Swimming at the Olympics live updates (2024)

• Women's 200 fly final: McIntosh (Canada) gold, Smith (USA) silver
• Men's 200 back final: Kos wins Hungary's first gold of 2024 Games
• Women's 200 breast final: Douglass (USA) wins first career gold
• Women's 4x200 free relay final: Australia gold, USA silver
• Men's 50 free semis: Dressel (USA) qualifies fifth
• Women's 200 back semis: Bacon and Smith (USA) qualify first, sixth
• Men's 200 IM semis: Marchand (France), Foster (USA) qualify 1-2

Kate Douglass spoke to the media after winning the first gold medal of her career in the 200 breast.

"I'm really excited. For a while I wasn't sure if Olympic champion was going to be possible for me to say. And now it's really exciting to see it happen.

"I knew if I went a best time and went the American record, that would probably win the race. So that was the plan. I could see on the turn where I was, so I kicked it into high gear. I couldn't tell if (South Africa's Tatjana Smith) was going to catch me.

"I was trying to say calm and collected. The (200m) breast, I pretty easily can stay relaxed before it, because I have a specific race plan and I know that if I stick to that I know it is probably going to go pretty well.

"I have a specific stroke count that I've done on a few of my best times, so I knew if I stuck to that it would probably be my best time. Specifically it is 14, 16, 17, 19. I was 20 strokes on the last 50 but I was pushing it."

• Gold – 2012 London – 800m freestyle
• Gold – 2016 Rio de Janeiro – 200m freestyle
• Gold – 2016 Rio de Janeiro – 400m freestyle
• Gold – 2016 Rio de Janeiro – 800m freestyle
• Gold – 2016 Rio de Janeiro – 4x200m freestyle
• Gold – 2020 Tokyo – 800m freestyle
• Gold – 2020 Tokyo – 1500m freestyle
• Gold – 2024 Paris – 1500m freestyle
• Silver – 2016 Rio de Janeiro – 4x100m freestyle
• Silver – 2020 Tokyo –400m freestyle
• Silver – 2020 Tokyo – 4x200m freestyle
• Silver – 2024 Paris – 4x200m freestyle
• Bronze – 2024 Paris – 400m freestyle

There was no catching Ariarne Titmus as she finishes off the win for Australia, who set a new Olympic record.

Erin Gemmell holds off China as the U.S. take silver, giving Katie Ledecky her 13th career medal and making her the most decorated female American Olympian of all time!

Australia lead the United States by just 0.33 seconds heading into the final leg, with China more than a second behind thanks to a fantastic finish by Katie Ledecky.

Ariarne Titmus is in the pool for the Aussies, Erin Gemmell for the U.S.

We're at the halfway point and the order remains Australia-China-United States.

China frontloaded their relay while Katie Ledecky is in the water for the U.S. now, so the U.S. have a great chance to improve into second place.

Australia are heavy favorites in this race and they lead after the first leg. China are in second, one second behind, with the U.S. in third a further eight tenths back.

Claire Weinstein led off with a personal-best time for the U.S.

The United States has won the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay five of the seven times it has been contested at the Olympic Games. They finished second at Tokyo 2020 behind China, and third at Beijing 2008 behind Australia and China.

Australia is second in the medal table in this event with six, behind the USA’s seven, winning their lone gold medal at Beijing 2008. Australia won this event at the 2019 and 2023 world championships, setting the world record at the latter.

China is the defending Olympic champion, having taking gold in a tight final over the USA and Australia at Tokyo 2020 when the three teams were separated by less than a second. They hold the Olympic record from that race in 2021. China also won this event at the 2024 world championships.

Lane order

1. Britain
2. Brazil
3. China
4. Australia
5. Hungary
6. United States
7. Canada
8. New Zealand

Leon Marchand leads wire-to-wire as he wins the second semifinal of the 200 IM. Japan's Daiya Seto nearly catches him in the final meters, but Marchand clearly has more left in the tank as he makes sure he gets to the wall first.

American Carson Foster qualifies in second place behind Marchand, but his compatriot Shaine Casas gets touched out by six hundredths of a second in his semifinal and misses the final in ninth place.

American Carson Foster appears to get caught by Duncan Scott (Britain) and Wang Shun (China) down the stretch, but he turns on the afterburners in the final meters to out-touch both of them and win the first 200 IM semifinal.

Leon Marchand's heat is up next.

After his historic double-gold performance last night, winning the men's 200 fly and 200 breast, France's Leon Marchand is back at it again.

He'll be in the 200 individual medley semifinals, swimming in lane 5 in the second heat here in a moment.

Americans Carson Foster and Shaine Casas are also looking to qualify for the final.

American Phoebe Bacon (!) is the top qualifier heading into tomorrow night's final of the women's 200-meter backstroke.

I still will say Australian Kaylee McKeown, the world record holder in this event, is the favorite, but Bacon clearly has some ideas of her own. American Regan Smith is also through to the final in sixth place.

What a swim by Kate Douglass, and what grit to hang onto that lead late with reigning Olympic champion Tatjana Smith right over her shoulder!

Douglass' time of 2:19.24 is a new American record.

Kate Douglass (United States) holds off a late charge from 100 breast winner Tatjana Smith (South Africa) to take her first career Olympic gold medal!

Smith takes silver ahead of Tes Schouten (Netherlands), who takes bronze.

Lilly King (United States) comes in eighth place in what is expected to be the final individual race of her Olympic career.

Tatjana Smith (South Africa) won this event at Tokyo 2020 in a world record time. She also claimed silver in the 100m breaststroke in Tokyo before taking gold in that event here in Paris on Monday. Smith is looking to become the first female swimmer to win both breaststroke events since compatriot Penny Heyns at Atlanta 1996.

Kate Douglass (United States) was the silver medalist in the 200m breaststroke at the 2023 and 2024 world championships, and took bronze in 2022.

Tes Schouten (Netherlands) won the 200m breaststroke at this year's world championships.

Lane order

1. Kotryna Teterevkova (Lithuania)
2. Ye Shiwen (China)
3. Tes Schouten (Netherlands)
4. Kate Douglass (United States)
5. Tatjana Smith (South Africa)
6. Kaylene Corbett (South Africa)
7. Lilly King (United States)
8. Satomi Suzuki (Japan)

Britain's Benjamin Proud and Australia's Cameron McEvoy tie for first in the second semifinal on the men's 50 free.

They advance as the top qualifiers, while America's Caeleb Dressel advances in fifth place.

France's Florent Manaudou, a three-time medalist in this event, just squeezes through in eighth place, advancing by just five hundredths of a second.