Swimming at the 2036 Summer Olympics

The swimming competitions at the 2036 Summer Olympics in Mexico were due to take place from 19 July to 2 August 2036 at Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez. swimming events were set for 19 July–27 July 2036 and marathon swimming set for 29 July-2 August 2036.

Swimming featured a record total of 37 events (18 for each gender and 1 mixed), with the addition of the men's 800 m freestyle, women's 1500 m freestyle, and the mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay.

## Events

Swimming at the 2036 Olympics featured a total of 37 events (18 each for men and women and 1 mixed event), including two 10 km open-water marathons. This was a slight increase from the 34 events contested in the previous Olympic Games. The following events were contested (all pool events are long course, and distances are in meters unless stated):

* Freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,500;
* 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 (men's, women's, and mixed)
* Marathon: 10 kilometres

## Schedule

Legend

M = Morning session, starting at 5:00 local time (01:30 UTC).

E = Evening session, starting at 7:00 local time (10:00 UTC).

Mixed

## Qualification

**Swimming - Individual events**

FINA establishes qualifying times for individual events. 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 has no swimmers who meet either of the qualifying standards, 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 entered the swimmer with the highest ranking. **Swimming - relay events**

Each relay event features 16 teams, composed of:

* 12 teams including the top-12 finishers at the 2019 World Championships in each relay event.
* 4 teams including 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 featured 25 swimmers:

* 10: the top-10 finishers in the 10 km races at the 2034 World Championships
* 9: the top-9 finishers at the 2036 Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier
* 5: one representative from each FINA continent (Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania).
* 1: from the host nation (Mexico) if not qualified by other means. If Japan already contained a qualifier in the race, this spot had been allocated back into the general pool from the 2020 Olympic qualifier race.

## Participating nations

As the host nation, Mexico receives guaranteed quota place in case it would not qualify any qualification places.

United States

Australia

Great Britain

China

ROC

Japan

Canada

Hungary

South Africa

Brazil

Germany

Tunisia

Netherlands

Italy

Hong Kong

Israel

Ukraine

France

Sweden

Switzerland

Denmark

Finland

## Medal table

**Mens**

**Womens**

**Mixed events**

*details*
Adam Peaty (56.78)
James Guy (50.00)
Anna Hopkin (52.00)
Freya Anderson
Yan Zibei (58.11)
Zhang Yufei (55.48)
Yang Junxuan (52.71)
Zac Stubblety-Cook(58.82)
Matthew Temple (50.26)
Emma McKeon (51.76)
Bronte CampbellIsaac CooperBrianna Throssell
**NR** National Record (any World Record is necessarily also an Olympic, area, and national record. Area records (for continental regions) are also national records)