On one of the busiest nights of swimming at Lucas Oil Stadium, Olympic spots were clinched in five events on Night 3 of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Team Trials presented by Lilly.
A full slate of finals included the women’s 400m IM, men’s 200m freestyle, men’s 100m backstroke, women’s 100m breaststroke and women’s 200m freestyle.
Monday night saw an American record fall, a backstroke legend qualify for his third Olympic team, a hometown favorite surge to victory and the greatest female swimmer of all time add another Olympic event to her growing Paris schedule.
Night 3 also saw the first U.S. relay teams come to fruition in the men’s and women’s 4x200m relays.
See below for event-by-event results, recaps and highlights from Indy. Women’s 400m Individual Medley Final
Katie Grimes entered Trials as one of the very few athletes already guaranteed a place in Paris; she qualified for the 10K open water swimming event last year. Now, she has her spot in the Paris pool as well.
Grimes won the women’s 400m IM final in 4:35.00, separating late from Emma Weyant to win by 0.56.
Grimes, then 15, was the youngest American swimmer at the Tokyo Olympics, where she swam the 800m freestyle. In the time since, she’s emerged as one of the most versatile swimmers in the world and took silver in both the 400m IM and 1500m freestyle at the 2022 World Swimming Championships.
Weyant, the 400m IM silver medalist in Tokyo, is nearly assured of a return to the Games thanks to her second-place finish in the first final of the night.
FINAL RESULTS:
1) *Katie Grimes | 4:35.00
2) **Emma Weyant | 4:35.56
3) Lilla Bognar | 4:37.86
4) Leah Smith | 4:39.87
5) Leah Hayes | 4:41.32
6) Lucy Bell | 4:41.40
7) Zoe Dixon | 4:42.01
8) Audrey Derivaux | 4:46.89
*Olympic place guaranteed
**Olympic place likely
