Tokyo Olympic Champion Maggie Mac Neil Publicizes Retirement
Maggie Mac Neil, the Olympic champion within the girls’s 100 butterfly on the Tokyo Olympics, introduced her retirement from swimming on Thursday. Mac Neil bids farewell to the game at age 24.
Mac Neil made the announcement on social media.
Mac Neil wrote partially:
“I’ll preserve it temporary, however I’m so grateful for all of the reminiscences, folks, and locations I’ve gotten to expertise simply via swimming. Anybody who I crossed paths with by no means, ever instructed me I couldn’t obtain my objective of going to the Olympics. It’s nonetheless surreal to have the ability to say I’m a 2xOlympian.
“I’m excited to start the following chapter of my life journey, as I embark on discovering who I’m outdoors of swimming.”
Mac Neil gained three medals on the Tokyo Olympics, led by gold within the 100 fly. She added silver within the 400 freestyle relay and bronze within the 400 medley relay. She got here up simply shy of including to that in Paris, ending fifth within the 100 fly and the Canadian fourth in each the 400 free relay and 400 medley relay and fifth within the combined medley relay.
She had beforehand signaled that the Paris Video games can be her ultimate time on the Olympic stage.
Mac Neil signaled her arrival in 2019 by profitable the World Champion within the 100 fly in Gwangju. It was the one gold amongst eight totals medals at long-course Worlds. She eschewed particular person occasions on the 2022 Worlds, then got here again to take silver within the 2023 occasion within the 100 fly.
In that summer time of 2022, she swam on the Commonwealth Video games, profitable the 100 fly together with two relay silvers and two relay bronzes. She would add the Pan Am Video games crown in that occasion in 2023, one in every of 5 golds and 7 whole medals from the meet in Santiago, Chile. It made her the close to simultaneous holder of 4 main titles.
Mac Neil can be an achieved short-course swimmer. At two editions of the World Brief-Course Championships in 2021 and 2022, she netted seven gold and 11 whole medals, together with consecutive titles in each the 50 backstroke and 100 fly, each occasions by which she set the world report.
Mac Neil compiled an excellent collegiate profession, at Michigan and LSU that included an NCAA championship within the 50 freestyle in 2023, with a runner-up outcome within the 100 fly and third within the 100 free. On the 2021 NCAA Championships, she gained the 100 fly and 100 free at NCAAs.
