2019 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS – SWIMMING
- All sports: Friday, July 12 – Sunday, July 28, 2019
- Pool swimming: Sunday, July 21 – Sunday, July 28, 2019
- The Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, Korea
- Meet site
- Competition Schedule
- FinaTV Live Stream
- Entry Lists
- Results
Olympic qualification was up for grabs in the relays at the 2019 World Championships, as the top-12 countries in each Olympic event (no mixed freestyle) would automatically book their spot for Tokyo.
The remaining four entries will be made up by the fastest times in the FINA world rankings as of May 31st, 2020. The qualifying window began on March 1st, 2019.
Per FINA:
The twelve (12) highest placed NOCs per relay event at the 18th FINA World Championships 2019 in Gwangju (KOR) shall be qualified for the corresponding relay event at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 based upon the results achieved in the heats.
The remaining four (4) teams per relay event will be the teams with the fastest times in the FINA World Rankings of 31st May 2020 achieved during the qualification period, in the qualifying events approved by FINA, from 1 st March 2019 to 31st May 2020.
QUALIFIED TEAMS
Times below for the top-8 countries in each race are from finals, with the remaining four obviously from the heats. The Dutch mixed medley team was disqualified in the final, but will still qualify for the Olympics by virtue of their prelim swim.
Men’s 4×100 Freestyle
| Place | Country | Time |
| 1 | United States | 3:09.06 |
| 2 | Russia | 3:09.97 |
| 3 | Australia | 3:11.22 |
| 4 | Italy | 3:11.39 |
| 5 | Great Britain | 3:11.81 |
| 6 | Brazil | 3:11.99 |
| 7 | Hungary | 3:12.85 |
| 8 | France | 3:13.34 |
| 9 | Japan | 3:14.16p |
| 10 | Greece | 3:14.44p |
| 11 | Germany | 3:14.58p |
| 12 | Poland | 3:14.78p |
Men’s 4×200 Freestyle
| Place | Country | Time |
| 1 | Australia | 7:00.85 |
| 2 | Russia | 7:01.81 |
| 3 | United States | 7:01.98 |
| 4 | Italy | 7:02.01 |
| 5 | Great Britain | 7:02.04 |
| 6 | China | 7:04.74 |
| 7 | Brazil | 7:07.64 |
| 8 | Germany | 7:07.65 |
| 9 | Japan | 7:09.23p |
| 10 | Israel | 7:11.99p |
| 11 | Poland | 7:12.01p |
| 12 | Switzerland | 7:12.08p |
Men’s 4×100 Medley
| Place | Country | Time |
| 1 | Great Britain | 3:28.10 |
| 2 | United States | 3:28.45 |
| 3 | Russia | 3:28.81 |
| 4 | Japan | 3:30.35 |
| 5 | Australia | 3:30.42 |
| 6 | Brazil | 3:30.86 |
| 7 | China | 3:31.61 |
| 8 | Germany | 3:32.86 |
| 9 | Belarus | 3:34.56p |
| 10 | Canada | 3:34.79p |
| 11 | Lithuania | 3:34.88p |
| 12 | Hungary | 3:35.11p |
Women’s 4×100 Freestyle
| Place | Country | Time |
| 1 | Australia | 3:30.21 |
| 2 | United States | 3:31.02 |
| 3 | Canada | 3:31.78 |
| 4 | Netherlands | 3:35.32 |
| 5 | China | 3:35.83 |
| 6 | Sweden | 3:36.33 |
| 7 | Japan | 3:36.79 |
| 8 | Germany | 3:39.07 |
| 9 | Russia | 3:38.94p |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 3:40.40p |
| 11 | Czech Republic | 3:40.78p |
| 12 | Poland | 3:41.01p |
Women’s 4×200 Freestyle
| Place | Country | Time |
| 1 | Australia | 7:41.50 |
| 2 | United States | 7:41.87 |
| 3 | Canada | 7:44.35 |
| 4 | China | 7:46.22 |
| 5 | Russia | 7:48.25 |
| 6 | Hungary | 7:54.57 |
| 7 | Germany | 7:55.63 |
| 8 | Japan | 7:56.31 |
| 9 | Poland | 8:01.70p |
| 10 | New Zealand | 8:03.28p |
| 11 | Hong Kong | 8:04.98p |
| 12 | Republic of Korea | 8:08.38p |
Women’s 4×100 Medley
| Place | Country | Time |
| 1 | United States | 3:50.40 |
| 2 | Australia | 3:53.42 |
| 3 | Canada | 3:53.58 |
| 4 | Italy | 3:56.50 |
| 5 | China | 3:57.11 |
| 6 | Japan | 3:58.14 |
| 7 | Sweden | 3:58.39 |
| 8 | Great Britain | 3:59.38 |
| 9 | Germany | 4:00.91p |
| 10 | Netherlands | 4:01.42p |
| 11 | Switzerland | 4:01.85p |
| 12 | Russia | 4:02.26p |
Mixed 4×100 Medley
| Place | Country | Time |
| 1 | Australia | 3:39.08 |
| 2 | United States | 3:39.10 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 3:40.68 |
| 4 | Russia | 3:40.78 |
| 5 | Canada | 3:43.06 |
| 6 | Italy | 3:43.27 |
| 7 | Germany | 3:45.07 |
| 8 | Netherlands | DSQ (3:44.67p) |
| 9 | Belarus | 3:45.88p |
| 10 | Israel | 3:48.06p |
| 11 | Poland | 3:48.21p |
| 12 | Hungary | 3:48.44p |
A total of four countries have qualified in all seven relays:
- Australia
- United States
- Russia
- Germany
Additionally, also qualifying for all the men’s events was:
- Great Britain
- Brazil
- Japan
Qualifying for all of the women’s:
- Canada
- China
- Japan
ALL QUALIFIERS
| Country | Qualified Men’s Events | Qualified Women’s Events | Qualified Mixed Events |
| United States | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 Medley |
| Australia | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 Medley |
| Russia | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 Medley |
| Germany | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 Medley |
| Great Britain | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 Medley | 4×100 Medley |
| Brazil | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | ||
| Japan | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | |
| Canada | 4×100 Medley | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 Medley |
| China | 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR, 4×100 Medley | |
| Italy | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR | 4×100 Medley | 4×100 Medley |
| Hungary | 4×100 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×200 FR | 4×100 Medley |
| France | 4×100 FR | ||
| Greece | 4×100 FR | ||
| Poland | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR | 4×100 Medley |
| Israel | 4×200 FR | 4×100 Medley | |
| Switzerland | 4×200 FR | 4×100 Medley | |
| Belarus | 4×100 Medley | 4×100 Medley | |
| Lithuania | 4×100 Medley | ||
| Netherlands | 4×100 FR, 4×100 Medley | 4×100 Medley | |
| Sweden | 4×100 FR, 4×100 Medley | ||
| Czech Republic | 4×100 FR | ||
| Hong Kong | 4×100 FR, 4×200 FR | ||
| New Zealand | 4×200 FR | ||
| Republic of Korea | 4×200 FR |
Good for Germany. They’re slowly recovering from their epic slump since 2008.
I wonder what meets Japan and China will use to take a whack at the 400 mixed medley, as they both likely would have finaled had they not DQd.
Nice to see Poland decide they were going to do their best to send a big team to Tokyo next year.
Noticed that, big congrats to Poland for entering events, and nabbing one of the last two places in 3 events! Gives great motivation and experience to lots of swimmers who have earned their place to be at the Olympics.
Off topic but are the pick em results for Worlds out yet?
Really hits home how the French have declined once you see this…only automatically qualified in the mens 4 x 100 free relay and barely at that….has been coming but sad to see
Apart from the 4x200m relay of the men, they probably would have qualified everywhere if only they had competed.
I was about to say the same thing. They were a swimming mainstay. To see that is sad, here is hoping for a resurgence. The more countries who are competitive makes it more interesting in my view.
If GB hadn’t pulled out of those two relays they probably would be up there as well.
There are still 4 spots up for grab in each relay event, based on the fastest times done at approved meets since March 2019 through May 2020 (including 13-16 finishes at Worlds).
But it is much easier to knock off qualification already…and not have to wait, plan, travel and worry. Don’t understand GB, Italy, France etc.. that didn’t field all relays. It does their swimmers a disservice.
Japan is only missing the mixed medley. It would be nice to qualify so that the home crowd can cheer them on for the relays.
They can still qualify easily through other sanctioned meets.
They dont have to quilify because since they are host nation, they get a automatic bye
Is this right, can’t find anything to confirm this. Almost academic with only 1 event anyway.
I haven’t looked for the original source, so might not be accurate, but the wikipedia page states the following:
(Participating nations) Japan, as the host country, receives guaranteed quota place in case it would not qualify any qualification places.
I suppose that means the host nation is allowed to enter – one – swimmer in all individual events, regardless whether the swimmers have made the FINA “Olympic Qualifying Times” (OQT), or the “”Olympic Selection times” (OST)? I’m not sure if it includes relays as well, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics#Participation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Qualification
Would it be possible to do a table with the countries listed and which events they qualified for?
Good idea, I’ll put it together.