ExpandIs Seemanova planning on swimming the 100m freestyle? That could play a role in whether or not she gets invited. Also the other athletes that got invited have the A standard in another event and Janickova doesn't
True, read about that, that other also have another standard. Honestly, I think Seemannová take 100,200 FS as her main events. If she decided not to participate in one event I guess it would be either butterfly or medley....
ExpandGood to see World Aquatics make a good decision
Neza Klancar is another athlete I've heard will race the 100m freestyle without either the A or B standard
That's really interesting. Was waiting whether Barbora Janíčková could get the invitation, too. As she does not have OQT neither OCT but she won a silver medal in 100m freestyle at the ECH in June......
Simona Kubová has retired
I have a question about 
Barbora Janíčková. She did not meet OCT but she won a silver medal at ECH few days ago in 100m freestyle in her PB 54,17s. Is there any possibility that she would get an invitation??
Any idea when the OCT will be decided? Will it be possible to see the list somewhere? Or updates day by day? Thanks
3rd Gold medal for 😲😲😲
Kristýna Horská European Champion on 200m breaststroke - 2:23,60min - OQT to Paris 💪💪💪👏👏👏
European Championship
Daniel Gracik - 100m Butterfly - 51,40s
Surprisingly Bronze medal for Daniel Gracík. I am happy for him. On the other hand, it so painful to watch his time on 100m Buttefly. 
Couple of weeks ago 51,69s (0,02s behind the Olympic limit). Yesterday, 51,68s (0,01s behind the Olympic limit). 
.... Now, I am hoping, he will finally break it in the final.
Anyways, when he swam it twice already this year and so close, I suppose he may get the invitation .....
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2024 AP Race London International - London (GBR)
May 25th - May 27th 2024
The following new OQTs were achieved
Women's 200m Individual Medley
Few national records, OQT already in 4 events. Thinking which events she prioritize. Maybe Freestyle and butterfly. Havent seen her in medley for a long time. Yet, she made OQT. She might a dark horse in Paris 💪 😍
ExpandA while ago, I mentioned how there were a concerning number of qualifiers in the men's 400m IM. Today, based on the results that happened at Canadian Olympic Trials today, I would like to talk about another event with a concerning amount of qualifiers. That would be the Women's 100m Freestyle. Here's roughly where things stand today. In 2016, the OQT was 54.43. Then despite the reduction of quotas in 2020, the OQT still stood relatively constant only decreasing by 0.05 seconds to 54.38. This cycle, it's decreased by a whopping 0.77 SECONDS TO 53.61.
Now why such the large drop, you ask? Well you have to remember that World Aquatics has a method they use to derive each OQT. For the Olympics, they use the faster of the 14th place time in the heats of the last Olympics, or the OQT of the Olympics before. It just so happened that the 14th place finisher at Tokyo had a time of 53.61 and that's how we have the standard we have today. Now let's see how many qualifiers we have as of today:
| NOC |
ATHLETE 1 QUALIFICATION EVENT |
RESULT |
ATHLETE 2 QUALIFICATION EVENT |
RESULT | ||
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Australia |
2 |
Maximum Quota exceeded, Athlete 1 TBD |
OQT X |
Maximum Quota exceeded, Athlete 2 TBD |
OQT X |
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Canada |
0 |
OLEKSIAK Penny Bell Canadian Olympic & Paralympic Trials 2024 |
OCT 53.66 |
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Czechia |
0 |
SEEMANOVÁ Barbora World Aquatics Championships 2024 |
OCT 53.76 |
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France |
2 |
GASTALDELLO Béryl Giant Open Final 2023 |
OQT 53.60 |
WATTEL Marie World Aquatics Championships 2023 |
OQT 53.59 |
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Great Britain |
2 |
ANDERSON Freya British National Championships 2023 |
OQT 53.48 |
HOPKIN Anna World Aquatics Championships 2024 |
OQT 53.09 |
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Hong Kong |
1 |
HAUGHEY Siobhán World Aquatics Swimming World Cup Berlin 2023 |
OQT 52.02 |
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Netherlands |
1 |
STEENBERGEN Marrit World Aquatics Championships 2024 |
OQT 52.26 |
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|
People's Republic of China |
2 |
WU Qingfeng Chinese National Championships 2024 |
OQT 53.25 |
YANG Junxuan Chinese National Championships 2024 |
OQT 52.68 |
|
|
Sweden |
1 |
COLEMAN Michelle World Aquatics Championships 2023 |
OQT 53.41 |
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United States of America |
2 |
Maximum Quota exceeded, Athlete 1 TBD |
OQT X |
Maximum Quota exceeded, Athlete 2 TBD |
OQT X |
|
As you can see, there are currently 13 projected qualifiers and to be honest, it's hard to see who else could reach that time. Sarah Sjoestroem has also gone under the OQT of 53.61 but she's already said she's not swimming this event so I've removed her. And of these swimmers, there's a chance they all won't be picked by their National Federations to swim it. Gastaldello and Wattel have both only reached the OQT once during the qualification period. There's a good chance they don't swim the time at French Trials so I'm not sure what the French Swimming Federation do about that. Freya Anderson was sick during British Trials so she didn't swim the time required at Trials. Not sure if British Swimming will let her swim this event either. Everyone else with an OQT should be fine.
Most events have over 20 qualifiers or at least in the high teens. So why so few qualifiers in this event (especially when both the 50m and 200m freestyle events have 20 qualifiers)? Well let's take a look at who the top 14 athletes were at the 2020 Olympic heats and what their qualification status is today.
1. 
Emma McKeon (52.13) - Achieved OQT
2. 
Siobhan Haughey (52.70) - Achieved OQT
3. Anna Hopkin (52.75) - Achieved OQT
4. Cate Campbell (52.80) - Achieved OQT
5. 
Sarah Sjoestroem (52.91) - Achieved OQT, wont swim this event
6. 
Penny Oleksiak (52.95) - Injured in late 2022, didn't get back to form until Canadian Trials, missed OQT by 0.05 seconds
7. 
Pernille Blume (52.96)- Retired
8. 
Yang Junxuan (53.02) - Achieved OQT
9. 
Femke Heemskerk (53.10) - Retired
10. Kayla Sanchez (53.12) - Started representing the Philippines last year. Hasn't come close to breaking 54 second since, let alone 53.61
11. 
Abbey Weitzeil (53.21) - Achieved OQT
12. Michelle Coleman (53.53) - Achieved OQT
13. Signe Bro (53.54) - Times peaked in Tokyo. Has only been under 54 seconds once since then. Failed to reach OQT.
14. Freya Anderson (53.61) - Achieved OQT
So of the 14, 9 have reached the OQT (of which one won't swim this event), two have retired, and 3 have declined in performance.
If we go further down the heat list, 
Charlotte Bonnet (53.67) isn't focusing on freestyle anymore, Marie Wattel (53.71) does have the OQT but has only reached it once this qualification period, Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.71) retired, Erika Brown (now Connolly) (53.87) doesn't have the OQT, Wu Qingfeng (53.87) does have the OQT, 
Maria Kameneva (53.92) is banned, Barbora Seemanova (53.98) has the consideration time so she could swim it, and I'm not sure what happened with 
Andrea Murez (54.01) but she doesn't have the OQT either. Then there was a huge gap in times after Murez with the next fastest being 54.69. So of the top 22 swimmers from the Tokyo Olympic heats, only 11 swimmers have achieved the OQT.
Another problem is that hardly any swimmers have emerged or broken out in this event over the last 3 years. If we don't include athletes from the US, Australia or China, only Marrit Steenbergen has had a breakthrough.
So let's take a look at the 2023 World Championships to see what kind of field we were dealing with.
Haughey, Weitzeil, McKeon, Wattel, Coleman, Steenbergen, O'Callaghan, Cheng Yujie were 1-8 in heats and all have the OQT.
#9 was 
Stephanie Balduccini. Her PB is 54.05 set this year. She's still young though (19 years old) so if anyone not qualified yet could have a drop in time, it would be her.
Then #10,11, and 12 are Gastaldello, Kate Douglass, and Yang who all have the time.
#13 was 
Sofia Morini. Her PB is 54.21 (0.8 seconds off the OQT).
#14 was 
Aimee Canny. Her PB is 54.60 (almost a full second off the OQT). She is qualified in the 200m freestyle though.
#15 was Signe Bro. Already talked about her.
#16 was 
Rikako Ikee. Has been as fast as 52.79 before but hasn't swam the same since her leukemia diagnosis in 2019.
So as you can see, the field today is a lot less competitive than it was in Tokyo. At least most of these swimmers qualified in the relay events though. As a fan of swimming, it's just really frustrating to see athletes being unable to qualify because of insane qualification times compared to other events that have easier qualification times. Here's some other facts to show how absurd the OQT is:
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Summer McIntosh (who's best stroke is freestyle) has the OQT in the 100m backstroke and 100m butterfly and yet her PB is still 0.29 seconds off the 100m freestyle OQT
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Barbora Seemanova (primarily a 100 and 200m freestyler) has the 200m freestyle OQT, even has the 400m freestyle and 100m butterfly OQTs (two events she doesn't specialize in) and yet is still 0.15 seconds off the 100m freestyle OQT
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Kornelia Fiedkiewicz is ranked 22nd this year in both the 50 and 100m freestyle events. She has the OQT in the 50m freestyle but yet is still 0.4 seconds off the 100m freestyle OQT
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Alex Shackell (freestyler and butterflyer) has the OQT's in the 200m freestyle, 100m butterfly and 200m butterfly and is still off the 100m freestyle OQT by 0.5 seconds
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Mary-Sophie Harvey has had a breakout meet at Canadian Trials this year. She beat the 100m butterfly OQT by 0.6 seconds, beat the 200m freestyle OQT by 1.8 seconds but was still off the 100m freestyle OQT by 0.1 seconds.
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Maggie MacNeil (who's second best stroke is freestyle) was also off the 100m freestyle OQT by 0.03 seconds. Yet she has the OQT in the 100m backstroke (her 3rd best stroke) during an event she wasn't tapered in.
So in conclusion, there will be very few qualifiers through the OQT, the heats will be uneventful, and there's a good chance we'll see multiple universality athletes reach the semifinals.
The other events that have a concerning number of qualifiers are the women's distance events but at least they go directly to finals after heats. I could do another post about those events if you guys are interested.
I think Seemannová focuses mostly on 200m Freestyle. She made the final in Tokyo and NR so I suppose that's where she will be aiming. Honestly, I don't think she would participate in 4 events. But one never knows.
ExpandGood for her, but that time will probably be far from what’s required to win an Olympic medal at Paris. Plus, the field isn’t very deep with the exception of Haughey. To be in contention for an Olympic medal, she’d realistically need to go a 1:53 mid (maybe high), which seems quite unlikely IMO. In the women’s 200m freestyle, it’s likely to be between MOC, Titmus, Haughey, and McIntosh for the Olympic medals. In the women’s 100m freestyle, it’s likely to be between Haughey, Douglass, Weitzeil, MOC, and Steenbergen (McKeon as well if she can get back to form) for the Olympic medals.
Well, I understand. Some of the stars are not in Doha but also we are not sure yet who is going to Paris. Seemannová is going up with her form. Just like she was in Tokyo. There, she broke national record a lot. I believe, that in Paris, she will most likely go below 1:55 and with that time, there is higher possibility. In Tokyo, she was 6th for 1:55,45. This year, she is surely aiming below 1:55, maybe close to 1:54,50 at the Olympics .....
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Final Results1:54.89Erika FAIRWEATHER
1:55.771:56.00Full Final Result HERE
Barbora Seemannová 4th , aka best result for Czech since medal in 2003. This girl has a vibe. Also 4th in 100m Freestyle heats..... And her form is increasing before Paris. We are hoping she could be the one who wins the first swimming Olympic medal for Czech in history .....
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Daniel Wiffen too as Ireland only accepts times swam at world championship or the Irish Olympic trials. So this is his first qualifying time
Alright. But he swam the Olympic time before as well. So according to FINA, he has already made the limit before....
ExpandMen's 400 m Freestyle qualifiers
MARTENS Lukas 3:44.77 OQT
KIM Woomin 3:45.14 OQT
AUBOECK Felix 3:45.53 OQT
HENVEAUX Lucas Pierre 3:46.15 OQT
Only Johansson and Aubry are those who got the OQT for the first time ..... rest of them did it before ......
WCH 2024 Doha (QAT) - 400m Freestyle Men Heats - Olympic Quota Time (3:46,78min)
Victor Johansson
David Aubry
P.S. no new limits in Women's 200m Medley - Heats
ExpandI read in comments in facebook page of our swimming federation that they will wait with fact that Piotr have quota or not until World Aquatics will officialy confirm the qualifiers in next week(s).
The same said Martin Straka to Czech media. He is also not sure. Sometimes reallocation might be tricky.
Anyways, the reallocation to ... I am not very sure how exactly it works, whether it goes to the next eligible athlete if the country hasn't fulfilled the quota or whether it goes to yet unqualified country.
Junior WCH
Miroslav KNEDLA - 100m Backstroke (53,28s)
Yeah, this is a new rule for the relay qualification. Makes not much sense. Especially when relays may qualify from other events where they may perform a way better time, just like it was during previous Olympics. This is going to be strict but also hoping more fair than before. I think before Tokyo Games there were some stories that some swimmers and also relays swam at some events and cheated as the organizers wrote very good fast time to results and there was no proof like no video, etc? I forgot where it was ....... But maybe such things made IOC think to change a rule how to qualify the relays....
Any idea where to see entries? Haven't found it on website yet. Also, how about relays? Any idea how relays had to qualify?
ExpandTomorrow the
it's the first (and main) chance for our swimmers to stamp the clockings that would qualify them to the World Champs (the Sette Colli meet in Rome in June is the second and last chance).
the hype is quite high, even if our stars are basically pre-qualified and most likely won't be in top shape.
some of them are also facing the consequence of some illness (in particular, Galossi -who had mononucleosis and he's not expected to have any significant result this week, being well behind his own training schedule- and Ceccon).
I'm very curious to see if some new names will have a breakout, especially on the women's side (where Pilato will only compete in the 50m breaststroke and most likely will be out of the 100m race also in Fukuoka, despite being the reigning world champion).
Do you have entries? Wanna check if any swimmers will compete there 😃😃
Just read news that FINA is investigating 
swimming federation for fake results to favor the home swimmers. According to the source - Czech news. It says that meeting in November and April have been partially manipulated. According to FINA one 
swimmer provided some proofs including bribery offer and documents with the real results ....
Well, well, well..... This is going to be interesting??
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Daniel Gracik is on the list of 100m Freestyle too but he didn't even achieve OCT...
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