Swimming at the Paris Olympics 2024 live updates (2024)

• Women’s 400 IM final: McIntosh gold, USA silver and bronze
• Men’s 200 free final: Popovici gold, American Hobson bronze
• Women’s 100 back semis: USA qualify 1-3, Australia 2-4
• Men’s 100 back final: Ceccon gold, American Murphy bronze
• Women’s 100 breast final: Smith gold, American King misses medal by 0.01
• Women’s 200 free final: Australia 1-2 as O'Callaghan beats Titmus

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Ryan Murphy spoke to the press after winning bronze in the 100 back and then learning the gender of his coming baby.

On the result: “I feel good about it. That’s a really talented field. What I've improved on over the years is being able to frame things really quickly. Hitting the wall you’re hoping to win, and that was my initial emotion. Thomas (Ceccon) and Xu Jiayu, they’re both really talented guys, they’ve been really good at this sport for a long time. They deal well with pressure. Being third behind them, I’m not disappointed."

On whether the rest of the world have now closed the gap with the United States, who have long dominated Olympic swimming: "Absolutely. The world is really talented, especially on the men’s side. The Europeans are incredible. It’s going to be exciting over the next couple of days, and we will get those touches at some point."

On his wife Bridget Konttinen revealing the gender of their baby, which is due in January, to him tonight: “When I was walking back around, Bridget was holding up a sign, and it said, ‘Ryan, it’s a girl!’ So I’m having a baby girl in January, that was her gender reveal to me. That was the first time I heard. Obviously, I knew she was pregnant. We both thought it was going to be a boy. Everything is going to be dedicated to that little girl.”

Canada's newest gold-medal winner, 17-year-old Summer McIntosh, spoke to the press after winning the 400 IM final.

On the race: "I'm just trying to make team Canada proud, and set the tone. I couldn't really see anything until the breaststroke, then I knew I was in a comfortable lead going into that last 100m. It was an amazing feeling."

On winning the gold medal: "I was very happy to get the job done, to stand on top of the podium and get the gold medal. It's always just about having fun, as well as pushing my body to its limits."

On how she approaches racing: "I try to take every event individually, one by one. Getting on the podium was a great way to start. I try not to get too high or too low."

• Total medals: U.S. leads 11 to 6
• Gold medals: Australia leads 3 to 2
• Men's medals: U.S. leads 5 to 2
• Women's medals: U.S. leads 6 to 4

Mollie O'Callaghan uses a dominant last 50 to win gold for her first career individual Olympic medal! She breaks Titmus' Olympic record from 2021 and misses Titmus' world record from last month by just four-hundredths of a second.

Titmus takes silver and Hong Kong's Haughey takes bronze.

A rough race for American Claire Weinstein, who was seeded third tonight but finished in last place for eighth.

Ariarne Titmus (Australia) comes in as the defending Olympic champion after winning gold at Tokyo 2020. Titmus is also the current world record holder.

Mollie O'Callaghan (Australia) was the former world record holder (1:52.85) set at the 2023 world championships. O'Callaghan then recorded 1:52.48 in finishing second to Titmus at the Australian trials, the second-fastest mark of all time.

Siobhan Bernadette Haughey (Hong Kong) won silver in this event at Tokyo 2020, behind Titmus. Haughey comes to Paris 2024 as the reigning world champion.

American Claire Weinstein lines up in lane 3 with the two Australians immediately to her right:

1. Erika Fairweather (New Zealand)
2. Yang Junxuan (China)
3. Claire Weinstein (United States)
4. Ariarne Titmus (Australia)
5. Mollie O'Callaghan (Australia)
6. Siobhan Bernadette Haughey (Hong Kong)
7. Barbora Seemanova (Czech Republic)
8. Mary-Sophie Harvey (Canada)

China's Tang takes it out incredibly quickly and leads by more than six tenths at the turn, but South Africa's Smith (pictured above) chases her down in the final meters and times her finish better to win by 0.26! Tang takes the silver.

A ludicrously close finish for the bronze medal as Ireland's Mona McSharry takes third, touching out both America's Lilly King and Italy's Pilato Benedetta by the absolute smallest of margins, just one-hundredth of a second!

Lilly King (United States) was the gold medalist in this event at Rio 2016 and took bronze at Tokyo 2020. King set the current world record of 1:04.13 at the 2017 World Championships.

Tang Qianting (China) won this event at the 2024 World Championships, while Tatjana Smith (South Africa) set the current Olympic record of 1:04.82 at Tokyo 2020.

Lane order

1. Benedetta Pilato (Italy)
2. Alina Zmushka (Individual neutral athletes)
3. Lilly King (United States)
4. Tatjana Smith (South Africa)
5. Mona McSharry (Ireland)
6. Tang Qianting (China)
7. Angharad Evans (Britain)
8. Eneli Jefimova (Estonia)

Ryan Murphy is trying to become the first swimmer ever to medal in both the 100 and 200 back in three straight Olympics.

With his bronze medal just now in the 100, he's got just one more to go.

America's Ryan Murphy took the lead coming off the wall at the 50m mark, but Italy's Thomas Ceccon runs him down in the final 25 meters to take the gold!

China's Xu Jiayu takes silver 0.32 behind Ceccon, just touching out Murphy who is only a further 0.07 behind.

Murphy takes the bronze by beating Greece's Apostolos Christou in fourth by just two-hundredths of a second!

American Ryan Murphy claimed gold in Rio 2016 and bronze at Tokyo 2020 in this event.

The U.S. has a dominant history in this event, winning it six straight times from 1996 to 2016.

Lane order

1. Oliver Morgan (Britain)
2. Ryan Murphy (United States)
3. Yohann Ndoye-Brouard (France)
4. Xu Jiayu (China)
5. Thomas Ceccon (Italy)
6. Pieter Coetze (South Africa)
7. Apostolos Christou (Greece)
8. Hugo Gonzalez (Spain)

Incredible symmetry to the countries of the eight women who advance to tomorrow's 100 back final, setting up a huge U.S.-Australia clash!

1. Regan Smith (United States): 57.97
2. Kaylee McKeown (Australia): -0.02
3. Katharine Berkoff (United States): -0.30
4. Iona Anderson (Australia): -0.66
5. Kylie Masse (Canada): -0.85
6. Ingrid Wilm (Canada): -1.13
7. Beryl Gastaldello (France): -1.32
8. Emma Terebo (France): -1.53

An easy win for American Regan Smith, winning the first semifinal with a time eight-tenths of a second off her world record.

She separated herself from the pack with her dominant underwater kicks off the turn at the 50m mark.