After Peaty and Kamminga, there are 4 men who lie within a fraction of a second of each other. Arno Kamminga is #2 and recently went from a 57.90 PB to a 57.80, giving him a slight edge over the field of 58s. Not only will the final feature the fastest-ever 100 breaststroker, but it will also feature the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th fastest men in the history of the event. It’s Peaty’s race to lose and the real battle here will be for second. He’s been a 56.88 before in the event and comes in as defending Olympic and world champion. Adam Peaty is the fastest man in history a dozen times over and nearly never loses. The second final of the session is less up in the air in terms of who we expect to win. Rounding out the final here is US swimmer Torri Huske who already has the experience and the times to make it on the podium, along with a duo of women who will need a big swim in order to challenge for a top 3 finish in Sweden’s Louise Hansson and Belarus’ Anastasiya Shkurdai. Wattel successfully got her name into the ring for the podium but will likely need to be even faster than she was in round 2 considering the potential for 55s in the field. One of the wild cards here is French swimmer Marie Wattel who seemingly came out of nowhere during semis with a 56.16 national record. McKeon fell to a 56.33 for third during semis but will still be in the fight. The closest woman to her so far was Emma McKeon who tied her during prelims with a 55.82 Oceanian record. She swam the only sub 56 time during semi-finals and will once again go in as top seed. Zhang Yufei was the top seed going into the event and has thus far done what she needs in order to gun for gold. 2019 World Champion Maggie MacNeil is right next to Sjostrom in lane 7 as she tried to get back under 56 seconds and make her way onto the podium. Reigning Olympic champion and world record holder Sarah Sjostrom will be racing from lane 6, hoping to pick up her first Olympic medal of the met and leave her broken elbow in the past. The first event of the evening will be the women’s 100 butterfly final and there are almost too many storylines to keep track of. With all that out of the way, let’s get into day 2. Things wrapped up with the meet’s first world record as the Australian women stunned the field with their 3:29.69 4×100 freestyle. We saw an incredible display of outside smoke in Ahmed Hafnaoui of Tunisia who won gold in the 400 freestyle from lane 8 just hours after becoming the nation’s second-ever Olympic finalist. The first day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics provided an exciting onslaught of races including the men’s 400 free and women’s 4×100 free along with both 400 IMs.Ĭhase Kalisz and Jay Litherland demonstrated American dominance in the 400 IM by pulling off a 1-2 finish while Yui Ohashi earned gold on home soil in the women’s version. ![]() Heats: 7 PM / Semifinals & Finals: 10:30 AM (Local time).Where: Olympic Aquatics Centre / Tokyo, Japan. ![]() Open Water swimming: Wednesday, August 4 – Thursday, August 5, 2021.When: Pool swimming: Saturday, July 24 – Sunday, August 1, 2021. ![]()
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