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Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Field	Value
event	Swimming
games	2016 Summer
image	[[File:Swimming, Rio 2016.png	140px]][[File:Swimming (Marathon), Rio 2016.png	140px]]
caption	Pictograms for Swimming (left) and Marathon Swimming (right)
venue	Olympic Aquatics Stadium (pool)
Fort Copacabana (open water)
dates	6–13 August 2016
15–16 August (Marathon)
competitors	955
nations	174
num_events	34
prev	2012
next	2020

Fort Copacabana (open water) 15–16 August (Marathon)

The swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 13 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. The women's open-water marathon was held on August 15, and the men's open water race on August 16 in Fort Copacabana.

Open water quality

The location for open-water events was a source of concern for athletes since scientists have found microbes in the waters off of Fort Copacabana and drug-resistant super bacteria off the beaches of Rio de Janeiro in 2014 and 2016 studies due to the daily dumping of hospital waste and household raw sewage into the rivers and ocean. Ten percent of the Copacabana water test samples contained drug-resistant super bacteria. However, during the races the water quality was good.

Events

Similar to the program's format in 2012, swimming features a total of 34 events (17 each for men and women), including two 10 km open-water marathons. The following events were contested (all pool events are long course, and distances are in metres unless stated):

Freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 (women), and 1500 (men);
Backstroke: 100 and 200;
Breaststroke: 100 and 200;
Butterfly: 100 and 200;
Individual medley: 200 and 400;
Relays: 4 × 100 free, 4 × 200 free; 4 × 100 medley
Marathon: 10 kilometres

Schedule

Similar to previous Olympics since 2000, with the exception of 2008, the swimming program schedule occurred in two segments. For the pool events, prelims are held in the afternoon, followed by the semifinals and final in the evening and the night session (due to the substantial fees NBC has paid for rights to the Olympics, the IOC has allowed NBC to have influence on event scheduling to maximize U.S. television ratings when possible; NBC agreed to a $7.75 billion contract extension on May 7, 2014, to air the Olympics through the 2032 games and is also one of the major sources of revenue for the IOC). The dates in the table are for August.

A = Afternoon session, starting at 13:00 local time (16:00 UTC).

N = Night session, starting at 22:00 local time (01:00 UTC the next day).

Date →		colspan="2"	Aug 6		colspan="2"	Aug 7		colspan="2"	Aug 8		colspan="2"	Aug 9		colspan="2"	Aug 10		colspan="2"	Aug 11		colspan="2"	Aug 12		colspan="2"	Aug 13		colspan="2"	Aug 16	Event ↓		A		N		A		N		A		N		A		N		A		N		A		N		A		N		A		N		A		N
50 m freestyle
100 m freestyle
200 m freestyle
400 m freestyle	H
1500 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
200 m backstroke
100 m breaststroke	H
200 m breaststroke
100 m butterfly
200 m butterfly
200 m individual medley
400 m individual medley	H
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
4 × 100 m medley relay
10 km open water

Date →		colspan="2"	Aug 6		colspan="2"	Aug 7		colspan="2"	Aug 8		colspan="2"	Aug 9		colspan="2"	Aug 10		colspan="2"	Aug 11		colspan="2"	Aug 12		colspan="2"	Aug 13		colspan="2"	Aug 15	Event ↓		A		N		A		N		A		N		A		N		A		N		A		N		A		N		A		N		A		N
50 m freestyle
100 m freestyle
200 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
800 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
200 m backstroke
100 m breaststroke
200 m breaststroke
100 m butterfly	H
200 m butterfly
200 m individual medley
400 m individual medley	H
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	H
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
4 × 100 m medley relay
10 km open water

Qualification

Main article: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

FINA By-Law BL 9.3.6.4 (swimming) and BL 9.3.7.5.3 (open water) laid out the qualification procedures for the "Swimming" competition at the Olympics. Each country is allowed to enter up to two swimmers per individual event (provided they qualify), and one entry per relay; and a country may not have more than 26 males and 26 females (52 total) on its team.

Swimming – individual events

On January 15, 2015, FINA posted the qualifying times for individual events for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The time standards consisted of two types: an "Olympic Qualifying Time" (OQT) and an "Olympic Selection time" (OST). Each country was able to enter up to two swimmers per event, provided both swimmers met the (faster) qualifying time. A country was able to enter one swimmer per event that met the invitation standard. Any swimmer who met the "qualifying" time was entered in the event for the Games; a swimmer meeting the "invitation" standard was eligible for entry, and their entry was allotted/filled in by ranking.

If a country had had no swimmers who meet either qualifying standard, it may have entered one male and one female. A country that did not receive an allocation spot but had at least one swimmer who met a qualifying standard might have enter the swimmer with the highest ranking.

Swimming – relay events

Each relay event features 16 teams, composed of:

12: the top-12 finishers at the 2015 World Championships in each relay event.
4: the 4 fastest non-qualified teams, based on times in the 15-months preceding the Olympics.

Open-water swimming

The men's and women's 10 km races at the 2016 Summer Olympics featured 25 swimmers:

10: the top-10 finishers in the 10 km races at the 2015 World Championships
9: the top-9 finishers at the 2016 Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier (June 11–12, 2016 in Setúbal, Portugal)
5: one representative from each FINA continent (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania). (These have been selected based on the finishes at the qualifying race in Setúbal.)
1: from the host nation (Brazil) if not qualified by other means. If Brazil already contained a qualifier in the race, this spot had been allocated back into the general pool from the 2016 Olympic qualifier race.

Participation

Participating nations

Brazil, as the host country, receives guaranteed quota place in case it would not qualify any qualification places.

Medal summary

Medal table

Men's events

Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Olympic and world records broken

Men

Event	Established for	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Day
Men's 100 metre breaststroke	(same)	6 August	Heats	Adam Peaty	GBR	57.55	1
Men's 100 metre breaststroke	(same)	7 August	Final	Adam Peaty	GBR	57.13	2
Men's 100 metre backstroke	(same)	8 August	Final	Ryan Murphy	USA	51.97	3
Men's 200 metre breaststroke	(same)	9 August	Semifinal	Ippei Watanabe	JPN	2:07.22	4
Men's 100 metre butterfly	(same)	12 August	Final	Joseph Schooling	SIN	50.39	7
Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay	Men's 100 metre backstroke	13 August	Final	Ryan Murphy	USA	51.85 r	8
Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay	(same)	13 August	Final	Ryan Murphy (51.85)
Cody Miller (59.03)
Michael Phelps (50.33)
Nathan Adrian (46.74)	USA	3:27.95		8

Women

Event	Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Day
Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	6 August	Heats	Madison Wilson (54.11)
Brittany Elmslie (53.22)
Bronte Campbell (53.26)
Cate Campbell (51.80)	AUS	3:32.39		1
Women's 100 metre butterfly	6 August	Semifinal	Sarah Sjöström	SWE	55.84	1
Women's 400 metre individual medley	6 August	Final	Katinka Hosszú	HUN	4:26.36	1
Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	6 August	Final	Emma McKeon (53.41)
Brittany Elmslie (53.12)
Bronte Campbell (52.15)
Cate Campbell (51.97)	AUS	3:30.65		1
Women's 400 metre freestyle	7 August	Heats	Katie Ledecky	USA	3:58.71	2
Women's 100 metre butterfly	7 August	Final	Sarah Sjöström	SWE	55.48	2
Women's 400 metre freestyle	7 August	Final	Katie Ledecky	USA	3:56.46	2
Women's 200 metre individual medley	8 August	Heats	Katinka Hosszú	HUN	2:07.45	3
Women's 100 metre breaststroke	8 August	Final	Lilly King	USA	1:04.93	3
Women's 200 metre individual medley	9 August	Final	Katinka Hosszú	HUN	2:06.58	4
Women's 100 metre freestyle	10 August	Heats	Cate Campbell	AUS	52.78	5
Women's 100 metre freestyle	10 August	Semifinals	Cate Campbell	AUS	52.71	5
Women's 800 metre freestyle	11 August	Heats	Katie Ledecky	USA	8.12.86	6
Women's 100 metre freestyle	11 August	Final	Simone Manuel	USA	52.70	6
Women's 100 metre freestyle	11 August	Final	Penny Oleksiak	CAN	52.70	6
Women's 800 metre freestyle	12 August	Final	Katie Ledecky	USA	8.04.79	7

Legend: r – First leg of relay

All world records (WR) are consequently Olympic records (OR).

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