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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.
While the 2024 Paris Olympics technically begin on Wednesday, July 24 with group play in men's soccer, the 2024 Paris Olympics officially get underway on Friday, July 26 with the opening ceremony ...
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]
[4] [5] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 15:05.49 for this event. [4] In total, 24 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, two athletes qualified through universality places and two athletes qualified through achieving the OCT.
The USA Olympic Swimming Trials are being held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis from June 15-23. Top performers from this week will compete in the Paris Olympics from July 27-Aug. 4.
The 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships (sponsored by Speedo) were held at the London Aquatics Centre in London, from 3 April to 8 April 2024. They also doubled as the trials for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [1] They were organised by Aquatics GB, formerly British Swimming and was the first time the event had been held under the new name. [2]
Canada's Maggie Mac Neil was the defending champion going into the event, and six of the finalists (including Mac Neil) from the previous Olympics were returning. Gretchen Walsh set a world record in the event at the 2024 US Olympic Trials, where Torri Huske had swum 0.21 seconds slower to claim the second qualification spot for the USA.
SwimSwam and Swimming World opined that Sweden's Sarah Sjöström was the favourite, with her having set the world record of 23.61 at the 2023 World Swimming Championships and owning the 27 fastest times among all swimmers potentially competing in the race. [2] [3] Four days before the event started, Sjöström had won the 100 metre freestyle. [4]