Swimming Qualification to London 2012 Olympic Games

Pavlo

Adriano replied at 2012-3-21 01:21 PM
We have only 5 individual quotas and one in relay:

Marcin Cieslak 200m Butterfly and individual med ...

relay maybe with Tarczynski on back (on 100m he is just as fast as Kawecki), Korzeniowski / Czerniak butterfly, Szulich / Kuczko breatstroke and maybe Wypych freestyle, my bet is Tarczyński Korzeniowski Szulich Czerniak but it depends from Games schedule, Czerniak may be to occupied with starts. Conclusion - we have not enough fast swimmers in all styles. Maybe Cie

Pavlo

slak would have to start even - sorry, sth happened during writing

phelps

  The French Swimming squad has been completed with the following athletes, who are going to swim the Relays in London:

Men

•    Alain Bernard (relay 4x100 m freestyle)
•    Jérémy Stravius (relay 4x200 m free)  
•    William Meynard (relay 4x100 m freestyle)
  
•    Lorys Bourelly (relay 4x200 m free)
•    Hugues Duboscq (relay 4x100 m medley)
•    Clément Lefert (relay 4x200 m freestyle, relay 4x100 m freestyle, relay 4x100 m medley)
•    Grégory Mallet (relay 4x200 m freestyle)
•    Giacomo Perez Dortona (relay 4x100 m medley)
•    Romain Sassot (relay 4x100 m medley)   
  

Women

•    Charlotte Bonnet (relay 4x200 m freestyle, relay 4x100  m medley)
•    Justine Bruno (relay 4x100 m medley)
•    Fanny Babou (relay 4x100 m medley)
•    Ophélie-Cyrielle Etienne (relay 4x200 m freestyle)
•    Margaux Farrell (relay 4x200 m libre)
•    Mylène Lazare (relay 4x200 m libre)   
  
  

Intoronto1125

Annamay PIERSE WR holder in the women's 200m breastroke finished fifth in the Canadian trials and will not be going to London.

JoshMartini007

Yeah I saw that, the younger generation is knocking out the older folks.

Intoronto1125

JoshMartini007 replied at 2012-3-31 11:46 PM
Yeah I saw that, the younger generation is knocking out the older folks.

Impressive at the depth she finished fifth. Van Bilien had the second fastest time of the year too.

phelps

  Canadian Swimmers already nominated for the Olympic Games after Day 5 (of 6) of the Olympic Trials:

EDIT: Update after the 6th and Final Day:

Men (13)

• Joe Bartoch, London, Ont. (100 butterfly)
  
• Ryan Cochrane, Victoria (400 freestyle, 1500 freestyle)
• Scott Dickens, Burlington, Ont. (100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke)
  

• Andrew Ford, Guelph, Ont. (200 IM)
  

• Charles Francis, Cowansville, Que. (100 backstroke)
• Thomas Gossland, Vancouver (4X100 freestyle relay)
• Brent Hayden, Vancouver (50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 4X100 freestyle relay)
• Richard Hortness, Medicine Hat, Alta. (4X100 freestyle relay)
• Tobias Oriwol, Toronto (200 backstroke)
• Alec Page, Victoria (400 IM)
• Colin Russell, Burlington, Ont., (4X100 freestyle relay)
• David Sharpe, Halifax (200 buttefly)
• Blake Worsley, Victoria (200 freestyle)
  

Women (18)

• Hillary Caldwell, Surrey, B.C. (200m backstroke)
• Samantha Cheverton, Pointe-Claire, Que. (200 freestyle, 4X200 freestyle relay, 4X100 freestyle relay)
• Stephanie Horner, Beaconsfield, Que. (400 IM)
• Barbara Jardin, Montreal ( 200 freestyle, 4X200 freestyle relay)
• Savannah King, Vancouver (400 freestyle, 800 freestyle)
• Alexa Komarnycky, Etobicoke (800 freestyle)
• Audrey Lacroix, Montreal (200 butterfly)
• Brittany MacLean, Etobicoke, Ont. (400 freestyle, 4X200 freestyle relay)
• Heather MacLean, Etobicoke (4X100 freestyle relay)
• Martha McCabe, Toronto (200 breaststroke)
• Victoria Poon, Montreal (50m freestyle, 4X100 freestyle relay)
• Erica Morningstar, Calgary (200 IM)
• Amanda Reason, Windsor, Ont. (4X200 freestyle relay)
• Katerine Savard, Quebec City (100 butterfly)
• Sinead Russell, Burlington, Ont. (100 backstroke, 200m backstroke)
• Jillian Tyler, Calgary (100 breaststroke)
• Tera Van Beilen, Oakville, Ont. (100 breaststroke, 200m breastroke)
• Julia Wilkinson, Stratford, Ont. (100 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 4X100 freestyle relay and 200 IM)
  

My personal opinion...Canada is not such a powerhouse to afford to let a WR holder out of the team after a one-day only selection...they should find different (European style) criteria to make the team...and they will benefit a lot from that...

P.S. Don't forget the daily wrap-up in the "Swimming International News 2012" thread...

JoshMartini007

We do in 200m Breaststroke for whatever reason, though I agree with you this qualification system is pretty terrible.  Swimming Canada expects swimmers to get OQT standards in March and I'm not even sure what is going to happen to the 4x200m relay since the four didn't qualify.

Intoronto1125

Pierse is sturggling Van Bielen clearly shown she can compete. Canada has tremendous depth in this event.

orangeman

I would normally agree with you phelps because Canada has so few legit medal threats in the pool that keeping a WR holder at home sounds insane.  However, that WR is almost 3 years old and to my knowledge she hasn't come close to it since due to serious illness and injury.  But I will agree holding a one day trial so early in the year may not be the best way to select our strongest swimmers.  Mike Brown, who finished 4th in Beijing, will also stay home.  The good news is Canada has a few chances at medals in the pool which is more than we could say in either Beijing or Athens.  

phelps

orangeman replied at 2012-4-2 01:13 PM
I would normally agree with you phelps because Canada has so few legit medal threats in the pool tha ...

Well, last year in Shanghai Pierse entered the 200m Breast Final with the 4th best time and if she would have been able to repeat herself, the same clocking would have given her the Bronze Medal ahead of Martha McCabe (but unfortunately, she was only 8th and last that day)...so, it's not so far away in the calendar the last time she showed herself competitive at the highest level in the World...
In any case, that's Canada's rule...and we all have to accept it...if the athletes themselves don't complain with those rules, for sure it won't be me nor you nor anyone else from "the outside" that will make them change their mind...

JoshMartini007

Besides it's not like van Bilen got lucky Pierse had a bad final, she posted the second fastest time of 2012.

JoshMartini007

Update, except for the Canadian athletes who only have OST times and France's Women's 100m Medley Relay because they don't have a spot yet.

ChandlerMne

At Wikipedia page there is information that one bosnian swimmer has achived OQT. I diddnt find that info here, so does anybody know is it true or not?

boris4c

ChandlerMne replied at 2012-4-11 04:53 PM
At Wikipedia page there is information that one bosnian swimmer has achived OQT. I diddnt find that  ...

Ensar Hajder has achieved the OST in 200m individual medley about a month ago, but I don't know of anyone who achieved the OQT.