Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre individual medley

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Women's 200 metre individual medley
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Paris La Défense Arena after it was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events
VenueParis La Défense Arena
Dates2 August 2024
(Heats and Semis)
3 August 2024
(Final)
Competitors34 from 27 nations
Winning time2:06.56 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Summer McIntosh  Canada
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kate Douglass  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kaylee McKeown  Australia
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The women's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 2 and 3 August 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, each competitor had to swim four lengths of the pool.

The USA's Kate Douglass, Australian Kaylee McKeown, Canadian Summer McIntosh and the USA's Alex Walsh were the favourites for the event. All four progressed through the heats and semifinals to the final.

In the final, McIntosh won with a new Olympic and world junior record of 2:06.56, while Douglass finished second with 2:06.92, Walsh finished third with 2:07.06 and McKeown finished fourth with 2:08.08. However, after the race Walsh was disqualified for doing an illegal backstroke to breaststroke turn, meaning McKeown was awarded the bronze medal instead. McIntosh's win made her the first Canadian Olympian to win three gold medals at a single Games.

Background

The USA's defending Olympic bronze medallist Kate Douglass won the event at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, and she had the fastest qualifying time of 02:06:79, set at the US Olympic Trials.[2][3] Alex Walsh, also from the US, won the 2022 World Championships and took silver at the 2023 Championships.[2] Walsh had the fourth fastest qualifying time of 2:07.63.[3] Australia's 2022 World Championships silver medallist Kaylee McKeown had the third fastest qualifying time of 2:06.99,[4][3] and Canadian Summer McIntosh had the second fastest qualifying time of 2:06.89.[3]

SwimSwam predicted McKeown would win, Douglass would take second and McIntosh would take third, while Swimming World predicted McIntosh would win, Douglass would take second and McKeown would take third.[2][5]

Prior to the start of the event, Douglass, McKeown and McIntosh had all won gold medals in previous events, and SwimSwam reported that the event "looked to be an even higher-stakes race than expected".[6]

Qualification

Further information: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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).[7] For this event, the OQT was 2:11.47. 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.[7][3] In total, 23 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, while 11 athletes qualified through universality places.[3]

Top 10 fastest qualification times[3]
Swimmer Country Time Competition
Kate Douglass  United States 02:06:79 2024 United States Olympic Trials
Summer McIntosh  Canada 02:06:89 2023 Canadian Trials
Kaylee McKeown  Australia 02:06:99 2024 Australian Championships
Alex Walsh  United States 02:07:63 2024 Pro Swim Series Knoxville
Sydney Pickrem  Canada 02:07:68 2024 Canadian Olympic Trials
Yu Yiting  China 02:07:75 2022 Asian Games
Anastasia Gorbenko  Israel 02:08:55 2024 Mare Nostrum Barcelona
Marrit Steenbergen  Netherlands 02:08:86 2024 Eindhoven Qualification Meet
Abbie Wood  Great Britain 02:08:91 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships
Yui Ohashi  Japan 02:09:17 2024 Japanese Olympic Trials

Heats

Three heats took place on 2 August 2024, starting at 11:17.[a][8] The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advanced to the semifinals.[9] McIntosh qualified with the fastest time of 2:09.90. Walsh, Douglass and McKeown all qualified.[10][11]

Results[8]
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 3 4 Summer McIntosh  Canada 2:09.90 Q
2 3 5 Yu Yiting  China 2:10.28 Q
3 5 5 Alex Walsh  United States 2:10.48 Q
4 4 5 Sydney Pickrem  Canada 2:10.63 Q
5 4 4 Kate Douglass  United States 2:10.70 Q
6 3 6 Ella Ramsay  Australia 2:10.75 Q
7 3 3 Abbie Wood  Great Britain 2:10.95 Q
8 5 2 Ye Shiwen  China 2:10.96 Q
9 5 4 Kaylee McKeown  Australia 2:11.26 Q
10 3 2 Charlotte Bonnet  France 2:11.47 Q
11 5 3 Anastasia Gorbenko  Israel 2:11.53 Q
12 3 1 Emma Carrasco  Spain 2:11.54 Q
13 4 2 Shiho Matsumoto  Japan 2:11.67 Q
14 5 6 Yui Ohashi  Japan 2:11.70 Q
15 5 1 Ellen Walshe  Ireland 2:11.81 Q
16 4 1 Rebecca Meder  South Africa 2:11.96 Q
17 5 7 Kim Seo-yeong  South Korea 2:12.42
18 4 6 Sara Franceschi  Italy 2:12.88
18 4 7 Freya Colbert  Great Britain 2:12.88
20 4 3 Marrit Steenbergen  Netherlands 2:13.21
21 2 5 Kristen Romano  Puerto Rico 2:13.32
22 4 8 Barbora Seemanová  Czech Republic 2:13.47
23 3 8 Tamara Potocká  Slovakia 2:14.20
24 2 4 Lena Kreundl  Austria 2:15.04
25 3 7 Dalma Sebestyén  Hungary 2:15.16
26 2 6 Ieva Maļuka  Latvia 2:15.79
27 2 1 Võ Thị Mỹ Tiên  Vietnam 2:17.18
28 5 8 Lea Polonsky  Israel 2:17.53
29 2 2 McKenna DeBever  Peru 2:17.61
30 2 7 Nicole Frank  Uruguay 2:18.00
31 1 4 Azzahra Permatahani  Indonesia 2:20.51
32 1 5 Valerie Tarazi  Palestine 2:20.56
33 1 3 Jayla Pina  Cape Verde 2:24.51
2 3 Han An-chi  Chinese Taipei DSQ

Semifinals

Two semifinals took place on 2 August, starting at 21:31.[12] The swimmers with the best eight times in the semifinals advanced to the final.[9] Canada's Sydney Pickrem won the first semifinal to qualify with the fifth fastest time of 2:09.65,[12] while Alex Walsh won the second semifinal to qualify with the fastest time of 2:07.45.[13] Douglass, McKeown, Great Britain's Abbie Wood, China's Yu Yiting and Australia's Ella Ramsay also qualified.[13] Ramsay later withdrew from the final due to illness, and in the end there was only seven swimmers in the final.[14]

Japan's Yui Ohashi, the defending Olympic champion in the event, did not qualify.[15] South Africa's Rebecca Meder lowered her own national record with 2:10.67, but the time was not fast enough to qualify.[16]

Results[12]
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 2 5 Alex Walsh  United States 2:07.45 Q
2 2 4 Summer McIntosh  Canada 2:08.30 Q
3 2 3 Kate Douglass  United States 2:08.59 Q
4 2 6 Abbie Wood  Great Britain 2:09.64 Q
5 1 5 Sydney Pickrem  Canada 2:09.65 Q
6 1 4 Yu Yiting  China 2:09.74 Q
7 2 2 Kaylee McKeown  Australia 2:09.97 Q
8 1 3 Ella Ramsay  Australia 2:10.16 Q
9 2 7 Anastasia Gorbenko  Israel 2:10.32
10 1 6 Ye Shiwen  China 2:10.45
11 1 8 Rebecca Meder  South Africa 2:10.67 NR
12 1 1 Yui Ohashi  Japan 2:10.94
13 2 8 Ellen Walshe  Ireland 2:11.35
14 2 1 Shiho Matsumoto  Japan 2:11.85
15 1 7 Emma Carrasco  Spain 2:12.25
16 1 2 Charlotte Bonnet  France 2:12.80

Final

External videos
video icon Women's 200 metre individual medley final

The final took place at 21:08 on 3 August.[17] Walsh led the race at the 150 metre mark, but over the final 50 metres she was overtaken by McIntosh and Douglass.[18][19] McIntosh won with a new Olympic record, world junior record and national record of 2:06.56.[20][21] Douglass finished second with 2:06.92, Walsh finished third with 2:07.06 and McKeown finished fourth with 2:08.08.[18] After the race Walsh was disqualified for doing an illegal backstroke to breaststroke turn, meaning McKeown was awarded the bronze medal instead.[22][23]

McIntosh's Olympic record broke Katinka Hosszú's mark from the Rio 2016 Olympics.[24] Her win made her the first Canadian Olympian to win three gold medals at a single Games, and it was her fourth medal.[25]

Results[17]
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Summer McIntosh  Canada 2:06.56 OR, WJ, NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3 Kate Douglass  United States 2:06.92
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1 Kaylee McKeown  Australia 2:08.08
4 7 Yu Yiting  China 2:08.49
5 6 Abbie Wood  Great Britain 2:09.51
6 2 Sydney Pickrem  Canada 2:09.74
– 8 Ella Ramsay  Australia DNS
4 Alex Walsh  United States DSQ 2:07.06 before DSQ[18]
Statistics[26]
Name 50 metre split 100 metre split 150 metre split Time Stroke rate (strokes/min)
Summer McIntosh 00:26.80 00:58.60 01:36.13 2:06.56 47.0
Kate Douglass 00:26.73 01:01.05 01:36.80 2:06.92 41.5
Kaylee McKeown 00:27.59 00:59.27 01:37.04 2:08.08 48.1
Yu Yiting 00:27.31 01:00.05 01:37.42 2:08.49 44.7
Abbie Wood 00:27.43 01:00.21 01:38.08 2:09.51 45.7
Sydney Pickrem 00:27.89 01:00.36 01:37.55 2:09.74 44.7

Further reading

  • Li, Yanyan (3 August 2024). "Did The Women's 200 IM Final Live Up To Its Hype?". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 9 September 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  • Bush, Bradley (19 August 2024). "2024 Olympics Race Data Breakdown: Women's 200 IM". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 26 December 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2025.

Notes

  1. ^ All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

References

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  2. ^ a b c Li, Yanyan (3 July 2024). "2024 Olympics Preview: Will We Finally Get The Race We Anticipated In The Women's 200 IM?". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 4 August 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
  4. ^ Li, Yanyan (19 June 2022). "Budapest 2022, Oceania Day 2: So...Was McKeown's Decision Worth It?". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
  5. ^ Rieder, David (25 July 2024). "Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 8: Can Katie Ledecky Accomplish Four-Peat in 800 Freestyle?". Swimming World. Archived from the original on 10 August 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
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  7. ^ a b "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  8. ^ a b "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  9. ^ a b "Olympic swimming rules: How can swimmers qualify for finals and win medals - format explained". olympics.com. International Olympic Committee (IOC). 24 July 2024. Archived from the original on 21 August 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  10. ^ Penland, Spencer (2 August 2024). "2024 Paris Olympics: Day 7 Prelims Live Recap". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 24 December 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
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  16. ^ Wild, Mark (2 August 2024). "Paris 2024, Africa Recap: Day 7 - Rebecca Meder Sets Record 4 Months After Ruptured Appendix". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 24 September 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
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  20. ^ Pelshaw, Anya (3 August 2024). "Summer McIntosh Breaks Katinka Hosszu's 200 IM Olympic Record, #3 Swim All-Time With 2:06.56". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 7 January 2025. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
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