Swimming at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[dullard 699]

After Carson Foster's 1:43 split in Doha I wouldn't be surprised if he can go 1:44 flat start which puts the US much closer to GBR. GBR won't be able to get away with having a leg underperform like in Tokyo.

[Topicmaster1010 4,166]

3 minutes ago, dullard said:

After Carson Foster's 1:43 split in Doha I wouldn't be surprised if he can go 1:44 flat start which puts the US much closer to GBR. GBR won't be able to get away with having a leg underperform like in Tokyo.

Completely forgot about Foster and that he wasn't able to swim this event at trials. Thanks. He should be on the finals team.

[Topicmaster1010 4,166]

Although the heats schedule hasn't come out yet, it's possible to estimate the start times with some simple math. If we assume that there's going to be 8 swimmers per heat like in past Olympics, then dividing the # of entries by 8 and rounding up should give us the # of heats. Then using the 2024 World Aquatics Championships schedule, we can divide the length of each event by the number of heats to get a rate. The results are below.

 

It'll be interesting to see how the women's 800m and 1500m freestyle heats will be done. There's 17 entries in each event which means if there's 8 swimmers per heat, there'll be 3 heats in total. However, the unseeded heat would only have 1 swimmer. They might just move them to one of the seeded heats so there's 9+8 swimmers in the two heats. Otherwise, we might end up with an Eric the Eel situation in both events.

 

 

July 27th
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Women's 100m Butterfly	5
11:13	Women's 400m Freestyle	3
11:31	Men's 100m Breaststroke	5
11:45	Men's 400m Freestyle	5
12:13	Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay	2
12:24	Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay	2
12:34	End of Session
July 28th
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Men's 200m Freestyle	4
11:14	Men's 400m Individual Medley	2
11:26	Women's 100m Breaststroke	5
11:40	Men's 100m Backstroke	6
11:56	Women's 200m Freestyle	4
12:11	End of session
July 29th
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Women's 400m Individual Medley	2
11:13	Women's 100m Backstroke	5
11:26	Men's 800m Freestyle	4
12:05	End of session
July 30th
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Men's 200m Butterfly	4
11:14	Men's 100m Freestyle	10
11:40	Women's 1500m Freestyle	3
12:36	Women's 100m Freestyle	4
12:47	Men's 200m Breaststroke	4
13:03	Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay	2
13:21	End of Session
July 31st
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Women's 200m Breaststroke	3
11:13	Men's 200m Backstroke	4
11:28	Women's 200m Butterfly	3
11:41	End of Session
August 1st
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Women's 200m Backstroke	4
11:16	Men's 50m Freestyle	10
11:37	Men's 200m Individual Medley	4
11:51	Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay	2
12:11	End of Session
August 2nd
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Men's 100m Butterfly	5
11:13	Women's 200m Individual Medley	5
11:33	Women's 800m Freestyle	3
12:04	Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay	2
12:16	End of Session
August 3rd
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Women's 50m Freestyle	10
11:21	Men's 1500m Freestyle	4
12:29	Men's 4x100m Medley Relay	2
12:40	Women's 4x100m Medley Relay	2
12:52	End of Session

Edited July 22 by Topicmaster1010

[Josh 10,489]

 Sarah Sjostrom confirms that she’ll be competing in the women’s 100m freestyle at Paris!

[Sub13 24]

17 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

Expected medal table (individual events only) according to the entry times:

Men:

: 4/1/0

: 2/3/4

: 2/2/1

: 2/2/0

: 1/1/1

: 1/1/0

: 1/1/0

: 1/0/0

: 0/2/1

: 0/1/1

: 0/0/2

: 0/0/1

: 0/0/1

: 0/0/1

: 0/0/1

Number of nations: 15

 

Women:

: 6/4/3

: 3/3/5

: 2/2/1

: 1/1/2

: 1/0/1

: 1/0/1

: 0/1/0

: 0/1/0

: 0/1/0

: 0/1/0

: 0/0/1

Number of nations: 11

 

Men + Women:

: 8/7/7

: 5/5/6

: 5/2/2

: 3/2/1

: 2/2/0

: 1/1/1

: 1/1/0

: 1/1/0

: 1/0/1

: 1/0/1

: 0/2/1

: 0/1/1

: 0/1/1

: 0/1/0

: 0/1/0

: 0/1/0

: 0/0/2

: 0/0/1

: 0/0/1

: 0/0/1

: 0/0/1

Number of nations: 21

 

Nations that are expected to win at least one individual medal on both sides:

Only issue with this is that some swimmers are inexplicably not entered with their best times. McKeown entered the 2IM with her time from Nationals and not Trials. Her trials time would have made her top seed but instead she is second seed, so really AUS should be +1 gold and USA -1

[Gianlu33 4,546]

World Aquatics said it is closely monitoring the Chinese swimmers who will participate in the Paris Games, using increasingly frequent checks by the International Testing Agency. There is talk of at least eight checks from 1 January 2024 until the end of the five-ring event. 

[OlympicsFan 858]

7 hours ago, Gianlu33 said:

World Aquatics said it is closely monitoring the Chinese swimmers who will participate in the Paris Games, using increasingly frequent checks by the International Testing Agency. There is talk of at least eight checks from 1 January 2024 until the end of the five-ring event. 

Don’t see the point. They have been caught before and nothing happened. They should use their money more wisely and test some athletes from small/irrelevant nations that they can easily ban without any backlash. For example: Crooks, Jaouadi, Tuncelli, Meilutyte, Schoenmaker 

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

21 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Although the heats schedule hasn't come out yet, it's possible to estimate the start times with some simple math. If we assume that there's going to be 8 swimmers per heat like in past Olympics, then dividing the # of entries by 8 and rounding up should give us the # of heats. Then using the 2024 World Aquatics Championships schedule, we can divide the length of each event by the number of heats to get a rate. The results are below.

 

It'll be interesting to see how the women's 800m and 1500m freestyle heats will be done. There's 17 entries in each event which means if there's 8 swimmers per heat, there'll be 3 heats in total. However, the unseeded heat would only have 1 swimmer. They might just move them to one of the seeded heats so there's 9+8 swimmers in the two heats. Otherwise, we might end up with an Eric the Eel situation in both events.

 

 

July 27th
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Women's 100m Butterfly	5
11:13	Women's 400m Freestyle	3
11:31	Men's 100m Breaststroke	5
11:45	Men's 400m Freestyle	5
12:13	Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay	2
12:24	Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay	2
12:34	End of Session
July 28th
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Men's 200m Freestyle	4
11:14	Men's 400m Individual Medley	2
11:26	Women's 100m Breaststroke	5
11:40	Men's 100m Backstroke	6
11:56	Women's 200m Freestyle	4
12:11	End of session
July 29th
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Women's 400m Individual Medley	2
11:13	Women's 100m Backstroke	5
11:26	Men's 800m Freestyle	4
12:05	End of session
July 30th
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Men's 200m Butterfly	4
11:14	Men's 100m Freestyle	10
11:40	Women's 1500m Freestyle	3
12:36	Women's 100m Freestyle	4
12:47	Men's 200m Breaststroke	4
13:03	Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay	2
13:21	End of Session
July 31st
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Women's 200m Breaststroke	3
11:13	Men's 200m Backstroke	4
11:28	Women's 200m Butterfly	3
11:41	End of Session
August 1st
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Women's 200m Backstroke	4
11:16	Men's 50m Freestyle	10
11:37	Men's 200m Individual Medley	4
11:51	Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay	2
12:11	End of Session
August 2nd
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Men's 100m Butterfly	5
11:13	Women's 200m Individual Medley	5
11:33	Women's 800m Freestyle	3
12:04	Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay	2
12:16	End of Session
August 3rd
Time	Event	# of Heats
11:00	Women's 50m Freestyle	10
11:21	Men's 1500m Freestyle	4
12:29	Men's 4x100m Medley Relay	2
12:40	Women's 4x100m Medley Relay	2
12:52	End of Session

 Not sure if these are reliable but I found these on LeMonde with the breakdown of heats, not only in swimming:

 

 https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sport/jo-2024/calendar/swimming/july-27-2024/

[Topicmaster1010 4,166]

12 minutes ago, OlympicIRL said:

 Not sure if these are reliable but I found these on LeMonde with the breakdown of heats, not only in swimming:

 

 https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sport/jo-2024/calendar/swimming/july-27-2024/

Unfortunately, I don't think that's accurate. There's no way there'll be 6 heats of the women's 200m butterfly when there's only 19 swimmers, or at least I hope not.

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

1 minute ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Unfortunately, I don't think that's accurate. There's no way there'll be 6 heats of the women's 200m butterfly when there's only 19 swimmers, or at least I hope not.

Too good to be true . Like I said, wasn’t sure if they were reliable but I think you’ve just confirmed they are irrelevant