2024 Olympic Open Water 10km Start Lists Announced With 13 Pool Qualifiers
By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES
Pool Swimming: July 27 – August 4, 2024
Open Water Swimming: August 8 – 9, 2024
La Défense Arena — Paris, France
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World Aquatics announced the official start lists for the 2024 Olympic open water races on Tuesday, with a total of 57 athletes set to contest the 10km events on August 8 and 9 (likely) in the Seine River.
The qualifiers include 13 swimmers who gained entry into the event by virtue of their performances in either the 800 or 1500 freestyle in the pool, including a loaded group on the men’s side.
Felix Auboeck, Guilherme Costa, Daniel Wiffen, Kuzey Tuncelli, Emir Batur Albayrak and David Johnston qualified in the men’s 800 free, while five others, Kim Woomin, Henrik Christiansen, Victor Johansson, Ahmed Jaouadi and Carlos Garach Benito, earned a spot in the 10km by virtue of their times in the 1500 free.
Wiffen is the #1 ranked swimmer in the world this season in the men’s 800 and 1500 free, while the 16-year-old Tuncelli is fresh off smashing the World Junior Record in the 1500 free in 14:41.89 at the European Junior Championships last week, ranking him #4 globally.
The women’s field only had two pool qualifiers, Leonie Märtens and Ginevra Taddeucci, with other notable names in the field including defending Olympic champion Ana Marcela Cunha, the 2022 and 2024 world champion Sharon van Rouwendaal, 2023 world champion Leonie Beck, and American Katie Grimes.
OLYMPIC OPEN WATER WOMEN’S FIELD
COUNTRY
AUS
AUS
BRA
BRA
Viviane Jungblut
CAN
Emma Finlin
CHN
Xin Xin
ESP
ESP
FRA
FRA
GBR
GER
Leonie Beck
GER
Leonie Märtens
HUN
Bettina Fabian
ITA
ITA
JPN
Airi Ebina
MEX
MON
Lisa Pou
NED
PER
POR
Angelica Andre
USA
Mariah Denigan
USA
Katie Grimes
In addition to the loaded group of pool swimmers, the men’s field features defending Olympic champion and 2023 world champion Florian Wellbrock, 2022 world champion Gregorio Paltrinieri and 2024 world champion Kristof Rasovszky.
The men’s field will feature six of the top 11 swimmers in the 1500 free this season: Wiffen, Paltrinieri, Tuncelli, Wellbrock, Hungary’s David Betlehem, and Jaouadi.
OLYMPIC OPEN WATER MEN’S FIELD
COUNTRY
AUS
Kyle Lee
AUS
Nick Sloman
AUT
Felix Auboeck
AUT
Jan Hercog
BRA
CZE
Martin Straka
ECU
ESP
FRA
Logan Fontaine
FRA
GBR
Hector Pardoe
GBR
GER
Oliver Klemet
GER
GRE
HUN
David Betlehem
HUN
IRL
Daniel Wiffen
ISR
Matan Roditi
ITA
ITA
JPN
KOR
Kim Woomin
MEX
NAM
Phillip Seidler
NOR
POL
Piotr Wozniak
SWE
TUN
Ahmed Jaouadi
TUR
TUR
Kuzey Tuncelli
USA
David Johnston
USA
Ivan Puskovitch
Optimism is growing for the Seine River being safe enough to host the open water events after conditions improved in recent tests, but Paris 2024 organizers have announced that the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium, the site of rowing and canoeing, will serve as Plan ‘B’ if the river’s water quality is sub-par.
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