2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Day 3 Prelims Occasion Lineup
- Girls’s 400 IM
- Girls’s 100 backstroke
- Males’s 800 freestyle
After 5 occasions yesterday morning, there are solely three occasions at the moment with the ladies’s 400 IM and 100 backstroke in addition to the boys’s 800 freestyle.
Like the boys’s 400 IM, the ladies’s occasion additionally solely has 16 entries so half will transfer onto the ultimate later tonight. Canadian teenager Summer season McIntosh already received her first Olympic medal this week with a silver medal within the 400 free and is searching for her first gold on this occasion. McIntosh is the World Report holder and prime seed by over seven seconds with a 4:24.38.
Katie Grimes of the US will make her debut this week because the #2 seed and an entry time of a 4:31.41. Fellow American and reigning silver medalist Emma Weyant will search for an opportunity to make the rostrum once more within the occasion.
The ladies’s 100 backstroke appears to be race. Regan Smith of the US is the highest seed after setting a brand new World Report with a 57.14 at US Trials. That broke Kaylee McKeown‘s (Australia) file of a 57.33 which McKeown enters this meet with because the #2 seed. McKeown earned the win over Smith in Tokyo with a 57.47, a time that stands because the Olympic Report.
American Katharine Berkoff broke into the 57-point vary at US Trials with a 57.83. The ultimate 57-point entry is Canada’s Kylie Masse who received silver in Tokyo and in addition is a former World Report holder within the occasion.
The lads’s 800 free will conclude the morning. Australia’s Sam Quick returns to the pool after a 4th place end within the 400 free on night time 1, lacking the rostrum by 0.14 seconds. Quick is the highest seed right here with a 7:37.76. The #2 seed is Bobby Finke of the US who enters with a 7:38.67. Finke will look to defend his title after successful gold in Tokyo in a 7:41.87.
