2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
Simply three occasions will happen throughout Monday morning prelims on the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials, with the ladies’s 400 IM, ladies’s 100 again and males’s 800 free on the schedule.
Katie Grimes, the first athlete to qualify for Group USA in Paris after profitable bronze within the ladies’s 10km finally summer time’s World Championships, headlines the 400 IM because the double Worlds silver medalist, having positioned within the runner-up place behind Canada’s Summer season McIntosh in each 2022 and 2023.
Grimes has seemed strong up to now in Indianapolis, advancing by means of to the ultimate of the ladies’s 200 free which can happen tonight (she additionally made the 400 free ultimate however scratched out).
World and American Document watch will likely be on excessive alert for Regan Smith the following two nights within the 100 again, because the 22-year-old had a really spectacular exhibiting within the 100 fly, shifting to #5 all-time (tie) regardless of inserting third and lacking a spot on the Olympic staff.
Smith lowered her American Document right down to 57.51 lower than a month in the past, and could possibly be taking purpose at Kaylee McKeown‘s world file in some unspecified time in the future over the following two days.
The battle for 2nd within the ladies’s 100 again has been a much-debated subject with 2023 World Championship bronze medalist Katharine Berkoff, 2024 world champion Claire Curzan and Tokyo Olympic finalist Rhyan White among the many most important gamers within the operating.
Olivia Smoliga, the #4 seed coming into the meet, was a stunning scratch this morning, making the battle for lanes within the semis and ultimate rather less crowded.
The session will wrap with seven heats of the lads’s 800 free, the place we count on to see an intense battle for lanes within the ultimate with defending Olympic champion Bobby Finke the lone swimmer who will be capable to put it on cruise management.
There are a complete of 12 males entered sub-8:00—behind Finke’s 7:38, Ross Dant and David Johnston are the one others beneath 7:50.
One identify to look at will likely be Luke Whitlock, the 18-year-old who rattled off a important lifetime finest within the 400 free to maneuver into #2 all-time within the boys’ 17-18 age group.
Whitlock set a private finest of seven:50.20 in Might, and solely must drop two extra seconds to take out Larsen Jensen‘s 17-18 NAG file of seven:48.09 from the 2003 World Championships.
WOMEN’S 400 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY – PRELIMS
- World Document: 4:24.38, Summer season McIntosh (CAN) – 2024 Canadian Trials
- American Document: 4:31.12, Katie Hoff – 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials
- U.S. Open Document: 4:28.61, Summer season McIntosh (CAN) – 2022 U.S. Open
- World Junior Document: 4:24.38, Summer season McIntosh (CAN) – 2024 Canadian Trials
- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Emma Weyant, 4:33.81
- 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 4:38.53
Closing Qualifiers:
- Emma Weyant (FLOR), 4:38.96
- Katie Grimes (SAND), 4:39.63
- Lucy Bell (ALTO), 4:40.79
- Lilla Bognar (TG), 4:41.14
- Leah Hayes (TIDEIL), 4:42.97
- Zoe Dixon (FLOR), 4:43.30
- Leah Smith (TXLA), 4:43.45
- Audrey Derivaux (JW), 4:45.23
Emma Weyant made her transfer on the breaststroke leg within the ultimate warmth of the ladies’s 400 IM, overtaking Katie Grimes and holding her off to assert the highest seed into tonight’s ultimate in 4:38.96.
The efficiency from Weyant inches beneath her season-best time by 4 one-hundredths, having clocked 4:39.00 on the Atlanta Basic final month. The 22-year-old is the reigning Olympic silver medalist on this occasion, having set her PB of 4:32.76 in that Tokyo ultimate.
Grimes, the two-time World Championship silver medalist on this occasion, seemed snug en path to claiming the 2nd seed for the ultimate in 4:39.63. She ought to have a lot extra within the tank tonight having been as quick as 4:32.76 this yr.
The highest three spots heading into tonight got here out of that ultimate warmth, as Alto Swim Membership’s Lucy Bell knocked practically a second off her private finest in 4:40.79 to advance in third.
Group Greenville’s Lilla Bognar topped reigning World Junior champion Leah Hayes within the first circle-seeded warmth, with Bognar clocking 4:41.14 for 4th total. Bognar’s swim is simply shy of her lifetime finest 4:40.97 set final summer time, whereas Hayes went 4:42.97 after setting a PB of 4:36.84 at World Juniors.
Age group standout Audrey Derivaux had an enormous swim out of an out of doors lane in Warmth 3, dropping over 4 seconds to complete in a time of 4:45.23 and transfer as much as #7 all-time within the ladies’ 13-14 age group.
The 14-year-old, who got here into the meet with a lifetime better of 4:49.32 set final summer time, ended up cracking the ultimate in eighth.
Notably lacking the ultimate was Carmel’s Kayla Han, who’s coming off a really spectacular 4th-place end within the 400 free. Han, 16, owns a private better of 4:42.32 however solely mustered a time of 4:47.71 to complete tenth.
WOMEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE – PRELIMS
- World Document: 57.33, Kaylee McKeown (AUS) – 2023 World Cup – Budapest
- American Document: 57.51, Regan Smith – 2024 NOVA Speedo Grand Problem
- U.S. Open Document: 57.51, Regan Smith (USA) – 2024 NOVA Speedo Grand Problem
- World Junior Document: 57.57, Regan Smith (USA) – 2019 World Championships
- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: 58.35, Regan Smith
- 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 59.99
Semi-Closing Qualifiers:
MEN’S 800 FREE — PRELIMS
- World Document: 7:32.11 — Zhang Lin (CHN) — 2009 World Championships
- American Document: 7:38.67 — Bobby Finke – 2023 World Championships
- U.S. Open Document: 7:40.34 — Bobby Finke (USA) – 2023 U.S. Nationwide Championships
- World Junior Document: 7:43.37 — Lorenzo Galossi (ITA) – 2022 European Championships
- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Bobby Finke, 7:48.22
- 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time — 7:51.65
Closing Qualifiers:
