Only 17 Olympic Qualifying Swim Meets Remain Globally for Paris 2024 Games

By Braden Keith on SwimSwam

While some countries, like the United States and Australia, use “one stop” qualification meets to determine their Olympic Teams, other countries, like Hungary, use a “wherever you can get the cuts” system in determining which swimmers they will take to the Paris 2024 Games.

Still, the Olympic standards must be done at approved World Aquatics qualifying events in order to count. These national-level and international-level meets must have their host federations apply for this special status. The approval process provides a dual purpose – it gives an approximate distribution of qualifying meets around the world, eschewing any kind of a “last chance, time trial, swim the event 8 different times” system; and more importantly, it assures that the meets are held under international standards, though even that doesn’t always prevent shenanigans (see Mexico in 2015, Uzbekistan in 2021).

With the Olympic qualification deadline of June 23 looming, a few swimmers are still chasing those qualification times, but opportunities to do so are running short.

Below is the list of remaining Olympic qualifying meets, including those meets that are closed only to swimmers of a certain region or nationality.t

Remaining Olympic qualifying meets

Americas:

Asia:

Europe:

Oceania:

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