Swimming Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016

[bestmen 2,831]

  On 4/4/2016 at 2:49 PM, intoronto said:

 

The Arabic Championships are not a qualifying event...

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yes it is at 100% they are now on tv in live they said it

[intoronto 5,884]

  On 4/4/2016 at 2:51 PM, bestmen said:

 

 

yes it is at 100% they are now on tv in live they said it

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Sorry it is listed as another name on FINA's website, which is why the confusion arose in the first place. 

[Benolympique 2,398]

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[JoshMartini007 2,566]

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.

[JoshMartini007 2,566]

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.

[NearPup 3,246]

Canadian trials, day 1

• Women's 400m free: Brittany MacLean
• Women's 100m butterfly: Penelope Oleksiak and Noemie Thomas
• No athlete qualified: men's 400m IM, men's 200m free, men's 100m breaststroke

Edited April 6, 2016 by Near

[JoshMartini007 2,566]

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.

[OlympicsFan 860]

@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?

Edited April 6, 2016 by OlympicsFan

[JoshMartini007 2,566]

  On 4/6/2016 at 11:37 AM, 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?

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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.

[OlympicsFan 860]

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 end up with tons of comments in the swimming/athletics thread that basically have no value, because you couldve said the same with just one comment. 

Edited April 6, 2016 by OlympicsFan