2020 TOKYO SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
- When: Pool swimming: Saturday, July 24 – Sunday, August 1, 2021
- Open Water swimming: Wednesday, August 4 – Thursday, August 5, 2021
- Where: Olympic Aquatics Centre / Tokyo, Japan
- Heats: 7 PM / Semifinals & Finals: 10:30 AM (Local time)
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It’s last call for entries in SwimSwam’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic pick ’em contest, with selections closing at 5 am Eastern Time on July 24, one hour before the first preliminary heats kick off.
If you’ve already entered but want to change some of your picks, you’re able to do so right up until the deadline by going to the “edit your responses” option.
Click Here to Enter
Here are a few statistics from the entries we’ve received thus far:
- Katie Ledecky is the biggest favorite to win an event, earning 99.2% of the first-place selections in the women’s 1500 freestyle. Adam Peaty is a close second in the men’s 100 breaststroke at 99.1%.
- The most wide open event, according to our readers, appears to be the women’s 50 free, where the top pick, Sarah Sjostrom, only received 32.6% of the first-place selections. Australians Emma McKeon (22.5%) and Cate Campbell (21.8%) have also been popular picks.
- The race that looks like the closest thing to a coin flip between two swimmers is the women’s 400 free, where top seed Ariarne Titmus (52.2%) and Ledecky (47.8%) are near a 50/50 split to win.
- The most popular second-place pick is currently Kristof Milak in the men’s 100 butterfly (86.5%), with Simona Quadarella not far behind in the women’s 1500 free (82.5%).
- The strongest favorite in a relay are the Aussie women in the 4×100 free, receiving 92.4% of first-place votes.
- The most wide open relay event comes is the men’s 4×200 free, where Great Britain (43.1%) leads the pack but the United States (17.7%), Russia (17.0%), Australia (11.5%) and Italy (10.7%) have all received their fair share of first-place selections.
Click here for a full breakdown of the pick ’em contest rules, scoring system and prizes.
is it allowed to pick the same athlete at different spots in the same event?
Nothing stopping it!
I got 100 Benjamins on Walsh in 200IM to win it all! Lets get this started! Yea!
$10,000? That’s a lot
Either you didn’t realize what 100 Benjamin’s mean or your out of your mind.
or he’s loaded
You can thank Kaylee if you win that bet
Peaty recently gave an interview where he said he is going for “project immortal”, which is a 56.5. This is meant to be a perfect swim according to Peaty.
I think he said his “perfect swim” comes up to 56.1, so they decided 56.5 was the ‘target’, as a perfect swim doesn’t exist.
would love to see a grid for each event & percentages per athlete
After the event closes we’ll try to put that together.
10.7% of readers have Italy in the mens 4×2? Are you guys okay?
Italy is a bit of a sleeper there but picking them for Gold does seem crazy.
It’s because all of the dropdowns for individual events are ordered by seed time, whereas for the relay events they’re ordered by 2019 prelims finishers (or something like that). When you fill out the form, you see that Italy are listed first in the dropdown and so 10% of readers just clicked the first choice as Italy assuming that must mean they have the top seed time lol
proudly part of the 0.9% for MA gold in 1 breast
I think you meant stup1dly.
It would be interesting to know what is the score for Milak 200 fly? This seems to be the most predictable win…
97.5%. Seto has 1.9% of 1st place picks in that event.
I think men’s 100 breast and women’s 1500 are more predictable and it seems 99.1% of people agree with me.