2024 U.S. OLYMPIC TRIALS
- June 15-23, 2024
- Lucas Oil Stadium — Indianapolis, IN
- LCM (50 Meters)
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- 7:45 p.m. Finals (varying based on broadcast needs)
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In the semi-finals of the men’s 100 freestyle at the 2024 U.S. Olympic trials, Chris Guiliano clocked a time of 47.25 to head into finals as the top overall seed. He now becomes the third-fastest American ever in the event, as well as the 13th-fastest performer of all-time.
Guiliano improved from his best time of 47.49, set during long course time trials after the 2024 ACC Championships.
All-Time Top U.S. Performers, Men’s 100-Meter Freestyle (LCM):
- Caeleb Dressel — 46.96 (2019/2021)
- Jack Alexy — 47.08 (2024)
- Chris Guiliano — 47.25 (2024)
- David Walters — 47.33 (2009)
- Ryan Held — 47.39 (2019)
Compared to his previous best time, Guiliano had the exact same speed on his back half. However, he was 0.14 seconds faster going out, which made the difference in his improvement.
Splits Comparison:
| Chris Guiliano, 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials semi-finals | Chris Guiliano, 2024 post-ACC Championships time trials | |
| 50m | 22.61 | 22.85 |
| 100m | 24.64 | 24.64 |
| Total | 47.25 | 47.49 |
Headed into finals, with Caeleb Dressel, Jack Alexy, and Guiliano all qualifying, the three fastest Americans in history will all be in contention to qualify for the Paris Olympic team in the 100 free and the 4×100 free relay.
Guiliano is already qualified to swim the 200 freestyle at the Paris Olympic Games. On Wednesday night, he has a chance to add a second event to his lineup.
Is he of Italian descent? If so, I am almost certain they misspelled the surname of his forefathers at Ellis Island…
crazy that the top 4 legitimate performers all time could end up on a relay together.
Also crazy that one of the three fastest ever won’t even go in the individual 100 free
How are Popovici, McEvoy and Chalmers not legitimate?
He’s talking about the Us list u buffoon
This US trials, not the Olympics, he’s talking about the two person limit per country for ind. entries.
We also time to the 100th and not the 1000th anymore as well
Dressel only went 46.96 once. his best in 2021 was 47.02
it’s the 50 free where he went the same time in both years (21.04)
When was the last time someone made the Oly team in the individual 100 and 200 frees?
Hmmmmm let me ask @barry
Matt Biondi and Mitzi Kramer – 1988
If you meant man or woman, then Missy Franklin in 2012.
Funny thing about m100 free textile WR (I am discounting rubber for the purpose of continuity) in the past 50 years is that they were almost never broken in individual final in a major championships.
Popov swam and broke WR 48.21 in Monte Carlo 1994
Michael Klim 48.18 relay lead off Sydney 2000
Pieter VDH 47.84 semifinal Sydney 2000
James Magnussen 47.49 relay lead off Shanghai 2011
James Magnussen 47.10 Australian trials 2012
Cameron McEvoy 47.04 Australian trials 2016
Caeleb Dressel 46.96 Gwangju 2019, this is the first time 100 free textile WR broken in individual 100 free final at major championships final since Jim Montgomery did it in 1976 Montreal
David Popovici 46.86 Rome 2022
Pan Zhanle 46.80 relay… Read more »
J0nty Skinner 76 US Nationals 49.44 breaking Montgomery’s fresh Olympic time-@Kelly Pool Philadelphia
Crazy swim. Seriously, one of the very best ever. Absolute crap pool. Maybe 4′ deep from the start end to at least 20m and low-tech ropes. Chop & waves all over the place. 49.44 and it stood ’till Rowdy beat it in a time trail 5 years later!! FYI, 49.44 would have won Gold in ’84 by almost .5 seconds!!
Absolutely loved swimming there. Remember after one meet watching the crazy kids ride bicycles off the top diving tower into the diving well. Ah…good times….
Eamon Sullivan also on a relay.
Rubber
I’ve gotten bullish on him & think he’ll be top 2 tomorrow. Don’t know how well that will age 🤷🏻♂️ but dude looks phenomenal.
I think lane 4 is not optimal for finals.
Here’s a swimflation stat: 29/50 of the top men’s 100 free performances of all time have occurred after 2020