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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.
What Olympic events are in the Seine River? Five swimming events took place in the Seine at the Paris Olympics. Both the men's and women’s swimming portion of the triathlon took place on ...
The competitors in the women’s triathlon at the 2024 Olympics went into the water at 8 a.m., the first time an Olympic event has been held in the Seine in 124 years.
Athletes dive into the Seine river as they take part in the women's marathon swimming final at the Paris Summer Olympics at Pont Alexandre III bridge on Aug. 8, 2024. Credit - Martin Bureau ...
Unlike all of the swimming events in the pool, the men's and women's marathon 10 kilometre races are held in open water. No preliminary heats are held, with only the single mass-start race being contested. The race is held using freestyle swimming, with a lack of stroke regulations. [4]
The decision to allow the event to go forward with swims in the Seine came after Belgium’s Olympic committee announced Sunday that it would withdraw its team from the mixed relay triathlon after ...
Men's swimming has been part of the official program of the Summer Olympics since the Games' modern inception in 1896; it was not until 1912 that women's events were held. The swimming events at the 1896 Olympic Games were held in a bay in the Aegean Sea with swimmers being required to swim to the shore—Hungarian swimmer Alfréd Hajós won ...
Paris plans to make the Seine the centerpiece of the 2024 Olympic Games, with long-term efforts to clean up the river allowing swimming events to take place in its waters.. When the French capital ...