2024 GIANT OPEN – SAINT-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE
- Saturday, March 22nd & Sunday, March 23rd
- Saint-German-En-Laye, France
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The second stop of the 2024 Giant Open kicks off tomorrow in Saint-Germain-En-Laye, France. This competition serves as a follow-up to last week’s Meeting Camille Muffat, named after the national record holder who died in a helicopter crash in 2015.
Both stops represent tune-up opportunities for French athletes ahead of their all-important Olympic Trials on the calendar for June.
The fields stemming from Switzerland, the Netherlands, South Africa and more have remained mostly intact from the first competition.
Missing stars include Melanie Henique from the host nation, Thom de Boer of the Netherlands and Nikolett Padar from Hungary.
Also absent is Tunisia’s Ahmed Jaouadi, the 18-year-old who produced a lifetime best of 3:45.95 in the 400m free from the Camille Muffat stop.
We’ll see if Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey can continue her success from last week. In Nice, the 24-year-old fired off the following performances to represent a standout swimmer throughout that 4-day affair.
- 100m free – 54.26 *Personal Best
- 200m free – 1:57.06 *Personal Best
- 100m fly – 58.61 2nd-best time of career
- 400m IM – 4:36.79 *Personal Best
Key Entrants
- Australia – Maddy Gough
- Brazil – Marcelo Chierighini, Joao Gomes, Jr., Guilherme Guido
- Canada – Mary-Sophie Harvey
- France – David Aubry, Charlotte Bonnet, Beryl Gastaldello, Maxime Grousset, Anastasia Kirpichnikova, Mewen Tomac, Marie Wattel, Florent Manaudou, Yohann Ndoye-Brouard, Analia Pigree
- Hungary – Zsuzsanna Jakabos, Szebasztian Szabo
- Israel – Meirun Cheruti
- South Africa – Chad Le Clos
- Switzerland – Jeremy Desplanches, Roman Mityukov, Noe Ponti
- United States – Michael Andrew
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Could you maybe add “and Olympic Champion” somewhere in the description about Muffat in the 1st paragraph?
Olympic Champion London Olympic Games 400 free
The meet in Nice was used to qualify for this finale. This meet is only 2 days and prelims and finals each day. The medalist get prize money. The top 3 swims of the series based on points gets prize money too.
MA is not going to do well keep coping buddy
The Seller of the Century Michael Andrew try to let go of non-Olympic 50 races during the Olympic year challenge (NOT POSSIBLE)
I think he’s swimming the 100BR, 100FL here and a bunch of 50s. He needs to start putting up faster times in the 100fly if he wants any shot at qualifying in that race. Something in the 51 low to mid range would be promising. I’d like to see a 59 low to mid in the100BR. 50FR maybe 21.7 here? This would at least show a progression towards trials.
MA has already swam 51.6 100 fly in WC series. He swam 59.5 100 breast at US Open. He swam a 200 IM in WC. The 200 IM conflicts with 50 free. However he has been working on his free technique for the 200 IM all year and it looks great. I hope he swims it at San Antonio.
I think the concern about MA is whether he can put himself into deep enough fatigue with the USRPT training to have a big taper for trials and qualify in his individual events, which may require even faster times than 2021. Since he hasn’t hit any of those times since 2021 trials, the only logical assumption is that he hasn’t replicated the same work and taper process since 2021 trials.
He did pretty good at the World Championships 2022 Budapest. He made the podium in 3 individual events. On finals medley relay 100 fly he swam 50.0 silver medal, mixed medley 100 fly 50.6 in prelims relay gold. He hauled in 5 medals at World Championship. I don’t think he has been doing strict USRPT for a long time now. I hope he does a 200 IM at San Antonio as his free technique for the 200 IM looks awesome.
MA will NOT qualify in the 100fly. Dressel and Rose will easily beat him.
I’d give a better chance in the 100breast where behind Fink the #2 spot is wide open.
I actually think MA has a better shot in the 2IM than the 100fly with Dressel returning now and a stacked 100fly field (Rose, Casas, Condorelli…) . I am not sure the OLY schedule but I think one of them conflicts with the 50free??
Casas will place 9th yet again and miss out on the final
I have no idea what Casas will do. It will be good entertainment for sure.