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:CAN Canadian Trials - Day 5 Qualifiers

 

Women's 100m Freestyle - Penny Oleksiak, Chantal Van Landeghem

Women's 800m Freestyle - Brittany MacLean

Women's 200m Breaststroke - Kierra Smith, Martha McCabe

Women's 4x100m Freestyle - Penny Oleksiak, Chantal Van Landeghem, Sandrine Mainville, Michelle Williams

 

 

Penny Oleksiak set a new national record and world junior record in the women's 100m freestyle. No one qualified in the men's 100m butterfly and men's 200m backstroke.

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14 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

 

 

Penny Oleksiak set a new national record and world junior record in the women's 100m freestyle. No one qualified in the men's 100m butterfly and men's 200m backstroke.

53,31 and tied for 4th in the world, wow :bowdown:

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Just now, JoshMartini007 said:

 

She's something special and only 15. Hopefully she improves just a bit more to turn those final appearances into medals.

 

And here we are, celebrating our "huge talent" Marrit Steenbergen, when Canada comes up with a whole different league with Oleksiak :d 

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I just noticed that the sprint freestyle swimmers from Japan had failed to reach the nation's own Olympic qualifying standard. What will happen to them if they failed? Is there a higher chance of not sending the relay teams in the men's and women's 4x100 m freestyle to Rio?

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7 minutes ago, MantaRaymarc said:

I just noticed that the sprint freestyle swimmers from Japan had failed to reach the nation's own Olympic qualifying standard. What will happen to them if they failed? Is there a higher chance of not sending the relay teams in the men's and women's 4x100 m freestyle to Rio?

 

The Japanese federation could add them if they want to. Overall they need to do something, they technically have 15 relay only swimmers, but they have only 12 quotas to use for relay only swimmers so they will either have to give some of those swimmers individual events or get qualified individual event swimmers from other events to swim those relays.

 

Declining a relay is an option, Japan did it in 2012 for the men's 4x100m freestyle.

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:AUS Australia Qualifiers - Day 4

 

Men's 200m Butterfly - David Morgan, Grant Irvine

Women's 200m Freestyle - Emma McKeon, Bronte Barrat

Women's 200m IM - Alicia Coutts, Kotuku Ngwati

Women's 4x200m Freestyle - Emma McKeon, Bronte Barrat, Madeline Groves, Leah Neale

 

Also Tamsin Cook and Carla Buchanan will be considered as additional athletes for the 4x200m free.

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