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Texas’s Luke Hobson punched his ticket to Paris in the 200 free and 4×200 relay and was one of a handful of new Olympians named to the team tonight. Current photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
15 Jun 2024 – 23 Jun 2024
A lot of changes have occurred as the 9 teams in the men’s 4×200 free relay have released their line-ups for tonight’s final.
South Africa’s Tatjana Smith joins an elite crowd as both one of three African women to win multiple Olympic Golds as well as the first swimmer since 1996 to have won both the 100 and 200 Breast.
Out of over 900 athletes competing at Trials, Louisville’s Tommy Bried improved the most from seed time across his meet.
In Fukuoka, WR holder Lilly King rebounded from a poor individual performance to lead the team to gold. In Paris, now flanked by two new WR holders, King and co will look to regain the top of the Olympic podium.
American men were faster than Australians in 11 of 14 individual events at last month’s Olympic Trials while the women’s side was tied at 7-7.
June 17th, 2024
With tonight awarding the first relay swimmers of the meet, it is time we reintroduce the term “doubles.” When we use that term, we are referring to a swimmer qualifying in more than one event, i.e., doubling up on a roster spot. If a swimmer qualifies in three events, for the purposes of the article, it would be considered as two doubles. We track ‘doubles’ to determine when the swimmers’ next priority can be officially added to the team.
Both of the rosters for the 4×200 free relays were determined today. Katie Ledecky leads the group and will be joined by fellow Olympian Paige Madden and newcomers Claire Weinstein and Erin Gemmell. Weinstein finished 2nd in the 200 free, but will likely be the top entrant in the race as Ledecky has previously alluded to dropping the race, something which she did in 2022 and 2023. As detailed below, and different from past years, should Ledecky opt not to race, the 7th place finisher in the race will not be invited to the team (if there is space).
On the men’s side, Luke Hobson and Chris Guiliano will be first-time Olympians and will take on the 200 free individually. Joining them on the relay will be veteran relay swimmers Drew Kibler and Kieran Smith, who was already named to the team in the 400.
The US team added more veterans as American Record holders Ryan Murphy and Lilly King punched their ticket to Paris. The pair had strong statement wins and will be stabilizing presences in both their events and the medley relays. Emma Weyant will look to equal or improve upon her silver medal from Tokyo in the 400 IM and joins Katie Grimes, who won the event and will take on the 400 IM for the first time at the Olympics.
The Magic Numbers:
So far, the Doubles are as follows:
Please stay tuned to this space to track all those named to the US Olympic Team. We will be tracking all those who have made the Olympic team every day. We will also be tracking the Junior Pan Pacs team, which can be found at the end of the article.
Some notes on the charts
As a reminder, the selection procedures for the US Olympic Team are as follows. The US is limited to 26 swimmers per gender and only 12 relay-only swimmers (which is shared between both teams).
Robert Gibbs, who will be contributing to the roster tracking over the course of meet, detailed the Junior Pan Pacs roster selection process here . There is a cap of 20 swimmers per gender.
Let’s go over some doubles:
Already done:
Smith: 1
Likely:
Finke: 1
Murphy: 1
Foster: 1, probably 2
Giuliano: 1
Chances:
Alexy: 1
Dressel: 1/2
Curry/Pieroni/armstrong:
Whoever gets Runner up in 800/1500: 1
Kalisz: 1
Fink: 1
Heilman: 1
I think men will be fine.
Women:
Ledecky: 3
Madden: 1
Smith: 2
Huske: 1
Gwalsh: 1, likely 2
Grimes: 1, maybe 2
King: 1
Douglas: 2
Manuel/weitzel: 1
Awalsh: 1
Women shouldn’t have anything to worry about
Yep, way more women qualifying multiple events than on the men’s side. No real concern there.
Also Swanson in 200 breast
If Alex Shackell makes the Olympic team (almost certain on the women’s team) would I be correct in saying Charlotte Crush would then be selected to the Junior Pan Pacs team as the next highest finisher in the 100 fly?
It’s unfortunate that Gabe Nunziata’s insane 100 breast time trial from day one isn’t under consideration for Jr. Pan Pacs. I think he will make up for that in the 200 though.
Bruh imagine being at the dinner table with the schakell siblings
I’d feel very short (and slow)
Aaron Shackell’s last name is spelled wrong and Giuliano is listed in Priority 1 without the 4×200 relay.
they just put 200m if the person is top 2
You’ve found one of my two flaws: Spelling. Guiliano qualified for the 200 free individually and as such it is intrinsically linked with the 4×200 Free Relay
What happens when Ledecky scratches the individual 200 free. Does that put Simone Manuel in 6th spot as a prelims swimmer for the 4x200m freestyle relay?
No, USA Swimming said they will not take the #7 swimmer for a relay event if one of the individual qualifiers opts not to swim it.
no
Isn’t that a triple for Ledecky. At least until she drops the 200 Free.
It may seem so, but no they are counted together as they are mutually inclusive of one another. If/when Katie drops the individual event it’ll be as if she and Paige Madden switch places in the events (for purposes of the table)
Thank you for the detailed explanation, Mark!
Thanks to the down votes, I re-read the article. I get it!
You’re welcome!
On the women’s sheet, 5/6/7 are duplicated, and should be 8/9/10/11/12.
Try refreshing your page. It takes a few minutes to update from the google sheet
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