Summer Olympics 2020 / Swimming / Qualification

Swimming competitions at the 2020 Olympics
qualification
swim
50 m freestyle	Women	Men
100 m freestyle	Women	Men
200 m freestyle	for the outside	Men
400 m freestyle	Women	Men
800 m freestyle	Women	Men
1500 m freestyle	Women	Men
100 m chest	Women	Men
200 m chest	Women	Men
100 m back	Women	Men
200 m back	Women	Men
100 m butterfly	Women	Men
200 m butterfly	Women	Men
200 m layers	Women	Men
400 m layers	Women	Men
4 × 100 m freestyle	Women	Men
4 × 200 m freestyle	Women	Men
4 × 100 m layers	Women	Men	Mixed
Open water swimming
10 km of open water	Women	Men

Qualification for the swimming competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will take place by July 6, 2020.

In the individual disciplines, a maximum of two athletes per nation are allowed to compete, both of which must have swum the standard time specified by FINA . Another athlete may participate if he has swum the Olympic qualifying time (OQT) or if the 878 available quota places cannot be used up. Each nation is entitled to register one athlete of each gender who did not swim the Olympic Standard Time (OQT), provided that there are no other swimmers who have swum and he has swum the Olympic Standard Time (OST).

There are 16 qualification places each in the relay competitions. In addition to the 12 best seasons of the 2019 World Swimming Championships, another four seasons with the fastest times according to the FINA world rankings from May 31, 2020 will qualify.

In the two open water swimming competitions, the 10 best swimmers of the 2019 World Championships and nine other swimmers will qualify via a qualifying competition. There is also one starting place for Japan as the host and five athletes who qualify via a continental competition.

Qualified nations

nation	Men	Women
Egypt	x
Algeria	x
Argentina	x	x
Azerbaijan	x
Australia	x	x
Brazil	x
Belgium	x	x
Bulgaria	x
Chile		x
Denmark	x	x
Germany	x	x
Finland	x
France	x	x
Greece	x	x
Great Britain	x	x
Guatemala	x
Hong Kong		x
Ireland	x
Iceland	x
Israel	x	x
Italy	x	x
Jamaica		x
Japan	x	x
Canada	x	x
Kazakhstan	x
Croatia	x
Liechtenstein		x
Lithuania	x
Luxembourg	x
Moldova		x
New Zealand	x	x
Netherlands	x	x
Norway	x
Austria		x
Poland	x	x
Portugal	x	x
Romania	x
Russia	x	x
Sweden	x	x
Switzerland	x	x
Serbia	x	x
Slovenia		x
Spain	x	x
South Africa	x	x
South Korea		x
Trinidad and Tobago	x
Czech Republic	x	x
Turkey	x	x
Ukraine	x
Hungary	x	x
United States	x	x
China	x	x
Vietnam	x
Belarus	x	x

Individual competitions

Standard times

The times must be achieved in a world, continental, national championship or another FINA competition in the period from March 1, 2019 to June 29, 2020.

Men			Women
competition	OQT	EAST	competition	OQT	EAST
50 m freestyle	22.01 s	22.67 s	50 m freestyle	24.77 s	25.51 s
100 m freestyle	48.57 s	50.03 s	100 m freestyle	54.38 s	56.01 s
200 m freestyle	1: 47.02 min	1: 50.23 min	200 m freestyle	1: 57.28 min	2: 00.80 min
400 m freestyle	3: 46.78 min	3: 53.58 min	400 m freestyle	4: 07.90 min	4: 15.34 min
800 m freestyle	7: 54.31 min	8: 08.54 min	800 m freestyle	8: 33.36 min	8: 48.76 min
1500 m freestyle	15: 00.99 min	15: 28.02 min	1500 m freestyle	16: 32.04 min	17: 1.80 min
100 m back	53.85 s	55.47 s	100 m back	1: 00.25 min	1: 02.06 min
200 m back	1: 57.50 min	2: 01.03 min	200 m back	2: 10.39 min	2: 14.30 min
100 m chest	59.93 s	1: 01.73 min	100 m chest	1: 07.07 min	1: 09.08 min
200 m chest	2: 10.35 min	2: 14.26 min	200 m chest	2: 25.52 min	2: 29.89 min
100 m butterfly	51.96 s	53.52 s	100 m butterfly	57.92 s	59.66 s
200 m butterfly	1: 56.48 min	1: 59.97 min	200 m butterfly	2: 08.43 min	2: 12.28 min
200 m layers	1: 59.67 min	2: 03.26 min	200 m layers	2: 12.56 min	2: 16.54 min
400 m layers	4: 15.84 min	4: 21.46 min	400 m layers	4: 38.53 min	4: 46.89 min

Men

50 m freestyle

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic Standard Time (OQT): 22.01 s	2	France
	2	Great Britain
	2	Italy
	2	United States
	1	Algeria	Oussama Sahnoune
	1	Egypt	Ali Khalafalla
	1	Brazil
	1	Germany
	1	Greece	Kristián Goloméev
	1	Israel	Meiron Cheruti
	1	Japan
	1	Netherlands
	1	Poland	Paweł Juraszek
	1	Russia
	1	South Africa
	1	Spain
	1	Hungary
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 22.67 s
General starting places
total	21st	17th	5

100 m freestyle

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic Standard Time (OQT): 48.57 s	2	Australia
	2	Brazil
	2	France
	2	Italy
	2	Japan
	2	Russia
	2	United States
	1	Algeria	Oussama Sahnoune
	1	Belgium	Pieter Timmers
	1	China
	1	Great Britain
	1	Canada
	1	Netherlands
	1	Trinidad and Tobago	Dylan Carter
	1	Hungary
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 50.03 s
General starting places
total	22nd	15th	3

200 m freestyle

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 1: 47.02 min	2	Australia
	2	Brazil
	2	China
	2	Great Britain
	2	Italy
	2	Hungary
	2	Russia
	2	United States
	1	Germany
	1	Japan
	1	Canada
	1	Lithuania	Danas Rapšys
	1	Netherlands
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 1: 50.23 min
General starting places
total	21st	13	1

400 m freestyle

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 3: 46.78 min	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Italy
	2	Russia
	1	Germany
	1	Lithuania	Danas Rapšys
	1	United States
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 3: 53.58 min
General starting places
total	11	7th	1

800 m freestyle

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 7: 54.31 min	2	Australia
	2	Denmark
	2	Germany
	2	France
	2	Italy
	2	Russia
	2	Ukraine	Sergii Frolov Mychajlo Romantschuk
	2	United States
	1	Brazil
	1	China
	1	Great Britain
	1	Croatia	Franko Grgić
	1	Norway	Henrik Christiansen
	1	Austria	Felix Auböck
	1	Poland	Wojciech Wojdak
	1	Serbia	Vuk Čelić
	1	Czech Republic	Jan Micka
	1	Vietnam	Nguyễn Huy Hoàng
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 8: 08.54 min	1
General starting places	1
total	26th	19th	9

1500 m freestyle

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 15: 00.99 min	2	Denmark
	2	Germany
	2	France
	2	Italy
	2	Croatia	Franko Grgić Marin Mogić
	2	Ukraine	Sergii Frolov Mychajlo Romantschuk
	2	United States
	1	Australia
	1	Brazil
	1	China
	1	Great Britain
	1	Norway	Henrik Christiansen
	1	Russia
	1	Czech Republic	Jan Micka
	1	Hungary
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 15:28.02 min
General starting places
total	22nd	15th	6th

100 m back

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic Standard Time (OQT): 53.85 s	2	Australia
	2	Romania	Robert Glință Daniel Martin
	2	Russia
	2	United States
	1	China
	1	France
	1	Greece	Apostolos Christou
	1	Great Britain
	1	Canada
	1	Ireland	Shane Ryan
	1	Israel	Yakov Toumarkin
	1	Italy
	1	Belarus	Mikita Zmyh
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 55.47 s
General starting places
total	18th	13	5

200 m back

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 1: 57.50 min	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Japan
	2	Russia
	2	United States
	1	Germany
	1	Great Britain
	1	Canada
	1	Italy
	1	Poland	Radosław Kawęcki
	1	Hungary
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 2:01:03 min
General starting places
total	16	11	1

100 m chest

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic Standard Time (OQT): 59.93 s	2	Brazil
	2	China
	2	Great Britain
	2	Italy
	2	Japan
	2	Russia
	2	United States
	1	Australia
	1	Denmark
	1	Ireland	Darragh Greene
	1	Kazakhstan	Dmitri Balandin
	1	Lithuania	Andrius Šidlauskas
	1	Netherlands
	1	Serbia	Čaba Silađi
	1	South Africa
	1	Turkey	Berkay-Ömer Öğretir
	1	Belarus	Ilya Shymanovich
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 1: 01.73 min
General starting places
total	24	16	6th

200 m chest

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 2: 10.35 min	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Germany
	2	Great Britain
	2	Japan
	2	Russia
	2	United States
	1	Finland	Matti Mattsson
	1	Ireland	Darragh Greene
	1	Iceland	Anton Sveinn McKee
	1	Italy
	1	Kazakhstan	Dmitri Balandin
	1	Netherlands
	1	Sweden
	1	Ukraine	Mykyta Koptyelov
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 2: 14.26 min
General starting places
total	22nd	15th	5

100 m butterfly

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic Standard Time (OQT): 51.96 s	2	Australia
	2	Italy
	2	Russia
	2	Hungary
	2	United States
	1	Argentina	Santiago Grassi
	1	Brazil
	1	China
	1	Germany
	1	France
	1	Great Britain
	1	Guatemala	Luis Martínez
	1	Japan
	1	South Africa
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 53.52 s	1
General starting places	1
total	19th	12	2

200 m butterfly

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 1: 56.48 min	2	Australia
	2	Japan
	2	Hungary
	2	United States
	1	Belgium	Louis Croenen
	1	Brazil
	1	Bulgaria	Antani Ivanov
	1	Germany
	1	Italy
	1	Poland
	1	Russia
	1	South Africa
	1	Ukraine	Denys Kesil
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 1: 59.97 min
General starting places
total	16	13	3

200 m layers

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 1: 59.67 min	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Greece	Andreas Vazaios Apostolos Papastamos
	2	Great Britain
	2	Japan	Daiya Seto
	2	Portugal	Gabriel Lópes Alexis Santos
	2	Hungary
	2	United States
	1	Brazil
	1	Chinese Taipei	Wang Hsing-hao
	1	Germany
	1	Italy
	1	Lithuania	Danas Rapšys
	1	Luxembourg	Raphaël Stacchiotti
	1	Russia
	1	Switzerland	Jérémy Desplanches
	1	Spain
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 2: 03.26 min
General starting places
total	25th	17th	9

400 m layers

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 4: 15.84 min	2	Japan	Daiya Seto
	2	Hungary
	2	United States
	1	Azerbaijan	Maxim Schemberew
	1	Australia
	1	Germany
	1	Greece	Apostolos Papastamos
	1	Great Britain
	1	Italy
	1	New Zealand
	1	Netherlands
	1	Russia
	1	Switzerland	Jérémy Desplanches
	1	Spain
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 4: 21.46 min
General starting places
total	17th	14th	4th

Women

50 m freestyle

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic Standard Time (OQT): 24.77 s	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Netherlands
	2	Sweden
	2	United States
	1	Denmark
	1	France
	1	Great Britain
	1	Russia
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 25.51 s
General starting places
total	14th	10

100 m freestyle

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic Standard Time (OQT): 54.38 s	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Denmark
	2	France
	2	Great Britain
	2	Canada
	2	Netherlands
	2	Sweden
	2	United States
	1	Hong Kong	Siobhan Haughey
	1	Italy
	1	Russia
	1	Czech Republic	Barbora Seemanová
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 56.01 s
General starting places
total	22nd	13	2

200 m freestyle

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 1: 57.28 min	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Canada
	2	Russia
	2	United States
	1	France
	1	Hong Kong	Siobhan Haughey
	1	Italy
	1	Japan
	1	Netherlands
	1	Sweden
	1	Czech Republic	Barbora Seemanová
	1	Hungary
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 2: 00.80 min
General starting places
total	22nd	13	2

400 m freestyle

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 4: 07.90 min	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Germany
	2	Russia
	2	Hungary
	2	United States
	1	Argentina	Delfina Pignatiello
	1	Italy
	1	Spain
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 4: 15.34 min
General starting places
total	15th	9	1

800 m freestyle

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 8: 33.36 min	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Germany
	2	Italy
	2	Japan
	2	Spain
	2	United States
	1	Argentina	Delfina Pignatiello
	1	Liechtenstein
	1	Russia	Julia Hassler
	1	Slovenia	Tjaša Or
	1	Turkey	Beril Böcekler
	1	Hungary
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 8: 48.76 min
General starting places
total	20th	12	4th

1500 m freestyle

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 16: 32.04 min	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Germany
	2	Italy
	2	Japan
	2	Canada
	2	Portugal	Diana Durães Tamila Holub
	2	Spain
	2	Hungary
	2	United States
	1	Argentina	Delfina Pignatiello
	1	Brazil
	1	Chile	Kristel Köbrich
	1	Austria	Marlene Kahler
	1	France
	1	Liechtenstein	Julia Hassler
	1	Russia
	1	Slovenia	Tjaša Or
	1	Turkey	Beril Böcekler
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 17: 01.80 min
General starting places
total	29	15th	8th

100 m back

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 1: 00.25 min	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Italy
	2	Canada
	2	Russia
	2	Hungary
	2	United States
	1	Germany
	1	France
	1	Great Britain
	1	Hong Kong	Stephanie Au
	1	Japan
	1	Netherlands
	1	Czech Republic	Simona Kubová
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 1:02:06 min
General starting places
total	21st	14th	2

200 m back

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 2: 10.39 min	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Japan
	2	Canada
	2	Russia
	2	Hungary
	2	United States
	1	Great Britain
	1	Italy
	1	Moldova	Tatiana Salcuțan
	1	New Zealand
	1	Austria	Lena Grabowski
	1	Spain
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 2: 14.30 min	1
General starting places	1
total	20th	13	2

100 m chest

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 1: 07.07 min	2	Great Britain
	2	Italy
	2	Russia
	2	United States
	1	Argentina	Julia Sebastián
	1	Australia
	1	Belgium	Fanny Lecluyse
	1	China
	1	Jamaica	Alia Atkinson
	1	Canada
	1	Netherlands
	1	Spain
	1	South Africa
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 1: 09.08 min	1
General starting places	1
total	17th	12	3

200 m chest

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 2: 25.52 min	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Japan
	2	Canada
	2	Russia
	2	Spain
	2	South Africa
	2	United States
	1	Argentina	Julia Sebastián
	1	Belgium	Fanny Lecluyse
	1	Great Britain
	1	Italy
	1	Switzerland	Lisa Mamie
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 2: 29.89 min
General starting places
total	21st	13	3

100 m butterfly

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic Standard Time (OQT): 57.92 s	2	Australia
	2	France
	2	Italy
	2	Canada
	2	Sweden
	2	United States
	1	China
	2	Germany
	1	Greece	Anna Ntountounaki
	1	Russia
	1	Hungary
	1	Belarus	Anastasiya Shkurdai
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 59.66 s	1
General starting places	1
total	18th	12	2

200 m butterfly

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 2: 08.43 min	2	Australia
	2	China
	2	Great Britain
	2	Japan
	2	Hungary
	2	United States
	1	Germany
	1	Portugal	Ana Monteiro
	1	Russia
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 2: 12.28 min
General starting places
total	15th	9	1

200 m layers

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 2: 12.56 min	2	China
	2	Great Britain
	2	Japan
	2	Canada
	2	United States
	1	Australia
	1	France
	1	Israel	Anastasia Gorbenko
	1	Italy
	1	Switzerland	Maria Ugolkova
	1	South Korea
	1	Turkey	Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş
	1	Hungary
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 2: 16.54 min	1
General starting places	1
total	18th	13	3

400 m layers

Qualification standard	Places	Qualified
		nation	Athletes
Olympic standard time (OQT): 4: 38.53 min	2	Canada
	2	United States
	1	China
	1	France
	1	Italy
	1	Serbia	Anja Crevar
	1	Spain
	1	Hungary
Olympic Standard Time (OST): 4: 46.89 min
General starting places
total	10	8th	1

Season

Men

4 × 100 m freestyle

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified relays
World Championships 2019	July 12-28, 2019	Gwangju	12	United States
				Great Britain
				Russia
				Australia
				Italy
				Brazil
				France
				Hungary
				Japan
				Greece
				Germany
				Poland
Fastest relays that could not qualify through the world championships			4th
total			16	12

4 × 200 m freestyle

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified relays
World Championships 2019	July 12-28, 2019	Gwangju	12	Italy
				Russia
				United States
				Australia
				China
				Brazil
				Great Britain
				Germany
				Japan
				Israel
				Poland
				Switzerland
Fastest relays that could not qualify through the world championships			4th
total			16	12

4 × 100 m layers

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified relays
World Championships 2019	July 12-28, 2019	Gwangju	12	Russia
				United States
				Japan
				Great Britain
				Australia
				Brazil
				China
				Germany
				Belarus
				Canada
				Lithuania
				Hungary
Fastest relays that could not qualify through the world championships			4th
total			16	12

Women

4 × 100 m freestyle

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified relays
World Championships 2019	July 12-28, 2019	Gwangju	12	Australia
				Canada
				Sweden
				United States
				Japan
				Netherlands
				China
				Germany
				Russia
				Hong Kong
				Czech Republic
				Poland
Fastest relays that could not qualify through the world championships			4th
total			16	12

4 × 200 m freestyle

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified relays
World Championships 2019	July 12-28, 2019	Gwangju	12	Australia
				United States
				Russia
				China
				Germany
				Canada
				Hungary
				Japan
				Poland
				New Zealand
				Hong Kong
				South Korea
Fastest relays that could not qualify through the world championships			4th
total			16	12

4 × 100 m layers

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified relays
World Championships 2019	July 12-28, 2019	Gwangju	12	United States
				Australia
				Italy
				Canada
				China
				Sweden
				Great Britain
				Japan
				Germany
				Netherlands
				Switzerland
				Russia
Fastest relays that could not qualify through the world championships			4th
total			16	12

Mixed

4 × 100 m layers

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified relays
World Championships 2019	July 12-28, 2019	Gwangju	12	United States
				Australia
				Russia
				Great Britain
				Canada
				Italy
				Netherlands
				Germany
				Belarus
				Israel
				Poland
				Hungary
Fastest relays that could not qualify through the world championships			4th
total			16	12

Open water swimming

Men 10 km open water

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified athletes
host	September 7, 2013	Buenos Aires	1	still open
World Championships 2019	July 12-28, 2019	Gwangju	10	Florian Wellbrock
				Marc-Antoine Olivier
				Rob Muffels
				Kristóf Rasovszky
				Jordan Wilimovsky
				Gregorio Paltrinieri
				Ferry Weertman
				Alberto Martínez
				Mario Sanzullo
				David Aubry
Olympic qualifying competition 2020			9
Continental qualification			5
total			25th	11

Women 10 km open water

Qualifying competition	date	place	Places	Qualified athletes
host	September 7, 2013	Buenos Aires	1	still open
World Championships 2019	July 12-28, 2019	Gwangju	10	Xin Xin
				Haley Anderson
				Rachele Bruni
				Lara Grangeon
				Ana Marcela Cunha
				Ashley Twichell
				Kareena Lee
				Finnia Wunram
				Leonie Beck
				David Aubry
Olympic qualifying competition 2020			9
Continental qualification			5
total			25th	11

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tokyo 2020 - FINA Swimming Qualification System. FINA, July 17, 2019, accessed on April 18, 2019 .