Swim Ireland has revealed its qualification standards for the 2020 Irish Open Championships, the meet which serves as the nation’s primary trials for 2020 international team selections.
The Irish Open Championships are set to take place April 1st – April 6th in Dublin, with the country’s Olympic hopefuls vying for FINA A and B cuts in order to book their tickets to Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic Games. Squads for the European Championships and Mare Nostrom traveling tour will also be determined, among other selections.
Age group breakdowns for the Irish Open Championships are set at Youth (male 13-16 years and female 13-15 years), Junior (male 17-19 years and female 16/17 years) and Senior (male 19+ and female 18+). There are separate Irish Open Championships qualifying times for each age group and no short course conversions are allowed as qualifying times.
You can view the Irish Open LC Championships qualifying times at the bottom of this post.
Swimmers are able to hit the Irish Open Championships/Olympic Trials qualification times as of July 1, 2019, through February 25th of next year, which means that this summer’s World Championships in Gwangju, Korea was included in the selection.
As we reported earlier this month, 43% of Irish swimmers that competed in Gwangju produced lifetime bests in Olympic events, representing a massive increase from just 8% in 2017. A total of 7 Senior Irish National Records were registered, with Darragh Greene and Brendan Hyland each making the sem-finals in their respective events of the 50m breast and 200m fly.
Shane Ryan also advanced to the semi-finals in the men’s 50m back but withdrew to focus on the medley relay.
Am I reading this right? Or maybe someone can correct me..
Since John Rudd has came into Irish Swimming he has introduced a ‘one meet’ qualification period to make swimmers perform under pressure to prepare them for 2020.
Recently, 2 young home grown swimmers missed out on qualifying for the Youth Olympics because they failed to acheive the qualification time in a ‘one meet’ qualification window, despite having achieved the qualifying time at a previous gala.
This is a once in a lifetime oppurtunity lost and is crushing for a 14 year old.
So now, because he is in danger of not improving on previous numbers of qualifiers for Olympics (leaving his tenure here a failure),… Read more »
I am not sure swim ireland are recognised internationally we are not very good or making the mark we were promised. remember Jon spoke of getting a medal, then getting a relay, now getting two swimmers to qualify looks like a challenge.
Don’t Ireland currently have two relays sat in Olympic qualification positions after the Worlds? Isn’t is now up to other countries to come and take those places off them?
didn’t say otherwise but also likely for those to slip away where the aim was automatic not wait and see or retry
I’ll correct you Lisa because I’m clearly reading different things to you – or choosing to read them correctly, I’m not sure which. The single Trials system was introduced by Swim Ireland in 2018. And Ireland still have a single Trials system. If you don’t perform at the Trials, you don’t get on the team. A lot of other nations do this very thing. There is no ‘window of months to qualify for Tokyo’. Where are you getting that from? For the senior swimmers, they can achieve the Olympic standard the summer previously at the World Championships – but this does not get them on the team. They will then have to perform at the sole Trials in 2020 to… Read more »
Thanks for correcting me Swim Will.
You should join Swim Ireland’s well oiled PR machine or run for the Dáil Éireann (if you know what that is).
You totally ignored my main point.
Our Junior swimmers are being asked to swim, faster than, qualifying times in final swims if they miss the qualifying times in the morning heats despite achieving the times at an earlier. And you have admitted that our Senior Swimmers are allowed to swim easier times??
This proves my point that John Rudd (and Swim Ireland) don’t care about junior swimmers. They would rather spend the budget on the Senior swimmers that have the potential to improve his CV. They only took 2… Read more »
low key wanna swim for Ireland now, being ok in NCAA swimming in the Olympics would be dope
*cracks knuckes* time to pull a Santo
It’s going to be interesting to see how the season goes towards the 2020 games with the recent mass exodus from the “performance center” in Dublin.
Is it 3 or 4 swimmers now that have now decided that the Swim Ireland process is defunct and not to be trusted having returned to their club coaches in the hope of getting Fina A standards.
Some were wise to stay away in the first place.
With the NPD actively out interviewing for new jobs, while in his current position, it seems the swimmers know its only a matter of time before the house of cards collapses. And then history repeats itself.
There are incompetent people throughout the organisation… Read more »
What is Ireland’s selection procedure for the olympics? Do they have to get the FINA A cut to go?
seems to have depended on how many go if they get 4 or so with A times they go but if there’s only one or two they’ll bring them with B times
Yes, but some might get a swim on a relay if they qualify one.
I know y’all have a better Glamour shot of Sugar Shane Ryan than the one above.
Cmon swim swam
As reported earlier, Dean was given an automatic berth on the team.