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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]
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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.
Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly; Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon 10 kilometre; Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay; Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
On 7 October 2022, World Aquatics (then FINA) favored nearly 99 percent of the votes to amend the artistic swimming rules between 2022 and 2025, such as the composition of an eight-member mixed team (previously a women's team event) with a maximum number of two males in the team. [3] [4] However, no men were selected to compete.
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]
Olympic Games, pool since 1896, open water since 2008, for example swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics [1] [2] [3] Youth Olympic Games, since 2010, for example swimming at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics; African Games, since 1965, co-organized with the African Union and Association of African Sports Confederations
The top three teams in each relay race at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan will directly book a slot for their corresponding event at the Olympics, while the remaining thirteen vying for qualification per relay race must attain their best time from the heats and finals at the combined 2023 and 2024 meet in Doha. [1] [2]