Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Day 3 Prelims Live Recap | SwimSwam

By Jared Anderson on SwimSwam

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)
• Full aquatics schedule
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• Entry Lists
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• Day 3 Prelims Heat Sheet

Tonight’s four prelims events will feature all four reigning world record-holders.

The women’s 200 free is the highlight, because the world record-holder doesn’t come in as the gold medal favorite. Italy’s Federica Pellegrini has been a staple of the world swimming stage in this event winning World Championships medals in 2009 (gold), 2011 (gold), 2013 (silver), 2015 (silver), 2017 (gold) and 2019 (gold). Despite that decade of dominance and her world record from 2009, Pellegrini comes into the event trailing Australia’s Ariarne Titmus, a 20-year-old breakout star who went 1:53.0 at Australian Olympic Trials to rattle Pellegrini’s 12-year-old record.

And you can’t count out 2016 Olympic champ Katie Ledecky of the United States. Titmus, Pellegrini, and Ledecky will lead the three circle-seeded heats tonight.

Ledecky will swim twice in the session – she’s also the top seed and gold medal favorite in the 1500 free, where she’s the runaway world record-holder.

In between, Hungary’s Kristof Milak heads the 200 fly, where he broke Michael Phelps’ world record back at the 2019 World Championships. And in the 200 IM, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu is the world record-holder and reigning Olympic champ. She’s won four consecutive world titles in the event.

Women’s 200 freestyle

• World Record: Federica Pellegrini (ITA) – 1:52.98 (2009)
• Olympic Record: Allison Schmitt (USA) – 1:53.61 (2012)
• World Junior Record: Yang Junxuan (CHN) – 1:55.43 (2019)
• 2016 Olympic Champion: Katie Ledecky (USA) – 1:53.73
• SwimSwam Event Preview – Women’s 200 freestyle

Men’s 200 butterfly

• World Record: Kristof Milak (HUN) – 1:50.73 (2019)
• Olympic Record: Michael Phelps (USA) – 1:52.03 (2008)
• World Junior Record: Kristof Milak (HUN) – 1:52.71 (2018)
• 2016 Olympic Champion: Michael Phelps (USA) – 1:53.36
• SwimSwam Event Preview – Men’s 200 butterfly

Women’s 200 individual medley

• World Record: Katinka Hosszu (HUN) – 2:06.12 (2015)
• Olympic Record: Katinka Hosszu (HUN) – 2:06.58 (2016)
• World Junior Record: Yu Yiting (CHN) – 2:09.64 (2021)
• 2016 Olympic Champion: Katinka Hosszu (HUN) – 2:06.58
• SwimSwam Event Preview – Women’s 200 individual medley

Women’s 1500 freestyle

• World Record: Katie Ledecky (USA) – 15:20.48 (2018)
• Olympic Record: N/A
• World Junior Record: Katie Ledecky (USA) – 15:28.36 (2014)
• 2016 Olympic Champion: N/A
• SwimSwam Event Preview – Women’s 1500 freestyle

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