Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle
Men's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena | ||||||||||||
Dates | 28 July 2024 (Heats and Semis) 29 July 2024 (Final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 25 from 18 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:44.72 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |||
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Qualification | |||
Freestyle | |||
50 m | men | women | |
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
400 m | men | women | |
800 m | men | women | |
1500 m | men | women | |
Backstroke | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Breaststroke | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Butterfly | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Individual medley | |||
200 m | men | women | |
400 m | men | women | |
Freestyle relay | |||
4 × 100 m | men | women | |
4 × 200 m | men | women | |
Medley relay | |||
4 × 100 m | men | mixed | women |
Marathon | |||
10 km | men | women | |
The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 28 and 29 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.[1]
The winning margin was 0.02 seconds, the closest win in this event at the Olympics.
Records
[edit]Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Paul Biedermann (GER) | 1:42.00 | Rome, Italy | 28 July 2009 | [2][3] |
Olympic record | Michael Phelps (USA) | 1:42.96 | Beijing, China | 12 August 2008 | [4] |
Qualification
[edit]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).[5] For this event, the OQT was 1:46.26. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT.[5][6] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 1:46.79 for this event.[5] In total, 21 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, four athletes qualified through universality places and three athletes qualified through achieving the OCT.[6]
Competition format
[edit]The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.
Schedule
[edit]All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Date | Time | Round |
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28 July 2024 | 10:00 | Heats |
19:37 | Semifinals | |
29 July 2024 | 17:30 | Final |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]Semifinals
[edit]The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.
Rank | Heat | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | 2 | 4 | David Popovici | Romania | 1:44.53 | Q |
2 | 2 | 7 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:44.94 | Q |
3 | 1 | 6 | Luke Hobson | United States | 1:45.19 | Q |
4 | 1 | 2 | Lukas Märtens | Germany | 1:45.36 | Q |
5 | 2 | 3 | Maximillian Giuliani | Australia | 1:45.37 | Q |
6 | 1 | 4 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:45.48 | Q |
7 | 1 | 3 | Matthew Richards | Great Britain | 1:45.63 | Q |
8 | 2 | 6 | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 1:45.88 | Q |
9 | 1 | 5 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 1:45.92 | |
10 | 2 | 2 | Thomas Neill | Australia | 1:46.18 | |
11 | 2 | 5 | Lucas Henveaux | Belgium | 1:46.20 | |
12 | 1 | 7 | Kim Woo-min | South Korea | 1:46.58 | |
13 | 1 | 8 | Filippo Megli | Italy | 1:46.87 | |
14 | 2 | 8 | Alessandro Ragaini | Italy | 1:47.08 | |
15 | 2 | 1 | Rafael Miroslaw | Germany | 1:47.34 | |
16 | 1 | 1 | Denis Loktev | Israel | 1:47.93 |
Final
[edit]Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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4 | David Popovici | Romania | 1:44.72 | ||
1 | Matthew Richards | Great Britain | 1:44.74 | ||
3 | Luke Hobson | United States | 1:44.79 | ||
4 | 5 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:44.87 | |
5 | 6 | Lukas Märtens | Germany | 1:45.46 | |
5 | 7 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:45.46 | |
7 | 2 | Maximillian Giuliani | Australia | 1:45.57 | |
8 | 8 | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 1:46.26 |
Name | 50 metre split | 100 metre split | 150 metre split | Time | Stroke rate (strokes/min) |
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David Popovici | 00:24.10 | 00:51.12 | 01:17.98 | 1:44.72 | 44.6 |
Matthew Richards | 00:24.16 | 00:50.92 | 01:17.99 | 1:44.74 | 40.9 |
Luke Hobson | 00:24.70 | 00:51.37 | 01:18.00 | 1:44.79 | 40.3 |
Duncan Scott | 00:24.46 | 00:51.21 | 01:18.10 | 1:44.87 | 45.5 |
Lukas Märtens | 00:24.05 | 00:50.52 | 01:17.61 | 1:45.46 | 44.2 |
Danas Rapšys | 00:24.67 | 00:51.23 | 01:18.37 | 1:45.46 | 42.4 |
Maximillian Giuliani | 00:24.61 | 00:51.66 | 01:18.51 | 1:45.57 | 42.2 |
Katsuhiro Matsumoto | 00:24.36 | 00:51.12 | 01:18.87 | 1:46.26 | 38.4 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Competition Schedule | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
- ^ Dillman, Lisa (29 July 2009). "Suit case: German ends Phelps' reign". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- ^ Jeffery, Nicole (29 July 2009). "Paul Biedermann beats Michael Phelps in 200m freestyle". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- ^ "Phelps breaks 200 free world record by nearly a second". ESPN. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
- ^ a b c "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ a b Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
- ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ Bodard, Simon; Decron, Nathan; Dernoncourt, Eric; Hui, Pierre; Jambu, Clément; Loisel, Camille; Pla, Robin; Raineteau, Yannis. "Jeux Olympiques 2024: Analyses de course des Finales" (PDF). French Swimming Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 August 2024. Retrieved 17 December 2024.