Swimming Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[EselTheDonkey 837]

Livestream for the German qualifying event in Berlin: Olympia-Qualifikation LIVE: Die Vorläufe am Freitag (swimsportnews.de)

 

Lucas Matzerath with the standard in 100m Breaststroke: 59,63sec

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Marek Ulrich with the FINA standards in the 100m backstroke preliminaries in 53,75 seconds. This is not yet the German standard, which is 53,70 seconds. But since both medley relays qualified, they obviously need at least one swimmer for backstroke and Ulrich now has excellent chances. Though Ole Braunschweig, who swam 53,88 in the preliminaries is still in the run as well.

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in the general swimming thread, on the daily recaps of the British Swimming trials there's a list of British swimmers that achieved the British Qualification Standard...

https://totallympics.com/topic/5431-swimming-2021-discussion-thread/

 

[Mecki83 155]

1 hour ago, EselTheDonkey said:

Marek Ulrich with the FINA standards in the 100m backstroke preliminaries in 53,75 seconds. This is not yet the German standard, which is 53,70 seconds. But since both medley relays qualified, they obviously need at least one swimmer for backstroke and Ulrich now has excellent chances. Though Ole Braunschweig, who swam 53,88 in the preliminaries is still in the run as well.

With "excellent chances" do you mean that he will compete in the medleys or that he will compete in the individual competition as he will be on-site and has the FINA standard?

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3 hours ago, Mecki83 said:

With "excellent chances" do you mean that he will compete in the medleys or that he will compete in the individual competition as he will be on-site and has the FINA standard?

Not sure what he means with excellent chances, but in order to qualify, Ulrich either has to hit the standard or he has to hope that no one beats him with a time faster than 54.27. Not sure if he will be allowed to compete individually even without making the German standard, but in the past that usually was the policy of the german swimming federation (allowing swimmers who qualified in the relay to swim individually if they have the FINA standard).

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47 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Not sure what he means with excellent chances, but in order to qualify, Ulrich either has to hit the standard or he has to hope that no one beats him with a time faster than 54.27. Not sure if he will be allowed to compete individually even without making the German standard, but in the past that usually was the policy of the german swimming federation (allowing swimmers who qualified in the relay to swim individually if they have the FINA standard).

Yes, that's what I meant.

 

Lukas Märtens with the standard in 200m Freestyle: 1:46,41 minutes.

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Further standards

 

200 Freestyle

 

Isabell Gose 1:56,93
Annika Bruhn 1:57,17

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1 hour ago, EselTheDonkey said:

Yes, that's what I meant.

 

Lukas Märtens with the standard in 200m Freestyle: 1:46,41 minutes.

Braunschweig beat Ulrich and was faster than 54.27, while Ulrich didn’t hit the standard, so he shouldn’t be qualified.

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5 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

Braunschweig beat Ulrich and was faster than 54.27, while Ulrich didn’t hit the standard, so he shouldn’t be qualified.

So Braunschweig will be at the Olympics for the medleys but cannot compete individually in 100m backstroke (due to missing FINA standard). On the other hand if Ulrich is able to qualify in another race, he would be able to compete in 100m backstroke  as well?

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Braunschweig can swim at the 100m Backstroke, because he swam the (very easy) Olympic Selection time in Berlin. He even fulfilled the FINA and the DSV standard in Würzburg last december, but I don't know if this was a FINA approved qualification meeting.

 

The difference between the Olympic Qualification Time and the Olympic Selection Time is only, that two starters from the same federation can only compete, if both have the OQT while only one starter from a federation with OST can participate. Theoretically speaking, if Braunschweig's time from december counts as FINA A-Standard, both he and Ulrich could compete in Tokyo at 100m backstroke.