2024 Paris Olympics: Men’s Marathon Swimming Live Results | SwimSwam

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2024 Paris Olympics Open Water Swimming

• Women’s 10km – Thursday, August 8
• Men’s 10km – Friday, August 9
• Seine River, Paris
• Event Page (Schedule + Results)
• Women’s 10km Entries
• Men’s 10km Entries

Men’s 10km Start Lists

After a spirited women’s race on Thursday, it’s the men’s turn to take on open water marathon swimming in the Seine River at the 2024 Olympic Games. The course runs 1.67 kilometers through Paris from the Pont Alexandre III to the Pont de l’Alma under the Eiffel Tower. The swimmers complete the rectangular loop six times. As we saw on Thursday in the women’s contest, they’ll have a quick current at their backs going downstream, but they’ll fight against it the whole way back.

The men’s race is likely to be dominated by Germany’s Florian Wellbrock and Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri. Wellbrock is the defending Olympic champion, while Paltrinieri took home the bronze medal in Tokyo. In pool swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Paltrinieri won a silver medal in the 1500 free and a bronze in the 800 free. Both swimmers are mainstays on the podium at World Championships in open water swimming.

Other swimmers to keep an eye on are Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen, who won gold in the 800 free and bronze in the 1500 free last week in the pool, and Turkish teenagers Kuzey Tuncelli (16) and Emir Batur Albayrak (17). Tuncelli was 5th in 1500 free and 11th in 800 free here in Paris, while Albayrak finished 23rd in the 1500.

Swimming in front of the home crowd will be France’s Marc-Antoine Olivier and Logan Fontaine. It will be Olivier’s 3rd Olympic Games; he was the bronze medalist in the men’s 10km in Rio in 2016, earning France’s first medal in the event, and he place 6th in Tokyo. A regular on the World Championships open water circuit, Fontaine will be competing in his first Olympic 10km.

Sweden’s Victor Johansson pulled out of the race due to health concerns and American David Johnston dropped out after a positive COVID test.

Men’s Open Water 10k Top 8:

Hungary’s Kristof Rasovszky surged to the front the pack and led for the first 400 meters, but he was overtaken by Germany’s Wellbrock about two-thirds of the way to the first buoy. As they turned back upstream, Wellbrock maintained his position ahead of Rasovszky, while Paltrinieri challenged for second position coming in from the outside. His training partner, France’s Olivier, moved into 4th place, followed by Domenico Acerenza of Italy.

Wellbrock’s stroke looked long and smooth, even swimming against the current on the upstream leg. Rasovszky chose to move to Wellbrock’s inside at the Pont des Invalides, but it didn’t change the order going into the feeding station.

Rasovszky leg once again on the downstream leg of the 2nd lap, with Wellbrock just on his feet. Paltrinieri, who lost his cap somewhere after the feed station, maintained his position in 3rd place.

 

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