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July 27, 2016
RIO 2016 ENTRY LISTS RECAP
With just 10 days to go till the highly anticipated Rio 2016 Olympic Games, FINA is pleased to share the six disciplines'
final Entry Lists.
Following a year of various and rigorous qualification processes for each of FINA's six disciplines, the Entries Lists are
composed as follows:
SWIMMING
A new record of 172 NOC/NF will take part in the swimming competition of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, taking place from
August 5­21. The previous record of participation had been registered in London 2012, with 167 delegations.
A total of 903 swimmers (489 men and 414 women) will compete in the 32 events (26 individual, plus six relays) to be
contested at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium (photo above) in Rio.
MEN HERE
WOMEN HERE
SYNCHRONISED SWIMMING
24 duets and eight teams will be competing in the synchronised swimming competition at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Centre
in Rio from August 14­19. DUETS HERE
TEAMS HERE
MARATHON SWIMMING
In marathon swimming, the lists include, 50 athletes, 25 men and 25 women, from 28 countries
The first 10 spots on both lists were awarded on the basis of the results of the 2015 FINA World Championships 10km
race, in Kazan (RUS).
20 more spots (10 men, 10 women) were attributed to the best of the Marathon Swimming Olympic Games Qualification Tournament in Setubal (POR) in early June. In addition, the next­best from each of the five continents also earned a berth
in Setubal.
MEN + WOMEN HERE
DIVING
The Olympic diving programme consists of eight events as follows: men's 3m, men's 3m synchro, men's 10m, men's 10m
synchro, women's 3m, women's 3m synchro, women's 10m, women's 10m synchro.*
A total of 136 divers, represented by 68 men and 68 women, are confirmed. 29 nations will be going to Brazil.
MEN + WOMEN PER EVENT HERE
WATER POLO
In water polo, 12 men's teams will battle for the Olympic titles, while eight women's squads are taking part in the Olympic
tournament.
The men's groups are composed as follows:
GROUP A: Serbia, Greece, Brazil, Australia, Japan, Hungary GROUP B: USA, Spain, France, Montenegro, Italy, Croatia
And the women's groups as follows:
GROUP A: Italy, Russia, Australia, Brazil
GROUP B: Spain, China, Hungary, USA
MEN + WOMEN TEAMS HERE
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2016 10km circuit to resume in Canada
Lac St Jean, Quebec, Canada, is about to
host the fourth leg of the FINA/HOSA
10km Marathon Swimming World Cup
2016.
36 swimmers*, 22 men and 14 women,
will take the departure on Thursday July
28.
Open Water greats such as Germany's
2009 World Champion Angela Maurer
and Kazan 2015 Team event winner
Christian Reichert or Rio 2016 hope
Diogo Villarinho of Brazil and national
favourite Richard Weinberger are
among the athletes to watch.
*Countries taking part are: Argentina,
Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica,
Ecuador, France, Germany, Hungary,
Italy, Macedonia, Netherlands, Russia,
USA
Men's race starts at 1:30pm (GMT­4)
Women's race starts at 1:40pm (GMT­4)
Both races will be live streamed HERE
FINA/HOSA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup calendar
1. Patagones­Viedma (ARG) February 7, 2016
2. Abu Dhabi (UAE) February 26, 2016
3. Balatonfured (HUN) June 18, 2016
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
4. Lac St­Jean (CAN) July 28, 2016
5. Lac Megantic (CAN) August 13, 2016
6. Chun'An (CHN) October 9, 2016
7. Honk Kong (HKG) October 15, 2016
In addition to the FINA/HOSA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup, Lac St Jean
will also stage the third leg of the FINA Open Water Grand Prix, on July 30. MORE ABOUT THE OW GRAND PRIX ON FINA.ORG
The 2016 SWC calendar announces 9 legs
As FINA is entering in the second semester of the aquatic calendar, the
FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 is around the corner.
The prestigious annual circuit will kick­off on August 26 in Paris­Chartres, France.
The competition will be divided into three clusters with prize money up for grabs
and will conclude on October 30 in Hong­Kong. The competition will take place in
25m pools this year.
The 2016 calendar is as follows:
1. Paris­Chartres (FRA) ­ August 26­27
2. Berlin (GER) ­ August 30­31
3. Moscow (RUS) ­ September 3­4
4. Beijing (CHN) ­ September 30 ­ October 1
5. Dubai (UAE) ­ October 4­5
6. Doha (QAT) ­ October 8­9
7. Singapore (SIN) ­ October 21­22
8. Tokyo (JPN) ­ October 25­26
9. Hong­Kong (HKG) ­ October 29­30
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