Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics

The swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 13 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.[1] The women's open-water marathon was held on August 15, and the men's open water race on August 16 in Fort Copacabana.[2]

Swimming
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Pictograms for Swimming (left) and Marathon Swimming (right)
VenueOlympic Aquatics Stadium (pool)
Fort Copacabana (open water)
Dates6–13 August 2016
15–16 August (Marathon)
No. of events34
Competitors955 from 174 nations
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2020 →

Open water quality

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The location for open-water events was a source of concern for athletes since scientists have found microbes in the waters off of Fort Copacabana and drug-resistant super bacteria off the beaches of Rio de Janeiro in 2014 and 2016 studies due to the daily dumping of hospital waste and household raw sewage into the rivers and ocean. Ten percent of the Copacabana water test samples contained drug-resistant super bacteria.[3][4] However, during the races the water quality was good.[5][6]

Events

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Interior view of the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, the temporary venue used for swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Similar to the program's format in 2012, swimming features a total of 34 events (17 each for men and women), including two 10 km open-water marathons. The following events were contested (all pool events are long course, and distances are in metres unless stated):

Schedule

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Similar to previous Olympics since 2000, with the exception of 2008, the swimming program schedule occurred in two segments. For the pool events, prelims are held in the afternoon, followed by the semifinals and final in the evening and the night session (due to the substantial fees NBC has paid for rights to the Olympics, the IOC has allowed NBC to have influence on event scheduling to maximize U.S. television ratings when possible; NBC agreed to a $7.75 billion contract extension on May 7, 2014, to air the Olympics through the 2032 games[7] and is also one of the major sources of revenue for the IOC).[8][9] The dates in the table are for August.

Legend
H Heats ½ Semi-finals F Final

A = Afternoon session, starting at 13:00 local time (16:00 UTC).
N = Night session, starting at 22:00 local time (01:00 UTC the next day).

Men[10]
Date → Aug 6 Aug 7 Aug 8 Aug 9 Aug 10 Aug 11 Aug 12 Aug 13 Aug 16
Event ↓ A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N
50 m freestyle H ½ F
100 m freestyle H ½ F
200 m freestyle H ½ F
400 m freestyle H F
1500 m freestyle H F
100 m backstroke H ½ F
200 m backstroke H ½ F
100 m breaststroke H ½ F
200 m breaststroke H ½ F
100 m butterfly H ½ F
200 m butterfly H ½ F
200 m individual medley H ½ F
400 m individual medley H F
4 × 100 m freestyle relay H F
4 × 200 m freestyle relay H F
4 × 100 m medley relay H F
10 km open water F
Women[10]
Date → Aug 6 Aug 7 Aug 8 Aug 9 Aug 10 Aug 11 Aug 12 Aug 13 Aug 15
Event ↓ A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N A N
50 m freestyle H ½ F
100 m freestyle H ½ F
200 m freestyle H ½ F
400 m freestyle H F
800 m freestyle H F
100 m backstroke H ½ F
200 m backstroke H ½ F
100 m breaststroke H ½ F
200 m breaststroke H ½ F
100 m butterfly H ½ F
200 m butterfly H ½ F
200 m individual medley H ½ F
400 m individual medley H F
4 × 100 m freestyle relay H F
4 × 200 m freestyle relay H F
4 × 100 m medley relay H F
10 km open water F

Qualification

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FINA By-Law BL 9.3.6.4 (swimming) and BL 9.3.7.5.3 (open water) laid out the qualification procedures for the "Swimming" competition at the Olympics.[11] Each country is allowed to enter up to two swimmers per individual event (provided they qualify), and one entry per relay; and a country may not have more than 26 males and 26 females (52 total) on its team.

Swimming – individual events

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On January 15, 2015, FINA posted the qualifying times for individual events for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[12] The time standards consisted of two types: an "Olympic Qualifying Time" (OQT) and an "Olympic Selection time" (OST). Each country was able to enter up to two swimmers per event, provided both swimmers met the (faster) qualifying time. A country was able to enter one swimmer per event that met the invitation standard. Any swimmer who met the "qualifying" time was entered in the event for the Games; a swimmer meeting the "invitation" standard was eligible for entry, and their entry was allotted/filled in by ranking.[12][13]

If a country had had no swimmers who meet either qualifying standard, it may have entered one male and one female. A country that did not receive an allocation spot but had at least one swimmer who met a qualifying standard might have enter the swimmer with the highest ranking.[13]

Swimming – relay events

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Each relay event features 16 teams, composed of:

  • 12: the top-12 finishers at the 2015 World Championships in each relay event.[13]
  • 4: the 4 fastest non-qualified teams, based on times in the 15-months preceding the Olympics.[13]

Open-water swimming

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The men's and women's 10 km races at the 2016 Summer Olympics featured 25 swimmers:[14]

  • 10: the top-10 finishers in the 10 km races at the 2015 World Championships
  • 9: the top-9 finishers at the 2016 Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier (June 11–12, 2016 in Setúbal, Portugal)[15]
  • 5: one representative from each FINA continent (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania). (These have been selected based on the finishes at the qualifying race in Setúbal.)
  • 1: from the host nation (Brazil) if not qualified by other means. If Brazil already contained a qualifier in the race, this spot had been allocated back into the general pool from the 2016 Olympic qualifier race.

Participation

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Participating nations

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Brazil, as the host country, receives guaranteed quota place in case it would not qualify any qualification places.

Medal summary

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Brazil)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States168933
2  Australia34310
3  Hungary3227
4  Japan2237
5  Netherlands2002
6  Great Britain1506
7  China1236
8  Canada1146
9  Italy1124
10  Sweden1113
11  Denmark1012
  Spain1012
13  Kazakhstan1001
  Singapore1001
15  South Africa0303
16  Russia0224
17  France0213
18  Belgium0101
  Greece0101
20  Belarus0011
  Brazil*0011
Totals (21 entries)353534104

Men's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle
details
Anthony Ervin
  United States
21.40 Florent Manaudou
  France
21.41 Nathan Adrian
  United States
21.49
100 m freestyle
details
Kyle Chalmers
  Australia
47.58 WJ Pieter Timmers
  Belgium
47.80 NR Nathan Adrian
  United States
47.85
200 m freestyle
details
Sun Yang
  China
1:44.65 Chad le Clos
  South Africa
1:45.20 AF Conor Dwyer
  United States
1:45.23
400 m freestyle
details
Mack Horton
  Australia
3:41.55 Sun Yang
  China
3:41.68 Gabriele Detti
  Italy
3:43.49
1500 m freestyle
details
Gregorio Paltrinieri
  Italy
14:34.57 Connor Jaeger
  United States
14:39.48 AM Gabriele Detti
  Italy
14:40.86
100 m backstroke
details
Ryan Murphy
  United States
51.97 OR Xu Jiayu
  China
52.31 David Plummer
  United States
52.40
200 m backstroke
details
Ryan Murphy
  United States
1:53.62 Mitch Larkin
  Australia
1:53.96 Evgeny Rylov
  Russia
1:53.97 ER
100 m breaststroke
details
Adam Peaty
  Great Britain
57.13 WR Cameron van der Burgh
  South Africa
58.69 Cody Miller
  United States
58.87 AM
200 m breaststroke
details
Dmitriy Balandin
  Kazakhstan
2:07.46 NR Josh Prenot
  United States
2:07.53 Anton Chupkov
  Russia
2:07.70 NR
100 m butterfly
details
Joseph Schooling
  Singapore
50.39 OR, AS Michael Phelps
  United States
Chad le Clos
  South Africa
László Cseh
  Hungary
51.14 Not awarded
as there was a tie for silver.
200 m butterfly
details
Michael Phelps
  United States
1:53.36 Masato Sakai
  Japan
1:53.40 Tamás Kenderesi
  Hungary
1:53.62
200 m individual medley
details
Michael Phelps
  United States
1:54.66 Kosuke Hagino
  Japan
1:56.61 Wang Shun
  China
1:57.05
400 m individual medley
details
Kosuke Hagino
  Japan
4:06.05 AS Chase Kalisz
  United States
4:06.75 Daiya Seto
  Japan
4:09.71
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
details
  United States (USA)
Caeleb Dressel (48.10)
Michael Phelps (47.12)
Ryan Held (47.73)
Nathan Adrian (46.97)
Jimmy Feigen[a]
Blake Pieroni[a]
Anthony Ervin[a]
3:09.92   France (FRA)
Mehdy Metella (48.08)
Fabien Gilot (48.20)
Florent Manaudou (47.14)
Jérémy Stravius (47.11)
Clément Mignon[a]
William Meynard[a]
3:10.53   Australia (AUS)
James Roberts (48.88)
Kyle Chalmers (47.38)
James Magnussen (48.11)
Cameron McEvoy (47.00)
Matthew Abood[a]
3:11.37
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
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  United States (USA)
Conor Dwyer (1:45.23)
Townley Haas (1:44.14)
Ryan Lochte (1:46.03)
Michael Phelps (1:45.26)
Clark Smith[a]
Jack Conger[a]
Gunnar Bentz[a]
7:00.66   Great Britain (GBR)
Stephen Milne (1:46.97)
Duncan Scott (1:45.05)
Daniel Wallace (1:46.26)
James Guy (1:44.85)
Robbie Renwick[a]
7:03.13 NR   Japan (JPN)
Kosuke Hagino (1:45.34)
Naito Ehara (1:46.11)
Yuki Kobori (1:45.71)
Takeshi Matsuda (1:46.34)
7:03.50
4 × 100 m medley relay
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  United States (USA)
Ryan Murphy (51.85) WR
Cody Miller (59.03)
Michael Phelps (50.33)
Nathan Adrian (46.74)
David Plummer[a]
Kevin Cordes[a]
Tom Shields[a]
Caeleb Dressel[a]
3:27.95 OR   Great Britain (GBR)
Chris Walker-Hebborn (53.68)
Adam Peaty (56.59)
James Guy (51.35)
Duncan Scott (47.62)
3:29.24 NR   Australia (AUS)
Mitch Larkin (53.19)
Jake Packard (58.84)
David Morgan (51.18)
Kyle Chalmers (46.72)
Cameron McEvoy[a]
3:29.93
10 km open water
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Ferry Weertman
  Netherlands
1:52:59.8 Spyridon Gianniotis
  Greece
1:53:00.5 Marc-Antoine Olivier
  France
1:53:02.0

AF African Record | AM Americas Record | SA South American Record | AS Asian Record | ER European Record | OC Oceanian Record | OR Olympic Record | WJR World Junior Record | WR World Record
NR National Record (any World Record is necessarily also an Olympic, area, and national record. Area records (for continental regions) are also national records)

a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle
details
Pernille Blume
  Denmark
24.07 NR Simone Manuel
  United States
24.09 Aliaksandra Herasimenia
  Belarus
24.11 NR
100 m freestyle
details
Penny Oleksiak
  Canada
Simone Manuel
  United States
52.70 OR, WJ, AM
52.70 OR, AM
Not awarded
as there was a tie for gold.
Sarah Sjöström
  Sweden
52.99
200 m freestyle
details
Katie Ledecky
  United States
1:53.73 Sarah Sjöström
  Sweden
1:54.08 NR Emma McKeon
  Australia
1:54.92
400 m freestyle
details
Katie Ledecky
  United States
3:56.46 WR Jazmin Carlin
  Great Britain
4:01.23 Leah Smith
  United States
4:01.92
800 m freestyle
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Katie Ledecky
  United States
8:04.79 WR Jazmin Carlin
  Great Britain
8:16.17 Boglárka Kapás
  Hungary
8:16.37 NR
100 m backstroke
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Katinka Hosszú
  Hungary
58.45 NR Kathleen Baker
  United States
58.75 Kylie Masse
  Canada
Fu Yuanhui
  China
58.76 NR
58.76 NR
200 m backstroke
details
Maya DiRado
  United States
2:05.99 Katinka Hosszú
  Hungary
2:06.05 Hilary Caldwell
  Canada
2:07.54
100 m breaststroke
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Lilly King
  United States
1:04.93 OR Yulia Efimova
  Russia
1:05.50 Katie Meili
  United States
1:05.69
200 m breaststroke
details
Rie Kaneto
  Japan
2:20.30 Yulia Efimova
  Russia
2:21.97 Shi Jinglin
  China
2:22.28
100 m butterfly
details
Sarah Sjöström
  Sweden
55.48 WR Penny Oleksiak
  Canada
56.46 WJ, NR Dana Vollmer
  United States
56.63
200 m butterfly
details
Mireia Belmonte García
  Spain
2.04.85 Madeline Groves
  Australia
2.04.88 Natsumi Hoshi
  Japan
2.05.20
200 m individual medley
details
Katinka Hosszú
  Hungary
2:06.58 OR Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
  Great Britain
2:06.88 NR Maya DiRado
  United States
2:08.79
400 m individual medley
details
Katinka Hosszú
  Hungary
4:26.36 WR Maya DiRado
  United States
4:31.15 Mireia Belmonte García
  Spain
4:32.39
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
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  Australia (AUS)
Emma McKeon (53.41)
Brittany Elmslie (53.12)
Bronte Campbell (52.15)
Cate Campbell (51.97)
Madison Wilson[b]
3:30.65 WR   United States (USA)
Simone Manuel (53.36)
Abbey Weitzeil (52.56)
Dana Vollmer (53.18)
Katie Ledecky (52.79)
Amanda Weir[b]
Lia Neal[b]
Allison Schmitt[b]
3:31.89 AM   Canada (CAN)
Sandrine Mainville (53.86)
Chantal Van Landeghem (53.12)
Taylor Ruck (53.19)
Penny Oleksiak (52.72)
Michelle Williams[b]
3:32.89 NR
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
details
  United States (USA)
Allison Schmitt (1:56.21)
Leah Smith (1:56.69)
Maya DiRado (1:56.39)
Katie Ledecky (1:53.74)
Missy Franklin[b]
Melanie Margalis[b]
Cierra Runge[b]
7:43.03   Australia (AUS)
Leah Neale (1:57.95)
Emma McKeon (1:54.64)
Bronte Barratt (1:55.81)
Tamsin Cook (1:56.47)
Jessica Ashwood[b]
7:44.87   Canada (CAN)
Katerine Savard (1:57.91)
Taylor Ruck (1:56.18)
Brittany MacLean (1:56.36)
Penny Oleksiak (1:54.94)
Kennedy Goss[b]
Emily Overholt[b]
7:45.39 NR
4 × 100 m medley relay
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  United States (USA)
Kathleen Baker (59.00)
Lilly King (1:05.70)
Dana Vollmer (56.00)
Simone Manuel (52.43)
Olivia Smoliga[b]
Katie Meili[b]
Kelsi Worrell[b]
Abbey Weitzeil[b]
3:53.13   Australia (AUS)
Emily Seebohm (58.83)
Taylor McKeown (1:07.05)
Emma McKeon (56.95)
Cate Campbell (52.17)
Madison Wilson[b]
Madeline Groves[b]
Brittany Elmslie[b]
3:55.00   Denmark (DEN)
Mie Nielsen (58.75)
Rikke Møller Pedersen (1:06.62)
Jeanette Ottesen (56.43)
Pernille Blume (53.21)
3:55.01 ER
10 km open water
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Sharon van Rouwendaal
  Netherlands
1:56:32.1 Rachele Bruni
  Italy
1:56:49.5 Poliana Okimoto
  Brazil
1:56:51.4

AF African Record | AM Americas Record | SA South American Record | AS Asian Record | ER European Record | OC Oceanian Record | OR Olympic Record | WJR World Junior Record | WR World Record
NR National Record (any World Record is necessarily also an Olympic, area, and national record. Area records (for continental regions) are also national records)

b Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Olympic and world records broken

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Event Established for Date Round Name Nationality Time Record Day
Men's 100 metre breaststroke (same) 6 August Heats Adam Peaty   Great Britain 57.55 WR 1
Men's 100 metre breaststroke (same) 7 August Final Adam Peaty   Great Britain 57.13 WR 2
Men's 100 metre backstroke (same) 8 August Final Ryan Murphy   United States 51.97 OR 3
Men's 200 metre breaststroke (same) 9 August Semifinal Ippei Watanabe   Japan 2:07.22 OR 4
Men's 100 metre butterfly (same) 12 August Final Joseph Schooling   Singapore 50.39 OR 7
Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay Men's 100 metre backstroke 13 August Final Ryan Murphy   United States 51.85 r WR 8
Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay (same) 13 August Final Ryan Murphy (51.85)
Cody Miller (59.03)
Michael Phelps (50.33)
Nathan Adrian (46.74)
  United States 3:27.95 OR 8

Women

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Event Date Round Name Nationality Time Record Day
Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay 6 August Heats Madison Wilson (54.11)
Brittany Elmslie (53.22)
Bronte Campbell (53.26)
Cate Campbell (51.80)
  Australia 3:32.39 OR 1
Women's 100 metre butterfly 6 August Semifinal Sarah Sjöström   Sweden 55.84 OR 1
Women's 400 metre individual medley 6 August Final Katinka Hosszú   Hungary 4:26.36 WR 1
Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay 6 August Final Emma McKeon (53.41)
Brittany Elmslie (53.12)
Bronte Campbell (52.15)
Cate Campbell (51.97)
  Australia 3:30.65 WR 1
Women's 400 metre freestyle 7 August Heats Katie Ledecky   United States 3:58.71 OR 2
Women's 100 metre butterfly 7 August Final Sarah Sjöström   Sweden 55.48 WR 2
Women's 400 metre freestyle 7 August Final Katie Ledecky   United States 3:56.46 WR 2
Women's 200 metre individual medley 8 August Heats Katinka Hosszú   Hungary 2:07.45 OR 3
Women's 100 metre breaststroke 8 August Final Lilly King   United States 1:04.93 OR 3
Women's 200 metre individual medley 9 August Final Katinka Hosszú   Hungary 2:06.58 OR 4
Women's 100 metre freestyle 10 August Heats Cate Campbell   Australia 52.78 OR 5
Women's 100 metre freestyle 10 August Semifinals Cate Campbell   Australia 52.71 OR 5
Women's 800 metre freestyle 11 August Heats Katie Ledecky   United States 8.12.86 OR 6
Women's 100 metre freestyle 11 August Final Simone Manuel   United States 52.70 OR 6
Women's 100 metre freestyle 11 August Final Penny Oleksiak   Canada 52.70 OR 6
Women's 800 metre freestyle 12 August Final Katie Ledecky   United States 8.04.79 WR 7

Legend: r – First leg of relay

See also

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References

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