Swimming Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

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Dutch  trials:

Femke Heemskerk officially qualified for the 50 free (24.28) instead of Valerie van Roon. 

Ranomi Kromowidjojo with a fast 24.11.

 

In the 100 butterfly Nyls Korstanje (51.93) missed his Olympic qualification by 0.01. There won't be Dutch starters in the 100 butterfly 

[JoshMartini007 2,533]

4 hours ago, intoronto said:

Probably they will pick who has the standard.

It makes sense in events where only 1 or 2 athletes reached the OQT standard, but it get tricky in events with more athletes. Especially when you consider that most of those OQT standards were done back in 2019. Then you have the whole choosing athletes for the relays.

[EselTheDonkey 824]

Henning Mühlleitner  with the national standard at 400m Freestyle. 3:45,55 in Eindhoven.

 

Source: ResultList_16.pdf (swimcup.nl)

 

Edit: Same for Florian Wellbrock and Lukas Märtens in Magdeburg: Wellbrock und Märtens schwimmen unter Olympianorm (swimsportnews.de)

[OlympicsFan 858]

25 minutes ago, EselTheDonkey said:

Henning Mühlleitner  with the national standard at 400m Freestyle. 3:45,55 in Eindhoven.

 

Source: ResultList_16.pdf (swimcup.nl)

 

Edit: Same for Florian Wellbrock and Lukas Märtens in Magdeburg: Wellbrock und Märtens schwimmen unter Olympianorm (swimsportnews.de)

Very interesting. I think Wellbrock won’t swim this in Tokyo, so the other two should be safe. Very encouraging PB for Wellbrock by over a second though. The battle in the 800 and 1500 free could be more interesting. Märtens should definitely be able to reach the standard in the 1500 and Schwarz could also do it. The same is true in the 800 free, but I am not sure if Märtens will even swim that event. Mühlleitner could maybe achieve the 800 free standard as well if he tried. Hopefully this is also good news for the men’s 800 free relay. So far there were no promising times, but those 3 should be able to swim some decent times now. I am especially interested to see what Märtens can do in the 200 free. At the end of last year he was at 1:47.2 and 3:48.2, so hopefully his improvement in the 400 free is a good sign for his 200 free as well, he might be able to qualify in the 200 free.

 

Bernd Berkhahn is a true magician. He developed Märtens into a world class athlete within one year and Gose looks also improved, although I wish that she would have focused on her 200 free a little bit longer.

 

Edit: Maybe Imoudu can get the 100 breast standard tonight, he was 1:00.16 in prelims (Eindhoven).

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Two more German standards

 

Isabel Gose 4:06,11 at 400m Freestyle

Celine Rieder 16:09,00 at 1500m Freestyle (Rieder already fulfilled the FINA-Norm previously, so she's not a new qualifier)

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Some more Olympic Standards from Magdeburg:

 

Lukas Märtens, 1500m Freestyle: 14:49,26

Isabel Gose, 800m Freestyle: 8_26,37

 

Wellbrock, who won the race, helped Märtens reaching the standard by basically swimming side by side with him for around 1200-1300 metres.

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At the moment the following Danish swimmers have beaten the standards at approved events:

 

Signe Bro, 100 m freestyle

Anton Ørskov Ipsen, 800 m freestyle

Pernille Blume, 50 and 100 m freestyle

Helena Rosendahl Bach, 1500 m freestyle

Alexander Aslak Nørgaard, 1500 m freestyle

Julie Kepp Jensen, 50 m freestyle.

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Team Japan for Tokyo

 

https://swimswam.com/japan-reveals-33-strong-olympic-roster-for-home-based-bames/

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Russian olympic team. No exception for Efimova. It seems she will only swim the 100. https://rsport.ria.ru/20210410/plavanie-1727671343.html

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