Spanish open water, with access criteria to select competitions for Paris 2024

Along with its swimming classification criteria, the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation was announced this Tuesday open water selection criteria (Olympic distances of 10 kilometers) to participate in selected competitions for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

This aspect is different from swimming before the Olympic Games. That is, while in swimming there are national competitions that act as direct qualifiers for Paris, in open water all passes for the Games depend on FINA competitions (now World Aquatics). Therefore, RFEN “only” can define how you have access to participate in these international selections. These will be the 2023 Fukuoka World Cup and the 2024 Doha World Cup.

In addition, as a great novelty for Paris already announced in recent months, those classified in the 800 and 1500 free in the pool will be able to participate in the open water. RFEN established in its selection criteria that Priority for Spanish participation will be given to those who get places this way in Fukuoka and Doha. From there, it will be the selection criteria for World Cups giving access to the French Games.

1. FUKUOKA WORLD CUP IN JULY 2023

1. The first three classified in each gender will get a pass to Paris 2024
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Access Fukuoka World Cup criteria
-Select competition: Sardinia World Series (10 km)
-The first Spaniard by gender or two Spaniards by gender will be classified among them if they both end up in the top10
-The second Spaniard by gender will be considered for selection if he ends up in the top20
-To get the pass to this select event, it is necessary to meet the pre-classification criteria with access to ENA and cut-off mark in 1500 free with

2. WORLD CUP IN DOHA IN FEBRUARY 2024

1. The first thirteen classified in each test will get a pass to Paris 2024. If one of them already has a place in the previous World Cup, it will go to the next place in this Doha championship
2. Once the qualifiers have been determined according to the above criteria, the first qualifier from each continent outside of those thirteen places will get one place, for a total of five additional places according to this criteria.
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‘Doha World Cup access criteria
-Selected competitions: Fukuoka World Cup (July 2023), Paris World Series (August 2023) and Eilat World Series (December 2023)
-The Spaniards who finish in the top 10 of the World Cup or of a World Series competition (maximum 2 per country) will qualify them.
-In the event that places are not filled, Spaniards who finished in the top20 of the World Cup or of a World Series competition will be considered until that quota is covered.
-To get a pass to these select events, it is necessary to meet the pre-classification criteria with ENA access and cut-off mark at 1500 free plus

3. AREAS WITH ACCESS FOR CLASSIFIEDS IN SWIMMING AT 800 AND 1500 FREE

World Aquatics has offered as a novelty for Paris 2024 the possibility that swimmers participating in the Games in the 800 or/and in the 1500 free may swim in 10 kilometer open water competitions as long as the quota of two swimmers per country will not exceed each test. The RFEN has established that the priority of participation in the open water of the Games is for swimmers who have secured a direct place in this modality. Thus, if the limit of two places is not covered, the participation in open water at Paris 2024 of swimmers who participated in the Games in the 800 or 1500 free will be considered.