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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.

Further standards 200 Freestyle Isabell Gose 1:56,93Annika Bruhn 1:57,17

Yes, that's what I meant. Lukas Märtens with the standard in 200m Freestyle: 1:46,41 minutes.

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.

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

Athletes who don't have enough results aren't listed at all, but that could change with only one more event. In the multi events, you only need two completed events to count for the rankings, and since the European Championships 2018 count, Vetter only needs one more result in Heptathlon and will be listed in the rankings again.

I voted for South Korea to win all gold medals. But because I am in a really optimistic mood I was this close to vote for "Any other country" and pick Germany. In women's competition, we have the silver medallist from Rio and the number four of the World Championships. But in the end, gold seemed to be a bit too optimistic. But a medal in either women's individual or team is very well possible.

Yes, right now Anouk Vetter is not qualified. Road To | World Athletics

I only just found out that they cancelled the final qualifier. Does that mean that is qualified in women's 57kg and men's +91kg regardless of how the European qualifier will go, because German boxers are the highest ranked Europeans in these disciplines?

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.

Around 40. About 10 to 12 golds.

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)

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)

I'm absolutely for getting rid of the national standards. The FINA standards are difficult enough to reach. The national standards are also somewhat randomly chosen. So are the FINA standards, granted, but this the DSV can't change, as national federation all you can influence is your own standards. Leaving someone at home who at least judging by past results has a theoretical chance to finish in the top ten to twelve is just nuts. Especially if it's such a young athlete. And if it should indeed be Vogelmann's goal to win a medal in 2024 or 2028 then it definitely wouldn't hurt to make some experiences first.

The time isn't that bad. She would have finished 11th 2016 in Rio and 12th at the last World Championships. But sure, we can leave our few talents at home instead of giving them a chance to prove themselves.

Here's a list of the German swimmers who so far have fulfilled the national qualification standards. I assume it will be updated after every meeting: Diese DSV-Schwimmer haben die Olympianormen geknackt | Stand 04.04.2021 (swimsportnews.de) The athletes with an asterisk by their name are already nominated. The other ones could theoretically still be out of the team, if there are two faster Germans until April 20th. But at least in the cases of Schwingenschlögl and Thomasberger this is highly unlikely to basically impossible. Kullmann at 400 freestyle could still be in danger.

Youngster Zoe Vogelmann with the FINA standard in 200m Medley: Wettkampf 111 - 200m Lagen weiblich (Finale) (sv-nikar.de) It's not yet that the german standard, but they might nominate her anyway, even if she doesn't reach it.

Also in the finals, there were National records for Schwingenschlögl (58,95) and Thomasberger (1:55,04).

400m Freestyle Leonie Kullmann 4:07,44 in Heidelberg.

Qualifying Event in Heidelberg The following Athletes swam the national standards this morning in the preliminaries and are qualified for Tokyo, unless there will be two faster Germans in this event: 100m Breaststroke: Fabian Schwingenschlögl 59,20 200m Butterfly: David Thomasberger 1:55,51 (NR) The event, which was originally planned for Würzburg, is FINA approved and the first of four German meetings in April, where German swimmers can get the standards. Source (in German): Kracher zum Quali-Auftakt: Thomasberger schwimmt mit Rekord zum Olympiaticket (swimsportnews.de) and Olympianorm geknackt: Schwingenschlögl schwimmt nach Tokio (swimsportnews.de)

Yeah, but that's not too surprising, given that only 7 European teams qualified.

This means two of the groups include Brazil or Argentina and Spain or Germany in some combination.

Europe has only one definite quota place, the one for the European Champion. Everything else they won either at the World Championships or the final qualification tournament. The other continents had their chance to win these quota places as well.

So do I, and it more than likely will be here. I think Sauer needs to win the tournament and Ebert to finish badly for Sauer to catch her.

Ebert is not yet mathematically qualified, but she can only be caught by her teammate Anne Sauer. Meaning it is a quota place for Germany, it's just not sure for which fencer exactly.