Texas swimmer Luke Hobson qualifies for 2024 Paris Olympics
Texas Longhorns‘ swimming star Luke Hobson qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics with his victory Monday night.
Hobson won the men’s 200 free final in the 2024 Olympic Trials. Now, he’ll represent the United States on the biggest stage in France.
You can see Hobson’s victory below.
Hobson actually set the NCAA record in the 200 freestyle back in April with a time of 1:29.13 in his team’s relay.
“What works for me is not necessarily what works for everyone else, and sometimes taking it out a little slower can help me finish in the back half,” Hobson said after a record-breaking day.
Hobson is a five-time NCAA champion, winning the 200 free in 2023 and ’24, the 500 free in ’23 and the 800 free relay in 2022 and ’23 with Texas.
A 12-time All-American, Team USA will have a decorated swimmer going to Paris in this event. The NCAA record of the 200 free is also the American and US Open record, which he also holds in the 800 free relay.
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Hobson is the Texas record holder in the 200 free, 500 free and 800 free relay as well.
In case you need a refresher ahead of watching Hobson at the Olympics, here’s some history on the sport from the Olympics itself.
“Swimming has been present at every Olympic Games of the modern era,” the description read. “Although the first Olympic races took place in a natural environment (swimmers competed in the Bay of Zea at the Athens 1896 Olympic Games), since the 1908 Games in London the events have taken place in a pool, leading to the creation of the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA – now known as World Aquatics) that same year.
“Freestyle events were the only ones contested at the Games in 1896, with dedicated breaststroke and backstroke competitions then added at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis and butterfly following 52 years later at the Melbourne Games in 1956. Women’s swimming joined the Olympic programme in 1912 with two events, but today the events of the women’s and men’s swimming competitions at the Games are identical. Olympic swimming has been dominated by athletes representing the United States, who have won over 250 gold medals.”