2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
Pals, that is it: the ultimate session of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials. After every week of unbelievable racing, there are simply two extra finals left to race — the ladies’s 50 freestyle and the boys’s 1500 freestyle.
Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske threw down the gauntlet in final evening’s 50 freestyle semifinals, ripping lifetime bests of 24.06 and 24.09 respectively. Not solely did that transfer them as much as 4th and sixth on the record of the quickest Individuals in historical past, nevertheless it places them away from the remainder of the sector by roughly four-tenths — an enormous margin. However Abbey Weitzeil and Simone Manuel have been the highest two on this occasion for the final two Olympic Trials. They’re the third and 4th qualifiers for the ultimate and are each aiming to lock up a person occasion for the Paris Video games.
Bobby Finke ought to take management of the boys’s 1500 freestyle. He’s going for the sweep of the boys’s distance occasions in Indianapolis, having gained the 800 freestyle earlier this week. It will be an enormous upset if anybody had been to dethrone Finke, the American file holder and third quickest all-time, as he seems to be to win this occasion for the second straight Trials. The race for second is heating up behind him as Luke Whitlock eyes locking up one other Olympic occasion. However as the one man within the ultimate moreover Finke who’s been below the OQT (15:00.99) it’s Charlie Clark who could maintain a bonus over Whitlock and the opposite possible contenders David Johnston and Daniel Matheson.
WOMEN’S 50 FREESTYLE — Closing
Closing:
- Simone Manuel (SUN), 24.13
- Gretchen Walsh (NAC), 24.15
- Abbey Weitzeil (CAL), 24.26
- Torri Huske (AAC), 24.33
- Rylee Erisman (LAKR), 24.62
- Erika Connolly (TNAQ), 24.63
- Catie DeLoof (NYAC), 24.69
- Maxine Parker (CA-Y), 24.90
On the ultimate evening of Trials, Simone Manuel took her swimming comeback to a brand new degree by including a person occasion to her Olympic schedule in Paris. She was already certified for Staff USA within the 4×100 freestyle relay however her win right here within the 50 freestyle provides her an opportunity to contest the 50 freestyle for the third straight Olympics.
In 2021, Manuel punched her ticket to Paris on this occasion — her final alternative. Tonight, Manuel grabbed her final alternative for a person occasion with each palms, swimming her quickest time because the 2019 World Championships and taking the win in 24.13. The time takes .21 seconds off her season finest and slots her into eighth on the earth this season.
Each Gretchen Walsh and Torri Huske added from their semifinals occasions, which might have gotten first and second on this ultimate. Regardless of including .09 seconds, Walsh was nonetheless capable of get her hand on the wall in 2nd place with a 24.15, including to her Paris program. She was .02 seconds off Manuel’s time and the swim is the second quickest of her profession.
Abbey Weitzeil had a powerful swim, taking third in 24.26, knocking .01 seconds off her season-best and ending forward of Huske’s 24.33.
15 yr outdated Rylee Erisman completed fifth in 24.62, taking one other .04 seconds off her private finest. In semifinals, she moved as much as 2nd within the 15-16 age group per USA Swimming with a 24.66. She improves her maintain on 2nd within the age group with this swim, behind solely Claire Curzan‘s 24.17.
MEN’S 1500 FREESTYLE — Closing
- World Document: Solar Yang (CHN) – 14:31.02 (2012)
- American Document: Bobby Finke – 14:31.59 (2023)
U.S. Open Document: Bobby Finke (USA) – 14:42.81 (2023)- World Junior Document: Franko Grgic (CRO) – 14:46.09 (2019)
- 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Champion: Bobby Finke – 14:46.06
- 2024 Olympic Qualifying Time: 15:00.99
Closing:
- Bobby Finke (SPA), 14:40.28 U.S. Open Document
- David Johnston (TST), 14:52.74
- Luke Whitlock (FAST), 14:53.00
- Daniel Matheson (SUN), 14:59.51
- Luke Ellis (SAND), 15:06.71
- Charlie Clark (OSU), 15:12.60
- William Mulgrew (SAC), 15:17.62
- Carson Hick (KYA), 15:17.92