2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
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In the finals of the women’s 200 butterfly at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Regan Smith clocked a best time of 2:03.84 to win a silver medal, taking down her own American record in the event by 0.03 seconds. Previously, her record was a time of 2:03.87, set at the Sun Devil Open in June of 2023.
With that time, Smith maintains her place as the fourth-fastest performer of all-time in the women’s 200 fly. She finished second in her race to Canada’s Summer McIntosh, who broke Zhang Yufei‘s textile world record from 2021 and rose to become the second-fastest performer of all-time.
Top All-Time Performers, Women’s 200-Meter Butterfly (LCM):
- Liu Zige, China — 2:01.81 (2009)
- Summer McIntosh, Canada — 2:03.03 (2024)
- Jess Schipper, Australia — 2:03.41 (2009)
- Regan Smith, United States — 2:03.84 (2024)
- Zhang Yufei, China — 2:03.86 (2021)
Compared to her previous American record, Smith was faster on her first three 50s, but was slightly slower coming home on the final lap.
Splits Comparison:
| Regan Smith, 2023 Sun Devil Open | Regan Smith, 2024 Olympic Games | |
| 50m | 27.75 | 27.60 |
| 100m | 31.83 | 31.76 |
| 150m | 32.24 | 32.14 |
| 200m | 32.05 | 32.34 |
| Total | 2:03.87 | 2:03.84 |
Smith’s silver medal was her fourth individual medal of the Olympic games, and her second of these games after she took 100 back silver as well. She only has the 200 back left to swim later on in this meet.
She has a relay left also
Great swim for the true gold medalist from Tokyo!!!
This will give her lots of confidence going into the 2 back tomorrow.
I love Regan Smith. She may end up being the greatest American swimmer ever not to win individual gold in the Olympics.
The Lazlo Cseh experience
The crazy thing is the 100 fly might have been her best shot at gold this week, too.
Katie Hoff and Shirley Bashashoff are the other two that were great without winning an individual gold medal.
Slow pool alert, slow pool alert!
Outstanding swims for both Summer McIntosh and Regan Smith! Well done – great racing!
Great race. Summer will likely get the WR down the line, but Regan probably won’t be far behind.
Nice to see the American record from Regan, while eclipsing Zhang’s Olympic record in the process. Zhang hung as tough as she could, but she wasn’t this strong down the stretch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER5J_HO6RaU.
Really gutted for Smith but also excited for McIntosh. Although it seems unlikely, I’m really hoping she’ll take the 200 Back gold…