Interactive Maps: 2016 U.S. Olympic Team By Training Base & Hometown

U.S. Olympic Trials have come and gone, but swim nerds don’t have to suffer from post-meet boredom! We’ve broken down the U.S. Olympic roster into a series of interactive maps that just might get you through ’til Rio.

You can check out the series of maps embedded below, or mobile users may wish to check them out on the Tableau Public website by following this link.

Note: This dataset only includes the pool swimming roster. Events listed include relays for the top 6 in the 100 and 200 frees along with both qualifiers in each non-free 100-meter event, all of whom could swim the event in prelims.

There are 5 tabs along the top, each one broken down in a different way:

1. Where were they a year ago?

2015 saw the top American swimmers split between the World Championships in Russia, the World University Games in South Korea, the Pan American Games in Canada and the U.S. National Championships in San Antonio.

We’ve mapped out how many future 2016 Olympic qualifiers were at each of the four meets.

Note: Some swimmers swam at two of the four meets. Some athletes were relay-only swimmers at Worlds but individual competitors at World University Games. In those cases, we listed the athlete with the highest-level meet where they competed individually.

2. How did each 2015 meet go?

As a quick aside form the maps, we took a look at the medal counts from those three major international meets. One note that should be of little surprise: the American World University Games team that set a new record for swimming medals won in 2015 featured 9 future 2016 Olympians – besting Pan Ams and U.S. Nationals.

3. Mapped By Training Base

Back to the maps. We broke down the Olympic team by training location, complete with some sparkling logos for each training locale.

4. Mapped By Number of Olympic Qualifiers Per Location

The next tab over shows how big each training site’s Olympic qualifying group is. You can see the big groups of of Cal, SwimMAC and Georgia particularly prominently.

5. Mapped By Hometown

We also mapped out the team by their original hometowns – typically from before they moved to their current training location. All hometowns are courtesy of USA Swimming’s official U.S. Olympic roster, which you can find here.

Hover over any data point on the map to see more information. Clicking on the data points will filter out results to show specifics about that meet, city or training location.