Swimming Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

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 2023 World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships - Netanya (ISR)

September 4th - September 9th 2023

 

Meet Results

 

 

The following new OQTs were achieved

 

Men's 400m Freestyle

 Alessandro Ragaini

 

Men's 800m Freestyle

 Kuzey Tuncelli

 Zhang Zhanshuo

 

Men's 100m Backstroke

 Miroslav Knedla

 Oleksandr Zheltiakov

 

Men's 200m Individual Medley

 Maximus Williamson

 

Men's 400m Individual Medley

 Zhang Zhanshuo

 

Women's 50m Freestyle

 Olivia Wunsch

 

Women's 400m Freestyle

 Jamie Perkins

 

Women's 100m Backstroke

 Iona Anderson

 Jaclyn Barclay

 Erika Pelaez

 

Women's 100m Breaststroke

 Alexanne Lepage

 

Women's 400m Individual Medley

 Julie Brousseau

 Ella Jansen

Edited September 9, 2023 by Topicmaster1010

[Rafa Maciel 1,737]

 released their final selection policy for Paris earlier this month. In line with the approach used for both Rio and Tokyo, the squad will be capped at a maximum of 30 athletes. 

 

Key Points:

• Selections will primarily be based on results from 2024 British Swimming Championships which are taking place in London Aquatics Centre in early April.
• In order to guarantee selection, the champion in each individual event is required to achieve the nomination time in the final.
• The first four finishers in the relevant events will be selected if their collective time is within the required nomination standard for the relay.
• GB Swimming Performance Director has complete discretion to add athletes to the squad. 
• If not already selected for inclusion in a relay, the silver medalist in each individual event will be considered for selection - if there are places available - where they have achieved the relevant nomination time in the final of their event. 

 

Most of the above is pretty uncontroversial, although why they would look to put an arbitrary cap on the size of the squad is beyond me. Where I think GB Swimming have gone mad is in the creation of their own qualifying standards:

 

 

Female			Male
OQT	BQT	Event	OQT	BQT
24.70	24.65	50 Freestyle	21.96	21.88
53.61	53.55	100 Freestyle	48.34	48.06
1:57.26	1:56.85	200 Freestyle	1:46.26	1:45.96
4:07.90	4:04.98	400 Freestyle	3:46.78	3:45.43
8:26.71	8:25.84	800 Freestyle	7:51.65	7:47.80
16:09.09	16:01.95	1500 Freestyle	15:00.99	14:54.29
59.99	59.89	100 Backstroke	53.74	53.68
2:10.39	2:08.91	200 Backstroke	1:57.50	1:57.28
1:06.79	1:06.31	100 Breaststroke	59.49	59.45
2:23.91	2:23.04	200 Breaststroke	2:09.68	2:08.95
57.92	57.17	100 Butterfly	51.67	51.56
2:08.43	2:07.96	200 Butterfly	1:55.78	1:54.97
2:11.47	2:10.62	200 Individual Medley	1:57.94	1:57.49
4:38.53	4:37.84	400 Individual Medley	4:12.50	4:11.90

 

 

OQT = Olympic Qualifying Time 

BQT = British Qualifying Time

 

There are some events where GB are strong - the men's 200 Freestyle - where I can understand the rationale for having more stringent qualifying standards, but there are plenty of events where these standards will simply ensure that there is no British representation in the event. 

 

As an example, GB didn't qualify anyone for the women's 1500m Freestyle event for Tokyo. Our national champion in 2023 was Amelie Blocksidge who is, by all accounts, GB's great hope for the longer distance freestyle events. At 14 years old, she set a PB time of 16:19.67 to take the title. Whilst that is not going to win her a medal at international level, it is within 5 seconds of the official Olympic Consideration Time and it is not difficult to believe that she would be able to bring her time down next year to be within the OCT - indeed she could even bring her time under the OQT - but in order to qualify under GB standards, she would have to find 18 seconds which is much less likely. 

 

Under these British standards, we would lose out current qualifiers in the women's 400 freestyle, 100 butterfly and in the men's 800 freestyle. In addition, we would be reduced to 1 participant in the men's 50 freestyle. 

 

Given British Swimming endured the embarrassment of having to change their World Championship selection policy halfway through the trials, you would have thought that they would have adopted a more cautious approach but instead, they seem to have doubled down. 

 

[phelps 8,768]

7 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

 released their final selection policy for Paris earlier this month. In line with the approach used for both Rio and Tokyo, the squad will be capped at a maximum of 30 athletes. 

 

Key Points:

• Selections will primarily be based on results from 2024 British Swimming Championships which are taking place in London Aquatics Centre in early April.
• In order to guarantee selection, the champion in each individual event is required to achieve the nomination time in the final.
• The first four finishers in the relevant events will be selected if their collective time is within the required nomination standard for the relay.
• GB Swimming Performance Director has complete discretion to add athletes to the squad. 
• If not already selected for inclusion in a relay, the silver medalist in each individual event will be considered for selection - if there are places available - where they have achieved the relevant nomination time in the final of their event. 

 

Most of the above is pretty uncontroversial, although why they would look to put an arbitrary cap on the size of the squad is beyond me. Where I think GB Swimming have gone mad is in the creation of their own qualifying standards*:

 

 

Female			Male
OQT	BQT	Event	OQT	BQT
24.70	24.65	50 Freestyle	21.96	21.88
53.61	53.55	100 Freestyle	48.34	48.06
1:57.26	1:56.85	200 Freestyle	1:46.26	1:45.96
4:07.90	4:04.98	400 Freestyle	3:46.78	3:45.43
8:26.71	8:25.84	800 Freestyle	7:51.65	7:47.80
16:09.09	16:01.95	1500 Freestyle	15:00.99	14:54.29
59.99	59.89	100 Backstroke	53.74	53.68
2:10.39	2:08.91	200 Backstroke	1:57.50	1:57.28
1:06.79	1:06.31	100 Breaststroke	59.49	59.45
2:23.91	2:23.04	200 Breaststroke	2:09.68	2:08.95
57.92	57.17	100 Butterfly	51.67	51.56
2:08.43	2:07.96	200 Butterfly	1:55.78	1:54.97
2:11.47	2:10.62	200 Individual Medley	1:57.94	1:57.49
4:38.53	4:37.84	400 Individual Medley	4:12.50	4:11.90

 

 

OQT = Olympic Qualifying Time 

BQT = British Qualifying Time

 

There are some events where GB are strong - the men's 200 Freestyle - where I can understand the rationale for having more stringent qualifying standards, but there are plenty of events where these standards will simply ensure that there is no British representation in the event. 

 

As an example, GB didn't qualify anyone for the women's 1500m Freestyle event for Tokyo. Our national champion in 2023 was Amelie Blocksidge who is, by all accounts, GB's great hope for the longer distance freestyle events. At 14 years old, she set a PB time of 16:19.67 to take the title. Whilst that is not going to win her a medal at international level, it is within 5 seconds of the official Olympic Consideration Time and it is not difficult to believe that she would be able to bring her time down next year to be within the OCT - indeed she could even bring her time under the OQT - but in order to qualify under GB standards, she would have to find 18 seconds which is much less likely. 

 

Under these British standards, we would lose out current qualifiers in the women's 400 freestyle, 100 butterfly and in the men's 800 freestyle. In addition, we would be reduced to 1 participant in the men's 50 freestyle. 

 

Given British Swimming endured the embarrassment of having to change their World Championship selection policy halfway through the trials, you would have thought that they would have adopted a more cautious approach but instead, they seem to have doubled down. 

 

* it's the exact time of the last qualified swimmer to the 2023 world champs final

basically it's the same thing that Italy has done for years (the only difference is that we normally use the last qualifying time to the semis, the final wouldn't make sense for us)

they just want all the swimmers to show they're capable of clockings that would have a real chance to make the final

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 Swimming at the 19th Asian Games - Hangzhou (CHN) 

September 24th - September 29th 2023

 

Meet Results

 

 

The following new OQTs were achieved

 

Men's 50m Freestyle

 Ji Yuchan

 Pan Zhanle

 

Men's 100m Freestyle

 Wang Haoyu

 

Men's 200m Freestyle

 Hidenari Mano

 Wang Shun

 

Men's 800m Freestyle

 Fei Liwei

 Nguyen Huy Hoang

 

Men's 100m Backstroke

 Lee Juho

 

Men's 200m Backstroke

 Lee Juho

 Xu Jiayu

 

Men's 100m Breaststroke

 Choi Dongyeol

 

Men's 100m Butterfly

 Wang Changhao

 

Men's 200m Individual Medley

 Qin Haiyang

 Wang Shun

 

Women's 100m Freestyle

 Yang Junxuan

 

Women's 400m Freestyle

 Ma Yonghui

 

Women's 1500m Freestyle

 Gao Weizhong

 

Women's 200m Backstroke

 Lee Eunji

 

Women's 200m Breaststroke

 Ye Shiwen

 

Women's 200m Butterfly

 Yu Liyan

 Zhang Yufei

 

Women's 200m Individual Medley

 Kim Seoyeong

 

Women's 400m Individual Medley

 Yu Yiting

Edited October 1, 2023 by Topicmaster1010

[Rafa Maciel 1,737]

6 hours ago, phelps said:

* it's the exact time of the last qualified swimmer to the 2023 world champs final

basically it's the same thing that Italy has done for years (the only difference is that we normally use the last qualifying time to the semis, the final wouldn't make sense for us)

they just want all the swimmers to show they're capable of clockings that would have a real chance to make the final

For most of the events, it doesn't make sense for GB either and given this approach didn't work at the trials for Worlds this year, I would have expected them to lower their expectations a little. 

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5 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

For most of the events, it doesn't make sense for GB either and given this approach didn't work at the trials for Worlds this year, I would have expected them to lower their expectations a little. 

What it DOES do is give maximum flexibility for selectors in terms of the relays

 

At this stage, a lot depends on Peaty, but if he comes back even 90-95% of the athlete he was prior to 2022, then the following relays are actual medal hopes :

 

Mens 4 x 100 freestyle

Men's 4 x 100 medley

Men's 4 x 200 freestyle

Mixed 4 x 100 medley

Women's 4 x 200 freestyle (at a push if all the planets align)

 

Of course, they still have to qualify most of these relays, of which the 4 x 100 free is the sticky one - they HAVE to go and at least register a heat time in the 2024 Worlds for that one - they may well already have the times in the others.

 

There are a handful of juniors/near juniors who they'd bring if they had the least cop on, Blocksidge the most obvious, but I'd argue Leah Schlossen, Oscar Bilbao and Phoebe Cooper too.

 

women's side remains weak, but most of the new shoots at this moment seem to be on that side, perhaps for the first time in a wee while...

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 2023 Hong Kong Age Group Swimming Championships - Hong Kong (HKG) 

October 6th - October 8th 2023

 

Meet Results

 

 

No new OQTs were achieved

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 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup - Berlin (GER)

October 6th - October 8th 2023

 

Meet Results

 

 

The following new OQTs were achieved

 

Men's 100m Freestyle

 Thomas Ceccon

 

Men's 200m Freestyle

 Maximillian Giuliani

 

Men's 200m Backstroke

 Thomas Ceccon

 

Men's 100m Breaststroke

 Caspar Corbeau

 

Men's 100m Butterfly

 Michael Andrew

 Ben Armbruster

 

Women's 50m Freestyle

 Bronte Campbell

 Torri Huske

 

Women's 200m Breaststroke

 Jenna Strauch

Edited October 16, 2023 by Topicmaster1010

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 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup - Athens (GRE) 

October 13th - October 15th 2023

 

Meet Results

 

 

The following new OQTs were achieved

 

Men's 200m Butterfly

 Matt Sates

 

Women's 100m Freestyle

 Bronte Campbell

 

Women's 100m Butterfly

 Sarah Sjöström

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 2023 Turkish Turkcell Open National Team Selection Meet - Edirne (TUR)

April 27th - April 29th 2023

 

Meet Results

 

 

The following new OQTs were achieved

 

Men's 100m Breaststroke

 Berkay Ogretir

 

*Note: This was a late addition to the qualification events. Kuzey Tuncelli also achieved the OQT for the first time at this event.