Puskovitch to Compete in Marathon Swimming at 2024 Paris Olympics
August 08, 2024 04:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Former West Virginia University men's swimming team member, Ivan Puskovitch, will represent Team USA in the marathon swimming event at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games at 1:30 a.m. ET on Friday, August 9.
Puskovitch qualified for the Olympics after placing 14th in the men's 10 km (1:48:54.40) event at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar. At the time, Puskovitch was only the fifth American male in history to qualify for the Olympics in open water swimming since the event was added in 2008.
He became just the second Mountaineer to qualify for the Olympics and the first male from the WVU program to qualify.
At the 2024 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships, Puskovitch set program records in the 1650-yard freestyle (15:15.34) and the 1000-yard freestyle (9:08.91) in one event. He placed second in the 1650 freestyle and the 400-yard individual medley (3:47.61). With those finishes, Puskovitch was named First Team All-Big 12.
Puskovitch also placed first in the B final of the 500-yard freestyle (4:22.83) at the conference championships.
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