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The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held from 24 to 26 July 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. [1] It was the event's fourteenth consecutive appearance, having been held at every edition since 1968.
[5] [6] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 59.79 for this event. [5] In total, 21 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, 15 athletes qualified through universality places and two athletes qualified through achieving the OCT.
Breaststroke is the slowest of the four official styles in competitive swimming.The fastest breaststrokers can swim about 1.70 meters (~5.6 feet) per second. It is sometimes the hardest to teach to rising swimmers after butterfly due to the importance of timing and the coordination required to move the legs properly.
Kate Douglass, Team USA's understated swimming star, wins gold in 200 breaststroke at 2024 Paris Olympics. ... In 2021, at the Olympics, “I felt like I was gonna throw up before [the 200 IM ...
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Lilly King had an interesting few minutes at the Olympic trials on Thursday. ... She will become the first U.S. swimmer to swim the 100m and 200m breaststroke in ...
The women's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held from 25 July to 27 July 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. [1] [2] It was the event's fourteenth consecutive appearance, having been held at every edition since 1968.
This is a listing of the history of the World Record in the 100 breaststroke swimming event.. The first world record in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognized by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1961, while the women's world record times were officially acknowledged in 1958.
Kosuke Kitajima (北島 康介, Kitajima Kōsuke, born September 22, 1982) is a Japanese retired breaststroke swimmer.He won gold medals at the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and the 2008 Summer Olympics – becoming the first and only swimmer to sweep the breaststroke events at consecutive Olympic games.