The women's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 29 July 2024 in the Olympic Aquatics Centre at Paris La Défense Arena.[1]
| Women's 400 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venue | Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 29 July 2024 (Heats and Final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 16 from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 4:27.71 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Canadian Summer McIntosh was the heavy favourite going into the event and ended up winning the race by over five seconds. Katie Grimes and Emma Weyant, both from the USA, took second and third, respectively. McIntosh's victory secured Canada's first-ever gold medal in the event.
Background
editCanadian Summer McIntosh won the event at the 2022 and 2023 World Championships, broke the world record in 2023 and 2024 and had a personal best over 7 seconds faster than anyone else entered into the competition.[2] SwimSwam opined that she was "perhaps the heaviest favorite among all the individual events",[2] and Swimming World also predicted she would win.[3] Other contenders were the 2022 and 2023 World Championships silver medallist Katie Grimes of the USA, and 2024 World Championships winner Freya Colbert of the Great Britain.[a] Tokyo's Olympic champion Yui Ohashi failed to qualify.[2] Both McIntosh and Grimes were 17 years old at the time of the event.[4]
Qualification
editEach 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).[5] For this event, the OQT was 4:38.53. 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.[5][6] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 4:39.92 for this event.[5] In total, 15 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, no athletes qualified through universality places and one athlete qualified through achieving the OCT.[6]
Heats
editTwo heats took place on 29 July 2024, starting at 11:00.[b][7] The swimmers with the best eight times in the heats advanced to the final.[8] Emma Weyant of the USA won the first heat and McIntosh won the second. The qualifying time was three seconds slower than it was at the Tokyo Olympics.[9]
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 6 | Emma Weyant |  United States
|
4:36.27 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Katie Grimes | United States
|
4:37.24 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Summer McIntosh |  Canada
|
4:37.35 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 5 | Freya Colbert |  Great Britain
|
4:37.62 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 6 | Mio Narita |  Japan
|
4:37.84 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 7 | Ella Ramsay |  Australia
|
4:39.04 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | Ellen Walshe |  Ireland
|
4:39.97 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 7 | Katie Shanahan | Great Britain
|
4:40.40 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 5 | Jenna Forrester | Australia
|
4:40.55 | |
| 10 | 2 | 3 | Anastasia Gorbenko |  Israel
|
4:41.64 | |
| 11 | 1 | 1 | Ella Jansen | Canada
|
4:42.06 | |
| 12 | 2 | 8 | Emma Carrasco |  Spain
|
4:43.13 | |
| 13 | 2 | 2 | Ageha Tanigawa | Japan
|
4:43.18 | |
| 14 | 1 | 3 | Vivien Jackl |  Hungary
|
4:44.47 | |
| 15 | 1 | 2 | Sara Franceschi |  Italy
|
4:48.89 | |
| 16 | 1 | 8 | Anja Crevar |  Serbia
|
4:49.16 |
Final
editThe final took place at 20:30 on 29 July.[10] Canadian Summer McIntosh led from beginning to end, swimming ahead of the world record until 200 m and finishing over five seconds ahead of second place with a time of 4:27.71.[11][12][13] The USA's Katie Grimes also retained second place from start to finish, while Emma Weyant of the USA progressed from fifth to third over the final 200 m to claim bronze.[13] McIntosh's victory secured Canada's first-ever gold medal in the event.[4] In the post race data analysis, Dominique Hérailh of SwimSwam opined that McIntosh still had room from improvement in the breaststroke and underwaters.[14]
| Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
3 | Summer McIntosh | Canada |
4:27.71 | |
 |
5 | Katie Grimes | United States |
4:33.40 | |
 |
4 | Emma Weyant | United States |
4:34.93 | |
| 4 | 6 | Freya Colbert | Great Britain |
4:35.67 | |
| 5 | 7 | Ella Ramsay | Australia |
4:38.01 | |
| 6 | 2 | Mio Narita | Japan |
4:38.83 | |
| 7 | 8 | Katie Shanahan | Great Britain |
4:40.17 | |
| 8 | 1 | Ellen Walshe | Ireland |
4:40.70 |
| Name | 100 metre split | 200 metre split | 300 metre split | Time | Stroke rate (strokes/min) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer McIntosh | 00:58.50 | 02:05.59 | 03:24.95 | 4:27.71 | 43.8 |
| Katie Grimes | 00:59.85 | 02:07.15 | 03:29.91 | 4:33.40 | 41.3 |
| Emma Weyant | 01:02.78 | 02:14.14 | 03:32.73 | 4:34.93 | 43.6 |
| Freya Colbert | 01:02.58 | 02:11.88 | 03:32.52 | 4:35.67 | 42.5 |
| Ella Ramsay | 01:02.79 | 02:14.66 | 03:32.96 | 4:38.01 | 40.4 |
| Mio Narita | 01:03.32 | 02:16.28 | 03:36.96 | 4:38.83 | 39.7 |
| Katie Shanahan | 01:03.38 | 02:12.75 | 03:33.85 | 4:40.17 | 37.6 |
| Ellen Walshe | 01:03.71 | 02:16.17 | 03:35.59 | 4:40.70 | 38.7 |
Notes
edit- ^ McIntosh and Grimes were not present at the 2024 Championships.
- ^ All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
References
edit- ^ Burgaud, Florian (22 July 2024). "From concert hall and rugby stadium to Olympic swimming pool arena in a matter of weeks, the metamorphosis of the Paris La Défense Arena is complete". olympics.com. International Olympic Committee (IOC). Archived from the original on 4 August 2024. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
- ^ a b c Wild, Mark (26 July 2024). "2024 Olympics Previews: "The Livin is Easy" for McIntosh in a Youth Filled 400 IM Field". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 3 November 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
- ^ Rieder, David (22 July 2024). "Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 3: Summer McIntosh, David Popovici to Claim Gold Medals". Swimming World. Archived from the original on 26 December 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
- ^ a b Bush, Bradley (29 July 2024). "2024 Paris Olympics Finals Day 3: Fun Facts". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 14 August 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
- ^ a b c "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ a b Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
- ^ a b "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Bush, Bradley (29 July 2024). "2024 Paris Olympics Data Dive (Day 3 Prelims)". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 16 December 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
- ^ a b "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ Newberry, Paul (29 July 2024). "Swimming's next generation, from all over the globe, claims the spotlight at Paris Olympics". AP News. Archived from the original on 17 August 2024. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
- ^ Keating, Steve (29 July 2024). "Swimming-Canada's McIntosh storms to 400 metres individual medley gold". Reuters. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ a b Penland, Spencer (29 July 2024). "2024 Paris Olympics: Day 3 Finals Live Recap". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 15 January 2025. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
- ^ Hérailh, Dominique (10 October 2024). "Revisiting McIntosh's Dominant 400 IM Performance In Paris". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 2 November 2024. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
- ^ 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.