24 hours after being crowned the 50m free champion, Caeleb Dressel places first in the 100m butterfly.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – As the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials near the end, Caeleb Dressel is just getting started. The former Gator won the 100m fly to capture his second-individual title on Saturday night inside Lucas Oil Stadium. He is now set for three events in Paris: 50m free, 100m fly and the 4x100m free relay.
Zoe Dixon and Isabel Ivey joined Dresel in the night session, competing in the 200m IM finals.
Overall, 11 Florida swimmers competed on day eight: Micayla Cronk, Zoe Dixon, Bobby Dinunzio, Caeleb Dressel, Bobby Finke, Isabel Ivey, Amadeusz Knop, Gio Linscheer, Josh Parent, Andrew Taylor and incoming freshman Luke Whitlock.
HOW IT HAPPENED – FINALS SESSION
Men’s 100m Fly Finals – Results<https://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011800030104EC0104FFFFFFFFFF01.pdf>
Dressel’s was first to the 50-meter wall, clocking a 23.53 split. Unlike his previous two 100m fly races, when the Olympic gold medalist pushes in the last stretch, Dressel was the first to turn in 23.53. He crashed into the wall in 50.19, recording his fastest time in two-years.
Women’s 200m IM Finals – Results<https://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011800030205EE0104FFFFFFFFFF01.pdf>
Zoe Dixon and Isabel Ivey both crushed their previous-best times in tonight’s final. Ivey quickly fell the end of the pack, but she slowly fought back and positioned herself in fifth heading into the final leg. The seven-time All-American put everything she had in the final 50-meters to record the fastest free split, 29.92. She touched the wall in 2:10.09 to move from fifth to third place, while posting a personal best.
Dixon was second off the blocks to post a 28.33 opening-butterfly split, which is faster than her semifinals time (29.06). She settled into the middle of the pack following backstroke and finished sixth in 2:12.01 for a new personal best.
HOW IT HAPPENED – MORNING SESSION
Women’s 50m Free – Results<https://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011800030201EB0101FFFFFFFFFF01.pdf>
Representing the Gator women in the morning session, Micyala Cronk raced in her third and final event. She touched the wall one last time in 26.08 to finish seventh in the fifth heat and 63rd overall.
Men’s 1500m Free – Results<https://www.omegatiming.com/File/00011800030101F30101FFFFFFFFFF01.pdf>
Seven Gators headlined the last prelim session of the event. Josh Parent, Andrew Taylor and Amadeusz Knop kicked things off in heat one. Per usual, Parent and Taylor kicked it in gear in the last half of the race to surpass Lukas Vetkoetter, who was in first place the majority of the race. The Gator duo started to inch closer to Vetkoetter beginning in the 1000-meter mark. By the final stretch, Parent took control of the lead to clock a 15:25.11 for a personal best. Taylor followed in second after completely obliterating his previous-best time of 15:38.83 with his 15:26.07. Knop wasn’t close behind in fourth after he also recorded a personal-best time, 15:35.59.
In heat three, Bobby Dinunzio touched the wall in 15:36.59 to finish 28th overall, while Gio Linscheer recorded 15:41.44 to place 36th.
Luke Whitlock advanced to the finals after he placed second in the fifth heat. Whitlock continued the momentum from his second-place finish in the 800m free on Tuesday, dropping time off his previous-best after stopping the clock in 15:07.36. He garnered the fourth seed heading into tomorrow’s final.
Joining the incoming Gator is former Gator, Bobby Finke. The 1500m free Tokyo Olympic gold medalist published the only time below 15:00.00 after comfortably winning the last heat in 14:59.04. He took the top-final spot in Sunday’s race.
SATURDAY RESULTS
Saturday, June 22
Finals Results
Men’s 100m Butterfly
1st – Caeleb Dressel – 50.19
Women’s 200m IM Finals
3rd – Isabel Ivey – 2:10.09
6th – Zoe Dixon – 2:12.01
Morning Heats Results
Women’s 50m Freestyle
*Top-16 advance to Finals*
63rd – Micayla Cronk – 26.08
Men’s 1500m Freestyle
*Top eight advance to Finals*
1st Bobby Finke – 14.59.04
4th – Luke Whitlock* – 15:07.36
16th – Josh Parent – 15:25.11
17th – Andrew Taylor – 15:26.07
26th – Amadeusz Knop – 15:35.59
28th – Bobby Dinunzio – 15:36.35
36th – Gio Linscheer – 15:41.44
*Incoming Gators
GATORS ON THE U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM
Name
Event
Kieran Smith
4X200m Freestyle Relay
Caeleb Dressel
4x100m Freestyle Relay
50m Freestyle
100m Butterfly
Bobby Finke
800m Freestyle
Emma Weyant
400m IM
GATOR OLYMPIC HOPEFULS
Name
Event
Place
Time
Luke Whitlock
800m Free
2nd Place
7:45.19
UP NEXT
Sunday, June 23 marks the final day of action inside Lucas Oil Stadium, with the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swim Team being named at the end of the meet. The women’s 50m free final opens the finals session, with Bobby Finke going for his second-consecutive 1500m freestyle title tomorrow night to conclude the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials.
In Knoxville, Tenn., Casey Greenberg takes her shot at making the U.S. Olympic Diving Team tomorrow night in the women’s platform. She will make her appearance at 7:00 p.m. ET inside the
SWIMMING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Session Start Times (ET): 11 a.m. Prelims / 7:45 p.m. Finals (varying based on broadcast needs). The trials will have 17 sessions distributed over nine days. With eight prelims and nine finals, every individual event contested at the Olympics will have a trial.
June 23 – Sunday
Prelims
Finals
Women’s 50M Freestyle Final
Men’s 1500M Freestyle Final
Women’s Platform Finals – 7 p.m.
SWIM TRIALS FULL TV SCHEDULE:
Live coverage of the Trials will be available every night at 8. pm. ET on NBC, along with daily preliminary heats on Peacock at 11 a.m. USA Network will have same-day delayed coverage of prelims.
DATE
COVERAGE
NETWORK
TIME
Sun., June 23
Finals
NBC, Peacock
8 p.m.
Sat., June 29
Paralympic Finals
CNBC, Peacock
6 p.m.
Sun., June 30
Paralympic Finals
CNBC*
1 p.m.
*Taped coverage
DIVING SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Date
Session
Time
Event
Sunday, June 23
Session 11
1:52 PM
Men’s 3m Final
Session 12
7:03 PM
Women’s 10m Final
DIVING TRIALS FULL TV SCHEDULE:
Live coverage begins Monday, June 17, at 9:15 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock with the women’s synchronized 3-meter final, with the Trials culminating on June 23 with the men’s 3-meter final and the women’s 10-meter final.
DATE
COVERAGE
NETWORK
TIME
Sun., June 23
Men’s 3m Final
NBC, Peacock
2:00 p.m.
Women’s 10m Final
NBC, Peacock
7:00 p.m.
OLYMPIC QUALIFYING TIMES:
For individual events at the Paris Games, there are two types – Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT) and Olympic Consideration TIME (OCT), per World Aquatics. Swimmers who match or better the OQT in one or more individual events, qualify for Olympic competition automatically. Participating countries may enter two (2) athletes in the same event, only if both swimmers’ times are equivalent or under the OQT. The OCT threshold works differently. Should the OQT not yield a quota of 852 total swimmers, “World Aquatics will then invite athletes who have equaled or bettered an OCT, until the total quota of 852 athletes is reached.”
Men’s
Event
Women’s
Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT)
-2 Entries
Olympic Consideration Times (OTC)
-1 Entry
Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT)
-2 Entries
Olympic Consideration Times (OTC)
-1 Entry
21.96
22.07
50m Freestyle
24.70
24.82
48.34
48.58
100m Freestyle
53.61
53.88
1:46.26
1:46.79
200m Freestyle
1:57.26
1:57.85
3:46.78
3:47.91
400m Freestyle
4:07.90
4:09.14
7:51.65
7:54.01
800m Freestyle
8:26.71
8:29.24
15:00.99
15:05.49
1500m Freestyle
16:09.09
16:13.94
53.74
54.01
100m Backstroke
59.99
1:00.29
1:57.50
1:58.09
200m Backstroke
2:10.39
2:11.04
59.49
59.79
100m Butterfly
1:06.79
1:07.12
2:09.68
2:10.33
200m Butterfly
2:23.91
2:24.63
51.67
51.93
100m Breaststroke
57.92
58.21
1:55.78
1:56.36
200m Breaststroke
2:08.43
2:09.07
1:57.94
1:58.53
200m Individual Medley
2:11.47
2:12.13
4:12.50
4:13.76
400m Individual Medley
4:38.53
4:39.92
Swimming at the 2024 Olympic Games will be held at the Paris La Defense Arena, located in the city of Nanterre. Indoor swimming kicks off July 27 and runs through August 4; in total, 35 medal events will be competed. Olympic swimming competition concludes with the men’s and women’s open water (10km marathon swimming) races taking place August 8-9. The full Team USA roster for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 will be confirmed in July.
COMPLETE LIST OF GATORS WHO HAVE PUNCHED THEIR TICKET TO PARIS:
* Maha Amer – Egypt
* Julie Brousseau – Canada
* Josh Liendo – Canada
* Nicole Maier – Germany
* Jonny Marshall – Great Britain
* Alfonso Mestre – Venezuela
* Alberto Mestre – Venezuela
* Aleksas Savickas – Lithuania
* Caeleb Dressel – USA
* Bobby Finke – USA
* Kieran Smith – USA
* Emma Weyant – USA
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