2024 Paris Olympics Highlights #2: Swimming Quiz

Answer: France

Leon Marchand (born 17 May 2002) from France won the following events: 200m butterfly, 200m breaststroke, 200m individual medley and 400m individual medley. He became the fourth swimmer in Olympic history to win four gold medals in a single Games.

Answer: Canada

Summer McIntosh (born 18 August 2006) won the 200m butterfly, 200m individual medley and 400m individual medley. She also finished second in the 400m freestyle, which was won by Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus.

Answer: Sweden

Sarah Sjostrom (born 17 August 1993) won two individual gold medals with her wins in these two events. She specialized in freestyle and butterfly.

Her first participation in the Olympics was at Beijing 2008, where she did not win any medals. She again failed to win any medals at London 2012. At Rio 2016, she won the 100m butterfly, finished second in 200m freestyle and third in 100m freestyle. At Tokyo 2020, she clinched a silver in 50m freestyle.

Answer: Romania

David Popovici (born 15 September 2004) became the first Romanian to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming, as he took the top honours in the men's 200m freestyle at Paris 2024. Speaking on his historic result, Popovici said: "It's historic. First gold in men's swimming for our country". He also won a bronze in the 100m freestyle event.

Answer: USA

American swimmer Katie Ledecky (born 17 March 1997) won the two long distance events in freestyle. She also won these two events at Tokyo 2020. The women's 1500m freestyle event was first introduced at Tokyo 2020.

She also won the 800m freestyle at London 2012, as well as the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle and the 4 x 200m freestyle at Rio 2016.

Answer: Italy

Italian swimmer Nicolo Martinenghi (born 1 August 1999) won the event in 59.03 sec, 0.02 seconds ahead of Peaty and American swimmer Nic Fink. Peaty and Fink shared the silver medal. Peaty is the first male swimmer to record sub-57 and sub-56 seconds for this event.

Answer: China

Pan Zhanle (born 4 August 2004) made history for his country when he became the first Chinese swimmer to win the 100m freestyle. He broke the world record with a time of 46.4 seconds, more than 1 second ahead of Australian swimmer Kyle Chalmers who clocked 47.48 seconds and Romanian swimmer David Popovici in 47.49 seconds.

Pan first clocked sub-47 seconds at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou (held in 2023 due to COVID-19). He clocked 46.97 sec to win this event and is the fifth male swimmer to achieve this milestone.

Answer: 800m freestyle

Daniel Wiffen (born 14 July 2001) won the 800m freestyle. He won the bronze in the 1500m freestyle. At the 2024 Doha World Aquatics Championship, he won the 800m and 1500m freestyle.

Answer: China

China, anchored by their 100m freestyle gold medalist, Pan Zhanle, finished in 3 minutes 27.46 seconds. The USA finished second in 3 minutes 28.1 seconds and France third in 3 minutes 28.28 seconds. Pan clocked 45.92 seconds in the 100m freestyle leg.

Answer: France

The USA topped the table with 8 golds, 13 silvers and 7 bronzes, followed by Australia with 7-9-3 and France with 4-1-2, largely helped by the 4 golds won by Leon Marchand. Canada was fourth with 3-2-3 and Hungary fifth with 3-1-1.