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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Day five of the 2024 Olympic Games saw perhaps the most electrifying race thus far as Hungarian world record holder Kristof Milak tried to hold on down the stretch against a fighting Frenchman Leon Marchand in the men’s 200m fly.
When all was said and done, Marchand crushed an other-worldly last 50m of 29.8 to get to the wall first in 1:51.21 while Milak settled for silver in a still-outstanding time of 1:51.72. Canadian Ilya Kharun also landed on the podium in 1:52.80 for bronze.
Further down the line, however, was Noe Ponti of Switzerland who logged a new national record en route to capturing 5th place.
Ponti’s path saw the 23-year-old one-time NC State commit earn the 3rd seed out of the heats in 1:54.77 followed by a time of 1:54.14 for the 4th seed in last night’s semi-finals. That latter effort checked in as a new Swiss standard with Ponti tying it once again this evening as he roared to the wall in the final.
| Ponti’s 1:54.14 Final | Ponti’s 1:54.14 Semi-final | Ponti’s Previous 1:54.20 |
| 25.23 | 25.25 | 25.29 |
| 29.03 | 29,17 | 29.08 |
| 29.55 | 29.67 | 30.09 |
| 30.33 | 29.95 | 29.74 |
Ponti took bronze in the 100m fly 3 years ago at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and will race in that event again here in Paris.
Impressive that he did that in such a slow pool. Had he performed the same way in a mediocre pool, he would have broken 1:50 for sure!
That’s an unfortunate choice of photo
One could not think of a more noble photo op.
Adjustment.