle | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 100 m freestyle | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 200 m freestyle | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 400 m freestyle | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 800 m freestyle | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1500 m freestyle | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 100 m backstroke | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 200 m backstroke | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 100 m breaststroke | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 200 m breaststroke | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 100 m butterfly | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 200 m butterfly | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 200 m individual medley | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 400 m individual medley | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date → | 27 Jul | 28 Jul | 29 Jul | 30 Jul | 31 Jul | 1 Aug | 2 Aug | 3 Aug | 4 Aug | 8 Aug | 9 Aug | |||||||||||
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| Event ↓ | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E |
| 50 m freestyle | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 100 m freestyle | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 200 m freestyle | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 400 m freestyle | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 800 m freestyle | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1500 m freestyle | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 100 m backstroke | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 200 m backstroke | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 100 m breaststroke | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 200 m breaststroke | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 100 m butterfly | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 200 m butterfly | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 200 m individual medley | H | ½ | F | |||||||||||||||||||
| 400 m individual medley | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 × 200 m freestyle relay | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date → | 27 Jul | 28 Jul | 29 Jul | 30 Jul | 31 Jul | 1 Aug | 2 Aug | 3 Aug | 4 Aug | 8 Aug | 9 Aug | |||||||||||
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| Event ↓ | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E | M | E |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay | H | F | ||||||||||||||||||||
The women's marathon 10 km took place on 8 August at 07:30, and the men's marathon 10 km took place on 9 August at 07:30.[4]
EachNational Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT).World Aquatics then considered athletes who had only qualified in a relay event, and then athletes qualifying throughuniversality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT.[a] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT).[22]
Each NOC could enter one team per event, and there were a total of sixteen qualification places available in each event. The first three qualifying places were given to the podium finishers at the2023 World Championships, and the final thirteen qualifying places were allocated to the fastest performances at the 2023 and2024 World Championships.[22][23]
Each NOC was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes per event.World Aquatics provided a qualification pathway to fulfil their quota of at least 22 competing athletes. Athletes were selected in the following order:[24]
In addition to the athletes invited to fulfil the quota, any athletes who achieved the Olympic Qualification Time in either the 800 or 1500 metres freestyle were invited to compete.[24]
* Host nation (France)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  United States | 8 | 13 | 7 | 28 |
| 2 |  Australia | 7 | 9 | 3 | 19 |
| 3 |  France* | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 |  Canada | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 5 |  Hungary | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 |  China | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 |
| 7 |  Italy | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 8 |  Sweden | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 |  Great Britain | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 10 |  Germany | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 |  South Africa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 |  Ireland | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
 Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 14 |  Romania | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 |  Greece | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 17 |  Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 18 |  South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (19 entries) | 37 | 38 | 36 | 111 | |
a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.
a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| 4 × 100 m medley relay details | United States Ryan Murphy (52.08) Nic Fink (58.29) Gretchen Walsh (55.18) Torri Huske (51.88) Regan Smith[a] Charlie Swanson[a] Caeleb Dressel[a] Abbey Weitzeil[a] | 3:37.43WR | China Xu Jiayu (52.13) Qin Haiyang (57.82) Zhang Yufei (55.64) Yang Junxuan (51.96) Tang Qianting[a] Pan Zhanle[a] | 3:37.55AS | Australia Kaylee McKeown (57.90) Joshua Yong (58.43) Matthew Temple (50.42) Mollie O'Callaghan (52.01) Iona Anderson[a] Zac Stubblety-Cook[a] Emma McKeon[a] Kyle Chalmers[a] | 3:38.76OC |
a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| Men's 10 km open water details | Kristóf Rasovszky Hungary | 1:50:52.7 | Oliver Klemet Germany | 1:50:54.8 | Dávid Betlehem Hungary | 1:51:09.0 |
| Women's 10 km open water details | Sharon van Rouwendaal Netherlands | 2:03:34.2 | Moesha Johnson Australia | 2:03:39.7 | Ginevra Taddeucci Italy | 2:03:42.8 |
The followingworld andOlympic records were set during the competition:[28]
| Date | Round | Event | Time | Name | Nation |
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| 31 July | Final | Men's 100 metre freestyle | 46.40 | Pan Zhanle | China |
| 3 August | Final | Mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay | 3:37.43 | Ryan Murphy (52.08) Nic Fink (58.29) Gretchen Walsh (55.18) Torri Huske (51.88) |  United States |
| 4 August | Final | Men's 1500 metre freestyle | 14:30.67 | Bobby Finke | United States |
| 4 August | Final | Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay | 3:49.63 | Regan Smith (57.28) Lilly King (1:04.90) Gretchen Walsh (55.03) Torri Huske (52.42) | United States |
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