2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
WOMEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY – PRELIMS
- World File: 55.18 – Gretchen Walsh, USA (2024)
- World Junior File: 56.43 – Claire Curzan, USA (2021)
- Olympic File: 55.48 – Sarah Sjostrom, SWE (2016)
- 2021 Profitable Time: 55.59 – Maggie MacNeil, CAN
- 2021 Time to Advance to Semis: 58.08
- Zhang Yufei – Individuals’s Republic of China (CHN) – 56.50
- Mizuki Hirai – Japan (JPN) – 56.71
- Torri Huske – United States of America (USA) – 56.72
- Gretchen Walsh – United States of America (USA) – 56.75
- Emma McKeon – Australia (AUS) – 56.79
- Angelina Koehler – Germany (GER) – 56.90
- Margaret Mac Neil – Canada (CAN) – 57.00
- Alexandria Perkins – Australia (AUS) – 57.46
- Barbora Seemanova – Czechia (CZE) – 57.50
- Marie Wattel – France (FRA) – 57.54
- Roos Vanotterdijk – Belgium (BEL) – 57.54
- Louise Hansson – Sweden (SWE) – 57.57
- Erin Gallagher – South Africa (RSA) – 57.80
- Rikako Ikee – Japan (JPN) – 57.82
- Tessa Giele – Netherlands (NED) – 57.89
- Keanna Louise MacInnes – Nice Britain (GBR) – 57.90
Japan’s Rikako Ikee made her first Olympic semifinal swimming after her battle with leukemia in 2019. She swam to a 57.82 within the 100 butterfly on this morning’s prelims session, the 14th quickest of the morning.
Ikee was recognized with leukemia in 2019, on the age of 18. In response to her prognosis, Ikee mentioned “I’ll positively come again.”
Now, she’s again and swimming on the most important stage in a person race. Ikee made the Olympic ultimate within the 100 butterfly on the 2016 Rio Olympics as she completed sixth in a 56.86. She certified for an additional Olympic Video games in 2020(1) in her residence nation of Tokyo, Japan. There she was a relay-only swimmer, competing on 4 of Japan’s relays.
Ikee will swim the 100 butterfly once more tonight with the potential to return to the Olympic ultimate as soon as once more. Though she was 14th this morning, she swam a 57.82 lower than four-tenths off of what was eighth this morning. Ikee’s season finest sits at a 57.03 that she swam in March. That point can also be her quickest since her battle with leukemia. Her private finest stands at a 56.08 that she swam to win the 2018 Pan Pac Championship.
