Based on the 2023 World Championship results, there are three marathon swimmers who have already qualified for the 2024 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim:

• 2023 world champion Florian Wellbrock (25, Germany), who placed 5th at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
• 2023 silver medalist Kristóf Rasovszky (26, Hungary) who placed 15th in the 2016 Rio Olympics
• 2023 bronze medalist Oliver Klemet (21, Germany)

But there are still plenty of swimmers who have but one more chance to qualify at the 21st World Aquatics Championships where the top open water swimmers from around the world will compete in February 2024 in Doha, Qatar.

The swimmers expected to compete for the 22 spots at the Paris Olympics include:

• 4th place world championship finisher Domenico Acerenza (28, Italy)
• 2020 Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist Gregorio Paltrinieri (Italy, 28)
• 2020 Tokyo Olympian Athanasios Kynigakis (Greece, 24)
• 7th place world championship finisher Nicholas Sloman (Australia, 25)
• 2020 Tokyo Olympian Matan Roditi (Israel, 24)
• 9th place world championship finisher Logan Fontaine (France, 24)
• 10th place world championship finisher Hector Pardoe (Great Britain, 22)
• 11th place world championship finisher Paulo Strehlke Delgado (Mexico, 17)
• 12th place world championship finisher Sacha Velly (France, 18)
• 13th place world championship finisher Marin Straka (22, Czech Republic)
• 14th place world championship finisher David Farninango (Ecuador, 22)
• 15th place world championship finisher Esteban Enderica Salgado (Ecuador, 32)
• 16th place world championship finisher David Betlehem (19, Hungary)
• 17th place world championship finisher Jan Hercog (Austria, 25)
• 18th place finisher Logan Vanhuys (Belgium, 26)
• 19th place world championship finisher Guillem Pujol (Spain, 26)
• 20th place world championship finisher Tiago Campos (Portugal, 24)
• 21st place world championship finisher Franco Ivo Cassini (Argentina, 29)
• 22nd place world championship finisher Kaiki Furuhata (Japan, 24)
• 23rd place world championship finisher Diogo Cardoso (Portugal, 22)
• 24th place world championship finisher Joaquin Moreno (Argentina, 25)
• 25th place world championship finisher Asterios Daldogiannis (Greece, 26)

The host country France receives one automatic spot in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim.

The top thirteen finishers from the Doha 10 km race will secure their spot in Paris.

The highest finishers – other than from France or among the top 13 finishers – from each the five continents (i.e., Europe, Asia, Oceania, Americas, Africa) will also secure their spot in Paris. Only one athlete per continent shall qualify as a Continental Representative. 

But the qualification process is not over at that point.

Following the Doha World Aquatics Championships in February, World Aquatics will publish the results and officially inform the respective countries of their qualified athletes. The countries have two weeks to confirm if they wish to enter these athletes.

Some countries (e.g., Israel in the case of Daniel Katzir in 2008) do not accept the Olympic qualification (for various reasons). In those cases, swimmers next on the qualification list are invited.

For additional details on the 2024 Paris qualifications, visit here.

© 2023 Daily News of Open Water Swimming

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