2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
- June 15-23, 2024
- Lucas Oil Stadium — Indianapolis, IN
- LCM (50 Meters)
- Session Start Times (ET):
- 11 a.m. Prelims
- 7:45 p.m. Finals (varying based on broadcast needs)
- Meet Central
- Broadcast Info
- SwimSwam’s Definitive Guide to Trials
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- SwimSwam Pick ’em Contest
- Day 1 Prelims Live Recap
Long course Gretchen Walsh has arrived.
In the preliminary heats of the women’s 100 butterfly at the 2024 U.S. Olympic trials, Walsh clocked a time of 55.94 to take the top overall seed. She improved 0.2 seconds from her previous personal best of 56.14, which was set at the San Antonio Pro Swim Series this April. She also becomes the sixth-fastest performer of all-time, the second-fastest American of all-time, and the seventh woman in history to go under 56 seconds in the event.
All-Time Top Performers, Women’s 100 Butterfly:
- Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden — 55.48 (2016)
- Maggie MacNeil, Canada — 55.59 (2021)
- Zhang Yufei, China — 55.62 (2020)
- Torri Huske, United States — 55.64 (2022)
- Emma McKeon, Australia — 55.72 (2021)
- Gretchen Walsh, United States — 55.94 (2024)
The key to Walsh’s improvements have been on the back half. She swam 0.38 seconds slower than in April going out, but was 0.58 seconds faster coming back.
Split Comparison:
| Gretchen Walsh, 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials | Gretchen Walsh, 2024 San Antonio Pro Series | |
| 50m | 26.22 | 25.84 |
| 100m | 29.72 | 30.30 |
| Final | 55.94 | 56.14 |
Walsh swam the 100 fly at the 2023 World Championships, finishing eighth overall. However, her time from Saturday indicates that she could be in medal contention this year if she ends up replicating her time at the Paris Olympics.
Headed into trials, Walsh was coming off a historic NCAA season where she broke four NCAA records in four individual events. If her performance Saturday is any indication, she might be able to translate her short course success into long course just fine.
now she went 55.18, good job jeff
she averaged a 55.56 across the two swims so call me a psychic or something
You would have thought all of the ‘bathtub haters’ would have learned with Alex Walsh and KD…. you would have thought….
I had a dream several weeks ago that she went 55.57
Gretchen is in the cusp of a Dressel-esque Budapest 2017 LCM breakout and I could not be happier about it
We need her
It;s ok for Aussies (whom I generally like) to talk a little smack. They’re consistently great and it’s a pride thing.. But I take the “bathtub” shots as silly insults. So here’s a US “bathtubber” who isn’t specialized training all year in LCM who just swam the 6th fastest time ever. And Huske is in that group too, both very young. Let me re-emphasize – 4th and 6th fastest of all time, not this year or last year … and those times are more recent, bath tubs be damned. Gretchen, frankly, has a lot more ceiling yet to go.
Still not going to medal….. not better than Chinese swimmers or sarah
W rage bait
Lol Sarah
Sarah ain’t swimming 100 fly.
lol. That will age well.
If we made those calls off of prelims swims at Olympic Trials, then you wouldnt expect Phelps to win any golds in Beijing.
I don’t know how good Gretchen will be in long course this summer. But her performance in semis and finals will be the indicator.
I thought Sarah dropped the 100 fly off her Olympic program?
Trolling won’t get u anywhere
Gretchen says “hi”
And she’s nicer than you are, a low bar, but still
Nice but could we still abolish bathtub swimming?
Huge USA has a legit shot to go 1-2 in this event at Paris