Updates and clarifications on the Paris 2024 Rules and Qualification from World Aquatics

The Olympic Qualification System for aquatic sports at the Paris 2024 Games has been updated and clarified, with IOC agreement, according to a statement released today by World Aquatics. The addition of men athletes in artistic swimming was one of these. Olympic fans can buy Olympic Marathon Swimming Tickets from our website.

As a result of the adjustment, men and women will now be able to participate in all aquatic sports that are part of the Olympic Games schedule. Both the World Aquatics World Championships and the Junior World Championships will follow the regulations allowing men to compete in team events.

Artistic Swimming

During the Technical Congress on October 3 of this year, World Aquatics Rule AS 6.2.1 was changed to accommodate artistic swimming. The amended rule includes the following details:

Team routines for the Olympics must have eight (8) competitors. Unless otherwise stated, each Federation may enter a maximum of nine (9) competitors, with one serving as a reserve. A maximum of two (2) male competitors may be included in the total number of participants.

Since 2015, World Aquatics events have included a specialized mixed event. Mixed team entries in artistic swimming first appeared in a global tournament in 1998.

"Aquatic sports are popular worldwide, and men have established themselves as skilled, artistic swimmers. I’m excited to witness this brand-new facet of artistic swimming in Paris and share it with the globe. According to World Aquatics President Captain Husain Al-Musallam, "The inclusion of men in artistic swimming is a huge honour to all who have struggled for many years to make this happen.

Diving

It has been made clear how the Olympic Qualification System for diving works. In order to accommodate for calendaring, references to phases one, two, and three have been removed or rewritten, with the possibility that Continental Championships will be held prior to the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka in 2022.

(to be held in July 2023). There are still three possibilities to qualify: through the Continental Championships, the World Aquatics Championships Doha 2024, and the World Aquatics Championships Fukuoka 2022.

Open Water Swimming

A clarification has also been made about open water swimming for National Olympic Committees (NOCs) who intend to enter pool athletes in the Marathon Swimming competition. These athletes need to have 800 or 1500 meter freestyle Olympic qualifying times (for both genders).

Prior to compete in the marathon swimming competition at the Olympic Games Paris 2024, these competitors must have swum in either the 800m or 1500m freestyle. The team limit rule, which states that no more than two athletes of the same gender from the same NOC may enter an event, must be followed for all entries.

Swimming

A clarification has also been made about the Paris 2024 swimming Olympic Qualification System. As previously stated, based on the final results attained by their respective World Aquatics member federations at the World Aquatics Championships 2022 in Fukuoka, three (3) NOCs per relay event will qualify for the corresponding relay event at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

The fastest timings from the preliminary and final performances of both the World Aquatics Championships Fukuoka 2022 and the World Aquatics Championships Doha 2024 will determine the remaining 13 teams for each relay event.

Aquatics Sports at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Aquatic sports will provide the most medal prospects for competitors at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, just like they did in Tokyo 2020. As many as 17,000 people per session will be able to see the swimming as well as the water polo finals at Paris La Defense Arena thanks to the usage of a temporary pool.

The new Aquatics Centre, one of only two sports arenas being built for the Olympic Games and scheduled to open in 2023, will host diving, artistic swimming, and the preliminary water polo games.

In Seine-Saint-Denis, the neighborhood to the north and west of Paris that will also serve as the site of the Olympic Village, the Aquatics Center will guarantee a long-term boost for aquatic sports. The French department with the fewest swimming pool options at the moment is Seine-Saint-Denis.

The Seine, the river that flows through the centre of Paris and offers a legendary experience for competitors, spectators, and global audiences alike, will serve as the venue for open water swimming. Since 2015, World Aquatics events have included a specialized mixed event. Mixed team entries in artistic swimming first appeared in a global tournament in 1998.

"Aquatic sports are popular worldwide, and men have established themselves as skilled, artistic swimmers. I’m excited to witness this brand-new facet of artistic swimming in Paris and share it with the globe. According to World Aquatics President Captain Husain Al-Musallam, "The inclusion of men in artistic swimming is a huge honour to all who have struggled for many years to make this happen.

The Olympic Qualification System for aquatic sports at the Paris 2024 Games has been updated and clarified, with IOC agreement, according to a statement released today by World Aquatics. The addition of men athletes in artistic swimming was one of these.

As a result of the adjustment, men and women will now be able to participate in all aquatic sports that are part of the Olympic Games schedule. Both the World Aquatics World Championships and the Junior World Championships will follow the regulations allowing men to compete in team events.

Gwen Jorgensen makes a triathlon comeback announcement

Gwen Jorgensen, who won the first American gold medal in triathlon at the 2016 Olympics before switching to distance running, is returning to the sport in preparation for her 2024 Olympic attempt.

Jorgensen, 36, claimed that watching the U.S. team compete in the first Olympic mixed-gender triathlon relay in Tokyo and winning a silver medal inspired her to take up the sport once more.

Coming back will be difficult, said Jorgensen. "I’m also ageing, and people often claim you lose your speed as you age, but I think it’s a fiction, and I want to disprove that," the speaker continued.

In the Rio Olympics, Jorgensen was perhaps the most dominant triathlete in history, winning a record 13 straight top-tier competitions and spending nearly two years unblemished on route to her gold medal.

Then, in 2017, she gave birth to Stanley and announced that she was switching from triathlon to the marathon with the intention of winning the Olympic marathon.

She relocated to Oregon from Minnesota. She completed two marathons, finishing 11th in Chicago in October 2018 in 2:36:23 after a week-long fever and 13th in New York City in November 2016 in 2:41:01 off triathlon training. Due to heel problems, she was unable to compete in any races in 2019 and decided not to compete in the Olympic marathon trials in February 2020.

George, Jorgensen’s second child, was born in October.

Up to three women from the United States can qualify for the Paris Games in 2024. This past season, the United States had the third, fourth, and twelfth-ranked triathletes in the world (Taylor Knibb, Taylor Spivey and Kirsten Kasper).

The bronze medalist from the Olympics in Tokyo, Katie Zaferes, said last month that she will start competing again in 2023, her first season back since 2021. She gave birth to a son, Kimble, on July 7.

Mid-May marks the beginning of the upcoming World Triathlon Championship Series season. By the time of the Paris Games, Jorgensen will be 38, making him the oldest American triathlon in history, according to Olympedia.org.

Jorgensen predicted that he would have to compete earlier than he would have liked, before he was fully prepared. But I simply need to jump in and get things going.