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The swimming competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held from 27 July to 9 August 2024. Pool events (27 July to 4 August) took place at the Paris La Défense Arena, with the two-day marathon swimming (8 to 9 August) staged at Pont Alexandre III through the Seine River. [1] [2]
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
The win also made him the oldest Olympic singles champion since tennis returned to the Games in 1988. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Chilean sport shooter Francisca Crovetto holding the gold medal she won in the women's skeet , as well as a box with an official poster given to all medalists [ 26 ] Women's high jump medallists at the 2024 games.
2020 Tokyo details: Ahmed Hafnaoui Tunisia: 3:43.36 Jack McLoughlin Australia: 3:43.52 Kieran Smith United States: 3:43.94 2024 Paris details: Lukas Märtens Germany: 3:41.78 Elijah Winnington Australia: 3:42.21 Kim Woo-min South Korea: 3:42.50
This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and other venues in Metropolitan France, plus one subsite in Tahiti in the overseas country of French Polynesia. Competition began on 24 July with the first matches in the group stages of football and rugby sevens events.
Australian Kyle Chalmers was the 2016 Olympic champion and 2020 Olympic silver medallist. He won the World Championships in 2023, where he swam 47.15 to win gold; [2] that time was the fourth fastest qualifying time for the Olympics. [3] The third fastest qualifying time was held by the USA's Jack Alexy, who swam 47.08 at the 2024 US Olympic ...
The women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 1 to 2 August 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena, which was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events. [1] Since an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, each competitor had to swim four lengths of the pool. Australia's defending Olympic champion ...
Two heats took place on 29 July 2024, starting at 11:00. [b] [7] The swimmers with the best eight times in the heats advanced to the final. [8] Emma Weyant of the USA won the first heat and McIntosh won the second. The qualifying time was three seconds slower than it was at the Tokyo Olympics. [9]