Roman Mityukov underlines his medal ambitions in the heats of the 200 m backstroke. On the day after his 24th birthday, the Geneva-born swimmer enters the evening's semi-finals with the best time.
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In 1:56.62 - around 1.3 seconds over his Swiss record - Mityukov easily beat Ryan Murphy in the third of four heats. The US American is a four-time Olympic champion, winning the double in the 100 and 200m backstroke in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and finishing second in the 200m backstroke and third in the 100m backstroke in Tokyo in 2021.
Second fastest behind this year's World Championship silver medallist Mityukov was Germany's Lukas Märtens in 1:56.89. The semi-finals in the 200 m backstroke will take place on Wednesday evening shortly before 10 p.m., with the final on Thursday evening.
Mamié also out in the 200 m breaststroke preliminaries
Lisa Mamié was denied a sense of achievement at the Summer Games in Paris. The 25-year-old from Zurich was also eliminated in the preliminary heats in her showpiece discipline, the 200 m breaststroke.
Mamié, a finalist over the longest breaststroke distance at the World Championships in Qatar in February, needed 2:26.39 for the four lane lengths in the Olympic pool. This time - around four seconds above her Swiss record and 1.5 seconds above her best performance this year - was only good enough for 17th place, missing out on a semi-final place by eleven hundredths.
Three days earlier, the Zurich native had finished 23rd in the 100 m breaststroke in Paris. Three years ago at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Mamié had made it through to the semi-finals in both the 100 and 200 m breaststroke.
