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In Rio there will be 32 events in the pool and 2 in the open water. I don't know much about the open swimming competitors so unless the mods change it I will leave it as pool events.
There are 14 freestyle swimming events inc the relays of the 32 swimming events. Oz could win 7 of them to match what happened in Melbourne in 1956 but back then there were only 13 events and Oz won 8 events but all 7 freestyle events ie men's 100m, 400m, 1,500m, 4x200m relay, women's 100m, 400, and 4 x 100m. David Theile won the 100m backstroke. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_1956_Summer_Olympics
McEvoy is a big chance to win both 50m and 100m free events as is Cate Campbell and Bronte will push her in both events. The women's 4x100m free will start favourites. Mack Horton has a time almost 2 seconds faster than the 2nd ranked swimmer in the 400m and he improved his 1500m pb at the trials by about 10 seconds and is ranked 4 seconds behind the Italian top ranked 1,500m. If he continues to make big steps he might get a surprise gold as he wasn't really pushed at the trials and won by 9 or 10 seconds. The 4 x 200m men's relay team will push the yanks.
American swimmer Katie Ledecky, will probably win the 200m, 400m, 800m and lead the winning 4 x 200m freestyle events, but they dont have that sort of swimmer in the men' freestyle events.
The backstroke swimmers will start favourite in 3 of the 4 events in Larkin and Seebom and are tipped to medal in the other, so you could have 5 freestyle golds and 3 backstroke golds = 8 which will equal the adjusted London gold total.
The swimmers will win between 15 and 18 medals. Johhny Betrand has been planning for almost 3 years to make sure the London debacle wont be repeated. Since Atlanta in 1996 swimming has produced between 28% and 42% of Oz's total medals
1996 12 of 41, 2000 18 of 58, 2004 15 of 50, 2008 20 of 46, 2012 10 of 35. and gold medals have been
1996 2 of 9, 2000 5 of 16, 2004 7 of 17, 2008 6 of 14 and 2012 1 of 8.
Only other Olympics Oz has won 6 events was in 1972 when the great Shane Gould won 3 individual events and there were only 29 events. If swimming deliver as expected, Oz will win between 12 and 16 golds and between 35 and 48 medals in total.
He are some links
http://www.fina.org/ and swimming http://www.fina.org/discipline/swimming
http://www.fina.org/content/xxxi-olympic-games
http://www.fina.org/content/rio-2016-swimming
https://twitter.com/fina1908
https://www.youtube.com/user/FINA1908/videos
http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/fina/
NBC has been able to change the schedule just like in Beijing, but push it out later rather than flip finals to morning sessions. So traditional heats start at 10am and finals at 7pm local time but now the heats will start at 1pm and finish around 3pm and the finals will start at 10pm and finish at midnight or later Rio time. That makes the finals for US start at 9pm NY time and 6pm LA time. In Oz that means the finals will be on at the reasonable time from 11am EST but heats are on from 2am EST. Here is a link to the whole aquatics schedule online from FINA as well as FINA's pdf. (Edit for some reason I can't find the pdf)
http://www.fina.org/event/xxxi-olympic-games/schedule
Event Schedule by Day (Finals only)
August 6 – men’s 400 IM, men’s 400 free, women’s 400 IM, women’s 4x100 free relay
August 7 – women’s 100 fly, men’s 100 breast, women’s 400 free, men’s 4x100 free relay
August 8 – men’s 200 free, women’s 100 back, men’s 100 back, women’s 100 breast
August 9 – women’s 200 free, men’s 200 fly, women’s 200 IM, men’s 4x200 free relay
August 10 – men’s 200 breast, women’s 200 fly, men’s 100 free, women’s 4x200 free relay
August 11 – women’s 200 breast, men’s 200 back, men’s 200 IM, women’s 100 free
August 12 – women’s 200 back, men’s 100 fly, women’s 800 free, men’s 50 free
August 13 – women’s 50 free, men’s 1500 free, women’s 4x100 medley relay, men’s 4x100 medley relay
The opening night has traditionally been a good night for Oz with chances of medals in 3 of the 4 events and Brazil is no different. The Men's 400IM Fraser Holmes and outside chance for a minor medal, but Mack Horton is a big chance to win the 400m, the women are favourite to win the women's 4x100m freestyle relay andthe men a chance at a medal in the 4 x100m freestyle as it will be between France, USA, Oz Edit my mistake men's relay is night two, the other event is the women's IM and Blair Evans will struggle to make it to the final. One of the Europeans will win this event.
This is the FINA statistics handbook for the Olympics upadated in January 2015
http://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/HistoFINA_SWOG_1.pdf
and for World Championships which was updated in December 2015 for after Kazan in Russia in 2015 championships.
http://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/final_histofina_swwch_2016_0.pdf
This is the Aussie team selected for the pool events. Thirty-four athletes were named to the Swimming Section after the trials, with a blend of experience and youth with 21 swimmers to make their debut, while 13 athletes will become multiple Olympians including five who are off to their third Games. (3 more relay swimmers were added after initial squad of 34 to go to 37 + 2 open water swimmers = 39 which is the number usually quoted in the media)
1. Jessica Ashwood - 400m Freestyle, 800m Freestyle
2. Bronte Barratt - 200m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
3. Georgia Bohl - 100m Breaststroke, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
4. Bronte Campbell - 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 4 x 100m Freestyle, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
5. Cate Campbell - 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 4 x 100m Freestyle, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
6. Tamsin Cook - 400m Freestyle
7. Alicia Coutts - 200m Individual Medley
8. Brittany Elmslie -4 x 100m Freestyle
9. Blair Evans - 400m Individual Medley
10. Madeline Groves - 100m , 200m Butterfly, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
11. Belinda Hocking - 200m Backstroke
12. Emma McKeon - 200m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly, 4 x 100m Freestyle, 4 x 13. 200m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
14. Taylor McKeown - 100 & 200m Breaststroke, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
15. Keryn McMaster - 400m Individual Medley
16. Leah Neale - 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
17. Kotuku Ngawati - 200m Individual Medley
18. Emily Seebohm - 100m Backstroke, 4 x 100m Medley RelayBrianna Throssell - 200m Butterfly
19. Madison Wilson - 100m Backstroke
1. Joshua Beaver - 200m Backstroke
2. Kyle Chalmers - 100m Freestyle
3. Thomas Fraser-Holmes - 400m Individual Medley, 200m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
4. Jacob Hansford - 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
5. Mack Horton - 400m Freestyle, 1500m Freestyle 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
6. Grant Irvine - 200m Butterfly
7. Mitch Larkin - 100 & 200m Backstroke, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
8. Travis Mahoney - 400m Individual Medley
9. Cameron McEvoy - 50m, 100m & 200m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
10. David McKeon - 400m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
11. Jack McLoughlin - 1500m Freestyle
12. David Morgan - 200m Butterfly, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
13. Jake Packard - 100m Breaststroke, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
14. Joshua Palmer - 4 x 100m Medley Relay
15. Daniel Smith - 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
16. James Magnussen - 4x100m freestyle relay
17. James Roberts- 4x100m freestyle relay
18. Matt Abood- 4x100m freestyle relay
Chelsea Gubecka - Open Water 10km
Jarrod Poort - Open Water 10km
The official Swimming Australia site which will give you updates on Aussies is
http://www.swimming.org.au/home.aspx
The official Rio site for athletics is poor in my opinion but might fire up once the games start
https://www.rio2016.com/en/swimming
This is a great stats site from Fina and gives you al the rankings for all events
http://www.fina.org/content/swimming-world-ranking
These wiki sites are always good value for past winners and you then click on inks to show past finals for an event or that past event in total from first round heats to final.
Olympics stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_Summer_Olympics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_swimming_(men)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_swimming_(women)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_Olympic_gold_medalists_in_swimming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ympics_and_World_Aquatics_Championships_(men)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...pics_and_World_Aquatics_Championships_(women)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...the_Olympics_and_World_Aquatics_Championships
World Championship stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FINA_World_Aquatics_Championships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_World_Aquatics_Championships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Aquatics_Championships_medalists_in_swimming_(men)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Aquatics_Championships_medalists_in_swimming_(women)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_World_Aquatics_Championships_gold_medalists
This is the bible of the sport Swimming World Magazine
http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/
and a couple of others
https://swimswam.com/news/
There are 14 freestyle swimming events inc the relays of the 32 swimming events. Oz could win 7 of them to match what happened in Melbourne in 1956 but back then there were only 13 events and Oz won 8 events but all 7 freestyle events ie men's 100m, 400m, 1,500m, 4x200m relay, women's 100m, 400, and 4 x 100m. David Theile won the 100m backstroke. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_1956_Summer_Olympics
McEvoy is a big chance to win both 50m and 100m free events as is Cate Campbell and Bronte will push her in both events. The women's 4x100m free will start favourites. Mack Horton has a time almost 2 seconds faster than the 2nd ranked swimmer in the 400m and he improved his 1500m pb at the trials by about 10 seconds and is ranked 4 seconds behind the Italian top ranked 1,500m. If he continues to make big steps he might get a surprise gold as he wasn't really pushed at the trials and won by 9 or 10 seconds. The 4 x 200m men's relay team will push the yanks.
American swimmer Katie Ledecky, will probably win the 200m, 400m, 800m and lead the winning 4 x 200m freestyle events, but they dont have that sort of swimmer in the men' freestyle events.
The backstroke swimmers will start favourite in 3 of the 4 events in Larkin and Seebom and are tipped to medal in the other, so you could have 5 freestyle golds and 3 backstroke golds = 8 which will equal the adjusted London gold total.
The swimmers will win between 15 and 18 medals. Johhny Betrand has been planning for almost 3 years to make sure the London debacle wont be repeated. Since Atlanta in 1996 swimming has produced between 28% and 42% of Oz's total medals
1996 12 of 41, 2000 18 of 58, 2004 15 of 50, 2008 20 of 46, 2012 10 of 35. and gold medals have been
1996 2 of 9, 2000 5 of 16, 2004 7 of 17, 2008 6 of 14 and 2012 1 of 8.
Only other Olympics Oz has won 6 events was in 1972 when the great Shane Gould won 3 individual events and there were only 29 events. If swimming deliver as expected, Oz will win between 12 and 16 golds and between 35 and 48 medals in total.
He are some links
http://www.fina.org/ and swimming http://www.fina.org/discipline/swimming
http://www.fina.org/content/xxxi-olympic-games
http://www.fina.org/content/rio-2016-swimming
https://twitter.com/fina1908
https://www.youtube.com/user/FINA1908/videos
http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/fina/
NBC has been able to change the schedule just like in Beijing, but push it out later rather than flip finals to morning sessions. So traditional heats start at 10am and finals at 7pm local time but now the heats will start at 1pm and finish around 3pm and the finals will start at 10pm and finish at midnight or later Rio time. That makes the finals for US start at 9pm NY time and 6pm LA time. In Oz that means the finals will be on at the reasonable time from 11am EST but heats are on from 2am EST. Here is a link to the whole aquatics schedule online from FINA as well as FINA's pdf. (Edit for some reason I can't find the pdf)
http://www.fina.org/event/xxxi-olympic-games/schedule
Event Schedule by Day (Finals only)
August 6 – men’s 400 IM, men’s 400 free, women’s 400 IM, women’s 4x100 free relay
August 7 – women’s 100 fly, men’s 100 breast, women’s 400 free, men’s 4x100 free relay
August 8 – men’s 200 free, women’s 100 back, men’s 100 back, women’s 100 breast
August 9 – women’s 200 free, men’s 200 fly, women’s 200 IM, men’s 4x200 free relay
August 10 – men’s 200 breast, women’s 200 fly, men’s 100 free, women’s 4x200 free relay
August 11 – women’s 200 breast, men’s 200 back, men’s 200 IM, women’s 100 free
August 12 – women’s 200 back, men’s 100 fly, women’s 800 free, men’s 50 free
August 13 – women’s 50 free, men’s 1500 free, women’s 4x100 medley relay, men’s 4x100 medley relay
The opening night has traditionally been a good night for Oz with chances of medals in 3 of the 4 events and Brazil is no different. The Men's 400IM Fraser Holmes and outside chance for a minor medal, but Mack Horton is a big chance to win the 400m, the women are favourite to win the women's 4x100m freestyle relay and
This is the FINA statistics handbook for the Olympics upadated in January 2015
http://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/HistoFINA_SWOG_1.pdf
and for World Championships which was updated in December 2015 for after Kazan in Russia in 2015 championships.
http://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/final_histofina_swwch_2016_0.pdf
This is the Aussie team selected for the pool events. Thirty-four athletes were named to the Swimming Section after the trials, with a blend of experience and youth with 21 swimmers to make their debut, while 13 athletes will become multiple Olympians including five who are off to their third Games. (3 more relay swimmers were added after initial squad of 34 to go to 37 + 2 open water swimmers = 39 which is the number usually quoted in the media)
1. Jessica Ashwood - 400m Freestyle, 800m Freestyle
2. Bronte Barratt - 200m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
3. Georgia Bohl - 100m Breaststroke, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
4. Bronte Campbell - 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 4 x 100m Freestyle, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
5. Cate Campbell - 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 4 x 100m Freestyle, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
6. Tamsin Cook - 400m Freestyle
7. Alicia Coutts - 200m Individual Medley
8. Brittany Elmslie -4 x 100m Freestyle
9. Blair Evans - 400m Individual Medley
10. Madeline Groves - 100m , 200m Butterfly, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
11. Belinda Hocking - 200m Backstroke
12. Emma McKeon - 200m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly, 4 x 100m Freestyle, 4 x 13. 200m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
14. Taylor McKeown - 100 & 200m Breaststroke, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
15. Keryn McMaster - 400m Individual Medley
16. Leah Neale - 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
17. Kotuku Ngawati - 200m Individual Medley
18. Emily Seebohm - 100m Backstroke, 4 x 100m Medley RelayBrianna Throssell - 200m Butterfly
19. Madison Wilson - 100m Backstroke
1. Joshua Beaver - 200m Backstroke
2. Kyle Chalmers - 100m Freestyle
3. Thomas Fraser-Holmes - 400m Individual Medley, 200m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
4. Jacob Hansford - 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
5. Mack Horton - 400m Freestyle, 1500m Freestyle 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
6. Grant Irvine - 200m Butterfly
7. Mitch Larkin - 100 & 200m Backstroke, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
8. Travis Mahoney - 400m Individual Medley
9. Cameron McEvoy - 50m, 100m & 200m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
10. David McKeon - 400m Freestyle, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
11. Jack McLoughlin - 1500m Freestyle
12. David Morgan - 200m Butterfly, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
13. Jake Packard - 100m Breaststroke, 4 x 100m Medley Relay
14. Joshua Palmer - 4 x 100m Medley Relay
15. Daniel Smith - 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
16. James Magnussen - 4x100m freestyle relay
17. James Roberts- 4x100m freestyle relay
18. Matt Abood- 4x100m freestyle relay
Chelsea Gubecka - Open Water 10km
Jarrod Poort - Open Water 10km
The official Swimming Australia site which will give you updates on Aussies is
http://www.swimming.org.au/home.aspx
The official Rio site for athletics is poor in my opinion but might fire up once the games start
https://www.rio2016.com/en/swimming
This is a great stats site from Fina and gives you al the rankings for all events
http://www.fina.org/content/swimming-world-ranking
These wiki sites are always good value for past winners and you then click on inks to show past finals for an event or that past event in total from first round heats to final.
Olympics stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_Summer_Olympics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_swimming_(men)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_swimming_(women)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_Olympic_gold_medalists_in_swimming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ympics_and_World_Aquatics_Championships_(men)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...pics_and_World_Aquatics_Championships_(women)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...the_Olympics_and_World_Aquatics_Championships
World Championship stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FINA_World_Aquatics_Championships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_World_Aquatics_Championships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Aquatics_Championships_medalists_in_swimming_(men)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Aquatics_Championships_medalists_in_swimming_(women)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_World_Aquatics_Championships_gold_medalists
This is the bible of the sport Swimming World Magazine
http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/
and a couple of others
https://swimswam.com/news/
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