Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle
| Men's 50 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 1 August 2024 (heats and semifinals) 2 August 2024 (final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 73 from 64 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 21.25 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Qualification | |||
| Freestyle | |||
| 50 m | men | women | |
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| 400 m | men | women | |
| 800 m | men | women | |
| 1500 m | men | women | |
| Backstroke | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| Breaststroke | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| Butterfly | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| Individual medley | |||
| 200 m | men | women | |
| 400 m | men | women | |
| Freestyle relay | |||
| 4 × 100 m | men | women | |
| 4 × 200 m | men | women | |
| Medley relay | |||
| 4 × 100 m | men | mixed | women |
| Marathon | |||
| 10 km | men | women | |
The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 1 to 2 August 2024 at the Olympic Aquatics Centre at Paris La Défense Arena.[1]
Going into the competition, Australia's Cameron McEvoy was the favourite, while defending Olympic champion Caeleb Dressel and Ben Proud of Great Britain were also among the top contenders. In the final, Cameron McEvoy won gold, followed by Ben Proud with silver and Florent Manaudou of France winning bronze. National records for Ireland, Fiji and the Cayman Islands were set during the event, and Manaudou's podium finish made him the first swimmer ever to win four consecutive Olympic medals in the event.
Records
[edit]Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
| World record |  César Cielo (BRA) |
20.91 | São Paulo, Brazil | 18 December 2009 | [2][3] |
| Olympic record |  Caeleb Dressel (USA) |
21.07 | Tokyo, Japan | 1 August 2021 |
Qualification
[edit]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).[4] For this event, the OQT was 21.96 seconds. World Aquatics then filled the rest of the event places with 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.[4][5] In total, 40 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, while 35 athletes qualified through universality places.[5]
Heats
[edit]10 heats took place on 1 August 2024, starting at 11:18.[a] The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advanced to the semifinals.[6] McEvoy swam 21.32 seconds to claim the fastest swim of the heats.[7] The Caymanian Jordan Crooks finished in 21.51 seconds to claim second, and Florent Manaudou swam the third fastest time of 21.54 seconds.[8] Thomas Fannon of Ireland claimed a new national record of 21.79 seconds, which bettered Shane Ryan's mark set a month earlier at the European Championships by 0.03 seconds.[9] Crooks also set a national record, beating his own time by 0.22 seconds.[10] The final national record of the heats came from David Young, who set Fiji's national record at 22.71, beating his previous national record of 22.87.[11][12]
Semifinals
[edit]Two semifinals took place on 1 August, starting at 20:46. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advanced to the final.[13] Proud and McEvoy both finished in 21.38 seconds to take the joint fastest seed, while Leonardo Deplano of Italy clocked 21.50 seconds for the third fastest time. Also among the qualifiers were Crooks, Dressel, Kristian Gkolomeev and Florent Manaudou of France.[14] France's Maxime Grousset also originally qualified with the sixth fastest time, but he withdrew which allowed Josh Liendo of Canada to qualify.[15] Thomas Fannon of Ireland set another national record of 21.74 seconds, beating his national record set in the heats by 0.05 seconds to finish tenth.[16]
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Ben Proud |  Great Britain |
21.38 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Cameron McEvoy |  Australia |
Q | ||
| 3 | 2 | 6 | Leonardo Deplano |  Italy |
21.50 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | Jordan Crooks |  Cayman Islands |
21.54 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Caeleb Dressel | United States |
21.58 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 8 | Maxime Grousset |  France |
21.60 | WD[15] |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | Kristian Gkolomeev |  Greece |
21.62 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 5 | Florent Manaudou | France |
21.64 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 8 | Josh Liendo |  Canada |
21.69 | q |
| 10 | 1 | 3 | Thomas Fannon |  Ireland |
21.74 | NR |
| 11 | 2 | 7 | Vladyslav Bukhov |  Ukraine |
21.76 | |
| 12 | 1 | 5 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy |
21.83 | |
| 13 | 1 | 2 | Meiron Cheruti |  Israel |
21.91 | |
| 14 | 1 | 6 | Ben Armbruster | Australia |
21.94 | |
| 15 | 1 | 7 | Gabriel Castaño |  Mexico |
21.99 | |
| 16 | 2 | 1 | Diogo Ribeiro |  Portugal |
22.01 |
Final
[edit]Race
[edit]The final took place at 20:30 on 2 August.[18] Australia's Cameron McEvoy had the fastest reaction time of 0.56 seconds, however by 15 metres Caeleb Dressel of the USA had taken first place with a stronger dive and underwater; McEvoy had dropped to fifth. Great Britain's Ben Proud and Jordan Crooks of the Cayman Islands were second and third respectively.[19]
At 25 metres, the order of the top three was the same, but by 45 metres McEvoy had elevated himself from fourth to first. Proud retained his second place position, and was 0.26 seconds ahead of Crooks in third. Over the last five metres, McEvoy and Proud retained their positions to win gold and silver, while France's Florent Manaudou overtook Crooks to claim the bronze.[19][20] Canada's Josh Liendo finished fourth, missing out on a medal by 0.02 seconds.[21]
The gold was McEvoy's first Olympic medal in an individual event, and it was Proud's first Olympic medal in any event.[20] Manaudou's podium finish made him the first swimmer ever to win four consecutive Olympic medals in the event, which he achieved in front of his home crowd.[22] The average age of the medalists was 30 years old.[23]
| Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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5 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia |
21.25 | |
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4 | Ben Proud | Great Britain |
21.30 | |
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1 | Florent Manaudou | France |
21.56 | |
| 4 | 8 | Josh Liendo | Canada |
21.58 | |
| 5 | 7 | Kristian Gkolomeev | Greece |
21.59 | |
| 6 | 2 | Caeleb Dressel | United States |
21.61 | |
| 7 | 3 | Leonardo Deplano | Italy |
21.62 | |
| 8 | 6 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands |
21.64 |
| Name | Underwater distance (m) | Underwater speed (m/s) | 15 metre split (s) | 25 metre split (s) | Time (s) | Stroke rate (strokes/min) |
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| Cameron McEvoy | 12.04 | 3.70 | 5.11 | 9.59 | 21.25 | 63.1 |
| Ben Proud | 13.15 | 3.86 | 5.02 | 9.54 | 21.30 | 62.1 |
| Florent Manaudou | 13.24 | 3.75 | 5.10 | 9.62 | 21.56 | 60.4 |
| Josh Liendo | 14.34 | 3.57 | 5.21 | 9.83 | 21.58 | 60.9 |
| Kristian Gkolomeev | 10.19 | 3.85 | 5.27 | 9.82 | 21.59 | 59.5 |
| Caeleb Dressel | 14.06 | 3.84 | 4.97 | 9.50 | 21.61 | 64.0 |
| Leonardo Deplano | 11.65 | 3.81 | 5.28 | 9.79 | 21.62 | 66.5 |
| Jordan Crooks | 14.67 | 3.79 | 5.02 | 9.60 | 21.64 | 61.2 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
References
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