{"id":593806,"date":"2024-08-02T06:25:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T13:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=593806"},"modified":"2024-08-02T06:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T13:27:11","slug":"paris-olympics-day-7-finals-heat-sheet-tight-mens-50-freestyle-final-to-open-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paris-olympics-day-7-finals-heat-sheet-tight-mens-50-freestyle-final-to-open-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Olympics, Day 7 Finals Heat Sheet: Tight Men’s 50 Freestyle Final to Open Session"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paris Olympics, Day 7 Finals Heat Sheet: Tight Men’s 50 Freestyle Final to Open Session<\/strong><\/p>\n

Night seven of swimming finals in Paris will be a shorter session with only seven races, but the first three will all be hotly-contested finals, with the men’s 50 freestyle, women’s 200 backstroke and men’s 200 backstroke. After that will be semifinals in the men’s 100 butterfly and women’s 200 IM.<\/p>\n

Click here to view the full heat sheet<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All of the favorites successfully advanced to the 50 free final despite close calls from a pair of past championships, with Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> narrowly making it through prelims and\u00a0Florent Manaudou<\/strong> struggling in the semifinals. Manaudou will swim in lane one in the final, with Dressel in two while Ben Proud<\/strong> and\u00a0Cam McEvoy<\/strong> will have lanes four and five, respectively, after tying for the top mark in semis. Notably,\u00a0Maxime Grousset <\/strong>withdrew from the final to focus on the 100 fly, allowing\u00a0Josh Liendo<\/strong> a spot in the final.<\/p>\n

In the women’s 200 back,\u00a0Phoebe Bacon<\/strong> swam the top semifinal time ahead of defending champion\u00a0Kaylee McKeown<\/strong> while\u00a0Regan Smith<\/strong> will swim out of lane seven after she conserved energy in her semifinal heat following a silver-medal performance in the 200 fly.\u00a0Kylie Masse<\/strong>, who won silver three years ago in Tokyo, will swim in lane two.<\/p>\n

Finally,\u00a0Leon Marchand<\/strong> will try to join\u00a0Michael Phelps<\/strong> and\u00a0Mark Spitz<\/strong> as the only men to win four individual gold medals in one Olympics. Marchand is the favorite in the 200 IM, and he will be in lane four. All eight swimmers in the field have previously won a medal in this event at the Olympics and\/or World Championships, with\u00a0Carson Foster<\/strong> and\u00a0Duncan Scott<\/strong> seeded second and third, respectively, while defending champion\u00a0Wang Shun<\/strong> is in lane six.<\/p>\n

All of the favorites safely advanced into the semifinals of the two events contested here.\u00a0Grousset, Liendo and Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> swim in the first semifinal heat of the 100 fly, with\u00a0Kristof Milak<\/strong> and\u00a0Noe Ponti<\/strong> in heat two, while all four of the favorites in the 200 IM,\u00a0Summer McIntosh<\/strong>,\u00a0Kaylee McKeown<\/strong>,\u00a0Kate Douglass <\/strong>and\u00a0Alex Walsh<\/strong>, swim in the second heat.<\/p>\n