Mexican Gabriel Castaño reaches the semifinals of the 50-meter freestyle swimming event in Paris 2024

Mexican swimmer Gabriel Castaño qualified for the semi-finals of the 50-meter freestyle of the Paris Olympics. The Mexican finished the preliminary round in eleventh place with a time of 21.89 seconds.

Castaño, who finished fifth in a series in which he competed with the American Caeleb Dresselthe reigning Olympic champion, whom she defeated by two hundredths of a second, was half a second behind Australian Cameron McEvoy, who will start with the best time of all the semi-finalists after clocking 21.32 in the qualifying rounds.

The 50-meter semi-final will be held this Wednesday. The medal final will be held this Friday, August 2.

It should be noted that the Mexican must be among the 8 best times in the semi-final to earn a spot in the final.

Katie Ledecky sets record in Paris 1,500m

American Katie Ledecky, who won the 1,500-meter freestyle final on Wednesday, equaled her compatriot Jenny Thompson as the swimmer with the most gold medals in Olympic history with a total of eight each.

A figure to add to the three silver medals and the bronze that Ledecky has collected in an Olympic record that the Maryland native debuted at just 15 years old at the 2012 London Games after being crowned champion of the 800 freestyle.

A title to which Katie Ledecky added four more at the 2016 Rio Games, where the North American won the 200, 400 and 800 freestyle, as well as making a decisive contribution to the United States’ victory in the 4×200 freestyle relay final.

These were not the only medals Ledecky won in the Brazilian capital, where the American swimmer, who turned 27 last March, had to settle for silver in the 4×100 freestyle final.

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