2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games
- When: Pool swimming: Saturday, July 24 – Sunday, August 1, 2021
- Open Water swimming: Wednesday, August 4 – Thursday, August 5, 2021
- Where: Olympic Aquatics Centre / Tokyo, Japan
- Heats: 7 PM / Semifinals & Finals: 10:30 AM (Local time)
- Full aquatics schedule
- SwimSwam Event Previews
- Start Lists & Results
After five years of waiting, the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games are finally upon us. We have compiled all the links you will need to keep up with the 8 day extravaganza that is Olympic swimming in Tokyo.
Links
- Event Page
- How to Watch
- SwimSwam Preview Index
- Olympic Rosters
- Men’s Start Lists
- Women’s Start Lists
- Schedule and Results
- SwimSwam Pick Em’s Contest
There will be 15 sessions spanning 8 days of competition. Uniquely, finals will be contested in the morning and prelims at night.
We also broke down the biggest races of each day of competition on the SwimSwam podcast:
Finals will begin at 10:30 am local time in Tokyo and prelims start at 7 pm local time. To see what time sessions start in your area, view our timezone conversion chart here.
POOL SWIMMING SCHEDULE
*Finals in bold
| SATURDAY, JULY 24 | SUNDAY, JULY 25 | MONDAY, JULY 26 | TUESDAY, JULY 27 | WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 | THURSDAY, JULY 29 | FRIDAY, JULY 30 | SATURDAY, JULY 31 | SUNDAY, AUGUST 1 | |
| Semi & finals (beginning 10:30AM local time) | (none) | 400 IM M 100 Fly W 400 Free M 400 IM W 100 Breast M 4×100 Free W |
100 Fly W 200 Free M 100 Breast W 100 Breast M 400 Free W 100 Back M 100 Back W 4×100 Free M |
200 Free W 200 Free M 100 Back W 100 Back M 100 Breast W 200 Fly M 200 IM W |
100 Free M 200 Free W 200 Fly M 200 Fly W 200 Breast M 200 IM W 1500 Free W 4×200 Free M |
800 Free M 200 Breast M 100 Free W 200 Back M 200 Fly W 100 Free M 200 Breast W 200 IM M 4×200 Free W |
100 Fly M 100 Free W 200 Back M 200 Breast W 200 IM M 200 Back W |
100 Fly M 200 Back W 800 Free W 50 Free M 50 Free W 4×100 Medley MX |
50 Free M 50 Free W 1500 Free M 4×100 Medley W 4×100 Medley M |
| Heats (beginning 7PM local time) |
400 IM M 100 Fly W 400 Free M 400 IM W 100 Breast M 4×100 Free W |
100 Back W 200 Free M 100 Breast W 100 Back M 400 Free W 4×100 Free M |
200 Free W 200 Fly M 200 IM W 1500 Free W |
100 Free M 200 Fly W 200 Breast M 4×200 Free M 800 Free M |
100 Free W 200 Back M 200 Breast W 200 IM M 4×200 Free W |
800 Free W 100 Fly M 200 Back W 4×100 Medley MX |
50 Free M 50 Free W 1500 Free M 4×100 Medley W 4×100 Medley M |
(none) | (none) |
SESSION START TIMES – DAY 1
*To see what time sessions start in your area, view our timezone chart here.
| CITY | ZONE | PRELIMS | SEMIS & FINALS |
| Tokyo | GMT+9 | 7:00 PM on Saturday, July 24 | 10:30 AM on Sunday, July 25 |
| Honolulu, Papeete | GMT-10 | 12:00 AM on Saturday, July 24 | 3:30 PM on Saturday, July 24 |
| Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver | GMT-7 | 3:00 AM on Saturday, July 24 | 6:30 PM on Saturday, July 24 |
| Calgary, Denver, Edmonton, San Salvador | GMT-6 | 4:00 AM on Saturday, July 24 | 7:30 PM on Saturday, July 24 |
| Bogota, Chicago, Dallas, Kingston, Lima, Mexico City | GMT-5 | 5:00 AM on Saturday, July 24 | 8:30 PM on Saturday, July 24 |
| Atlanta, Asuncion, Caracas, La Paz, New York, Toronto | GMT-4 | 6:00 AM on Saturday, July 24 | 9:30 PM on Saturday, July 24 |
| Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo | GMT-3 | 7:00 AM on Saturday, July 24 | 10:30 PM on Saturday, July 24 |
| Abidjan, Dakar, Reykjavik, Timbuktu | GMT+0 | 10:00 AM on Saturday, July 24 | 1:30 AM on Sunday, July 25 |
| Algiers, Dublin, Edinburgh, Kinshasa, Lagos, Lisbon, London, Tunis | GMT+1 | 11:00 AM on Saturday, July 24 | 2:30 AM on Sunday, July 25 |
| Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Cairo, Copenhagen, Johannesburg, Kigali, Oslo, Paris, Sarajevo, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zurich | GMT+2 | 12:00 noon on Saturday, July 24 | 3:30 AM on Sunday, July 25 |
| Addis Ababa, Athens, Bagdad, Bucharest, Damascus, Dar es Salaam, Helsinki, Istanbul, Kyiv, Mogadishu, Moscow, Riga, Riyadh, | GMT+3 | 1:00 PM on Saturday, July 24 | 4:30 AM on Sunday, July 25 |
| Baku, Dubai, Samara, Tbilisi | GMT+4 | 2:00 PM on Saturday, July 24 | 5:30 AM on Sunday, July 25 |
| Bangkok, Jakarta, Phnom Penh, Vientiane | GMT+7 | 5:00 PM on Saturday, July 24 | 8:30 AM on Sunday, July 25 |
| Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Taipei | GMT+8 | 6:00 PM on Saturday, July 24 | 9:30 AM on Sunday, July 25 |
| Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Vladivostok | GMT+10 | 8:00 PM on Saturday, July 24 | 11:30 AM on Sunday, July 25 |
| Auckland, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Wellington | GMT+12 | 10:00 PM on Saturday, July 24 | 1:30 PM on Sunday, July 25 |
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So the prelims are at 6 am ET? I was hoping to watch them but I’m not sure I can handle that grind. Oh well. I feel kinda quilty about that 9:30 PM ET finals spot though I guess without spectactators it’s not quite as egregious.
get youtubetv, record and stay off swimswam until you watch it 🙂
The option on YouTube.TV to select what Olympic sporting events (i.e. swimming, track & field, gymnastics) was great. Now to see if it only records those events or just the block of time where they show up.
How about us West Coasters. 3AM!
Finals are at 2AM in the UK
And would/should have been 11am normally. :((
I’m watching the opening ceremony at CBC.ca
Just point your VPN to Canada, and its wonderful.
I expect the same for their swimming coverage, as they have done so in the past Olympics and Worlds.
Remembering the 200 IM when they said that Lochte was ahead at the 150
Meh, one mistake. A million times better than vomit-inducing NBC’s Rowdy Gaines plus a zillions ads.
If even some Americans don’t watch olympics on NBC….
Why so little love for that wonderful network? I don’t get it.
NBC pays so much money to bring you olympics in your home.
On NBC you have commercials only each 6 minutes! Distance races in swimming or track are cut only 1 or 2 times! And you can watch Simone Biles on half of the commercials!
And thanks to NBC we have now swimming finals in the morning! We also have now shot put, long jump, hurdles and men’s triple jump finals starting in the morning or around noon. And even basketball finals start in the morning!
I’m pretty sure male long jumpers are so… Read more »
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It’s satire, sir
Bobo’s post was dripping in sarcasm
And something else.
You might be right on some aspects about nbc and it’s mocking bird sorry meant peacock (Too many ads and canned coverage) but u are totally wrong about the morning track and field finals. World athletics (aka IAAF) started this in Rio where it was practically the same time zone as the east coast in the us. They included some distance races for African audiences and some field events for the European audiences.
The reality is this group will always complain about something. Rarely will you see global approval of something so to me it’s just noise.
Thank you