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Canada qualifiers after Day 4 of the Canadian Olympic Trials

 

Men's 100m Freestyle - Santo Condorelli, Yuri Kisil

Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay - Santo Condorelli, Yuri Kisil, Markus Thormeyer, Evan van Moerkerke

Women's 200m Butterfly - Audrey Lacroix

Women's 200m IM - Sydney Pickrem, Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson

 

Katerine Savard missed the 200m butterfly

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4 minutes ago, uk12points said:

That is crazy, 48.25 would have come 5th at the 2015 World Championships in the 100m Free and he would have made the final at London 2012.

For the Women's 53.88 would have put her 9th at London 2012 and 6th at 2015 World Championships.

Hopefully they have another think about their selection policy and allow the two of them to compete at the Olympics.

 

We’ll see, they might let them (and possibly the second place finishers) compete since they are already competing in the relay.

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Australian Trials Day 2 Qualifiers

 

Men's 100m Breaststroke - Jake Packard

Women's 400m Freestyle - Jessica Ashwood, Tamsin Cook

Women's 100m Butterfly - Emma McKeon, Madeline Groves

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2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

So what's the record?  

 

Or you mean it has never happened before that Japan isn't represented in the 100 free? 

 

Men's 100m Freestyle

JPN Olympic Standard – 48.16

Katsumi Nakamura, 48.25 NR

 

Women's 100m Freestyle

JPN Olympic Standard – 53.81

Miki Uchida, 53.88 NR

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Japan literally set a new national record in the men's and women's 100m freestyle yet neither swimmer will go to Rio because they didn't reach the Japanese standard.

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As a reminder the Canadian Trials are also the New Zealand trials for swimmers studying in North America. So far Corey Main in the men's 100m backstroke and Matt Hutchins in the men's 400m freestyle have qualified and will be added to the team.

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9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I'm 99% sure Belgium will just use times luckily, no hassles with trials and having to peak another time and so on.

These Belgians are listed as officially qualified on their NOC's website:

 

Apart from that, their selection criteria since this year are the exact same as the international standards. 

 

Thanks, not too surprised about Belgium

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I’ve been collecting dates for each nation’s Olympic trials. I’ve gotten all of the large ones, but I am missing a few mid-sized nations.

 

Belgium

Greece

Hungary

Sweden

 

It’s possible that they don’t have trials and just used times, but I would like to know for sure. Most of the smaller swimming nations won’t have trials, but if yours does don’t hesitate to post the dates.

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In other nations Australia added six athletes to its swimming team after day 1 of their trials

 

Men's 400m Freestyle - Mack Horton, David McKeon

Men's 400m IM - Thomas Fraser-Holmes, Travis Mahoney

Women's 400m IM - Blair Evans, Keryn McMaster

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5 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Is this the very last chance for Canadians to qualify? 

 

Mostly yes. The main exception is with injury/illness (I don't think anyone important is sick/injured), 2015 world champ medalists which failed here (only Ryan Cochrane in 400m and 1500m free remains) and technically relay athletes won't be qualified until after they qualified the relay (though I think they will be listed with the initial team).

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Good to see the men finally on the qualifying side.

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14 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I do wonder what exactly all those notes and explanations mean..

 

Each header is as follows (rough translation)

 

- Individual selection which reached the French Standard

- Relay selection which satisfy the selection standard

- Top selected athletes which were closest to the French standard

- Additional relay athletes which satisfied the French standard

- Relay athletes in order to fill relays qualified by France

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1 minute ago, OlympicsFan said:

If we do this for all nations, then we have at least 4 or 5 posts for every nation just to name the qualified athletes, so we will end up with more than 50 posts that are just about naming the qualified athletes. There is no need to post the names of the qualified athletes immediately after the end of each session, because everyone who cares will look it up and discuss about it on swimming websites like Swimswam, all other people will have no problem to wait until the end of the event to know the names of the qualified athletes. Of course i cant tell you what to do, but if other people follow your example, then we will tons of comments in the swimming/athletics thread that basically have no value, because you couldve said the same with just one comment. 

 

What's the point of threads if nobody posts in them? If we should go to SwimSwam then what's the point of this site? If we were bombarding the thread with blow by blow results that's one thing, but I don't see us being disruptive. On the other side I have no issue seeing the results of other nations.

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10 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

@JoshMartini007 and Near:

Do you guys plan to update the qualifier list every day? I think most (non-canadian) people dont really care about those results (and if they care, they can look it up on other sites like Swimswam), so why not wait until the end of the canadian trials to post the names of all the qualified athletes?

 

I don't think it's a problem, this is a swimming qualification thread and there's no doubt other qualifiers for large nations will be talked about (we already did it for France). Honestly for a sport like this and athletics there isn't much else to talk about since there isn't any true qualification event since it's all about times.

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Not a great day for Canada, pretty much the minimum expectation going into the finals. So many athletes were close to the A standard and it will be unlikely that we'll send a 4x200m team if we qualify one. Of the athletes which qualified they will have a good chance at reaching the final and an outside chance at winning a medal if everything holds up.

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The women’s 100m butterfly final is looking to be very interesting. Penny Oleksiak set a new Canadian junior record as she finished first in the heats ahead of Noemie Thomas and Katerine Savard. The three swimmers will likely fight for two spots on the team.

 

In the other events so far it will be unlikely that Canada will have a swimmer in the men’s 400m IM (four seconds off in prelims) though longer distance swimmers usually don’t put up top times until the finals, Brittany MacLean is set to qualify in the women’s 400m free and Richard Funk has a chance at reaching the men’s 100m breast time, he was just 0.09 seconds off the qualification time, a second swimmer is also possible too.

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Canada's Swimming Trials begin today. Qualification is simple, swim the Olympic Qualification Time and you're in.

 

Relay qualification is if the sum of the four fastest swimmers minus 1.8 seconds is less than 8th place at the 2015 World Champs.

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French Trials are now over. Here's who qualified to individual events based on the times.

 

Charlotte Bonnet - W 200m Free

Coralie Balmy - W 400m Free

Florent Manaudou - M 50m Free

Jeremy Stravius - M 100m Free

Clement Mignon - M 100m Free

Camille Lacourt - M 100m Back

 

Also up to 6 men and 6 women will be selected to the team, plus relays.

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Since yesterday only 1 individual athlete has reached the French standard. Hopefully France rethinks its policy.

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At this rate France's team will be non-existent.