The swimming competitions at the Tokyo Olympics run from Saturday, July 24 through Saturday, July 31 Eastern time.
The team of Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew, Caeleb Dressel and Zach Apple outpaced Adam Peaty and Great Britain, who came home in 3:27.51, to finish off the Olympics with one last gold for the Americans.
Cate Campbell passed Abbey Weitzeil on the final leg to win gold for the Australians in the women’s 4X100-meter medley relay in an Olympic record 3:51.60, just over one-tenth of a second ahead of the U.S.
Australia’s Emma McKeon set an Olympic record to win gold in the women’s 50-meter freestyle, finishing in 23.81 seconds.
Women’s 50m free final : Abbey Weitzeil is the lone American in the field, swimming out of Lane 6.
“Right now, I’m guessing he’s breaking the world record,” Lochte said, as he prepared to watch the men’s 100-meter butterfly final with The Athletic over Zoom Friday night.
led after Ryan Murphy’s backstroke leg to start, but complications arose when Lydia Jacoby’s goggles slipped off her face at the start of her breaststroke leg.
In typical Katie Ledecky fashion, the American led wire-to-wire to win gold in the women’s 800-meter freestyle in 8:12.57, her third straight Olympic gold in the event.
Dressel will race in the 100-meter butterfly final at the beginning of the night in the NBC prime-time window, then is expected to return at the end for the mixed 4X100-meter medley relay.
Women’s 800m free final : It should be a gold-medal sendoff for Ledecky, but 15-year-old American Katie Grimes has a great chance at a medal too.
finished fourth in its heat and had to sweat out the second heat to find out they qualified seventh for the final.
by one one-hundredth of a second on Friday to take the top seed into Saturday night’s women’s 4X100-meter medley relay final.
American Bobby Finke, a surprise winner in the inaugural men’s 800-meter freestyle competition at the Olympics, is in good position to medal in the 1500-meter as well.
The semis are Friday night Eastern time, with the final to follow on Saturday, the final night of the swimming program.
His 21.32 time was over three-tenths — a relative eternity in the 50 — better than second-place Florent Manaudou of France and missed an Olympic record by three one-hundredths of a second.
Caeleb Dressel and Michael Andrew are the men’s hopes for the U.S., and Simone Manuel and Abbey Weitzeil lead the way for the American women.
A couple of other big names — Canada’s Kylie Masse and Australia’s Kaylee McKeown — will be in Friday’s final too.
Leading after 150 meters, American Michael Andrew couldn’t hold the lead in his weakest leg of the 200-meter IM, slipping back to fifth during the freestyle portion and missing the podium by over a second in the final medal race of Thursday night.
Another Olympic record fell Thursday night in the women’s 100-meter freestyle as Emma McKeon, the Australian favorite, won her first individual gold medal by out-touching teammate Cate Campbell and Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey.
The ROC’s Evgeny Rylov was on his game Thursday night, leading the whole way and setting an Olympic record en route to a gold medal in the men’s 200-meter backstroke.
Lilly King flew off the block and led Thursday night’s 200-meter breaststroke final for 150 meters before South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker finished like the favorite she was, setting a world record of 2:18.95 to outpace King by about one second.
Caeleb Dressel continued to look strong in his signature event Thursday night, setting another Olympic record in the 100-meter butterfly semis in 49.71 seconds to take the top seed into Friday night’s final.
Caeleb Dressel is back in the pool for the men’s 100-meter butterfly semis to start off the Thursday night prime-time session, and that’s followed by four more medal races and another round of semis.
In the first-ever Olympic mixed 4X100-meter medley relay, Great Britain took the edge heading into the final with a 3:38.75 in prelims. The U.S.
Australia’s Kaylee McKeown was best in the women’s 200-meter backstroke prelims, finishing in 2:08.18, five one-hundredths of a second better than American Rhyan White and Canada’s Kylie Masse.
Perhaps energized from his thrilling win in the 100-meter freestyle final, Caeleb Dressel looked every bit the part of a gold-medal favorite in the men’s 100-meter butterfly, setting the Olympic record and nearly breaking his own world mark in 50.39 seconds.
Katie Ledecky got off to a good start in her latest quest for gold at the Tokyo Olympics, finishing with the top time in qualifying for the women’s 800-meter freestyle final in 8:15.67.
After her impressive final leg in the women’s 4X200-meter relay, Katie Ledecky will be back in the pool in the morning Eastern time for the 800-meter freestyle.
All three medal-winning teams broke the existing world record in the women’s 4X200-meter freestyle relay, but it was China that got to the wall before the U.S.
China’s Wang Shun, Great Britain’s Duncan Scott, and Japan’s Daiya Seto all cracked 1:57 to finish 1-2-3 in the semis of the men’s 200-meter IM.
But the Americans will have a mountain to climb to get to gold, as South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker dropped another impressive swim, finishing first in 2:19.33, just a hair off her Olympic record time from prelims and 2.61 seconds better than Lazor, 2.94 better than King.
Caeleb Dressel held off a hard-charging field for gold in the men’s 100-meter freestyle on Wednesday, finishing in an Olympic record 47:02.
The ROC’s Evgeny Rylov topped the semis with a 1:54.45, with Great Britain’s Luke Greenbank about a half-second behind that and Murphy in third another four-tenths slower.
Australia’s Emma McKeon had the top time at 52.32, eight-tenths of a second better than second-place Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong, to lead the field in the women’s 100-meter semifinals.
The Netherlands’ Arno Kamminga won silver and Finland’s Matti Mattsson took bronze — both of them finishing in times that also topped the previous Olympic record but weren’t good enough to track down Stubblety-Cook on this day.
in the first Olympic men’s 800-meter freestyle final, storming back with an incredible final 50 meters to beat everyone to the wall, finishing in 7:41.87.
Women’s 100m free semis : The two Americans in the field, Abbey Weitzeil and Erika Brown, are in the first race.
team of Arabella Sims, Paige Madden, Katie McLaughlin and Brooke Forde got the United States the second seed in the final for the women’s 4X200-meter relay.
radar after Michael Andrew topped the field in the prelims of the men’s 200-meter IM.
Americans Lilly King and Annie Lazor on Wednesday eased into the semis of the women’s 200-meter breaststroke, but they’ll have a tall order to win gold in this one after South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker made a statement with an Olympic record swim of 2:19.16, nearly three seconds better than second-place King.
With an Olympic record of 52.13, Australian Emma McKeon was first in qualifying in the women’s 100-meter freestyle Wednesday morning.
Kieran Smith got the Americans off to a strong start Tuesday night in the men’s 4X200-meter freestyle relay, but the favored team from Great Britain showed its might as the race went on to easily win gold.
As expected, Katie Ledecky bounced back in her signature event, the 1500-meter freestyle, winning easily to get her first gold of the Tokyo Olympics and fifth individual gold in her career.
A solid event for Nic Fink continued Tuesday as the American earned a spot in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke final, finishing fourth in the semis.
Milak was expected to dominate and didn’t disappoint — though Michael Phelps’ world record, thought to be in jeopardy in this one, remains intact.
After beating Katie Ledecky in the 400-meter freestyle earlier this week, she came back to win the 200-meter freestyle, edging out Hong Kong’s Siobhán Bernadette Haughey, who swims collegiately at Michigan.
Already with one relay gold to his name in these Olympics, American star Caeleb Dressel is in good shape for tomorrow’s 100-meter freestyle final.
The American star will race in the 200-meter freestyle final and then return to the pool just over an hour later for her best event, the 1500-meter freestyle final.
American Bobby Finke finished third in the men’s 800-meter freestyle prelims in the final race of the Tuesday morning session, with a personal best time of 7:42.72.
The strong Great Britain team that had swimmers go 1-2 in the men’s individual 200-meter freestyle cruised to victory in the semifinals of the relay, even without silver medalist Duncan Scott.
American Nic Fink finished fourth in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke prelims, just 0.04 off the third spot and Finland’s Matti Mattsson.
Hali Flickinger had the second-best time and fellow American Regan Smith was fourth in what was ultimately an exhibition race Tuesday in the women’s 200-meter butterfly prelims. Only 16 women swam across three heats, meaning all of them were guaranteed to advance to the semis.
The Americans are set up well for the women’s 200-meter IM as Kate Douglass and Alex Walsh ifnished first and third, respectively, in Monday’s semis.
He breezed into the final with a time over 2.5 seconds better than anyone else in Monday’s semis.
In the final medal race of the evening, another surprise: Lydia Jacoby, the rising teenage American star from Alaska, beat both fellow American Lilly King and South African star Tatjana Schoenmaker to take gold in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke.
Canada’s Kylie Masse took silver, with American Regan Smith — who had set the existing Olympic record just the night before in the semis — settling for bronze.
Racing on either side of American Kieran Smith, Dean and Scott caught up to the field in the final 50 meters and touched four-tenths of a second apart — Dean in 1:44:22, Scott in 1:44:26.
Titmus had the best time in the women’s 200-meter freestyle Monday night and figures to be the favorite in Tuesday night’s final.
Women’s 100m back final : Regan Smith set the Olympic record in the semifinals, making her the favorite in a field of big names who are all capable of winning gold.
South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker had the best time in the semis by over three-tenths of a second and set the Olympic record in her preliminary swim.
Men’s 200m fly semis : American Zach Harting is in the first heat and looks like a finalist-to-be.
A couple of hours after topping the 200-meter freestyle prelims field, Katie Ledecky was back in the pool for the debut of the women’s 1500-meter freestyle.
Kate Douglass had the top overall time by more than a half-second and Alex Walsh tied for third, sandwiched around 2016 gold medalist Katinka Hosszu of Hungary, in prelims for the women’s 200-meter individual medley.
American Zach Harting made himself a name to watch in the men’s 200-meter butterfly, finishing fourth in prelims in 1:54.92.
Just hours after losing out in her bid for gold in her first event of these Olympics, Katie Ledecky was back in the pool Monday in the women’s 200-meter freestyle.
She outpaced second-place Penny Oleksiak of Canada by one-tenth of a second.
Making his Olympic debut, Caeleb Dressel was a little off his best time on the first leg of the relay, but three swimmers making their Olympic finals debuts followed and showed no nerves.
In the women’s event, Smith set a new Olympic record and topped a loaded field, with fellow American Rhyan White in fourth.
Because Ledecky has been the most dominant swimmer on the planet over the last nine years, Titmus had a gold standard to work toward.
We knew this final would be one of the closest of the entire Olympics, based on each swimmer’s best times of the year.
Titmus nearly broke Ledecky’s five-year-old world record in the event, finishing with her personal best time and the second-fastest 400 free in history in 3:56.69.
American superstar Katie Ledecky’s rivalry with Australia’s Ariarne Titmus is off to a crackling start.
Defending Olympic champ Lilly King and 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby finished second and third, respectively, in Sunday night’s semifinals, behind South Africa’s Tatiana Schoenmaker.
American Kieran Smith finished second overall in the men’s 200-meter freestyle semifinals swimming out of Lane 1 in the second heat.
They took silver in the 4X100-meter medley relay last night, and MacNeil finished strong to take first in a stacked 100-meter butterfly field on Sunday.
Later, Katie Ledecky will swim for her first medal out of Lane 4 with the best qualifying time in the women’s 400-meter freestyle.
The men’s 4X100-meter freestyle relay is the final event of the night, and it figures to be Caeleb Dressel’s debut in the pool.
They’ll have two chances at it with Michael Andrew and Andrew Wilson both in the field, but Great Britain’s Adam Peaty is the dominant favorite, and Andrew and Wilson’s semifinal times were fifth- and eighth-best, respectively.
Here’s a look at the medal races on the schedule with approximate start times in Eastern time.
The Americans went with Brooks Curry, Blake Pieroni, Bowen Becker and Zach Apple for the prelim heat.
Ryan Murphy, the world-record holder who won gold in this event in Rio, moved on to the semifinals of the men’s 100-meter backstroke on Sunday to continue his quest for a repeat.
Lilly King, a breakout star of the 2016 Rio Olympics, finished third in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke prelims on Sunday, with 17-year-old U.S.
Townley Haas and Kieran Smith qualified 10th and 13th, respectively, for the men’s 200-meter freestyle semifinals, both more than a second off the best times.
The record was actually set three times during the heats, as Canada’s Kylie Masse set it with a 58.23 before Smith got in the pool.
I learned more about the 400-meter individual medley from his comments during the race than I have over the course of a decade covering the sport.
They have a completely star-studded lineup led by Cate Campbell and Emma McKeon, and they did not disappoint, crushing the world record.
The unquestioned king of the men’s 100-meter breaststroke is looking strong again, locking in the top time in Saturday’s semifinals.
Weyant had the top time in the prelims but Japan’s Yui Ohashi bested her for gold in the final.
swimming star, qualified for Sunday night’s final in the women’s 100-meter butterfly, finishing with the fifth-best time in Saturday’s semifinals.
Chase Kalisz was more than three seconds slower than his best time, but there’s no need to ever apologize for winning.