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Women's 100 metre butterfly
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Aquatics Centre,
Paris La Défense Arena
Dates27 July 2024
(Heats and Semis)
28 July 2024
(Final)
Competitors32 from 26 nations
Winning time55.59
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Torri Huske  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gretchen Walsh  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Zhang Yufei  China
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Swimming at the
2024 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
4 × 200 mmenwomen
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4 × 100 mmenmixedwomen
Marathon
10 kmmenwomen

The women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 27 to 28 July 2024 at the Olympic Aquatics Centre at Paris La Défense Arena.

Going into the competition, Gretchen Walsh of the USA was the favourite, having set the event's world record at the Olympic Trials. Also among the favourites were China's Zhang Yufei and USA's Torri Huske, while Canada's Maggie Mac Neil was the defending champion. In the semifinals, Walsh set a new Olympic record, but in the finals Huske won by 0.04 seconds after coming back from over half a second behind over the last 35 metres. Walsh finished second and Yufei finished third. Swimming World called Huske's win a "stunning victory", and it was the first time the USA had won gold and silver in the event since 1984.

Two national records were set during the event: Barbora Seemanová broke the Czech Republic's record in the heats, and Roos Vanotterdijk broke Belgium's in the semifinals.

Background

Canada's Maggie Mac Neil was the defending champion going into the event, and six of the finalists (including Mac Neil) from the previous Olympics were returning. Gretchen Walsh set a world record in the event at the 2024 US Olympic Trials, where Torri Huske had swum 0.21 seconds slower to claim the second qualification spot for the USA. Huske also won gold at the 2022 World Championships, while China's Zhang Yufei—who also qualified for this event—won gold at the 2023 World Championships. Both SwimSwam and Swimming World predicted that Gretchen Walsh was most likely to win the race.

Qualification

Further information: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). For this event, the OQT was 57.92 seconds. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT. Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 58.21 for this event. In total, 40 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, 35 athletes qualified through universality places and two athletes qualified through achieving the OCT.

Heats

10 heats took place on 1 August 2024, starting at 11:00. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advanced to the semifinals. Yufei qualified fastest, swimming 56.50 seconds, while Barbora Seemanová lowered her national record for the Czech Republic by swimming 57.50—0.25 faster than her previous national record from the year prior.

Results
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 2 4 Zhang Yufei  China 56.50 Q
2 4 3 Mizuki Hirai  Japan 56.71 Q
3 3 4 Torri Huske  United States 56.72 Q
4 4 4 Gretchen Walsh  United States 56.75 Q
5 2 5 Emma McKeon  Australia 56.79 Q
6 4 5 Angelina Köhler  Germany 56.90 Q
7 3 5 Maggie Mac Neil  Canada 57.00 Q
8 3 6 Alexandria Perkins  Australia 57.46 Q
9 4 1 Barbora Seemanová  Czech Republic 57.50 Q, NR
10 2 6 Marie Wattel  France 57.54 Q
4 7 Roos Vanotterdijk  Belgium 57.54 Q
12 3 3 Louise Hansson  Sweden 57.57 Q
13 4 2 Erin Gallagher  South Africa 57.80 Q
14 4 6 Rikako Ikee  Japan 57.82 Q
15 3 2 Tessa Giele  Netherlands 57.89 Q
16 3 8 Keanna Macinnes  Great Britain 57.90 Q
17 2 3 Lana Pudar  Bosnia and Herzegovina 57.97
18 2 2 Hazel Ouwehand  New Zealand 58.03
19 3 7 Anna Ntountounaki  Greece 58.14
20 1 4 Helena Rosendahl Bach  Denmark 58.45
21 3 1 Costanza Cocconcelli  Italy 58.66
22 2 8 Ellen Walshe  Ireland 58.70
23 2 7 Georgia Damasioti  Greece 58.72
24 4 8 Rebecca Smith  Canada 58.85
25 1 5 Laura Cabanes  Spain 59.40
26 1 6 Varsenik Manucharyan  Armenia 1:01.24
27 1 2 Oumy Diop  Senegal 1:02.24
28 1 1 Ana Nizharadze  Georgia 1:02.85
29 1 3 Luana Alonso  Paraguay 1:03.09
30 1 7 María Schutzmeier  Nicaragua 1:03.18
31 1 8 Hayley Hoy  Eswatini 1:08.36
2 1 Viola Scotto Di Carlo  Italy DSQ

Semifinals

Two semifinals took place on 3 August, starting at 20:30. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advanced to the final. Walsh qualified with an Olympic Record of 55.38 seconds, which broke Sarah Sjöström's record from 2016 by 0.10. Huske qualified in second, and Yufei in third. Roos Vanotterdijk broke the Belgian national record, by swimming 57.25 seconds. This was 0.22 seconds faster than her previous national record set the month prior but was not enough to qualify.

Results
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 1 5 Gretchen Walsh  United States 55.38 Q, OR
2 2 5 Torri Huske  United States 56.00 Q
3 2 4 Zhang Yufei  China 56.15 Q
4 1 3 Angelina Köhler  Germany 56.55 Q
4 2 6 Maggie Mac Neil  Canada 56.55 Q
6 2 3 Emma McKeon  Australia 56.74 Q
7 1 4 Mizuki Hirai  Japan 56.80 Q
8 1 7 Louise Hansson  Sweden 56.93 Q
9 1 2 Marie Wattel  France 57.24
10 2 7 Roos Vanotterdijk  Belgium 57.25 NR
11 2 2 Barbora Seemanová  Czech Republic 57.64
12 1 1 Rikako Ikee  Japan 57.79
13 1 6 Alexandria Perkins  Australia 57.84
14 2 1 Erin Gallagher  South Africa 57.90
15 2 8 Tessa Giele  Netherlands 57.91
16 1 8 Keanna Macinnes  Great Britain 58.11

Final

The final took place at 20:40 on 4 August. Torri Huske started with the fastest reaction time of 0.63 seconds, but by 15 metres Gretchen Walsh had taken first place with a faster dive and underwater. By 25 metres, Zhang Yufei had taken the lead, but by 45 metres Walsh was back in front. At 65 metres (after the second turn and underwater) Walsh was over half a second ahead, having swum a 8.10 50–65 metre split, which was 0.5 seconds faster than anyone else in the race. Over the last 35 metres, Huske came from 0.69 behind to win by 0.04 seconds, pushing Walsh to second and Yufei to third. Matt Nelson, a journalist reporting on olympics.com, called the win a "stunning victory", while David Rieder of Swimming World said "it was a result three years in the making." It was the first time the USA had won gold and silver in the event since 1984, and it was Walsh's first Olympic medal.

Results
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Torri Huske  United States 55.59
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Gretchen Walsh  United States 55.63
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Zhang Yufei  China 56.21
4 6 Angelina Köhler  Germany 56.42
5 2 Maggie Mac Neil  Canada 56.44
6 7 Emma McKeon  Australia 56.93
7 1 Mizuki Hirai  Japan 57.19
8 8 Louise Hansson  Sweden 57.34
Metrics
Name 15 metre split (s) 50 metre split (s) 50–65 metre split (s) Time (s) Stroke rate (strokes/min)
Torri Huske 6.01 25.61 8.58 55.59 57.7
Gretchen Walsh 5.83 25.40 8.10 55.63 55.1
Zhang Yufei 5.95 25.42 8.65 56.21 61.9
Angelina Köhler 6.22 26.35 8.84 56.42 56.5
Maggie Mac Neil 6.27 25.94 8.43 56.44 61.0
Emma McKeon 6.17 26.40 8.69 56.93 54.3
Mizuki Hirai 6.45 26.66 8.51 57.19 59.8
Louise Hansson 6.18 26.61 8.61 57.34 56.4

Notes

  1. All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

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