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Noè Ponti
Ponti in 2025
Personal information
Born (2001-06-01) 1 June 2001 (age 25)
Locarno, Switzerland
Height1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesButterfly, Individual Medley
College teamNC State Wolfpack
CoachBraden Holloway (NCSU)
Massimo Meloni (professional)
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  Switzerland
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place2020 Tokyo100 m butterfly
World Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place2025 Singapore50 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place2025 Singapore100 m butterfly
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place2024 Budapest50 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place2024 Budapest100 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place2024 Budapest100 m medley
Silver medal – second place2021 Abu Dhabi200 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place2022 Melbourne50 m butterfly
Bronze medal – third place2022 Melbourne200 m butterfly
European Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place2022 Rome100 m butterfly
European Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place2023 Otopeni50 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place2023 Otopeni100 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place2023 Otopeni200 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place2025 Lublin50 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place2025 Lublin200 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place2025 Lublin100 m medley
Silver medal – second place2023 Otopeni100 m medley
Silver medal – second place2025 Lublin100 m butterfly
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 Kazan50 m butterfly

Noè Ponti (born 1 June 2001) is a Swiss swimmer and short course world record holder in the 50 m butterfly.[2] Representing Switzerland, he won a bronze medal in the 100 m butterfly at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and competed again in the 2024 Paris Olympics in the 100 and 200 meter butterfly placing fourth and fifth.[3][4]

2020 Tokyo Olympics

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He represented Switzerland in the men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where his team placed 14th with a time of 3:14.65. In the men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay, his relay team recorded a combined time of 7:06.12, a new Swiss record, placing sixth. Ponti swam a 1:46.63 for his relay leg.[5][6]

Ponti placed third in the 100-meter butterfly swim, winning a bronze with at time of 50.74 with Caeleb Dressel of the USA taking the gold with a time of 49.45. He swam a 1:55.37 in the 200-meter butterfly, placing tenth, not qualifying for the finals.[3]

2024 Paris Olympics

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On 3 August 2024, he swam a fourth place 50.55 in the finals of the 100-meter butterfly at the Paris Olympics, and swam a 1:54.14 in the finals of the 200-meter butterfly to take fifth place on 31 July 2024.[4]

North Carolina State University

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Following the olympics, Ponti enrolled at North Carolina State University and joined the NC State Wolfpack swimming & diving team under Head Coach Braden Holloway.[7] [8][9] He left university and returned to Switzerland to continue his professional training after one month in the United States.[10]

International competition

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In August 2022, he won a silver medal in the 100-meter butterfly during the European Swimming Championships in Rome.[11]

Ponti set a new world record for the 50-meter butterfly in October 2024 at the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Shanghai.[12] On 11 December 2024, he swam a new world record for the same event during the 2024 Short Course World Championships in Budapest.[13] At the 2024 short course World Aquatics Ponti won three gold medals and set world records in the 50- and 100-meter butterfly events. [14]

References

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  1. ↑ "Noè Ponti" (PDF). swiss-aquatics.ch. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  2. ↑ https://www.worldaquatics.com/athletes/1138017/noe-ponti
  3. 1 2 "Olympedia Biography, Noe Ponti". Olympedia. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
  4. 1 2 "World Aquatics Results, Noe Ponti". worldaquatics.com. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  5. ↑ "Noè Ponti". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  6. ↑ "Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay: Results Summary" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "North Carolina State University Athletics, Ponti Helps Switzerland to Sixth-Place Olympic Finish in 4x200 Freestyle Relay". gopack.com. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  8. ↑ "Noe Ponti Wins 100 Fly Bronze at 2020 Tokyo Olympics". NC State University Athletics. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  9. ↑ Writer, Matthew De George-Senior (9 August 2021). "Switzerland's Noe Ponti Emerges as One of Tokyo Olympics' Rising Stars; N.C. State His Next Locale". Swimming World News. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  10. ↑ Keith, Braden (26 September 2021). "Olympic Bronze Medalist Noe Ponti Leaves NC State, Returns Home to Switzerland". SwimSwam. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  11. ↑ "Noè Ponti schwimmt in Rom zu Silber". Blick (in Swiss High German). 14 August 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  12. ↑ Keith, Braden (20 October 2024). "Noe Ponti Breaks 50 Fly World Record in Shanghai; First Swiss World Record in Almost 40 Years". SwimSwam. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  13. ↑ Pelshaw, Anya (11 December 2024). "Noe Ponti Breaks World Record Again With 21.32 50 Butterfly In Budapest". SwimSwam. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  14. ↑ Bhattacharya, Soumik (21 October 2024). "Who is Noe Ponti? All about the First Swiss swimmer to break the world record in 39 years in the 50m butterfly". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
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