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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.
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 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 two gold medals that year, saying "My will to live completely overcame my desire to win."
She had just won gold in the 200-meter breaststroke here at the 2024 Olympics on Thursday. She had outraced South African veteran Tatjana Smith and touched in 2:19.24, a new personal best and ...
2024 Paris Olympics results from Day 3: Team USA wins medals in swimming and men's gymnastics, and U.S. women's basketball debuts Yahoo Sports Staff July 29, 2024 at 11:29 PM
The U.S. has won the medal count and gold-medal count at every Olympic swim meet since the 1980s. It has not been beaten at a neutral site by a country not widely suspected of doping (East Germany ...
Finke won the men's 1500m and in the process made sure a century ... But it wobbled for the better part of nine disappointing days at the 2024 Olympics. USA Swimming sent 26 male athletes to this ...
Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). [2] For this event, the OQT was 4:12.50.