Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

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Women's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Aquatics Centre,
Paris La Défense Arena
Dates27 July 2024
(Heats and Final)
Competitors21 from 15 nations
Winning time3:57.49
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ariarne Titmus  Australia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Summer McIntosh  Canada
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Katie Ledecky  United States
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Swimming at the
2024 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
4 × 200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenmixedwomen
Marathon
10 kmmenwomen

The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July at the Paris Aquatics Centre.[1] 23 swimmers took part.


Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record  Ariarne Titmus (AUS) 3:55.38 Fukuoka, Japan 23 July 2023
Olympic record  Katie Ledecky (USA) 3:56.46 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 7 August 2016

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).[2] For this event, the OQT was 4:07.90. 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.[2][3] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 4:09.14 for this event.[2] In total, 19 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, three athletes qualified through universality places and one athlete qualified through achieving the OCT.[3]

Competition format

The competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

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

Date Time Round
27 July 2024 10:00 Heats
17:30 Final

Results

Heats

Results[4]
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 3 5 Katie Ledecky  United States 4:02.19 Q
2 3 4 Ariarne Titmus  Australia 4:02.46 Q
3 2 5 Erika Fairweather  New Zealand 4:02.55 Q
4 2 4 Summer McIntosh  Canada 4:02.65 Q
5 2 2 Jamie Perkins  Australia 4:03.30 Q
6 2 3 Paige Madden  United States 4:03.34 Q
7 2 6 Maria Fernanda Costa  Brazil 4:03.47 Q
8 3 6 Isabel Marie Gose  Germany 4:03.83 Q
9 3 3 Li Bingjie  China 4:03.96
10 3 7 Liu Yaxin  China 4:04.39
11 3 1 Waka Kobori  Japan 4:08.02
12 2 1 Valentine Dumont  Belgium 4:08.25
13 3 8 Ajna Késely  Hungary 4:08.90
14 1 4 Leonie Märtens  Germany 4:09.62
15 2 8 Anastasiya Kirpichnikova  France 4:10.32
16 3 2 Gabrielle Roncatto  Brazil 4:10.46
17 2 7 Eve Thomas  New Zealand 4:11.86
18 1 5 Agostina Hein  Argentina 4:14.24
19 1 6 Anastasiya Zelinskaya  Uzbekistan 4:31.71
20 1 2 Natalia Jean Kuipers  Virgin Islands 4:33.46
21 1 3 Karin Belbeisi  Jordan 4:37.30

Final

Results[5]
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Ariarne Titmus  Australia 3:57.49
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6 Summer McIntosh  Canada 3:58.37
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 Katie Ledecky  United States 4:00.86
4 3 Erika Fairweather  New Zealand 4:01.12
5 8 Isabel Marie Gose  Germany 4:02.14 NR
6 7 Paige Madden  United States 4:02.26
7 1 Maria Fernanda Costa  Brazil 4:03.53
8 2 Jamie Perkins  Australia 4:04.96
Statistics[6]
Name 100 metre split 200 metre split 300 metre split Time Stroke rate (strokes/min)
Ariarne Titmus 00:56.92 01:56.97 02:56.92 3:57.49 43.8
Summer McIntosh 00:57.03 01:57.32 02:57.48 3:58.37 44.1
Katie Ledecky 00:57.69 01:58.52 02:59.51 4:00.86 47.4
Erika Fairweather 00:57.65 01:58.98 03:01.16 4:01.12 42.8
Isabel Marie Gose 00:58.17 01:59.19 03:00.75 4:02.14 48.1
Paige Madden 00:57.77 01:59.19 03:31.42 4:02.26 42.5
Maria Fernanda Costa 00:58.25 02:00.27 03:02.90 4:03.53 42.4
Jamie Perkins 00:58.19 01:59.92 03:02.56 4:04.96 42.1

References

  1. ^ "Swimming – Women's 400m Freestyle Schedule". Paris 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  3. ^ a b Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
  4. ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  6. ^ Bodard, Simon; Decron, Nathan; Dernoncourt, Eric; Hui, Pierre; Jambu, Clément; Loisel, Camille; Pla, Robin; Raineteau, Yannis. "Jeux Olympiques 2024: Analyses de course des Finales" (PDF). French Swimming Federation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 August 2024. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
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