2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Tonight’s swimming motion on the 2024 Olympic Video games could have been probably the most electrical but, with Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom successful the ladies’s 100m free after coming into the occasion on the eleventh hour, adopted by a double gold efficiency within the 200m fly and 200m breast from the host nation’s Leon Marchand.
Capping off the night, nonetheless, was the lads’s 100m freestyle, which noticed China’s Pan Zhanle rip a brand new World Document and Olympic Document time of 46.40 to earn the gold.
19-year-old Pan began off his Paris marketing campaign on night time 1 with a stellar cut up of 46.92 as lead-off on the Chinese language males’s 4x100m free relay which finally completed 4th.
He then dipped within the particular person 200m free, inserting twenty second and nicely out of the semi-finals with a time of 1:47.60, nicely off his season-best of 1:45.68.
Flash ahead to nighttime 5 of those Video games and Pan was unmatched within the 1free, beating the star-studded discipline by remarkably greater than a second.
Australia’s Kyle Chalmers scored silver, his third consecutive medal on this occasion, in 47.48 whereas Romanian 200m free Olympic champion David Popovici bagged bronze in 47.49.
Coming into the 2024 Olympic Video games, China had by no means earlier than earned a medal within the males’s 100m freestyle, not to mention gold. Pan has erased that historic truth en path to topping the rostrum and giving China its first swimming gold in Paris.
Fast Hits
Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey captured her 2nd bronze of those Video games, producing a time of 52.33 to position third within the girls’s 100m breast behind winner Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden (52.16) and Torri Huske of the USA (52.33).
China’s Yang Junxuan produced a brand new nationwide report within the 100m free as lead-off of the ladies’s 4x100m free relay on night time 1 (52.48) however positioned sixth in tonight’s particular person occasion in 52.82.
Reigning Olympic gold medalist Zhang Yufei of China snared the third seed within the girls’s 200m fly for tomorrow night time’s remaining, producing a mark of two:06.90.
Li Bingjie of China was amongst tonight’s girls’s 1500m free remaining, producing a time of 16:01.03 to wind up fifth.
A pair of Asian swimmers are headed to tomorrow night time’s foremost occasion of the ladies’s 200m breast. China’s 2012 IM double Olympic champion Ye Shiwen, now 28, hit 2:23.13 because the fifth seed. 33-year-old Satomi Suzuki sneaked in because the Eighth-seeded swimmer in 2:23.54.
Regardless of a trio of Asian males contesting the 200m breast remaining this night, none made it onto the rostrum. The highest finisher was China’s World Junior Document holder Dong Zhihao (2:08.46) who completed 4th, adopted by Yu Hanaguruma of Japan (2:08.79) and Ippei Watanabe of Japan (2:08.83).
Continental & Nationwide Data Via Day 5
Yang Junxuan (CHN) – nationwide report in girls’s 100m free (52.48)
Chinese language Girls’s 4x100m free relay – nationwide report & Asian report (3:30.30)
Gan Ching Hwee (SGP) – nationwide report in girls’s 1500m free (16:10.13)
Kayla Sanchez (PHI) – nationwide report in girls’s 100m free (53.67)
Pan Zhanle (CHN) – nationwide report & Asian report & world report in 100m free (46.40)
Asian Swimming Medal Desk Via Day 5
RANK
NATION
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
China
1
2
2
5
2
Japan
0
1
0
1
3
Hong Kong
0
0
2
2
4
South Korea
0
0
1
1
