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Paris 2024 Olympic Swimming News
Catch up on all the swimming results from the Paris Olympic games.
Days 1 & 2 – Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th July
AUSSIES REIGN SUPREME in green and GOLD RUSH!
After Two days of competition at the La Defense swimming pool in Paris, the Team Speedo Aussies are in dominant form.
We kicked off finals with Ariarne Titmus taking GOLD in the Women’s 400 freestyle, defending her title from the Tokyo games. The first Australian Olympian to do this since the legendary Dawn Fraser in 1964. Arnie by name, Arnie by nature like the famous movie character she told us in Tokyo “I’ll be back”. After the race Arnie said “I’m just a little kid from Tassie living out my dreams and having fun.” She went on to say she hoped to inspire all Australians that they too can chase their dreams. The race was one of the most hotly anticipated of the games with the Tokyo rematch of Katie Ledecky and Ariarne the headline and Canadian rising star – Summer McIntosh adding to the plot. It was those three swimmers who filled the podium but with the Aussie Golden Girl – Ariarne on the top spot!
From the Women’s 400m to the Men’s 400m, Team Speedo had two Australian’s who’d been tussling it out for the last couple of years – Elijah Winnington and Sam Short. Elijah Winnington wrote purpose on his hand prior to the race to remind himself swimming was his calling and even said he imagined he was in Disney World during his walk out to keep in his happy place. After heart break in Tokyo, Elijah fought back to claim a SILVER in scintillating fashion with the race leader changing place multiple times across the 8 laps. Sam Short achieving a 4th place finish in his Olympic debut, with plenty more swims to come at the games.
In the relays the Women’s team were attempting to do the unthinkable dubbed the “4-Peat” they were hoping to go back-to-back-to- back-to-back champions of the 4x100 freestyle title. In the heats 17-yr old Carlile swimmer and Team Speedo Ambassador – Olivia Wunsch helped set the Aussie Quartet up for a centre lane in the final and from there on in the Aussie women were supreme. Team Speedo’s Mollie O’Callaghan and Emma McKeon teaming up with Shayna Jack and Meg Harris to win by over 2 body lengths and bring GOLD back to Australia in an Olympic Record time. This was Emma McKeon’s 6th Olympic Gold overtaking the great Ian Thorpe to become Australia’s All-Time most decorated Olympic Champion to add to her existing status of most medals all-time and most medals at a single games IN ANY SPORT. A true role model to swimmers across the country, her humble nature shone in the post-race interview where she said “I don’t keep track of those type of stats” – representing the classic Aussie laid-back style we know and love.
Inspired by the Women’s relay victory the men’s team took to the pool for the Men’s 4x100 freestyle event. Team Speedo’s Kai Taylor and Flynn Southam making their debuts alongside veterans Kyle Chalmers and Jack Cartwright. After 2 legs it was all to play for and Kai Taylor, son of Olympic Star – Hayley Lewis, unleashed an excellent split on the 3rd leg to propel the Aussies into medal contention. Kyle Chalmers closed out with the fastest split of the entire field to help claim SILVER for the Dolphins squad.
This capped off the most successful Day 1 in Australian Olympic History with the 4 medals from the pool combining with other medals across the team.
Day 2 saw Emma McKeon take to the pool in her final Individual race, claiming a 6th place finish in the 100m fly against a lightning-fast field. Emma’s attention now turns to the remaining relays in pursuit of even more medals to add to her eye-watering tally.
In the Women’s 200 free Team Speedo’s Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O’Callaghan continued their great form from Olympic Trials as they progressed through heats and semi-finals ready for another showdown in the final on Tuesday morning. Arnie, the defending Olympic Champion and World Record Holder took the top spot with St Peter’s Western team-mate Mollie O’Callaghan, the World Record holder up until the June trials and World Champion from Budapest 2023, taking the 2nd place spot. Both swimmers are coached by Dean Boxhall and were the only swimmers to break under the 1min55secs mark. With both swimmers breaking 1min53secs in June to qualify – the world is expecting sparks to fly tomorrow at 4.30am when they return to the pool for the final – so get your alarm set and the coffee brewing you won’t want to miss this one!
Elsewhere around the world, Team Speedo athlete’s Caeleb Dressel and Adam Peaty opened up their Paris Olympic medal accounts and ahead of the third night of finals, Tatjana Smith, Ryan Murphy, Matthew Richards, and Duncan Scott have all put themselves in a good position to extend their Olympic Medal tallies.
Stay tuned for daily updates on our site as more of our athlete’s GO FULL SPEEDO in the pursuit of Olympic Glory!
Day 3 – Monday 29th July
HISTORY MAKERS ON NIGHT 3 OF THE PARIS OLYMPICS
It was the final event of the night in Paris, but the event the entire nation was waiting for – the Women’s 200 freestyle final. Team Speedo’s Mollie O’Callaghan since 2022 has been considered an all time great, she has 3 Olympic Relay titles to her name already as well as having held the World Record in the 200, but up until now had never won an Individual Olympic Gold. Tonight was her night, in an epic tactical battle Mollie came out on top defeating the defending Olympic Champion, Team Speedo’s Ariarne Titmus, who took the silver, and setting an Olympic Record in the process. Mollie has fierce back-end speed and demonstrated this tonight coming off the wall for the last lap on a mission. Mission complete – a 28second final 50 split! The duo are history makers being Australia’s first 1-2 finish since the great Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett in Athens, 2004. Afterwards Mollie was fighting back the tears as she thanked her family for their incredible support to get her to this point, noting there was still the 100 and relays to come! Ariarne, who now has two individual medals to her name in Paris, still has the 800 and relays to come too.
Elsewhere in the evening session we had the Women’s 100 Backstroke at the end of the the semi- finals, we have 2 Former World Record Holders and the current World Record holder in the final tomorrow night all part of Team Speedo and our Aussie backstroke Queen Kaylee McKeown is one of them, she’ll be hoping to successfully defend her crown from Tokyo against stiff competition in the form of America’s Regan Smith and Canada’s Kylie Masse.
Around the world there was more history to be made from Team Speedo swimmers – Tatjana Smith winning the 100m Breast for South Africa – a feat that hadn’t been seen for 28 years. She is the reigning Olympic Champion in the 200m Breast too which is due later on in the programme. We saw Ryan Murphy get back onto the podium for another Olympics in the 100m back, he too has the 200 still to come. He was greeted by his wife who did a live gender reveal in the stadium, which caused the tears to flow. Team Speedo’s Matt Richards claimed silver in the 200 free in an event which came down to millimetres – just 15hundredths separating 1st and 4th.
Day 4 - Tuesday 30th July
THE AUSSIE SWIMMERS WERE FLYING
The most hotly anticipated race of the night for the Green and Gold contingent was the Women’s 100 back. The first of what’s set to be incredibly close battles between Team Speedo’s Kaylee McKeown and the American Regan Smith also part of Team Speedo. Tonight’s duel was finally settled with our Australian Queen of Backstroke – Kaylee being the winner. Kaylee goes Back to Back in the backstroke event, successfully defending her crown from Tokyo. She’ll aim to do the Double-Double adding the 200 back title later this week.
The final event of the night was the Men’s 4 x 200 Freestyle Relay, Kai Taylor set the team up with a great lane from the heats and the Aussies took one of the centre lanes to go up against the strong British and American Quartets. It was ultimately those 3 teams who claimed the podium spots with the Aussie men winning the Bronze medal - a repeat of their Bronze from Tokyo. Team Speedo’s Flynn Southam, Tommy Neill and Elijah Winnington all lifted to deliver great splits and add yet another medal to the Dolphin’s Tally.
With many final places being settled tonight in semi-finals, there will be more Team Speedo representing tomorrow in the finals. Mollie O’Callaghan will attempt to add the 100m Freestyle to her 200m Freestyle title and Zac – Stubblety-Cook will be looking to defend his Tokyo title in the 200m Breast.
Elsewhere around the World a GB quartet comprising of three Team Speedo swimmers – Tom Dean, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott combined with James Guy to claim a back to back title in the 4x200 free, Britain’s first Gold at the swimming in Paris.
Day 5 – Wednesday 31st July
RECORDS, RESILIENCE AND RAUCOUS CROWDS
Tonight was some of the best nights of swimming seen for years, not just in terms of records but in terms of hard fought racing and majestic displays from international swim stars.
For our Aussie contingent it was night of close either side of the podium spots. Team Speedo’s Mollie O’Callaghan just narrowly missing out on a medal in the 100 free final by 1/100th, but Kyle Chalmers falling on the other side of fortune to take SILVER in the open 100 free where 2nd place to 4th was split by 2/100ths. In the interviews after the race Mollie said she’s even more fired up for the relays and immensely grateful to race alongside such a fantastic group of inspirational women.
The Aussie medal count went up again as Zac Stubblety-Cook took a superb SILVER medal backing up his GOLD from Tokyo. Zac has been suffering from Covid this week and also broke his neck back in December, so to be back on the podium shows his immense resilience to get back to this spot.
Elsewhere around the World there was no shortage of standout performances. French superstar Leon Marchand, repping the Speedo Valor 2.0 suit, pulled off the unthinkable – a 200 fly and 200 free GOLD medal and Olympic Record combination on the same night, in both instances toppling the previous Olympic Champion and World Record holders in the process – that sent the stadium into a frenzy…and just as the noise quelled, it erupted again in the 100 free as Chinese athlete Pan ZhanLe obliterated the world record with a 46.40, winning in an unprecedented 1.08 secs margin of victory. Pan races in the Speedo Intent 2.0 jammer, and it’s the second time he’s conquered the world record since it’s launch back in Nov 2023.
Day 6 – Thursday 1st August
GREEN & GOLD. GOLD. GOLD GOLD – THE AUSSIE QUARTET SMASH THE OLYMPIC RECORD IN PARIS
We’re now deep into the programme with 20 different individual events completed. As the sun came up over Australia, the 2nd August marked the Australian Olympic Green and Gold Day, and so when it came to the finals session the hopes were high for more GOLD to add to the medal haul…
The Aussie Quartet didn’t disappoint – a full Team Speedo roster of Mollie O’Callaghan, Lani Pallister, Brianna Throssell and Ariarne Titmus all in matching Australian Green and Gold Valor suits took to the pool in style. Mollie putting the Dolphins in the lead from the first leg and from there on in they never looked back. Smashing the Olympic record and adding yet another GOLD medal to the Australian Swim Team’s collection – further extending their lead at the top of the medal table. Mollie claims her 3rd GOLD medal of the meet, Arnie her 2nd GOLD and Lani and Brianna pick up their first, in their first swims each of the Games. Lani had to withdraw from her 1500m race earlier in the week due to a positive covid test but bounced back to deliver the fastest split in the heats and claim her spot on the Finals team. She follows in the footsteps of her mum – Janelle Pallister (Elford) who also competed at the Olympics.
Days 7, 8 & 9 – Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th August
AUSSIES SHINE BRIGHT ON FINAL 3 DAYS IN THE POOL
On the 7th Day of the Swimming it was all about the Queen of Backstroke – Kaylee McKeown. She flew through the field to claim GOLD in the 200 back, completing an unprecedented double-double on the backstroke events between Tokyo and Paris. The media have since dubbed Kaylee – the Backstroke GOAT after completing this achievement whilst also holding multiple backstroke World Record Times. It was no rest for the champ as Kaylee dived straight back into the 200 IM straight from her medal ceremony, holding on well to make a final.
Around the World with Team Speedo there were two 1-2-3 podium finishes from 6 different nations. Kaylee McKeown’s backstroke podium also featured American Regan Smith and Canadian Kylie Masse. In the 200 IM, French hero Leon Marchand, Bri Duncan Scott and Chinese swimmer Wang Shun made it onto the podium, all representing Team Speedo. Leon completing a 4 Gold medal, Olympic Record Haul which caused pandemonium in the La Défense swimming pool.
Day 8 saw a number of our Aussies battle it out in events they were no longer favourites to win, and with over a weeks worth of racing in the legs, they really had to rally…and rally they did! Kaylee was up first in the 200 IM, from an outside lane Kaylee managed to rally down the final 50 free to overtake swimmers and claim a brilliant bronze to add to her individual medal haul.
Then came the 800 free, Ariarne Titmus – the 400 free champion taking on Katie Ledecky – who was aiming to win her 4th consecutive title in this event. Ariarne pushed all the way setting a NEW PB, earning silver and breaking the Oceania record! The final event of the night was the mixed medley relay, a new event on the programme and one that’s very difficult to predict a winner in until the final few metres. The Aussie quartet, featuring Team Speedo’s Mollie O’Callaghan and Kaylee McKeown accelerated to a bronze, adding yet more medals onto their haul from Paris.