Netherlands Olympic Swim Team

Filed under 2012 Olympics - London, UK, Olympics by on May 3, 2012 at 8:09 am {no comments}

The Royal Dutch Swimming Federation, Koninklijke Nederlandse Zwembond (KNZB), last week announced that 15 swimmers have qualified for the nation’s 2012 Olympic team.

Team members for the Olympics are:

Females (8): Saskia de Jonge, Inge Dekker, Femke Heemskerk, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Moniek Nijhuis, Hinkelien Schreuder, Sharon van Rouwendaal and Marleen Veldhuis.

Males (7): Dion Dreesens, Nick Driebergen, Job Kienhuis, Bastiaan Lijesen, Lennart Stekelenburg, Joeri Verlinden and Sebastiaan Verschuren.

Olympic team announcement can be found on the KNZB website [in Dutch] here:www.knzb.nl

Russian Olympic Team Announced

Filed under 2012 Olympics - London, UK, Olympics by on May 3, 2012 at 8:02 am {no comments}

The Russian Swimming Federation (RSF) today has announced a 29-swimmer team for the 2012 Olympics.

The announcement comes following the 2012 Russia Championships in Moscow, which served as the last selection meet for the team.

Team members are:

Men (16): Anton Anchin, Sergei Fesik, Andrey Grechin, Danila Izotov, Evgeny Korotyshkin, Evgeny Lagunov, Nikita Lobintsov, Artem Lobuzov, Vladimir Morozov, Mikhail Polishchuk, Vyacheslav Sinkevich, Nikolay Skvortsov, Roman Sloudnov, Alexander Sukhorukov, Alexander Tikhonov and Arkady Vyatchanin.

Women (13): Victoria Andreeva, Maria Baklakova, Daria Belyakina, Irina Bespalov, Anastasia Chaun, Daria Deeva, Yuliya Efimova, Natalya Lovtsova, Jan Martynov, Margarita Nesterova, Veronika Popova, Elena Sokolova and Anastasia Zueva.

Four additional swimmers may also be potentially added to the team, if they are picked-up through B time qualifying: Yekaterina Andreyeva, Maria Gromova, Ksenia Moskvina and Yegor Degtyarev.

Team announcement can be found on the RSF website [in Russian] here:www.russwimming.ru/

Results from the 2012 Russia Championships, held April 17-22 in Moscow, can be found online here: http://russwimming.ru

Danish Swim Team Announced for 2012 Olympics

Filed under 2012 Olympics - London, UK, Olympics by on April 6, 2012 at 10:39 am {no comments}

The Danish Swimming Union, Dansk Svømmeunion (DS), has announced a 9-swimmer team for the 2012 Olympics, following last weekend’s 2012 Danish Open in Brønshøj, which served as the selection meet.

Team members are:

-females (5): Pernille Blume, Lotte Friis, Mie Ø. Nielsen, Jeanette Ottesen and Rikke Møller Pedersen.

-males (4): Mads Glæsner, Pál Joensen, Anders Lie and Daniel Skaaning.

French Olympic Swim Team Announced

Filed under 2012 Olympics - London, UK, Olympics by on April 6, 2012 at 10:35 am {no comments}

The French Swimming Federation, Fédération Française de Natation (FFN), has announced a 29-swimmer team for the 2012 Olympics.

The team announcement comes following the 2012 France Championships, which served as the main selection meet.

Team members are:

-males (17): Yannick Agnel, Alain Bernard, Lorys Bourelly, Hugues Duboscq, Fabien Gilot, Damien Joly, Camille Lacourt, Clément Lefert, Amaury Leveaux, Grégory Mallet, Florent Manaudou, William Meynard, Anthony Pannier, Giacomo Perez Dortona, Romain Sassot, Benjamin Stasiulis and Jérémy Stravius;

-females (12): Fanny Babou, Coralie Balmy, Charlotte Bonnet, Justine Bruno, Alexianne Castel, Ophélie-Cyrielle Etienne, Margaux Farrell, Lara Grangeon, Mylène Lazare, Laure Manaudou, Camille Muffat and Anna Santamans.

Team roster can be found on the FFN website here: www.ffnatation.fr

New Zealand Olympic Swim Team Named

Filed under 2012 Olympics - London, UK, Olympics by on April 6, 2012 at 10:18 am {no comments}

The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) have announced that 12 swimmers have been named to the country’s 2012 Olympic team.

The announcement came after the conclusion of the 2012 New Zealand Championships, which were held March 25-30 in Auckland.

NZOC also mentioned that the addition of swimmers to the team are possible,depending on whether or not additional relays from the country make the Olympics.

The 12 swimmers currently on New Zealand’s Olympic team are:

-female (8): Lauren Boyle, Amaka Gessler, Natasha Hind, Melissa Ingram, Samantha Lucie-Smith, Penelope Marshall, Hayley Palmer and Natalie Wiegersma.

-male (4): Daniel Bell, Gareth Kean, Glenn Synders and Matthew Stanley.

Team announcement, including those who would be added if certain relays qualify, can be found on the NZOC website here: www.olympic.org.nz

Full results from the 2012 New Zealand Championships can be found online here: www.swimmingnz.org.nz

Canadian Olympic Swim Team Announced

Filed under 2012 Olympics - London, UK, Olympics by on April 6, 2012 at 10:12 am {no comments}

The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) yesterday announced that 31 swimmers have been nominated for Canada’s 2012 Olympic team.

Team members are:

-females (18): Hilary Caldwell, Samantha Cheverton, Stephanie Horner, Barbara Jardin, Savanah King, Alexa Komarnycky, Audrey Lacroix, Brittany MacLean, Heather MacLean, Martha McCabe, Erica Morningstar, Victoria Poon, Amanda Reason, Sinead Russell, Katerine Savard, Jillian Tyler, Tera Van Beilen and Julia Wilkinson.

-males (13): Joe Bartoch, Ryan Cochrane, Scott Dickens, Andrew Ford, Charles Francis, Thomas Gossland, Brent Hayden, Richard Hortness, Tobias Oriwol, Alec Page, Colin Russell, David Sharpe and Blake Worsley.

Team announcement can be found on the COC website here: www.olympic.ca/

Team selection was based off the 2012 Canada Olympic & Paralympic Trials, held March 27-April 1 in Montreal, Quebec. Results from the meet can be found online here: www.omegatiming.com

Great Britain Swim Team for 2012 Olympics

Filed under 2012 Olympics - London, UK, Olympics by on March 19, 2012 at 4:50 am {no comments}

The British Olympic Association (BOA) has announced/confirmed Great Britain’s Swimming team for the 2012 Olympics.

Great Britain will have 38 swimmers at the Games.

The swimmers are the first full discipline delegation to be announced for the British team; currently, with the swimmers, there are 59 athletes on the British team. British swimmers at this summer’s Olympics will be:

-males (19): Robert Bale, Craig Benson, Adam Brown, Simon Burnett, Ross Davenport, David Davies, James Disney-May, Daniel Fogg, Craig Gibbons, James Goddard, Michael Jamieson, Ieuan Lloyd, Roberto Pavoni Robbie Renwick, Joe Roebuck, Michael Rock, Daniel Sliwinski, Liam Tancock and Andrew Willis.

-females (19): Rebecca Adlington, Sophie Allen, Georgia Davies, Eleanor Faulkner, Ellen Gandy, Joanne Jackson, Francesca Halsall, Kate Haywood, Jessica Lloyd, Jemma Lowe, Caitlin McClatchey, Hannah Miley, Keri-Anne Payne, Elizabeth Simmonds, Amy Smith, Gemma Spofforth, Stacey Tadd, Rebecca Turner and Aimee Willmott.

The BOA’s announcement of the team can be found online here: www.teamgb.com

Qualification for the team was based off of the 2012 British Championships, held March 3-10 at the Olympic Aquatics venue in London, England.

Results from the meet are available online here: www.midlandchampionships.org.uk/

Further information on the team’s qualifying, including disabled swimmers who swam to 2012 Paralympics qualifying times, can be found on the British Swimming website here: www.swimming.org

Olympic Swimming Qualifying Procedure

Filed under 2012 Olympics - London, UK, Olympics by on February 5, 2012 at 2:41 am {no comments}

FINA has updated the Swimming qualifying procedures for 2012 Olympics.

The qualifying system now posted on the FINA website is dated from November 2011 (updated from February 2011).

The majority of the changes between the two posts deal with specifying how swimmers will be ranked for invitations to the Games, for those entering the Olympics either via the Universality spots or via an OST qualification.

Changes to the qualifying system for Swimming posted with this November 2011 update are:

  • 900 swimmers will now be competition in Swimming. This is up from 850 (the 50 swimmers for the 10K events are no longer part of the pool total).
  • Universality: Times will be ranked by the 2012 FINA points. The 150 spots open for Universality will be split evenly between males and females (75 males, 75 females); if there are not 75 of one gender, spots may be allocated to the other gender.
  • Swimmers with an Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT, “A” standard), may also swim other events in which they have achieved the Olympic Selection Time (OST, the “B” standard) or faster. [Note: For a country to enter 2 swimmers in an event, both swimmers still need to have both swum an OQT in the event.]
  • Relays: Nations must include the swimmer names for their relays when they confirm their intent to the swim relays. For relays that qualified via the 2011 Worlds (top-12), the confirmation due date is May 31, 2012. For those relays qualifying by time outside of the 2011 Worlds, the confirmation deadline is June 11, 2012.
  • OST ordering for invitations: Swimmers qualified with OSTs will invited by event rank, with the top-ranked person in each individual event being invited in rounds (so 26 at a time, one from each individual event). When adding 26 exceeds the 900 total spots for Swimming, the group of 26 that includes those that goes over 900 will be ordered by their FINA points and invited up to the point of the 900th swimmers.
  • The qualifying period for swimming OQTs or OSTs now ends on June 18, 2012. For OQTs this is a change from July 3, 2012 (i.e. 2 weeks less); for OSTs this is a change from June 1, 2012. Relay qualifying and Universality qualification remains at June 1, 2012 [Note: This date change partially was mentioned in the December 2, 2011 WSCA news.]

The November-2011 update to the qualifying system for the 2012 Olympics can be found on the FINA website here: www.fina.org/H2O/docs/events/london2012/sw/sw_qual.pdf

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