Swimming Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[Rafa Maciel 1,594]

22 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Not an Olympic qualification event unfortunately. Could be added later though.

Yeah I gave up looking through the World Aquatics site looking for the calendar so figured I'd post it anyhow as it feels like it's been a while since GB had anybody new hitting an OQT.

 

Now all she needs to do is repeat it at next week's Edinburgh International meet for it to count for World Aquatics and then again in April at British Champs for it to count for British Swimming! What could be simpler? 

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16 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

Yeah I gave up looking through the World Aquatics site looking for the calendar so figured I'd post it anyhow as it feels like it's been a while since GB had anybody new hitting an OQT.

 

Now all she needs to do is repeat it at next week's Edinburgh International meet for it to count for World Aquatics and then again in April at British Champs for it to count for British Swimming! What could be simpler? 

Just needs to do it once at British Champs.

[Topicmaster1010 4,177]

7 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

Yeah I gave up looking through the World Aquatics site looking for the calendar so figured I'd post it anyhow as it feels like it's been a while since GB had anybody new hitting an OQT.

 

Now all she needs to do is repeat it at next week's Edinburgh International meet for it to count for World Aquatics and then again in April at British Champs for it to count for British Swimming! What could be simpler? 

Here's the calendar on the World Aquatics site

 

and here's the Totallympics version that I've been updating

 

Yeah, definitely not a fan of your federation's harsh standards. If Amelie Blocksidge hits the OQT but misses the BQT and they don't take her, I might just bring my pitchfork to British Swimming's headquarters. 

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23 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Here's the calendar on the World Aquatics site

 

and here's the Totallympics version that I've been updating

 

Yeah, definitely not a fan of your federation's harsh standards. If Amelie Blocksidge hits the OQT but misses the BQT and they don't take her, I might just bring my pitchfork to British Swimming's headquarters. 

If they're not likely to reach the final then they don't wanna know, simple as. Although tbf to them, unlike athletics, this hasn't hindered the progress or success of our athletes at all so they've got no reason to stop doing this. Edinburgh will be a good guide, in all unqualified events, as to how trials will most likely unfold. Blocksidge needs to knock 9 seconds off her current time and Evans 0.3 to reach the British Standard, and that's without even considering the 30 athlete cap they might have to contend with. 

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On 2/21/2024 at 6:27 PM, JoshMartini007 said:

The wording is a bit awkward.

 

It's written that athletes under the age of 30 can only compete in two Olympics through universality. It's then implied that over 30 year old athletes can compete in more Olympics.

 

It's a dumb rule in my opinion and hurts a small handful of athletes in their mid to late 20s who may be excluded during what may have been their peak Olympics

But perhaps wouldn't be the case of those countries read the OQD beforehand and send new athletes?

 

I like the idea of Universality quotas not being given to the same athlete over and over.

[Topicmaster1010 4,177]

Calendar of major national trials (and Papua New Guinea I guess). Mark your calendars!

DATES	EVENT	VENUE
5 March 9 March	Campionato Italiano Assoluto 2024	Riccione
17 March 24 March	Japan Selection Trial for Olympic Games 2024	Tokyo
22 March 24 March	5th International Edirne Cup & Türkiye Youth, Junior, and Open Age National Team Selection Meet 2024	Edirne
22 March 27 March	KB Financial Group Korea Swimming Championships 2024	Gimcheon
29 March 31 March	Bulgarian Open Team Championships 2024	Sofia
30 March 2 April	Portuguese Open 2024	Funchal
2 April 7 April	British National Championships 2024	London
3 April 6 April	Lithuanian National Championships 2024	Kaunas
4 April 7 April	Swiss National Championships 2024	Uster
5 April 8 April	Malmsten Swim Open Stockholm 2024	Stockholm
8 April 13 April	South African National Championships 2024	Gqeberha
9 April 12 April	Hungarian National Championships 2024	Budapest
9 April 13 April	Apollo Projects New Zealand National Championships 2024	Hastings
11 April 14 April	Danish Open 2024	Copenhagen
11 April 14 April	Eindhoven Qualification Meet 2024	Eindhoven
12 April 14 April	Icelandic National Championships 2024	Reykjavik
17 April 21 April	Romanian National Championships 2024	Otopeni
19 April 21 April	Open Belgian Championships 2024	Antwerp
19 April 21 April	Berlin Swim Open 2024	Berlin
19 April 27 April	Chinese Nationals 2024	Shenzhen
25 April 28 April	Polish National Championships 2024	Lublin
25 April 28 April	German National Championships 2024	Berlin
27 April 28 April	Papua New Guinea National Championships 2024	Port Moresby
2 May 4 May	99th Latvian Championships 2024	Riga
2 May 5 May	Peru Selection Tournament for Olympic Games 2024	Lima
5 May 8 May	Ukrainian National Championships 2024	Brovary
6 May 11 May	Brazilian Swimming Trophy - Brazil Olympic Trial 2024	Rio de Janeiro
10 May 12 May	Faroe Islands National Championships 2024	Vagur
11 May 12 May	Hong Kong China Olympic Invitational Trial I 2024	Hong Kong
13 May 17 May	Kazakhstan National Championships 2024	Taldykorgan
13 May 19 May	Bell Canadian Olympic & Paralympic Trials 2024	Montreal
15 May 18 May	Argentinian Open Championships 2024	Buenos Aires
17 May 19 May	Greek National Championships 2024	Athens
17 May 19 May	Slovenian Open National Championships 2024	Ljubljana
22 May 26 May	Irish Open Championships 2024	Dublin
23 May 26 May	66th Malaysia Open Swimming Championships 2024	Kuala Lumpur
24 May 26 May	Cyprus Qualifying Competition 2024	Limassol
5 June 8 June	Israel Olympic Trials 2024	Netanya
7 June 9 June	Slovakian National Championships 2024	Samorin/Bratislava
8 June 9 June	Bosnia and Herzegovina Summer National Championships 2024	Sarajevo
10 June 15 June	Australian Olympic & Paralympic Trials 2024	Brisbane
12 June 15 June	19th Singapore National Championships 2024	Singapore
12 June 15 June	National Championships #2 - International Open	Asuncion
12 June 16 June	Colombian National Championships 2024	Cartagena
13 June 16 June	Dutch National Championships 2024	Amersfoort
13 June 16 June	Czech National Championships 2024	Usti nad Labem
15 June 16 June	Hong Kong China Olympic Invitational Trial II 2024	Hong Kong
15 June 23 June	US Olympic Team Trials 2024	Indianapolis
16 June 21 June	French Elite Championships 2024	Chartres
18 June 22 June	Spanish Summer Open Championships 2024	TBC
20 June 23 June	Bahamas National Championships 2024	Nassau

Edited March 19 by Topicmaster1010

[Pasolini 251]

Not sure if this would be thread or the Swimming 2024, but... I was curious and took the 2 best times from american swimmers between march 2023-24 to check what would be the US swimming "selection".

It would have 20 male athletes, 18 female athletes, plus 3 men and 2 women to fill the top6 in 4x100m and 4x200m. The 12th relay only quota would go (in my mind obviously) to Simone Manuel, 7th from 4x100m.

 

Do you think the official selection will be very different from this one? Can Dressel comeback in time?

 

MEN (20+ 6 relay only)

 

Bobby Finke - 800m freestyle, 1500m freestyle

Carson Foster - 200m butterfly, 200m medley, 400m medley, 4x200m freestyle (3rd)

Charlie Clark - 1500m freestyle

Chase Kalisz - 400m medley

Dare Rose - 100m butterfly

David Johnston - 400m freestyle

Destin Lasco.- 200m backstroke, 4x100 freestyle (3rd)

Hunter Armstrong - 100m backstroke

Jack Alexy - 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle

Jake Foster - 200m breaststroke

Josh Mateny - 100m breaststroke

Kieran Smith - 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle

Luke Hobson - 200m freestyle

Matt Fallon - 200m breaststroke

Nic Fink - 100m breaststroke

Ross Dant - 800m freestyle

Ryan Held - 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle

Ryan Murphy - 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke

Shaine Casas - 100m butterfly, 200m medley

Thomas Heilman - 200m butterfly

 

RELAY ONLY

 

Brooks Curry - 4x200m freestyle (6th)

Chris Giuliano - 4x100 freestyle (5th)

Drew Kibler - 4x200m freestyle (4th)

Jake Mitchell - 4x200m freestyle (5th)

Justin Ress- 4x100 freestyle (6th)

Matt King - 4x100 freestyle (4th)

 

 

WOMEN (22) 16+6 relay only

 

Abbey Weitzeil - 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle

Alex Walsh - 200m medley, 400m medley

Bella Sims - 400 free, 4x200m freestyle (3rd)

Claire Curzan - 200m back

Claire Weinstein - 200m freestyle

Dakota Luther. - 200m butterfly

Gretchen Walsh - 100m butterfly, 4x100m (3rd)

Jillian Cox - 800m free

Kate Douglass - 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m breast, 200m medley

Katie Grimes - 1500m freestyle, 400m medley

Katie Ledecky - 200m freestyle, 400 free, 800 free, 1500m free

Katherine Berkoff - 100m back

Lilly King - 100m breast, 200m breast

Lydia Jacoby - 100m breast

Regan Smith - 100m back, 200m back, 200m butterfly

Torri Huske - 100m butterfly, 4x100m (4th)

 

Relay Only:

Alex Schakell -  4x200m freestyle (5th)

Erin Gemmell - 4x200m freestyle (4th)

Leah Smith - 4x200m freestyle (6th)

Maxime Parker - 4x100m freestyle (6th)

Olivia Smoliga - 4x100m freestyle (5th)

Simone Manuel - 4x100m freestyle (7th)

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Quota for Nikola Miljenic (CRO) 100m free 48.13 

[RussB 189]

On 2/27/2024 at 7:53 AM, Topicmaster1010 said:

Here's the calendar on the World Aquatics site

 

and here's the Totallympics version that I've been updating

 

Yeah, definitely not a fan of your federation's harsh standards. If Amelie Blocksidge hits the OQT but misses the BQT and they don't take her, I might just bring my pitchfork to British Swimming's headquarters. 

British swimming will take Amelie if she wins trials and gets vaguely close to that insane qualification time of 16m 01 IMHO.

What an experience Paris will be for her in her development, she is probably British swimmings biggest talent for a long time. I’m also interested in seeing if she can drop time in the 800m to get close to that QT.

 

As others have mentioned, UK swimming setting a cap of 30 swimmers looks like it MAY cause them problems as a few of the non headline swimmers are making strides in various events.

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On 2/21/2024 at 6:33 PM, OlympicIRL said:

 

World Aquatics seems to imply the opposite in their website so it almost seems like they can compete in more than 2 Olympics if they are under the age of 30.

In the official document the wording is more clear but not enough

 

 

 

I think it is something similar to the tennis rule that have different rules to younger/older than 30:

 

In this case... I think the rule only applies if the athlete is younger than 30.

 

if the athlete is over 30 he/she can go.

But if he/she is younger, can not go to a third Olympic.

 

I guess the idea behind is: if the athlete is older, it gets an "extra" Olympic to go to.

Not sure if it's the best or if it's what the document says. what do you think @JoshMartini007 @OlympicIRL @Josh?