2024 Paris Summer Olympics
Nick Fink He made history on Sunday by tying the score with the two-time consecutive British champion. Adam Peaty He won the silver medal in the 100m breaststroke (59.05), just missing out on the gold medal. Nicolo Martinenghi (59.03).
At age 31, Fink became the oldest first U.S. swimmer to win an Olympic medal in modern history and the oldest in 120 years, if 36-year-olds are included. Edgar Adams He won a silver medal in the distance jump event at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics.
Plunge for distance is a type of long jump swimming event in which athletes dive into a pool and compete to see how far they can jump without any momentum. Due to inertia, the athlete's mass often plays a positive role in this event. William Paul Dickey He won the gold medal with a distance of 19.05 metres, while Adams finished second with 17.526 metres.
The distance competition wasn't featured again in the Olympics after 1904, but it was also a college swimming event for a time.
The men's 100m breaststroke final went to a photo finish with less than a tenth of a second separating the top four swimmers and just 0.2 seconds separating the three medallists, making Peaty the first swimmer to win three Olympic medals in the event.
Fink is a six-time world champion in the distance but had never won an Olympic medal until tonight. The University of Georgia graduate, who works a nine-to-five full-time engineer, is the oldest member of the U.S. swimming team and serves as one of the team captains. Fink won the 100 breaststroke in 59.08 seconds at last month's Olympic Trials and turned 31 earlier this month.
This is Fink's second Olympics, and he placed sixth in the 200 breaststroke (2:07.93) at Tokyo 2021. Since his Olympic debut, he has continued to gain momentum, winning a bronze medal in the 100 breaststroke (58.65) at the 2022 World Championships and a silver medal (58.72) at last summer's World Championships.
David Plummer He was 30 when he won the bronze medal in the 100m backstroke (52.40). Ryan Murphy In his debut at the 2016 Rio Olympics, he recorded a time of 51.97 seconds.
