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.
I know she wants a gold (I’d love to win one myself, but unless I get really good at curling, that isn’t going to happen), but with the way she swam, she shouldn’t be unhappy. She set an American record and a PR. It took an Olympic record to beat her.
Silver queen
Tremendous race by Regan. She seemed to understand it herself. There was satisfaction in her eyes and congratulations to Summer. In prior years Regan knew she had stalled late. You could see the shattered thoughts as she looked at the board.
Summer was in between strokes to every wall. Otherwise she was comfortably under 2:03. The first wall was particularly long. I thought she needed a pop stroke there. At finish it was the opposite. I think she could have gone under 2:03 without the additional short stroke. But fully understandable to make sure to get there.
She has a relay left also
Great swim for the true gold medalist from Tokyo!!!
why are there so many downvotes? zhang yufei tested positive before the olympics and should not have been competing. was the “investigation” even complete by then?
According to you, not WADA. Guess what? Your vote doesn’t count – and shouldn’t.
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.
She’s not beating Huske.
I mean we’ll never know but Huske jumped one person that beat her at trials to win, idk why that could have happened with Smith if she’d qualified.
We’re talking in hypotheticals; of course it was possible
Katie Hoff and Shirley Bashashoff are the other two that were great without winning an individual gold medal.
Regan Smithoff?
Slow pool alert, slow pool alert!