Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko fails to qualify for women’s 400m individual medley final in Paris

Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko fails to qualify for the final of the women’s 400m individual medley at the 2024 Paris Olympics, finishing 6th in her heat and 10th overall with a time of 4:41.64.

Yesterday, Gorbenko qualified for the semifinal in the 100m breaststroke but opted to sit it out to focus her energies instead on today’s race, one of her strongest, which ends with a disappointment. Gorbenko is slated to compete in several other swimming events throughout the Games.

Gorbenko tells Israel’s Sport5 channel that she felt good going in but the first 200m “took a lot of strength out of me,” and she found it hard to recover for the second half. “I gave everything I had… I’m very disappointed because I worked very hard this year, in particular for this event, so it’s very disappointing.”

Israeli swimmer Aviv Barzelay finishes first in her heat in the women’s 100m backstroke but 25th overall with a time of 1:02.30, failing to qualify for the semifinal.