2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
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The US had a huge night picking up two gold medals to put them only one behind Australia. Australia on the other hand did not win gold tonight.
The first gold for the US tonight came in the women’s 800 freestyle as Katie Ledecky earned the 9th gold medal of her career and 4th in the 800 freestyle. That made her the first woman to ever 4-peat in an event. Right after Ledecky, the US swam to gold in the mixed 4×100 medley relay, setting a new World Record in the process.
In all sports, the US won 17 total medals. That was the most-ever in a single day for the US since the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Tomorrow night features four finals, with the men’s and women’s 4×100 medley relays at the end of the session. The medal table might come down to the final race.
Canada had a big night, winning one gold, one silver, and one bronze. Summer McIntosh won her 3rd gold of the meet, becoming the first Canadian to ever win three individual gold medals in one meet. Josh Liendo won silver in the men’s 100 fly alongside Ilya Kharun who won bronze, becoming the 2nd time in which two Canadians have stood on the same podium.
Despite having nine total medals, China still only has one gold this week after narrowly finishing in 2nd behind the US tonight in the mixed medley relay, winning silver.
SWIMMING MEDAL TABLE
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Australia | 7 | 6 | 3 | 16 |
| 2 | United States | 6 | 12 | 7 | 25 |
| 3 | France | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Canada | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 5 | Hungary | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Italy | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Great Britain | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 8 | China | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| 9 | South Africa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
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10
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Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Ireland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Romania | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 13 | Sweden | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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14
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Greece | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
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16
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Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
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18
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South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
ALL SPORTS MEDAL TABLE
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China | 16 | 12 | 9 | 37 |
| 2 | United States | 14 | 24 | 23 | 61 |
| 3 | France | 12 | 14 | 15 | 41 |
| 4 | Australia | 12 | 8 | 7 | 27 |
| 5 | Great Britain | 10 | 10 | 13 | 33 |
| 6 | South Korea | 9 | 7 | 5 | 21 |
| 7 | Japan | 8 | 5 | 9 | 22 |
| 8 | Italy | 6 | 8 | 5 | 19 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| 10 | Canada | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 |
| 11 | Germany | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 12 | Romania | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 13 | Hungary | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 14 | Ireland | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 15 | New Zealand | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 16 | Croatia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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17
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Belgium | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |
| 19 | Azerbaijan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 20 | Brazil | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 21 | Israel | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 22 | Sweden | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 23 | Georgia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| – | Individual Neutral Athletes[A] | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 24 | Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 25 | Spain | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
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26
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Kazakhstan | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| 28 | Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 29 | Uzbekistan | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
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30
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Czech Republic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
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32
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Argentina | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Dominica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ecuador | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Philippines | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Serbia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Uganda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 41 | Mexico | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 42 | North Korea | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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43
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Greece | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Poland | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
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45
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Jamaica | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Kosovo | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Turkey | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
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48
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Denmark | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Ethiopia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Fiji | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mongolia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Tunisia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 53 | India | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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54
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Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Moldova | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Tajikistan | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
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57
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Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Egypt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Grenada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Portugal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
USA is definitely topping the table. This was inevitable as soon as Australia missed a gold on day 5. I said from the start there was a small chance we could top the table but it required 3 things:
1. Short to recover from his illness and convert at least 1 of his 2 strong gold chances (didn’t happen)
2. China to block some key U.S. golds (China has only blocked one gold and it was Australia’s lol)
3. Kaylee to repeat the backstroke double (yay we actually did this one)
Basically as soon as Short was out we had an uphill battle, and while we’ve had some amazing performances, we’ve had multiple toss ups not fall our way that… Read more »
China with only 1 gold? It only seems like Qin Haiyang underperformed, how does 1 dude affect a team as good as China that much?
All Aussies knew – unless a couple of miracles happened – the US would inevitably top the medal tally, though it’s been a closer race than some of us might have predicted.
With 15x Australia’s population the US will almost always top AUS (& the rest of the world) in swimming & all-sport Olympic medal tallies. But we sure do punch above our weight!
Aussies were favored after Fukuoka.
Wrong. Americans spent months after Fukuoka saying that they’re actually better and Australia got lucky and can’t perform in Europe and USA always has an off year before the Olympics.
You can’t now pretend that none of that happened and that Australia was always favoured to win.
What people said doesn’t negate what actually happened lol. Even if it makes you feel better…
Bobby Finke does need to win 1500 free for the US swimming team.
Newsflash, Nobody is beating Wiffen
USA is topping the table regardless but probably would be good for morale
Ireland
Sweden
USA
USA
Will win the finals.
Aus to get silver and two bronzes
Sjostrom wins 50 free
Wiffen wins 1500 free
USA women win medley relay
China men win medley relay
I don’t even think we get that. Silver (or bronze) in the women’s medley, nothing in the men’s medley or 1500, outside chance at a medal in the 50
Emma McKeon now has 13 medals after the MMR prelims and has a chance to join Ledecky as female swimmer with the most Olympic medals (at least until LA2028) if Australia’s womens medley relay
gets on the podium tomorrow.
I notice McKeown’s backstroke split was 0.77 faster than Kylie Masse. If that is repeated in the relay tomorrow that will help mitigate any breaststroke deficit to Canada’s Sophie Angus and aid Australia’s podium hopes.
Hoping Emma will finish her career standing on the medal dais one more time.
With four events left, and if we prematurely give Sjoestrom the 50 free, there are three strong gold medal chances for the US.
Australia is not likely winning another gold from here on in.
If the US win all three and end up with 9 gold medals, that’s 2 below their Tokyo total.
Australia’s 7 is also 2 below their Tokyo total.
That means a good, healthy spread of gold across a bunch of nations (hello Ireland, Romania, GB, Hungary).
9 gold for the US would make this the lowest gold medal total for US swimmers since 1988 (8 golds I think). Fair to say 1988 was a bit of an anomaly – as were the 1980s as a… Read more »
In terms of total medals, there’s a bit more speculation required.
The US could win 4 medals of any colour on the final day, bringing their total to 29.
29 for the US would be 1 less than their Tokyo total, and the first time with fewer than 30 medals for their swimmers since 1996 (27 medals there).
Australia at best could end up with 3 additional medals (but more likely 2), which would bring their total here to 18.
18 medals for Australia would be 3 below their Tokyo haul (21 – their best) and 2 below their Beijing total, but would still be one of the team’s biggest overall medal hauls.
France haven’t done this well since London… Read more »
Italy too (two Golds)
You also have to take into account the increase in events.
2 of USA’s golds and two silvers are in events that didn’t exist in 1988 (Mixed medley, W1500, M800, W4x200 relay).
So if you’re making a direct comparison, it would be 7 gold (or less) and 25 medals (or less).
Good point – with the increased number of events, there are greater chances to grow that medal haul for the top nations, or get more countries winning gold.
M800 is a great example of that here.
Also got to account for China’s rise in world swimming since the early 90s… complicated history aside.
USA and Australia (can also throw China in here) are all underperforming pre-meet expectations in favor of countries like Canada, France, and Germany. Swimming has never been so evenly distributed and the “winner” will only have 7-8 golds out of 35 available.
To be fair, when you say Canada and France are performing well, what you’re really saying is generational talents McIntosh and Marchand are winning multiple golds
Isn,t that true of just about every nation.You take away their best swimmer and it makes a big difference.Maybe not so much the USA and arguably Australia but it would still be a big difference.Swimmers who win gold are very rare, not many countries can subtract 3 gold and a silver and not notice a huge difference.
I think that is true even for the US and Australia.
You take away Ledecky, all of a sudden the US looks pretty ordinary as it will even have a negative effect on the relays. Same for Australia. Take away Kaylee or Titmus and all of a sudden there is a huge black hole.
And previous US high points were also due to the success of generational talents. It helps a lot when one guy hauls in 6-8 golds. (Spitz, Phelps, Dressel)
Yup, in the same sort of way Michael Phelps skewed our perspective of US dominance of the sport.
If you look at the medal tally across the last five Olympics, the huge surge in US numbers coincided perfectly with the Michael Phelps years, with 16 in Rio being the pinnacle.
That was also “helped” by Australia underperforming in London and Rio, which led to so many casual observers forgetting that Australia has always been a powerhouse in the sport. Even during those tough days for them, they won the Women’s 4x100m free with a certain consistency.
The more even spread of medals this time round harkens back to the early Michael Phelps days, ie. Sydney and Athens, where there… Read more »
yup cause the rest…
While I would’ve loved to see Australia win more golds I think this wider distribution of golds across so many countries is better for swimming and hope it doesn’t regress again after Paris.