Former College of Florida standout swimmer Bobby Finke gained Workforce USA’s solely particular person males’s gold medal in world report vogue on the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
Finke, 24, gained the 1,500-meter freestyle last by main from the beginning and completed with a report time of 14:30.67, besting the world mark set by China’s Solar Yang in 2012 (14.31.02) by almost a half a second. Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri took silver with a time of 14.34.55 and Eire’s Daniel Wiffen received bronze in 14.39.63.
Watching on repeat 🔁
pic.twitter.com/Ibgdg71zHq— Gators Swimming & Diving (@GatorsSwimDv) August 4, 2024
Finke, who gained the 800m and 1,500 three years in the past within the Tokyo Summer time Video games, missed repeating within the 800 on Tuesday by ending second for the silver medal. The 2023 UF graduate wasn’t going to go away France and not using a gold medal.
“I actually wished to get on prime of the rostrum once more and listen to the anthem over again like I did for the primary time in Tokyo,” Finke stated.
“He simply stated, ‘I’d cry.’” 🥹
Bobby Finke talks about defending his 1500m gold medal and new world report! #ParisOlympics pic.twitter.com/hYfKA4c4lv
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 4, 2024
Profitable a silver medal Sunday was Caeleb Dressel, one other Gator Nice, within the males’s 4x100m Medley Relay. Dressel, 27, a star within the Tokyo and Rio Video games, completed these Video games with two relay golds and didn’t make the medal podium after ending sixth within the 50m Freestyle and never qualifying for the finals within the 100m Butterfly.
UF has 39 other athletes competing in Paris representing 21 nations, and have totaled three gold, 4 silver, two bronze medals getting into the second week of competitors.
On Saturday, UF junior Josh Liendo gained a silver medal within the males’s 100m Butterfly representing Canada and Gator grad Jasmine Moore completed third within the ladies’s triple soar to win a bronze medal, changing into the primary U.S. girl to earn an Olympic triple soar medal.
Moore, the primary U.S. girl to qualify for Olympic motion in each the triple and lengthy soar, will compete within the lengthy soar Tuesday.
Final Monday, UF senior Emma Weyant gained bronze within the ladies’s 400m IM, her second medal within the occasion, having earned silver on the Tokyo Olympic Video games.
On Tuesday, Gator grad Kieran Smith gained a silver as a part of the lads’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay.
