Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification
Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics | |||
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Qualification | |||
Freestyle | |||
50 m | men | women | |
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
400 m | men | women | |
800 m | men | women | |
1500 m | men | women | |
Backstroke | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Breaststroke | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Butterfly | |||
100 m | men | women | |
200 m | men | women | |
Individual medley | |||
200 m | men | women | |
400 m | men | women | |
Freestyle relay | |||
4 × 100 m | men | women | |
4 × 200 m | men | women | |
Medley relay | |||
4 × 100 m | men | mixed | women |
Marathon | |||
10 km | men | women | |
For the swimming competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics, the following qualification systems are in place. As the Olympics was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[1] qualification ends on 27 June 2021.
Qualifying standards
[edit]A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both athletes have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Selection Time (OST) or if the quota of 878 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place, since they have no swimmers reaching either of the standard entry times (OQT/OST).[2]
In the relay events, a maximum of 16 qualifying teams in each relay event must be permitted to accumulate a total of 112 relay teams; each NOC may enter only one team. The first twelve teams in each relay event at the 2019 World Championships will automatically compete for the relay events at the Olympics; while the remaining four per relay event must obtain their fastest entry times based on the FINA World Rankings during the process.[2]
Because of the exceptional circumstances related to COVID-19 crisis, the consequent Olympic delay, and the unprecedented two-year gap between the Worlds and the new date of the Games, FINA revised the universality rule that allowed a nation to enter the highest-ranked male and female swimmer, respectively, based upon the Points Table (2021 edition).[2][3] Swimmers from NOCs, having achieved the OST allocated to the universality place, may be entered to a maximum of two individual events, whereas those without the OQT and OST were limited to enter in one individual event only.[2]
Following the end of the qualification period, FINA will assess the number of athletes having achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting athletes with OST to fulfill the total quota of 878. Additionally, OST places will be distributed by event according to the position of the FINA World Rankings during the qualifying deadline.[2]
The qualifying time standards must be obtained in World Championships, Continental Championships, Continental Qualification Events, National Championships and Trials, or International Competitions approved by FINA in the period between 1 March 2019 to 27 June 2021.[2]
The initial FINA qualifying standards, still to be ratified, are as follows:[4][2]
Men's events | Women's events | ||||
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Event | OQT | OST | Event | OQT | OST |
50 m freestyle | 22.01 | 22.67 | 50 m freestyle | 24.77 | 25.51 |
100 m freestyle | 48.57 | 50.03 | 100 m freestyle | 54.38 | 56.01 |
200 m freestyle | 1:47.02 | 1:50.23 | 200 m freestyle | 1:57.28 | 2:00.80 |
400 m freestyle | 3:46.78 | 3:53.58 | 400 m freestyle | 4:07.90 | 4:15.34 |
800 m freestyle | 7:54.31 | 8:08.54 | 800 m freestyle | 8:33.36 | 8:48.76 |
1500 m freestyle | 15:00.99 | 15:28.02 | 1500 m freestyle | 16:32.04 | 17:01.80 |
100 m backstroke | 53.85 | 55.47 | 100 m backstroke | 1:00.25 | 1:02.06 |
200 m backstroke | 1:57.50 | 2:01.03 | 200 m backstroke | 2:10.39 | 2:14.30 |
100 m breaststroke | 59.93 | 1:01.73 | 100 m breaststroke | 1:07.07 | 1:09.08 |
200 m breaststroke | 2:10.35 | 2:14.26 | 200 m breaststroke | 2:25.52 | 2:29.89 |
100 m butterfly | 51.96 | 53.52 | 100 m butterfly | 57.92 | 59.66 |
200 m butterfly | 1:56.48 | 1:59.97 | 200 m butterfly | 2:08.43 | 2:12.28 |
200 m individual medley | 1:59.67 | 2:03.26 | 200 m individual medley | 2:12.56 | 2:16.54 |
400 m individual medley | 4:15.84 | 4:21.46 | 400 m individual medley | 4:38.53 | 4:46.89 |
Individual events
[edit]Those who have achieved the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT) or the Olympic Selection Time (OST), or have been guaranteed a Universality place are listed below for each of the following individual events.
Men's individual events
[edit]Men's 50 m freestyle
[edit]Men's 100 m freestyle
[edit]Men's 200 m freestyle
[edit]Men's 400 m freestyle
[edit]Men's 800 m freestyle
[edit]Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Qualified swimmers |
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Olympic Qualifying Time – 7:54.31 | 2 | Denmark | Anton Ørskov Ipsen Alexander Nørgaard |
2 | Greece | Dimitrios Markos Konstantinos Englezakis | |
2 | Italy | Gabriele Detti Gregorio Paltrinieri | |
2 | ROC | Ilya Druzhinin Aleksandr Yegorov | |
2 | Ukraine | Serhiy Frolov Mykhailo Romanchuk | |
2 | United States | Michael Brinegar Bobby Finke | |
1 | Australia | Jack McLoughlin | |
1 | Austria | Felix Auböck | |
1 | Brazil | Guilherme Costa | |
1 | China | Cheng Long | |
1 | Czech Republic | Jan Micka | |
1 | Egypt | Marwan El-Kamash | |
1 | France | David Aubry | |
1 | Germany | Florian Wellbrock | |
1 | Great Britain | Kieran Bird | |
1 | Ireland | Daniel Wiffen | |
1 | New Zealand | Zac Reid | |
1 | Norway | Henrik Christiansen | |
1 | Portugal | José Paulo Lopes | |
1 | Serbia | Vuk Čelić | |
1 | Tunisia | Ahmed Hafnaoui | |
1 | Turkey | Yiğit Aslan | |
1 | Venezuela | Alfonso Mestre | |
1 | Vietnam | Nguyễn Huy Hoàng | |
Olympic Selection Time – 8:08.54 | 1 | El Salvador | Marcelo Acosta[b] |
1 | Hungary | Ákos Kalmár[a] | |
1 | Slovenia | Martin Bau[b] | |
1 | Sweden | Victor Johansson | |
Total | 34 |
Men's 1500 m freestyle
[edit]Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Qualified swimmers |
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Olympic Qualifying Time – 15:00.99 | |||
2 | Australia | Jack McLoughlin Thomas Neill | |
2 | Denmark | Anton Ørskov Ipsen Alexander Nørgaard | |
2 | Germany | Lukas Märtens Florian Wellbrock | |
2 | Hungary | Gergely Gyurta Ákos Kalmár | |
2 | Italy | Domenico Acerenza Gregorio Paltrinieri | |
2 | ROC | Kirill Martynychev Aleksandr Yegorov | |
2 | Ukraine | Serhiy Frolov Mykhailo Romanchuk | |
2 | United States | Michael Brinegar Bobby Finke | |
1 | Brazil | Guilherme Costa | |
1 | Czech Republic | Jan Micka | |
1 | Great Britain | Daniel Jervis | |
1 | Norway | Henrik Christiansen | |
1 | Vietnam | Nguyễn Huy Hoàng | |
Olympic Selection Time – 15:28.02 | 1 | Austria | Felix Auböck[a] |
1 | China | Cheng Long[a] | |
1 | El Salvador | Marcelo Acosta[b] | |
1 | Indonesia | Aflah Fadlan Prawira[b] | |
1 | Ireland | Daniel Wiffen[a] | |
1 | Sweden | Victor Johansson | |
Universality Places | 1 | Monaco | Theo Druenne |
Total | 29 |
Men's 100 m backstroke
[edit]Men's 200 m backstroke
[edit]Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Qualified swimmers |
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Olympic Qualifying Time – 1:57.50 | 2 | France | Yohann Ndoye-Brouard Mewen Tomac |
2 | Great Britain | Luke Greenbank Brodie Williams | |
2 | Japan | Ryosuke Irie Keita Sunama | |
2 | Poland | Radosław Kawęcki Jakub Skierka | |
2 | ROC | Evgeny Rylov Grigory Tarasevich | |
2 | United States | Bryce Mefford Ryan Murphy | |
1 | Australia | Tristan Hollard | |
1 | Bulgaria | Kaloyan Levterov | |
1 | Canada | Markus Thormeyer | |
1 | China | Xu Jiayu | |
1 | Czech Republic | Jan Čejka | |
1 | Germany | Christian Diener | |
1 | Hungary | Ádám Telegdy | |
1 | Italy | Matteo Restivo | |
1 | Portugal | Francisco Santos | |
1 | South Korea | Lee Ju-ho | |
1 | Spain | Nicolás García | |
1 | Switzerland | Roman Mityukov | |
1 | Turkey | Berke Saka | |
Olympic Selection Time – 2:01.03 | 1 | Israel | Yakov Toumarkin[a] |
1 | Romania | Robert Glință[a] | |
1 | South Africa | Martin Binedell | |
Universality Places | 1 | Turkmenistan | Merdan Ataýew[c] |
Total | 29 |
Men's 100 m breaststroke
[edit]Men's 200 m breaststroke
[edit]Men's 100 m butterfly
[edit]Men's 200 m butterfly
[edit]Men's 200 m individual medley
[edit]Men's 400 m individual medley
[edit]Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Qualified swimmers |
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Olympic Qualifying Time – 4:15.84 | 2 | Australia | Brendon Smith Se-Bom Lee |
2 | Great Britain | Max Litchfield Brodie Williams | |
2 | Hungary | Péter Bernek Dávid Verrasztó | |
2 | Italy | Pier Andrea Matteazzi Alberto Razzetti | |
2 | Japan | Yuki Ikari Daiya Seto | |
2 | ROC | Maxim Stupin | |
2 | United States | Chase Kalisz Jay Litherland | |
1 | Azerbaijan | Maksym Shemberev | |
1 | China | Wang Shun | |
1 | France | Léon Marchand | |
1 | Germany | Jacob Heidtmann | |
1 | Greece | Apostolos Papastamos | |
1 | Netherlands | Arjan Knipping | |
1 | New Zealand | Lewis Clareburt | |
1 | Spain | Joan Lluís Pons | |
1 | Switzerland | Jérémy Desplanches | |
Olympic Selection Time – 4:21.46 | 1 | Ecuador | Tomas Peribonio[b] |
1 | Israel | Ron Polonsky[a] | |
1 | Puerto Rico | Jarod Arroyo[b] | |
1 | Portugal | José Paulo Lopes[a] | |
1 | Slovakia | Richard Nagy[b] | |
1 | Chinese Taipei | Wang Hsing-hao[a] | |
Universality Places | 1 | Cuba | Luis Vega Torres[c] |
1 | Liechtenstein | Christoph Meier[c] | |
Total | 31 |
Women's individual events
[edit]Women's 50 m freestyle
[edit]Women's 100 m freestyle
[edit]Qualification standard | No. of athletes | NOC | Qualified swimmers |
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Olympic Qualifying Time – 54.38 | 2 | Australia | Cate Campbell Emma McKeon |
2 | Canada | Penny Oleksiak Kayla Sanchez | |
2 | China | Wu Qingfeng Yang Junxuan | |
2 | Denmark | Pernille Blume Signe Bro | |
2 | France | Charlotte Bonnet Marie Wattel | |
2 | Great Britain | Freya Anderson Anna Hopkin | |
2 | Israel | Anastasia Gorbenko Andrea Murez | |
2 | Netherlands | Femke Heemskerk |