2024 Olympics Race Information Breakdown: Males’s 100 Free

The French governing physique for swimming (Fédération Française de Natation) just lately launched an information evaluation booklet of every occasion raced on the Paris Olympics. On this data-packed information, info together with swimmers’ 25m splits, time spent underwater, complete stroke rely, and extra is specified by a desk with a breakdown of every finalist’s info. Over the following few days, I’ll be selecting a few of my favourite races from the Olympics and analyzing the info behind the world’s quickest swimmers.

This knowledge gold mine, all in French, has 4 distinct sections: Laps (splits), Events Nagées (Components of the race swum), Events Non Nagées (Components of the race not swum, together with the beginning, underwaters, and end), and Mouvements (complete strokes and such).

LOOKING BACK

This was an unbelievable race, with China’s Pan Zhanle breaking his personal world document by 0.40 seconds, swimming a 46.40 to win the ultimate by over a second, one of many greatest margins of victory we’ve ever seen on this race. Kyle Chalmers grew to become a three-time medalist on this occasion, ending second in a 47.48. All of the swimmers on this warmth have been initially seeded inside the prime 8, apart from Josha Salchow, who was entered at thirteenth. Chalmers and fourth-place Nandor Nemeth have been separated by 0.02 seconds, with Popovici going 0.01 seconds sooner than Nemeth and slower than Chalmers to win bronze. All eight males have been beneath 48 seconds, the primary time that feat has occurred in an Olympic closing. The swimmers completed as follows:

1. Pan Zhanle, China – 46.40
2. Kyle Chalmers, Australia – 47.48
3. David Popovici, Romania – 47.49
4. Nandor Nemeth, Hungary – 47.50
5. Maxime Grousset, France – 47.71
6. Josha Salchow, Germany – 47.80
7. Jack Alexy, United States – 47.96
8. Chris Guiliano, United States – 47.98

LAPS (SPLITS)

Opening 50:

1. Pan – 22.28
2. Grousset – 22.61
3. Alexy – 22.63
4. Guiliano – 22.82
5. Nemeth – 22.90
6. Salchow – 22.93
7. Popovici – 22.94
8. Chalmers – 23.03

Closing 50:

1. Pan – 24.12
2. Chalmers – 24.45
3. Popovici – 24.55
4. Nemeth – 24.60
5. Salchow – 24.87
6. Grousset – 25.10
7. Guiliano – 25.16
8. Alexy – 25.33

Pan was 0.33 seconds sooner than the following quickest competitor in each the opening and shutting 50 of this race. The opposite seven swimmers skilled a flip-flop of kinds, with Grousset, Alexy, and Guiliano (all nicely established 50 freestyle swimmers) flipping first however having the slowest final 50 occasions. Then again, Popovici and Chalmers used their skillset as 200 freestyle swimmers to make up from their first-50 deficits and place second and third, counting on their spectacular again halves. Chalmers was the one swimmer to open up his 100 in over 22 seconds, however was additionally the closest swimmer to Pan through the closing 50.

One concept about how Pan was capable of break his world document in a “sluggish pool” ties largely into his first 50 swim. He was capable of get out in a short time, and in hitting the flip earlier than the remainder of the sector, he was capable of keep away from the tumultuous wake from everybody else’s flip. Swimming in clear water is at all times most popular, and with Pan taking out his first 50 as quick as he did (this time alone would’ve positioned thirty third within the particular person 50, even when measured to the toes), he discovered his manner across the worst of the chop.

PARTIES NAGÉES (PARTS OF THE RACE SWUM)

This part supplies the swimmers’ occasions from 15m to 45m, in addition to their occasions from 65m-95m, accounting for the whole lot besides the beginning, flip, and the end. The next rating is their complete time spent “swimming.”

1. Pan – 29.32
2. Nemeth – 30.04
3. Chalmers – 30.14
4. Salchow – 30.19
5. Popovici – 30.22
6. Alexy – 30.57
7. Grousset – 30.63
8. Guiliano – 30.73

This was one other statistic that was comparatively in line with the ultimate rankings, which is smart, provided that the quickest “swimmers” are going to complete close to the highest in a race just like the 100 freestyle. Pan was undoubtedly the quickest in these segments, which was very important in serving to him break the world document by as a lot as he did. One other attention-grabbing factor to notice is the 2 People close to the underside of this listing. Each Guiliano and Alexy weren’t close to their greatest occasions, but it surely hasn’t been unusual to see American names on the decrease finish of the “swimming” rankings– extra on that within the subsequent part.

PARTIES NON NAGÉES (PARTS OF THE RACE NOT SWUM)

This part highlights the beginning, flip, and end of the race, together with response occasions, time spent underwater, distance coated underwater, time to hit the 15m mark, closing 5m time, and distance from final stroke into the wall. The next rating is the whole time spent from the begin to 15m, 45-65m, and 95m to the wall (measured in seconds).

1. Pan/Grousset – 17.08
3. Guiliano – 17.25
4. Popovici – 17.27
5. Chalmers – 17.34
6. Alexy – 17.39
7. Nemeth – 17.46
8. Salchow – 17.61

Quickest swimmers to 15m (in seconds):

1. Grousset – 5.33
2. Guiliano – 5.40
3. Pan – 5.45
4. Alexy – 5.55
5. Chalmers/Nemeth – 5.61
6. .
7. Salchow – 5.62
8. Popovici – 5.66

As I discussed within the final part, American swimmers are inclined to have higher auxiliary parts of their swim comparative to the complete race. We noticed it with Nic Fink having the quickest time within the phase for the boys’s 100 breaststroke, Gretchen Walsh’s fast underwaters within the girls’s 50 freestyle, and now Chris Guiliano and Jack Alexy having a number of the quickest begins amongst the boys’s 100 freestyle subject. In fact, this doesn’t maintain true for each race, but it surely’s possible as a result of affect of NCAA and SCY (brief course yards) swimming on the American delegation. Yards swimming requires extra out of a swimmer’s begins and turns than lengthy course does, so it’s becoming that the swimmers who have been raised in SCY swimming pools will possible have higher occasions within the begins/turns/end segments of their races.

This portion additionally showcases Grousset, Alexy, and Guiliano’s abilities as 50 freestylers. The trio had the three most effective begins off the blocks, this metric decided by the gap traveled earlier than the primary breakout stroke divided by the point spent underwater. That rating is seen right here:

1. Grousset: 12.92 meters underwater / 3.62 seconds underwater = 3.57 m/s
2. Alexy: 12.14m / 3.49s = 3.48 m/s
3. Guiliano: 13.64m / 3.95s = 3.45 m/s
4. Popovici: 11.82m / 3.46s = 3.42 m/s
5. Pan: 13.18m / 3.90s = 3.38 m/s
6. Salchow: 12.76m / 3.80s = 3.36 m/s
7. Chalmers: 12.22m / 3.65s = 3.35 m/s
8. Nemeth: 13.05m / 3.94s = 3.31 m/s

MOUVEMENTS (STROKE)

This closing part modeled the whole strokes that every swimmer took through the race, and the next rating exhibits from most strokes to least.

1. Nemeth: 70
2. Popovici: 69
3. Grousset: 68
4. Chalmers/Alexy: 67
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6. Salchow/Guiliano: 65
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8. Pan: 64

This stroke charge evaluation part tends to circle again to the tenet of “swim your individual race, no matter works for you.” Not one of the swimmers on the rostrum of the boys’s 100 freestyle took the identical quantity of strokes as one other, with Pan taking 64, Chalmers taking 67, and Popovici taking 69. Pan’s distance-per-stroke was admirable, as he managed to take the fewest quantity of strokes and have the quickest time within the Events Nagées part; nevertheless Josha Salchow had one of the best DPS charge.

Distance per stroke rating (complete distance spent above the water / complete strokes)

1. Salchow: 1.229 meters per stroke
2. Pan: 1.220 meters per stroke
3. Alexy: 1.197 meters per stroke
4. Guiliano: 1.192 meters per stroke
5. Chalmers: 1.171 meters per stroke
6. Popovici: 1.167 meters per stroke
7. Grousset: 1.131 meters per stroke
8. Nemeth: 1.121 meters per stroke