FINA has released the full entry lists for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games that begin on August 6th, 2016.
The list, broken down by event and gender, also gives insights into which swimmers are entered in which events – though there’s still some uncertainty surrounding relay entries, as only relay-only swimmers had to be listed on these entry sheets.
- Men’s entry lists (updated)
- Women’s entry lists (updated)
We’ll spend some time this morning breaking down the entries of specific swimmers, but what initially jumps out is how relatively-few swimmers were selected on “B” standards as compared to universality swims (the latter of which has a higher spot in the pecking order). In the men’s 50 free, for example, only 2 swimmers are going with “B” standards, and only 1 of those 2 (Renzo Tjon a Joe) was without an “A” standard elsewhere.
That was the standards across events we spot-checked. Swimmers entered with B standards in one event and an A standard in another don’t impact the selections, and only 1 swimmer per event was taken with a “B” standard. There were lots of complaints internationally about federations not entering swimmers with “B” standards, but it appears as though by-and-large those federations were correct in their assumptions about invites when opting to go with the Universality method instead.
FINA (in form of Marculescu) invited the Israeli 400 free relay today… no idea if there will be 17 relays now or if Belarus is out, as they do not fullfill the qualification criteria. Remember, that relay takes place in 2 weeks. Once again a confirmation of FINAs inability to properly run swimming at the olympics or anywhere else for that matter…
David Horvath (HUN) will swim the 200 breast even though he is not on the list …and he did not swim a standard- shame on you FINA
FINA wants all of 195 countries who attend 2015 World Champs has at least 2 representatives (at least 1 for any gender) in 2016 Olympic. And it makes Universality quota rises from 150 in 2012 to 220 in 2016.
220 from 900 is too much… I think.
Do we know which countries qualified relays? If so, can someone point me to the lists?
https://swimswam.com/latest-look-at-mens-relay-standings-headed-into-rio/
https://swimswam.com/lateset-look-at-womens-relay-standings-and-qualifying-headed-into-rio/
Braden- I was looking through the A cuts and the time for the 400 freestyle on the mens side changes from the original cut to the another. Swim swam along with Swimmingworld posted one set of qualification standards and now FINA has come out with slightly different standards. I checked if that changes anyone from qualifying or not and it does change at least one swimmers A time qualification. If that is the case, that leaves room for at least one more swimmer in more than one event.
Here are the different standards:
http://fina.org/sites/default/files/2015_02_rio2016_qualification_system_sw_en.pdf
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/2016-olympic-qualifying-time-standards/
https://swimswam.com/qualification-time-standards-2016-olympic-games-officially-announced/
Lot of comments about this Fina Procedure of invitees to Rio, but, nothing change. Is any legal or Fina procedure available to add B (Olympic Qualifying Times) standard swimmers to the games at this point? Surely, It will add some fairness to this selection.
Has anyone actually counted how many swimmers and how many entries are in the meet? Because according to the list provided by FINA, there are approximately over 1000 swimmers entered in the meet and 1069 entries not including relay swimmers. So many of these places are universality places and so few are B times. Seems very unfair for those swimmers who are qualified for the meet and cannot participate because of slower universality places that take over the sprint events. What happens to the swimmers qualified in events that aren’t sprint events? 200 IM? 400 IM? 200 back? 200 fly? All those spots are taken by universality spots. For example, the 50 free on the mens side has 87 entries,… Read more »
unofficial count by me: 553 swimmers with an A-Cut, 221 universality, 23 invited with B Cut only, Did not count relay only.swimmers yet, but WSCA says there are 906 swimmers in Rio. 1099 entries in total.
WHAT IN THE NAME OF SWIMMING?
Please tell me that this doesn’t mean Phelps is not on the free relays for men. And Lochte not on the 4×200?
Or am I over reacting? I’m not well versed with the Olympic Relays as I thought I was it seems, so forgive my stupidity.
SwimmerFoxJet – only relay only swimmers had to be listed on these particular entry lists. There’s a small detail there though that we’re trying to work out with USA Swimming. By entering all of their relay only swimmers in every relay, they technically have to use them all in every relay, per the FINA rules. We’re trying to clarify that with USA Swimming now, but they’ve said they might not have an answer until tomorrow.
Clark Smith is on the 4×100? He didn’t even swim the 100 at trials (or in any meet for that matter)
This is what Braden is trying to clarify with USA Swimming. For some unknown reason, USA Swimming entered all relay-only swimmers in all relays. This doesn’t happen with other countries. Whether it was intentional or some clerical error or a misunderstanding, we will know soon.
You mean alternates?
FINA amended the rules a couple of weeks ago. If a relay only swimmer is listed in multiple relays he or she only have to compete in one relay. If the swimmer is not competing in any of the relays, the last relay will be disqualified in which he or she was listed.