Noè Ponti

Noè Ponti (born 1 June 2001) is a Swiss swimmer who competed for North Carolina State University. Representing Switzerland, he won a bronze medal in the 100 meter 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.^[2][3]

Noè Ponti

Personal information
Born	(2001-06-01) 1 June 2001 (age 24) Locarno, Switzerland
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly
College team	North Carolina State University
Coach	Braden Holloway (NCSU)
Medal record Men's swimming Representing  Switzerland Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 100 m butterfly World Championships (LC) 2025 Singapore 50 m butterfly 2025 Singapore 100 m butterfly World Championships (SC) 2024 Budapest 50 m butterfly 2024 Budapest 100 m butterfly 2024 Budapest 100 m medley 2021 Abu Dhabi 200 m butterfly 2022 Melbourne 50 m butterfly 2022 Melbourne 200 m butterfly European Championships (LC) 2022 Rome 100 m butterfly European Championships (SC) 2023 Otopeni 50 m butterfly 2023 Otopeni 100 m butterfly 2023 Otopeni 200 m butterfly 2023 Otopeni 100 m medley European Junior Championships 2019 Kazan 50 m butterfly

2020 Tokyo Olympics

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.^[4][5]

Ponti placed third in the 100 meter butterfly swim, winning a bronze with at time of 50.74 with Caleb Dressel of the USA taking the gold with a time of 49.45. He swam a 1:55.37 in the 100-meter butterfly, placing tenth, not qualifying for the finals.^[2]

2024 Paris Olympics

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 July 31, 2024.^[3]

North Carolina State University

Following the olympics, Ponti enrolled at North Carolina State University and joined the NC State Wolfpack swimming & diving team under Head Coach Braden Holloway.^{[6] [7][8]} He left university and returned to Switzerland to continue his professional training after one month in the United States.^[9]

International competition

In August 2022, he won a silver medal in the 100 meter butterfly during the European Swimming Championships in Rome.^[10]

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