Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification
For the swimming competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics the following qualification systems were in place. The list has been updated to 20 August 2011. Qualification ends on 3 July 2012.
Qualifying standards[edit]
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter up to 2 qualified athletes in each individual event if both meet the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). 1 athlete per event can potentially qualify should they meet the Olympic Selection Time (OST) and if the quota of 900 athletes has not been met. NOCs may enter swimmers regardless of time (1 swimmer per sex) if they have no swimmers meeting either standard entry time.
The qualifying time standards must be obtained in Continental Championships, National Olympic Trials or International Competitions approved by FINA in the period 1 March 2011 to 3 July 2012.
FINA qualifying standards are as follows:[1]
Individual events[edit]
Only those with the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT) are listed below as on the FINA website as those with the Olympic Selection Time are not guaranteed a place in the Olympic Games.[2][3] Named swimmers have qualified personally through national selection meets or have been nominated by their National Olympic Committee (NOC).
The result is here:
- 438 – OQT (59 NF/NOCs)
- 181 – OST (12 NF/NOCs) – some still to be confirmed
- 131 – Relay-only swimmers
- 150 – Universality (95 NF/NOCs)
- Total: 900 (166 NF/NOCs)
Men's individual events[edit]
Men's 50 m freestyle[edit]
Men's 100 m freestyle[edit]
Men's 200 m freestyle[edit]
Men's 400 m freestyle[edit]
Qualification standard | No. of athletes | Qualified athletes |
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Olympic Qualifying Time – 3:48.93 | 2 | David McKeon (AUS) Ryan Napoleon (AUS) |
2 | Hao Yun (CHN) Sun Yang (CHN) | |
2 | Robert Renwick (GBR) David Carry (GBR) | |
2 | Peter Vanderkaay (USA) Conor Dwyer (USA) | |
2 | Mads Glæsner (DEN) Pál Joensen (DEN) | |
1 | Ryan Cochrane (CAN) | |
1 | Paul Biedermann (GER) | |
1 | Gergő Kis (HUN) | |
1 | Samuel Pizzetti (ITA) | |
1 | Park Tae-Hwan (KOR) | |
1 | Matthew Stanley (NZL) | |
1 | Heerden Herman (RSA) | |
Olympic Selection Time – 3:54.13[4] | 9 | Egor Degtyarev (RUS) Dominik Meichtry (SUI)[a] Sergiy Frolov (UKR)[a] Juan Martín Pereyra (ARG) Cristian Quintero (VEN) Matias Koski (FIN)[a] Đorđe Marković (SRB) Mateusz Sawrymowicz (POL)[a] Mateo de Angulo (COL) |
Wildcard Places | 2 | Allan Gutierrez Castro (HON) Ahmed Gebrel (PLE) |
Total | 28 |
Men's 1500 m freestyle[edit]
Qualification standard | No. of athletes | Qualified athletes |
---|---|---|
Olympic Qualifying Time – 15:11.83 | 2 | Dai Jun (CHN) Sun Yang (CHN) |
2 | Damien Joly (FRA) Anthony Pannier (FRA) | |
2 | Daniel Fogg (GBR) David Davies (GBR) | |
2 | Gergő Kis (HUN) Gergely Gyurta (HUN) | |
2 | Gabriele Detti (ITA) Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA) | |
2 | Andrew Gemmell (USA) Connor Jaeger (USA) | |
1 | Ryan Cochrane (CAN) | |
1 | Pál Joensen (DEN) | |
1 | Matias Koski (FIN) | |
1 | Job Kienhuis (NED) | |
1 | Mateusz Sawrymowicz (POL) | |
1 | Heerdan Herman (RSA) | |
1 | Park Tae-Hwan (KOR) | |
1 | Oussama Mellouli (TUN) | |
1 | Sergiy Frolov (UKR) | |
Olympic Selection Time – 15:43.74[4] | 9 | Jarrod Poort (AUS) Juan Martín Pereyra (ARG) Alejandro Gómez (VEN) Arturo Pérez Vertti (MEX) Ediz Yildirimer (TUR) Ventsislav Aydarski (BUL) Anton Sveinn McKee (ISL) Uladzimir Zhyharau (BLR) Jan Micka (CZE) |
Wildcard Places | 1 | Ullalmath Gagan (IND) |
Total | 31 |
Men's 100 m backstroke[edit]
* Chris Walker-Hebborn qualified in this event by an allocated quota, following a sudden withdrawal of Israel's Jonatan Kopelev.
Men's 200 m backstroke[edit]
Qualification standard | No. of athletes | Qualified athletes |
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Olympic Qualifying Time – 1:58.48 | 2 | Mitch Larkin (AUS) Matson Lawson (AUS) |
2 | Xu Jiayu (CHN) Zhang Fenglin (CHN) | |
2 | Jan-Philip Glania (GER) Yannick Lebherz (GER) | |
2 | Marco Loughran (GBR) Christopher Walker-Hebborn (GBR) | |
2 | Gábor Balog (HUN) Péter Bernek (HUN) | |
2 | Ryosuke Irie (JPN) Kazuki Watanabe (JPN) | |
2 | Ryan Lochte (USA) Tyler Clary (USA) | |
2 | Arkady Vyatchanin (RUS) Anton Anchin (RUS) | |
1 | Leonardo de Deus (BRA) | |
1 | Tobias Oriwol (CAN) | |
1 | Omar Pinzón (COL) | |
1 | Benjamin Stasiulis (FRA) | |
1 | Yakov-Yan Toumarkin (ISR) | |
1 | Sebastiano Ranfagni (ITA) | |
1 | Nick Driebergen (NED) | |
1 | Gareth Kean (NZL) | |
1 | Radosław Kawęcki (POL) | |
Olympic Selection Time – 2:02.63[4] | 10 | Darren Murray (RSA) Aschwin Wildeboer (ESP)[a] Oleksandr Isakov (UKR) Pedro Oliveira (POR) Pedro Medel (CUB) Park Hyung-Joo (KOR) Alexandr Tarabrin (KAZ) Sebastian Stoss (AUT) Derya Büyükuncu (TUR) Quah Zheng Wen (SIN) |
Total | 35 |
Men's 100 m breaststroke[edit]
Men's 200 m breaststroke[edit]
Qualification standard | No. of athletes | Qualified athletes |
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Olympic Qualifying Time – 2:11.74 | 2 | Tales Cerdeira (BRA) Henrique Barbosa (BRA) |
2 | Marco Koch (GER) Christian vom Lehn (GER) | |
2 | Andrew Willis (GBR) Michael Jamieson (GBR) | |
2 | Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) Ryo Tateishi (JPN) | |
2 | Scott Weltz (USA) Clark Burckle (USA) | |
2 | Dániel Gyurta (HUN) Ákos Molnár (HUN) | |
1 | Brenton Rickard (AUS) | |
1 | Panagiotis Samilidis (GRE) | |
1 | Choi Kyu-Woong (KOR) | |
1 | Giedrius Titenis (LTU) | |
1 | Laurent Carnol (LUX) | |
1 | Lennart Stekelenburg (NED) | |
1 | Glenn Snyders (NZL) | |
1 | Vyacheslav Sinkevich (RUS) | |
1 | Igor Borysik (UKR) | |
Olympic Selection Time – 2:16.35[4] | 11 | Chen Cheng (CHN) Yannick Kaeser (SUI) Matti Mattsson (FIN) Scott Dickens (CAN)[a] Sławomir Kuczko (POL) Christian Schurr (MEX) Nuttapong Ketin (THA) Tomáš Klobučník (SVK) Hunor Mate (AUT) Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson (ISL) Irakli Bolkvadze (GEO)[b] |
Wildcard Places | 2 | Dmitrii Aleksandrov (KGZ) Tsilavina Ramanantsoa (MAD) |
Total | 34 |
Men's 100 m butterfly[edit]
Men's 200 m butterfly[edit]
Qualification standard | No. of athletes | Qualified athletes |
---|---|---|
Olympic Qualifying Time – 1:56.85 | 2 | Nick D'Arcy (AUS) Chris Wright (AUS) |
2 | Leonardo de Deus (BRA) Kaio Almeida (BRA) | |
2 | Chen Yin (CHN) Wu Peng (CHN) | |
2 | Joseph Roebuck (GBR) Roberto Pavoni (GBR) | |
2 | Ioannis Drymonakos (GRE) Stefanos Dimitriadis (GRE) | |
2 | Bence Biczó (HUN) László Cseh (HUN) | |
2 | Kazuya Kaneda (JPN) Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) | |
2 | Marcin Cieślak (POL) Paweł Korzeniowski (POL) | |
2 | Michael Phelps (USA) Tyler Clary (USA) | |
1 | Dinko Jukić (AUT) | |
1 | Nikolay Skvortsov (RUS) | |
1 | Velimir Stjepanović (SRB) | |
1 | Joseph Schooling (SIN) | |
1 | Chad le Clos (RSA) | |
Olympic Selection Time – 2:00.95[4] | 13 | Robert Žbogar (SLO) Alexandre Liess (SUI) Alexandru Coci (ROU) Pedro Oliveira (POR) David Sharpe (CAN) Illya Chuyev (UKR) Hsu Chi-Chieh (TPE) Marcos Lavado (VEN) Mauricio Fiol (PER) Gal Nevo (ISR)[a] Yousef Al-Askari (KUW)[b] Omar Pinzón (COL)[a] Diego Castillo (PAN) |
Wildcard Places | 1 | Hocine Haciane (AND) |
Total | 37 |
Men's 200 m individual medley[edit]
Qualification standard | No. of athletes | Qualified athletes |
---|---|---|
Olympic Qualifying Time – 2:00.17 | 2 | Daniel Tranter (AUS) Jayden Hadler (AUS) |
2 | Henrique Rodrigues (BRA) Thiago Pereira (BRA) | |
2 | Wang Shun (CHN) Wu Peng (CHN) | |
2 | Markus Deibler (GER) Philip Heintz (GER) | |
2 | James Goddard (GBR) Joseph Roebuck (GBR) | |
2 | László Cseh (HUN) Dávid Verrasztó (HUN) | |
2 | Kosuke Hagino (JPN) Ken Takakuwa (JPN) | |
2 | Chad le Clos (RSA) Darian Townsend (RSA) | |
2 | Michael Phelps (USA) Ryan Lochte (USA) | |
1 | Markus Rogan (AUT) | |
1 | Bradley Ally (BAR) | |
1 | Gal Nevo (ISR) | |
1 | Federico Turrini (ITA) | |
1 | Vytautas Janušaitis (LTU) | |
1 | Marcin Cieślak (POL) | |
1 | Diogo Carvalho (POR) | |
1 | Aleksandr Tikhonov (RUS) | |
Olympic Selection Time – 2:04.38[4] | 9 | Raphaël Stacchiotti (LUX) Andrew Ford (CAN) Taki Mrabet (TUN) Martin Liivamägi (EST) Andreas Vazaios (GRE) David Karasek (SUI) Maksym Shemberev (UKR) Jung Won-Yong (KOR) Nuttapong Ketin (THA) |
Wildcard Places | 1 | Ensar Hajder (BIH) |
Total | 36 |
Men's 400 m individual medley[edit]
Qualification standard | No. of athletes | Qualified athletes |
---|---|---|
Olympic Qualifying Time – 4:16.46 | 2 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes (AUS) Daniel Tranter (AUS) |
2 | Wang Chengxiang (CHN) Yang Zhixian (CHN) | |
2 | Joseph Roebuck (GBR) Roberto Pavoni (GBR) | |
2 | László Cseh (HUN) Dávid Verrasztó (HUN) | |
2 | Luca Marin (ITA) Federico Turrini (ITA) | |
2 | Kosuke Hagino (JPN) Yuya Horihata (JPN) | |
2 | Chad le Clos (RSA) Riaan Schoeman (RSA) | |
2 | Ryan Lochte (USA) Michael Phelps (USA) | |
1 | Thiago Pereira (BRA) | |
1 | Yannick Lebherz (GER) | |
1 | Ioannis Drymonakos (GRE) | |
1 | Alexander Tikhonov (RUS) | |
1 | Gal Nevo (ISR) | |
1 | Maksym Shemberev (UKR) | |
Olympic Selection Time – 4:25.44[4] | 12 | Alec Page (CAN) Taki Mrabet (TUN) Ward Bauwens (BEL) Diogo Carvalho (POR)[a] Jung Won-Yong (KOR) Raphaël Stacchiotti (LUX) Yury Suvorau (BLR) Quah Zheng Wen (SIN) Esteban Enderica Salgado (ECU)[b] Pedro Pinotes (ANG)[b] Anton Sveinn McKee (ISL) Bradley Ally (BAR)[a] |
Wildcard Places | 3 | Rafael Alfaro (ESA) Marko Blazevski (MKD) Ahmed Atari (QAT) |
Total | 37 |
* to be confirmed by NF/NOC