Swimming at the 2016 Summer Games: Previous Summer Games
Host City: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Venue(s): Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Barra Olympic Park, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro
Date Started: August 12, 2016
Date Finished: August 13, 2016
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Italyâs [Gregorio Paltrinieri] had won the 2015 World Championship, but that was in the absence of Chinaâs [Sun Yang], who had won the 400 and 1,500 at the London Olympics. Other medal contenders included American [Connor Jaeger], Australian [Mack Horton], Canadian [Ryan Cochrane], and Italyâs [Gabriele Detti].
Sun surprised in the heats by failing to qualify for the final, but all the other medal favorites made it. The lead on the first few laps was taken by Cochrane, but Paltrinieri went ahead at 200 metres and was never caught. He was ahead of world record splits for the first half of the race but could not maintain that pace. Jaeger moved into second at 700 metres, passing Horton, and Jaeger would go on to win the silver medal. Detti was still sixth at 900 metres and did not move up to the bronze medal position until 1,300 metres, but gave Italy two swimmers on the podium. Paltrinieri finished in 14:34.57, almost five seconds ahead of Jaeger, who still set an American record of 14:39.48.
Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | |
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1 | Gregorio Paltrinieri | 21 | Italy | ITA | Gold | |
2 | Connor Jaeger | 25 | United States | USA | Silver | |
3 | Gabriele Detti | 21 | Italy | ITA | Bronze | |
4 | Jordan Wilimovsky | 22 | United States | USA | ||
5 | Mack Horton | 20 | Australia | AUS | ||
6 | Ryan Cochrane | 27 | Canada | CAN | ||
7 | Damien Joly | 24 | France | FRA | ||
8 | Henrik Christiansen | 19 | Norway | NOR | ||
9 | Jack McLoughlin | 21 | Australia | AUS | ||
10 | Stephen Milne | 22 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
11 | Ahmed Akram | 19 | Egypt | EGY | ||
12 | Jan Micka | 21 | Czech Republic | CZE | ||
13 | Ilya Druzhinin | 18 | Russia | RUS | ||
14 | Yaroslav Potapov | 17 | Russia | RUS | ||
15 | Mykhailo Romanchuk | 19 | Ukraine | UKR | ||
16 | Sun Yang | 24 | China | CHN | ||
17 | Serhiy Frolov | 24 | Ukraine | UKR | ||
18 | Anton Ipsen | 21 | Denmark | DEN | ||
19 | Gergely Gyurta | 24 | Hungary | HUN | ||
20 | Qiu Ziao | 17 | China | CHN | ||
21 | Oussama Mellouli | 32 | Tunisia | TUN | ||
22 | Marcelo Alberto Acosta | 20 | El Salvador | ESA | ||
23 | Esteban Enderica | 25 | Ecuador | ECU | ||
24 | Marc Sánchez | 23 | Spain | ESP | ||
25 | Ricardo Vargas | 18 | Mexico | MEX | ||
26 | Antonio Arroyo | 22 | Spain | ESP | ||
27 | Tim Shuttleworth | 19 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
28 | Wojciech Wojdak | 21 | Poland | POL | ||
29 | Brandonn Almeida | 19 | Brazil | BRA | ||
30 | Pál Joensen | 25 | Denmark | DEN | ||
31 | Miguel Valente | 23 | Brazil | BRA | ||
32 | Florian Wellbrock | 18 | Germany | GER | ||
33 | Mateusz Sawrymowicz | 29 | Poland | POL | ||
34 | Richard Nagy | 23 | Slovakia | SVK | ||
35 | Kristóf Rasovszky | 19 | Hungary | HUN | ||
36 | Martin Bau | 21 | Slovenia | SLO | ||
37 | Mihajlo Äeprkalo | 17 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | ||
38 | Matt Hutchins | 21 | New Zealand | NZL | ||
39 | Welson Sim | 19 | Malaysia | MAS | ||
40 | Nicolas d'Oriano | 19 | France | FRA | ||
41 | Matthew Meyer | 18 | South Africa | RSA | ||
42 | Felix Auböck | 19 | Austria | AUT | ||
43 | MartÃn Naidich | 25 | Argentina | ARG | ||
44 | Wesley Roberts | 19 | Cook Islands | COK | ||
45 | Felipe TapÃa | 21 | Chile | CHI |