Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle
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The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 30 and 31 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, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.
| Women's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Paris La Défense Arena after it was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Paris La Défense Arena | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 30 July 2024 (heats and semis) 31 July 2024 (final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 29 from 24 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 52.16 | ||||||||||||
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Australian Mollie O'Callaghan was the favourite to win the event, though Hong Kong's Siobhán Haughey, the Netherlands' Marrit Steenbergen, Sweden's Sarah Sjöström and Australia's Shayna Jack were also in contention. All of those swimmers progressed through to the final.
In the final, Sjöström won gold with a time of 52.16, the US' Torri Huske swam 52.29 for silver and Haughey won bronze with 52.33—0.01 seconds ahead of O'Callaghan who finished fourth with 52.34. Sjöström's win made her the first person to win medals in this event at non-consecutive Olympics, and she was also four years older than any other swimmer in the final. The Guardian called the it an "exceptionally close race".
Background
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Australia's Mollie O'Callaghan won the event at the 2022 and 2023 World Championships, and had the second fastest qualifying time of 52.08. The fastest qualifying time belonged to Hong Kong's Siobhán Haughey who swam a time of 52.08 at the 2023 World Aquatics World Cup. Haughey was also the silver medallist at the 2020 Olympics, 2023 World Championships and 2024 World Championships. The Netherlands' Marrit Steenbergen won the event at the 2024 World Championships with the fourth fastest qualifying time of 52.26. Other contenders included Sweden's Sarah Sjöström and Australia's Shayna Jack, who swam the third and fifth fastest qualifying times, respectively, in relays at the 2023 World Championships.[2] Sjöström initially planned not to swim the event, but changed her mine shortly before it commenced.[3][2][4]
The qualifying times of the top five qualifiers—Haughey, O'Callaghan, Sjöström, Steenbergen and Jack—were separated by 0.26 seconds.[2] Olympic champion Emma McKeon failed to qualify for the event.[2]
Both SwimSwam and Swimming World predicted O'Callaghan would win gold. SwimSwam predicted Sjöström would come second and Haughey would come third, while Swimming World predicted Haughey would come second and Steenbergen would come third.[2][5]
Qualification
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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).[6] For this event, the OQT was 53.61 seconds. 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.[6][7] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 53.88 for this event.[6] In total, 14 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, 14 athletes qualified through universality places and one athlete qualified through achieving the OCT.[7]
| Swimmer | Country | Time | Competition |
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| Siobhán Haughey |  Hong Kong |
00:52:02 | 2023 World Aquatics World Cup |
| Mollie O'Callaghan |  Australia |
00:52:08 | 2023 World Aquatics Championships |
| Sarah Sjöström |  Sweden |
00:52:24 | 2023 World Aquatics Championships |
| Marrit Steenbergen |  Netherlands |
00:52:26 | 2024 World Aquatics Championships |
| Shayna Jack | Australia |
00:52:28 | 2023 World Aquatics Championships |
| Yang Junxuan |  China |
00:52:68 | 2024 Chinese Championships |
| Torri Huske |  United States |
00:52:90 | 2024 United States Olympic Trials |
| Anna Hopkin |  Great Britain |
00:53:09 | 2024 World Aquatics Championships |
| Gretchen Walsh | United States |
00:53:13 | 2024 United States Olympic Trials |
| Wu Qingfeng | China |
00:53:25 | 2024 Chinese Championships |
Heats
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Four heats took place on 30 July 2024, starting at 12:47.[a][8] The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advanced to the semifinals.[9] Sjöström swam the fastest qualifying time of 52.99, while Haughey, Steenbergen, O'Callaghan and Jack also all qualified.[10] Kayla Sanchez of the Philippines swam a time of 53.67 to qualify in joint tenth and break her country's national record.[11] Canada's Maggie Mac Neil qualified with the 16th fastest time, but withdrew from the event to focus on the relay events she was competing in.[12]
Semifinals
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Two semifinals took place on 30 July, starting at 21:33.[13] The swimmers with the best eight times in the semifinals advanced to the final.[9] Haughey won the first semifinal with the fastest qualifying time of 52.64, and Jack placed second to qualify with the second fastest time of 52.72. O'Callaghan won the second semifinal with the third fastest time of 52.75. China's Yang Junxuan qualified with the fourth fastest time, followed by Steenbergen, Sjöström, and then the US' Torri Huske and Gretchen Walsh.[14][13] Slovenian Neža Klančar swam a time of 53.96, which tied the national record but did not qualify her for the final.[15][13]
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 1 | 4 | Siobhán Haughey | Hong Kong | 52.64 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 3 | Shayna Jack | Australia | 52.72 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 3 | Mollie O'Callaghan | Australia | 52.75 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 5 | Yang Junxuan | China | 52.81 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 5 | Marrit Steenbergen | Netherlands | 52.86 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 4 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 52.87 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | Torri Huske | United States | 52.99 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 6 | Gretchen Walsh | United States | 53.18 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 1 | Wu Qingfeng | China | 53.34 | |
| 10 | 1 | 7 | Marie Wattel |  France | 53.38 | |
| 11 | 1 | 2 | Anna Hopkin | Great Britain | 53.74 | |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | Michelle Coleman | Sweden | 53.75 | |
| 13 | 1 | 8 | Barbora Seemanova |  Czech Republic | 53.94 | |
| 14 | 2 | 8 | Neža Klančar |  Slovenia | 53.96 | NR |
| 15 | 2 | 7 | Kayla Sanchez |  Philippines | 54.21 | |
| 16 | 2 | 2 | Beryl Gastaldello | France | 54.29 |
Final
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| Women's 100 metre freestyle final |
The final took place at 20:30 on 31 July.[16] Sjöström swam what SwimSwam called a "balanced race" to win gold with a time of 52.16,[17][4] while Huske swam the fastest opening split and stayed ahead of everyone but Sjöström to win silver with 52.29. Haughey won bronze with 52.33—0.01 seconds ahead of O'Callaghan who finished fourth with 52.34.[17] After the race, O'Callaghan said she "expected a lot more".[18][19] The Guardian called the final an "exceptionally close race".[20]
The gold was Sjöström's first Olympic medal in the event since 2016, when she won bronze at the Rio Olympics.[17] This made her the first person to win medals in this event at non-consecutive Olympics,[21] and she was also four years older than any other swimmer in the final.[18] It was Huske and Haughey's second Olympic medal of the games,[17] and Haughey became the first swimmer to medal in both the 100 metre freestyle and 200 metre freestyle events at consecutive Olympics.[21]
| Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 52.16 | |
 | 1 | Torri Huske | United States | 52.29 | |
 | 4 | Siobhán Haughey | Hong Kong | 52.33 | |
| 4 | 3 | Mollie O'Callaghan | Australia | 52.34 | |
| 5 | 5 | Shayna Jack | Australia | 52.72 | |
| 6 | 6 | Yang Junxuan | China | 52.82 | |
| 7 | 2 | Marrit Steenbergen | Netherlands | 52.83 | |
| 8 | 8 | Gretchen Walsh | United States | 53.04 |
| Name | 15 metre split (s) | 50 metre split (s) | 50–65 metre split (s) | Time (s) | Stroke rate (strokes/min) |
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| Sarah Sjöström | 6.18 | 25.26 | 7.56 | 52.16 | 51.6 |
| Torri Huske | 6.01 | 25.06 | 7.22 | 52.29 | 50.4 |
| Siobhán Haughey | 6.28 | 25.09 | 7.48 | 52.33 | 53.8 |
| Mollie O'Callaghan | 6.17 | 25.51 | 7.23 | 52.34 | 50.6 |
| Shayna Jack | 6.35 | 25.29 | 7.69 | 52.72 | 51.8 |
| Yang Junxuan | 6.36 | 25.51 | 7.85 | 52.82 | 54.0 |
| Marrit Steenbergen | 6.31 | 25.38 | 7.41 | 52.83 | 51.8 |
| Gretchen Walsh | 5.96 | 25.22 | 7.40 | 53.04 | 47.5 |
Notes
- All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
References
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