MARATHON SWIMMING

CONFIRMED ATHLETES

Women’s 10km Marathon Swimming (24 Participants Representing 17 Countries)

COUNTRY

CONFIRMED ATHLETES

AUS

Chelsea Gubecka

AUS

Moesha Johnson

BRA

Ana Marcela Cunha

BRA

Viviane Jungblut

CAN

Emma Finlin

CHN

Xin Xin

ESP

Maria De Valdes Alvarez

ESP

Angela Martinez Guillen

FRA

Oceane Cassignol

FRA

Caroline Laure Jouisse

GBR

Leah Phoebe Crisp

GER

Leonie Beck

GER

Leonie Martens

HUN

Bettina Fabian

ITA

Giulia Gabbrielleschi

ITA

Ginevra Taddeucci

JPN

Airi Ebina

MEX

Martha Sandoval Ayala

MON

Lisa Pou

NED

Sharon Van Rouwendaal

PER

Maria Alejandra Bramont-Arias

POR

Angelica Andre

USA

Mariah Denigan

USA

Katie Grimes

For the Women’s 10km Marathon Swimming event two athletes – Leonie Martens (GER) and Ginevra Taddeucci (ITA) – qualified with their 800m pool times. As a result of qualifying through this pathway, Martens and Taddeucci are also required to compete in the 800m swimming competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics. 

Men’s 10km Marathon Swimming (33 Participants Representing 24 Countries)

COUNTRY

CONFIRMED ATHLETES

AUS

Kyle Lee

AUS

Nick Sloman

AUT

Felix Auboeck

AUT

Jan Hercog

BRA

Guilherme Costa

CZE

Martin Straka

ECU

David Andres Farinango Berru

ESP

Carlos Garach Benito

FRA

Logan Fontaine

FRA

Marc-Antoine Olivier

GBR

Hector Pardoe

GBR

Tobias Patrick Robinson

GER

Oliver Klemet

GER

Florian Wellbrock

GRE

Athanasios Charalampos Kynigakis

HUN

David Betlehem

HUN

Kristof Rasovszky

IRL

Daniel Wiffen

ISR

Matan Roditi

ITA

Domenico Acerenza

ITA

Gregorio Paltrinieri

JPN

Taishin Minamide

KOR

Woomin Kim

MEX

Paulo Strehlke Delgado

NAM

Phillip Seidler

NOR

Henrik Christiansen

POL

Piotr Wozniak

SWE

Victor Johansson

TUN

Ahmed Jaouadi

TUR

Emir Batur Albayrak

TUR

Kuzey Tuncelli

USA

David Johnston

USA

Ivan Puskovitch

For the Men’s 10km Marathon Swimming event, 11 athletes qualified to compete through their pool swimming performances. Six athletes – Felix Auboeck (AUT), Guilherme Costa (BRA), Daniel Wiffen (IRL), Kuzey Tuncelli (TUR), Emir Batur Albayrak (TUR), David Johnston (USA) – qualified with their 800m pool times.  Five athletes – Carlos Garach Benito (ESP), Kim Woomin (KOR), Henrik Christiansen (NOR), Victor Johansson (SWE), Ahmed Jaouadi (TUN) – qualified with their 1500m pool times. As a result of qualifying through this pathway, these 11 athletes are also required to compete in either the 800m or 1500m swimming competitions at the Paris 2024 Olympics. 

Breakdown of Competing Athletes by Country

COUNTRY

Men Paris

Women Paris

AUS

2

2

AUT

2

 

BRA

1

2

CAN

 

1

CHN

 

1

CZE

1

 

ECU

1

 

ESP

1

2

FRA

2

2

GBR

2

1

GER

2

2

GRE

1

 

HUN

2

1

IRL

1

 

ISR

1

 

ITA

2

2

JPN

1

1

KOR

1

 

MEX

1

1

MON

 

1

NAM

1

 

NED

 

1

NOR

1

 

PER

 

1

POL

1

 

POR

 

1

SWE

1

 

TUN

1

 

TUR

2

 

USA

2

2

QUALIFIED ATHLETE AND NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (NOC) PLACES

Men's Marathon Swimming

Athlete (NOC)/NOC (number of quota positions) Qualification Event
Florian Wellbrock (GER), Kristof Rasovszky (HUN), Oliver Klemet (GER) World Aquatics Championships – Fukuoka 2023

France (2), Great Britain (2), Australia (2), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Israel (1), Ecuador (1), Greece (1), United States (1)

World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024

Czechia (1),  Mexico (1),  Japan (1), Namibia (1), Poland (1)

Continental Representation
Austria (1) Host Country Quota Position 

Women's Marathon Swimming

Athlete (NOC)/NOC (number of quota positions) Qualification Event
Leonie Beck (GER), Chelsea Gubecka (AUS), Katie Grimes (USA) World Aquatics Championships – Fukuoka 2023

Netherlands (1), Spain (2), Portugal (1), Australia (1), Brazil (1), United States (1), France (2), Italy (1), Monaco (1), Japan (1), Hungary (1)

World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024

Great Britain (1), Mexico (1), South Africa (1), People’s Republic of China (1), Canada (1)

Continental Representation
Brazil (1) Host Country Quota Position

QUALIFICATION PROCEDURE

Two (2) events are included in the program of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games for Marathon Swimming: Men's 10km and Women's 10km. 

QUOTA PLACES 

Total quota places for discipline: 

  Qualification Places Host Country places Universality Places Total
Men 21 1 0 22
Women 21 1 0 22
Total 42 2 0 44

Maximum number of athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC):

  Quota places per NOC
Men 2
Women 2
Total 4

Quota places are allocated to the NOC(s) depending on the qualification event.

ATHLETE ELIGIBILITY 

Compliance with the Olympic Charter and other relevant rules

All athletes must respect and comply with the provisions of the Olympic Charter currently in force, including but not limited to Rule 41 (Nationality of Competitors) and Rule 43 (World Anti-Doping Code and the Olympic Movement Code on the Prevention of Manipulation of Competitions).  

Only those athletes who respect and comply with the Olympic Charter, the World Anti-Doping Code and the Olympic Movement Code on the Prevention of the Manipulation of Competitions, including the conditions of participation established by the IOC, plus the rules of World Aquatics, may participate in the Olympic Games Paris 2024. 

Additional eligibility criteria/requirements

Only the athletes who are eligible to participate at the official World Aquatics competitions, in accordance with the World Aquatics Competition Regulations, are entitled to participate in the Olympic Games Paris 2024. 

QUALIFICATION PATHWAY 

Men/Women

Number of quota places

Qualification Events

3 athletes per gender

1. World Aquatics Championships – Fukuoka (JPN) 2023  

 

The first three (3) finishers from the 10K event – men and women – will earn a quota place for Paris 2024. In the case of a tie for the 3rd position, all athletes involved in the tie will obtain a quota place for Paris 2024.  

13 athletes per gender (see notes included)

2. World Aquatics Championships - Doha (QAT) 2024 

The thirteen (13) highest placed athletes from the 10K competition, at the 21st World Aquatics Championships Doha (QAT) 2024 – men and women – will obtain a quota place for their NOC for Paris 2024.  

Notes:  

- Athletes qualified from point 1 above will count as one (1) quota for their respective NOCs. Therefore, in the event of having these athletes within the top thirteen (13) at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha (QAT) 2024, the next highest placed athlete will obtain a quota place for their NOC. 

- If the host country has already obtained its quota from point 1 or 2 above, then the next highest placed athletes from the World Aquatics World Championships Doha 2024 will obtain a quota place for their NOC.

5 athletes per gender

Continental Representation

The highest placed eligible athlete in the 10K event from the World Aquatics Championships in Doha (QAT) 2024 – Men and Women – from each of five (5) Continents will obtain a quota place for their respective NOC. Only one (1) athlete per continent shall qualify from this point. 

In the event that an NOC from a specific continent has previously obtained one (1) or two (2) quota places, the selection process will move to the next highest eligible NOC from that continent in the World Aquatics World Championships Doha 2024 to ensure that each continent selects a competitor. 

1 athlete per gender

Host Country quota

The host country will automatically qualify one (1) male and one (1) female athlete from the World Aquatics Championships Doha 2024 only if the host country has not previously qualified an athlete (or athletes) from points 1 or 2 above.  

The host country will automatically qualify one (1) quota for men and one (1) quota for women, a total of two (2) quotas for their NOC.

CONFIRMATION PROCESS FOR QUOTA PLACES

Following the World Aquatics Championships in Doha (QAT) 2024, World Aquatics will publish the results on its website (www.worldaquatics.com) and inform the respective NOCs of their qualified athletes. The NOCs will then have two (2) weeks to confirm if they wish to enter these athletes, as detailed in paragraph H. Qualification Timeline. 

CONFIRMATION OF HOST COUNTRY PLACES

Following the World Aquatics Championships - Doha 2024, AQUA will publish the results on its website (www.worldaquatics.com/) and inform the host NOC of their qualified quota position(s). The host NOC will then have two (2) weeks to confirm if they wish to enter these quota places, as detailed in paragraph H. Qualification Timeline.

REALLOCATION OF UNUSED QUOTA PLACES

If an allocated quota place is not confirmed by the NOC by the confirmation of quota place deadline or is declined by the NOC, the quota place will be reallocated to the next highest placed NOC in the same gender from the Olympic Games Qualification event not yet qualified, respecting the maximum number of quota places per NOC, as outlined above. 

Unused host country place(s), including in the case of qualification through the process in paragraph D. Qualification Pathway, will be reallocated to the next highest placed NOC in the same gender from the Olympic Games Qualification event not yet qualified, respecting the maximum number of quota places per NOC as outlined above. 

ADDITIONAL PLACES

In addition to the process above, any NOC with qualified pool athletes who have achieved an Olympic Qualification Time (OQT) in either the 800-meter or 1500-meter freestyle (for both genders) and swims in any of the two events at the Olympic Games Paris 2024, may enter those athletes into the Marathon Swimming event, provided such entries will comply with NOC limits where no more than two athletes of the same gender per NOC.

QUALIFICATION TIMELINE 

Date Milestone

14-30 July 2023

World Aquatics Championships – Fukuoka (JPN) 

2-18 February 2024

World Aquatics Championships – Doha (QAT) 

Within five days after the previous step

World Aquatics to inform NOCs of their quota places. 

Two weeks after the previous step

The NOCs to confirm to World Aquatics the use of the allocated quota places. 

Three weeks after the Olympic Games Qualification event (or if required after this date) 

World Aquatics to reallocate all unused quota places. 

8 July 2024

Paris 2024 Sport Entries deadline

TBC

Technical meeting

26 July – 11 August 2024

Olympic Games Paris 2024

 

The qualification system (English Version) can be downloaded in the link below and it is available also on Olympics.com. 

Note: In case of missing information, Olympics.com is the only source of truth as the document available on their platform will prevail.