After numerous invitational mishaps, confusion on the Olympic qualification process, and the Russian doping scandal, FINA has released the “final” entry lists for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Just 10 days to go – @Rio2016_en @iocmedia– #FINA is pleased to share the final Entry Lists: https://t.co/f0GWelPzQ5 pic.twitter.com/U0m7fvoFhS
— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) July 27, 2016
Check out the PDFs below with the entry lists for the male and female swimmers competing next month in Rio.
There are several worthy notes from these lists:
- These lists do not include the seven Russian athletes that FINA has barred from competition in Rio due to testing positive for a banned substance or being involved with what the McLaren report deemed to be “disappearing positives.”
- Greek record holder Kristel Vourna, who was mistakenly invited to the Games by FINA, was then told it was a mistake, and then was actually reinstated for the Games, does NOT show up on the final entry lists.
- After confusion with the Macedonian Olympic Committee, Marko Blazevski does appear on the entry lists for men, claiming a ‘universality’ spot in the 200 IM for Macedonia.
- We reported one week ago that at least three swimmers entered in Rio do not meet FINA’s own qualifications. The three identified athletes (Ana Dascal of Romania, Naomy Grand’Pierre of Haiti, and Ei Ei Thet of Myanmar) remain on the final entry lists. Read more about this situation here.
Even though FINA claims to have invited a swimmer in ervery single race, there still is no invitation in the men’s 100 fly and the women’s 400 free. No reason given as to why this is the case in those events, in both events the invitees would have higher FINA points than in 50 free women / men respectively, so this does not make sense.
As always, this reads INCOMPETENCE all over the place.
And just to repeat myself, the competition in RIO will be very strange, with the entire mid-range cut out. It is either world class times (i.e. A Cut) or almost nothing, and in the 50 free everyone and his daughter are getting to swim.… Read more »
It’s a blessing not to see Efimova on there.
This selection process makes no sense whatsoever. Is there anyway we can reach FINA and get an idea on how they selected people? Because they simply did not follow their own rules…
What do you mean by selection process not making sense?
This is the first time I’ve heard such thing.
I just want to clarify what I said.
The selection process is very clear and has been published since beginning last year.
So I don’t understand why you are claiming that the selection process makes no sense.
No sense means that FINA published two Olympic qualifying standards (A & B) for Rio 2016, so, swimmers around the world worked hard to get an “A” or a good “B: At the end, only 23 “B” invited but 223 universality swimmers were called for Rio. Many of those “universality” swimmers invited are done nothing to be Olympians. No proportion, just votes.
So how many universality swimmers and how many OST swimmers do you think should be invited?
There are different ways that Fina may use to consider eligibility to the Olympics, but once you called OST, then, it have to be used to call a good number of swimmers,(Olympic Qualifying), B Standards swimmers were 10% of Universality swimmers called. No proportion.
That is really going to make the 400 Med Relay really interesting. Since there are only 8 swims between heats and finals and they are defining 6 names they can now only use 2 top guys for the final. If we get to the final considering if we use one of those 2 none relay only swimmers to get to the finals you only have one none relay only swimmer to use in the final. Are you going to use Conger on Free, Fly or back? You have Feigen and Smith so I guess Adrian is not swimming that relay. I guess Bentz on breaststroke for heats then Cordes in for the Final. Which two on which leg would you… Read more »
I cannot make any sense of anything you wrote above AT ALL.
What the hell is 2 none relay only swimmers?
What the hell is “there are only 8 swims between heats and final”?
I’m sorry to say but NONE of you sentences makes any sense.
What I thought about later was if you can do deck scratches on relay only swimmers for specific events as long as they are still entered in other relays. Sorry for being so confusing with my comment.
None Relay Only Swimmer – someone that is swimming an individual event and therefore is not a relay only swimmer.
8 Swims – Heats you have 4 swimmers swimming and finals you have 4 swimmers swimming. Total 8 swims. These swims can be filled with as few as 4 swimmers and as many as 8 swimmers. Putting 6 locked in relay only swimmers gets complicated in the medley relay since the finals should be the fastest individual swimmer of each stroke.
If… Read more »
Still doesn’t make any sense.
You are making things even more complicated than FINA, which is unbelievable.
Here’s the two simple rules:
1. ANYONE on the team may swim relay
2. A relay-only swimmer must swim AT LEAST one relay swim, doesn’t matter prelims or finals.
That’s it. No need to complicate things.
I think he’s saying that he thinks the US will have to swim all relay only swimmers in every relay, as the US federation has entered all relay only swimmers for every relay, while no other federation has.
IAIN – You are correct.
The rule is event specific as I read it.
If an NOC enters relay-only swimmers for a specific event, these swimmers must swim either in the heat or
final of that relay event. Should a relay-only swimmer not compete, this will lead to the disqualification of the respective team in the final.
US will have to correct it..
otherwise the 4×100 free relay would have to use Bentz, Clark Smith and Blake Pieroni.
While Conger Feigen and Held + someone can probably be a OK team for prelims, a team of Bentz Smith Pieroni + someone else.. would be a disaster bigger than Kazan. Same for 4×200.. imagine using Feigen Conger and Held on 4×200? Of any of these 6 guys on Medley?
I don´t know if it was FINA mistake or USS, but if it was USS and FINA does not accept changes now, US can say goodbye to all 6 finals..
Where are the refugee swimmers? Rami Anis and Yusra Mardini?
If FINA or who ever can’t get a list correct – Then how the heck are they going to find the swimmers who might be doping?
By performing drugs tests.
im confused here – please help me understand why Adrian and Dressel aren’t listed as swimmers in the 4 x100 free relay and Phelps and Murphy not listed as part of the Med Relay? It looks like they just repeated the same swimmers in all 3 relays?
That part is for relay-only swimmers; if a swimmer is entered in any individual event they are eligible to swim any relay (at least for swimmers at the A level, which all US swimmers are; not sure if it’s the same for B or other swimmers). Relay-only swimmers have to swim a relay in either prelims or finals, or the relay is disqualified. The uncertainty I referenced to is that all USA relay-only swimmers are entered in all three relays, which no other country did.
Did the question of the USA being the only country to list their relay-only swimmers on all three relays ever get explained?
I think Swimswam has asked the US Olympics team, but so far no news yet.
It’s very peculiar I have to say.