2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
- Pool Swimming: July 27 – August 4, 2024
- Open Water Swimming: August 8 – 9, 2024
- La Défense Arena — Paris, France
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WOMEN’S 1500 FREESTYLE – HEATS
- World Record: 15:20.48 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2018)
- World Junior Record: 15:28.36 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2014)
- Olympic Record: 15:35.35 – Katie Ledecky, USA (2021)
- 2021 Winning Time: 15:37.34
- 2021 Time to Advance to Finals: 15:58.96
- Katie Ledecky (USA) – 15:47.43
- Simona Quadarella (ITA) – 15:51.19
- Anastasiia Kirpichnikova (FRA) – 15:52.46
- Isabel Gose (GER) – 15:53.27
- Moesha Johnson (AUS) – 16:04.02
- Li Bingjie (CHN) – 16:05.26
- Beatriz Dizotti (BRA) – 16:05.40
- Leonie Martens (GER) – 16:08.69
Katie Grimes of the US has missed tomorrow night’s final of the women’s 1500 freestyle after swimming the 10th fastest time of the morning with a 16:12.11. Grimes won silver in the event in a 1-2 finish for the US with Katie Ledecky at the 2022 World Championships.
Grimes holds a personal best time of a 15:44.89 that she swam at those 2022 Worlds for silver. Her season best stands at a 15:57.31 which she swam at a club meet in April. She came in with an entry time of a 15:56:27 which she swam at the beginning of March 2023 which made her the #7 seed heading into the meet, although #5 Lani Pallister of Australia did not swim this morning after testing positive for COVID-19.
The US had a 1-2 finish for gold in the event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the first time ever that the event was competed in at an Olympics. Katie Ledecky won gold while Erica Sullivan took home silver.
Grimes was coming off of a big night where she won silver in the women’s 400 IM. Grimes was the first athlete for the US to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics after earning a spot in the women’s 10km open water swim that is scheduled to take place next week in the Seine River. She is the only athlete for the US on the women’s side to be competing in both the pool and open water event.
Makes me wonder why Grimes ended up doing the 1500m (vs. 800m where she scratched at Trials) if they knew about the Olympic schedule beforehand.
Those saying her 400 IM took something out of her and resulted in the 1500 poor performance don’t realize how fit someone who swims these events is. It’s not about taper. Grimes has to be ill. Just too far off.
I’m sure Katie will bounce back. Pretty tough turn around from yesterday’s 400IM’s both physically and emotionally for her.
You could tell how much the silver medal meant to her by the raw emotion she showed when she received it. Good on her!
It’s time for Ron Aitken to explain his athletes inconsistencies.
She did just win a silver medal last night.
What has he said about Hunter? Missed semi in his next race also.
I don’t think Ron needs to explain his athletes performances, and I don’t think athletes do either. What makes me shake my head is the Sandpipers and their groupies consistently trying to give Ron all the credit when an athlete does well, and blame other coaches/programs for not being as good as Ron and his program when an athlete tanks. They will blame the conditions that all athletes swam in, the event organization,…anything but saying “I should have swam better, my fault”. Give Grimes a good job on the 400IM. She did herself, her coach, and her country proud! But not being competitive, or even close to her PB in the 1500 is a bad swim, and falls on her… Read more »
Is she part of the distance group to which Whitlock and Johnston also belong? If yes, she may have COVID too. That would explain the time.
The not tapering until Paris statement is going to come up a lot. There are two main things wrong with that idea.
1) This implies that for maximum results, you need to go hard 100% of the time, which just isn’t true and I really don’t believe they believe that. Rest and recovery are really important not just for the body but for the mind. There is a mental fatigue in addition to muscular and joint fatigue.
2) Taper meets are great for determining how is the plan working. Are the things we are doing in training, translating into results. Without getting a taper meet, you don’t know. It is an important bench mark in a training plan.
My experience as a swimmer and coach was that great miles came just as often in the middle of a great training block as they did on taper. I had a swimmer once who broke 30m on a 3000 before breaking 16:30 short course, then broke 15:30 three days later. Didn’t do it again that season.
Sandpipers in shambles rn
Weinstein went a PB…..
Ron aitken and his “no taper until paris” plan are in shambles rn
Im so glad she got her silver though.