Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

Qualification system

As with previous editions of the Games, A/B qualifying times will be used, with a target number of 276 swimmers. Times need to be swum in an approved meet sometime between January 1, 2014 and May 1, 2015.^[1] A total of 36 open water swimmers will also qualify (18 per gender).^[2]

Swimming qualification times

The time standards (all long course) for the 2015 Pan American Games are:^[1]

Male		Event	Female
A standard (2 entries)	B standard (1 entry)	Event	A standard (2 entries)	B standard (1 entry)
22.71	24.07	50 freestyle	26.05	27.61
50.05	53.05	100 freestyle	56.91	1:00.32
1:51.49	1:58.18	200 freestyle	2:04.99	2:12.49
3:57.29	4:11.53	400 freestyle	4:17.99	4:33.47
—	—	800 freestyle	8:52.99	9:24.97
15:48.39	16:45.29	1500 freestyle	—	—

56.59	59.99	100 backstroke	1:04.09	1:07.94
2:06.05	2:13.61	200 backstroke	2:20.19	2:28.60

1:02.79	1:06.56	100 breaststroke	1:11.89	1:16.20
2:19.49	2:27.86	200 breaststroke	2:36.89	2:46.30

53.99	57.23	100 butterfly	1:01.49	1:05.18
2:01.39	2:08.67	200 butterfly	2:17.99	2:26.27

2:07.29	2:14.93	200 individual medley	2:20.49	2:28.92
4:35.99	4:52.55	400 individual medley	4:59.99	5:17.99

Open Water

Qualification timeline

Event	Date	Venue
2014 Central American and Caribbean Games	November 21–22	Veracruz
2015 South American Championships^[3]	February 7	Viedma

Summary

NOC	Men	Women	Athletes
Argentina	2	2	4
Brazil	2	1	3
Canada	2	2	4
Chile		1	1
Costa Rica	1	2	3
Ecuador	1	1	2
El Salvador		1	1
Guatemala	2	2	4
Honduras		1	1
Mexico	2	2	4
Trinidad and Tobago	1		1
United States	2	2	4
Venezuela	2	2	4
Total: 13 NOC's	17	19	36

Qualified swimmers

Event	Quotas	Men	Women
Host nation	2/2	Canada Canada	Canada Canada
United States	2/2	United States United States	United States United States
2014 Central American and Caribbean Games	6/8	Mexico Mexico Dominican Republic Dominican Republic Costa Rica ~~Costa Rica~~ Trinidad and Tobago Guatemala Guatemala	Mexico Mexico Guatemala Guatemala El Salvador Honduras Costa Rica Guatemala Costa Rica
2015 South American Championships	7/7	Brazil Brazil Ecuador Argentina Venezuela Venezuela Argentina	Chile Argentina Ecuador Venezuela Venezuela Argentina Brazil
Total	36	17	19

References

^ ^a ^b "Qualification System Aquatics – Swimming" (PDF). www.uana-aquatics.org/. TO2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
^ "Qualification System Aquatics – Open Water swimming" (PDF). www.uana-aquatics.org/. TO2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
^ Anderson, Jared (9 February 2015). "South American open water athletes selected for Pan Ams led by four each from Argentina, Venezuela". swimswam.com/. Retrieved 9 February 2015.

[times-1] "Qualification System Aquatics – Swimming" (PDF). www.uana-aquatics.org/. TO2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.

[2] "Qualification System Aquatics – Open Water swimming" (PDF). www.uana-aquatics.org/. TO2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.

[3] Anderson, Jared (9 February 2015). "South American open water athletes selected for Pan Ams led by four each from Argentina, Venezuela". swimswam.com/. Retrieved 9 February 2015.

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