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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.
Artistic swimming (formerly called synchronized swimming) competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, ran between 5 and 10 August at the Paris Aquatic Centre. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , the competition featured fewer than 100 athletes, with a total of 96 athletes competing in two ...
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 2024 USA Swimming Olympic trials were held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, from June 15 to 23, 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The meet served as the National Championships in swimming for the United States and the qualifier for swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris , France .
Competition began on 24 July with the first matches in the group stages of football and rugby sevens events. The opening ceremony was held two days later on 26 July. The last day of competition and the closing ceremony was held on 11 August. [1] The games included 329 events in 32 different sports. Breakdancing made its debut as an Olympic ...
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 men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 28 July 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena, which was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events. [1] Since an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, each competitor had to swim eight lengths of the pool.
The team event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 5 to 7 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatic Centre. On 7 October 2022, World Aquatics (then FINA) voted to amend the artistic swimming rules for allow for an eight-member mixed team (previously a women-only team event) with a maximum number of two males in the team.