The French governing physique for swimming (Fédération Française de Natation) not too long ago 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 are specified by a desk with a breakdown of every finalist’s info. Over the subsequent few days, I’ll be selecting a few of my favourite races from the Olympics and analyzing the information behind the world’s quickest swimmers.
This knowledge gold mine, all in French, has 4 distinct sections: Laps (splits), Events Nagées (Elements of the race swum), Events Non Nagées (Elements of the race not swum, together with the beginning, underwaters, and end), and Mouvements (complete strokes and such).
LOOKING BACK
Some of the anticipated occasions of this meet was the ladies’s 200 IM, with among the greatest names within the sport like Summer time McIntosh, Kate Douglass, Alex Walsh, and Kaylee McKeown lastly getting the possibility to all go head-to-head. This occasion was raced on the penultimate day of finals, and the ultimate confirmed two fascinating issues: an empty lane in an Olympic ultimate and a disqualification. Ella Ramsay, the unique eighth qualifier popping out of semifinals, withdrew from the 200 IM ultimate because of sickness. Often, this spot would go to the reserves, Anastasia Gorbenko and Ye Shiwen, however neither of the swimmers appeared within the ultimate, leaving an empty lane. Alex Walsh, who swam the third-fastest time within the ultimate, was disqualified after going previous vertical on the backstroke-to-breaststroke flip. With this info, there have been solely six swimmers that earned a time on this 12 months’s competitors.
- Summer time McIntosh, Canada – 2:06.56
- Kate Douglass, United States – 2:06.92
- Kaylee McKeown, Australia – 2:08.08
- Yu Yiting, China – 2:08.49
- Abbie Wooden, Nice Britain – 2:09.51
- Sydney Pickrem, Canada – 2:09.74
- Ella Ramsay, Australia – DNS
- Alex Walsh, United States – DSQ
LAPS (SPLITS)
To 50m (butterfly):
- Douglass – 26.73
- McIntosh – 26.80
- Yu – 27.31
- Wooden – 27.43
- McKeown – 27.59
- Pickrem – 27.89
50m-100m (backstroke):
- McKeown – 31.68
- McIntosh – 31.80
- Pickrem – 32.47
- Yu – 32.74
- Wooden – 32.78
- Douglass – 34.32
100m-150m (breaststroke):
- Douglass – 35.75
- Pickrem – 37.19
- Yu – 37.37
- McIntosh – 37.53
- McKeown – 37.77
- Wooden – 37.87
150m-200m (freestyle):
- Douglass – 30.12
- McIntosh – 30.43
- McKeown – 31.04
- Yu – 31.07
- Wooden – 31.43
- Pickrem – 32.19
With the 200 IM being a real check of a swimmer’s potential to swim all 4 strokes as quick as they’ll, it’s going to reveal some weaknesses wherever it may possibly. For instance, Kate Douglass was the quickest within the subject in each stroke (together with a 1.44 second hole over everybody within the breaststroke) aside from backstroke, the place she was almost three seconds behind the quickest cut up. Summer time McIntosh, the winner of the race, was not the quickest swimmer on any leg, however she was proper within the combine on each stroke, having the second-fastest splits on each stroke aside from breaststroke. Kaylee McKeown fell again on the butterfly and breaststroke legs, however her backstroke and freestyle had been sufficient to put her in to medal competition.
PARTIES NAGÉES (PARTS OF THE RACE SWUM)
This part gives the swimmers’ instances from 15m to 45m, in addition to their instances from 65m-95m, 115m-145m, and 165m-195m, accounting for all the pieces besides the beginning, flip, and the end. The next rating is their complete time spent “swimming.”
- McIntosh – 1:18.55
- Douglass – 1:20.25
- McKeown – 1:20.63
- Yu – 1:20.73
- Wooden – 1:21.42
- Pickrem – 1:21.44
This metric isn’t as shocking as among the others are when contemplating the whole end order, because the time spent “swimming” is the very same because the end order. Whereas underwaters, begins, and turns may also help you a large number in a shorter-distance race, the upper the space the much less complete impact they have an inclination to have on a race (generally). Regardless of this race being very shut between McIntosh and Douglass for first and second place, McIntosh spent virtually 2 seconds lower than Douglass through the 120m in the course of the pool.
PARTIES NON NAGÉES (PARTS OF THE RACE NOT SWUM)
This part highlights the beginning, flip, and end of the race, together with response instances, time spent underwater, distance coated underwater, time to hit the 15m mark, and shutting 5m time on every 50, alongside the space from final stroke into the ultimate wall. The next rating exhibits the whole time spent on begins, turns, and the closing 5 meters (15 meters off of and 5 meters into each wall).
- Douglass – 46.67
- McKeown – 47.45
- Yu – 47.76
- McIntosh – 48.01
- Wooden – 48.09
- Pickrem – 48.30
The next rating exhibits the space (in meters) every swimmer spent underwater throughout this race:
- Wooden – 47.1
- McKeown – 43.3
- Yu – 39.5
- Douglass – 39.1
- Pickrem – 38.3
- McIntosh – 37.9
These metrics additional enunciate that there are a number of methods to win a race, and the concept that every swimmer performs to their very own strengths when swimming the 200 IM. Summer time McIntosh spent a full 10 meters longer on prime of the water than Abbie Wooden did, as a result of underwaters are usually not as essential to her race plan. Kate Douglass was the quickest by way of the auxiliary parts of her race, however nonetheless was bested by McIntosh. Douglass had the quickest time from every wall to the 15m mark (aside from backstroke, the place Yu Yiting had the quickest), showcasing UVA’s fast and environment friendly underwater type that has labored very effectively for her up to now. Yu Yiting continued to be throughout the prime 3/4 swimmers in each metric from this race, constant along with her putting in a really secure fourth place.
MOUVEMENTS (STROKE)
This ultimate part modeled the whole strokes that every swimmer took through the race, and the next rating exhibits from least strokes to most.