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 Leonie Beck (26, Germany), who placed 5th at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
• 2023 silver medalist Chelsea Gubecka (25 Hungary) who placed 15th in the 2016 Rio Olympics
• 2023 bronze medalist Katie Grimes (17, USA)

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:

• 2016 Olympic gold medalist, 2020 Olympic silver medalist Sharon van Rouwendaal (29, Netherlands)
• 2020 Olympic gold medalist Ana Marcela Cunha (31, Brazil)
• 6th place 2023 World Championship finisher Ginevra Taddeucci (26, Italy)
• 7th place 2023 World Championship swimmer Lea Boy (23, Germany)
• 8th place 2023 World Championship finisher Mariah Denigan (20, USA)
• 9th place 2023 World Championship finisher Bettina Fabian (18, Hungary)
• 10th place 2023 World Championship finisher Giulia Gabbrielleschi (26, Italy)
• 11th place 2023 World Championship finisher Angela Martinez Guillen (19, Spain)
• 2016 Rio Olympian and 2020 Tokyo Olympian Anna Olasz (29, Hungary, shown above)
• 2020 Tokyo Olympian Anastasia Kirpichnikova (23, France)
• 14th place 2023 World Championship finisher Candela Sanchez Lora (19, Spain)
• 2020 Tokyo Olympian Angelica Andre (28, Portugal)
• 16th place 2023 World Championship finisher Oceane Cassignol (23, France)
• 17th place 2023 World Championship finisher Mafalda Rosa (19, Portugal)
• 18th place 2023 World Championship finisher Amber Keegan (26, Great Britain)
• 19th place 2023 World Championship finisher Martha Sandoval (24, Mexico)
• 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2020 Olympian Cecilia Biagioli (38, Argentina)
• 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympian Spela Perse (26, Slovakia)
• 21st place 2023 World Championship finisher Maria Bramont-Arias (23, Peru)
• 24th place 2023 World Championship finisher Leah Phoebe Crisp (21, Great Britain)
• 25th place 2023 World Championship finisher Eva Fabian (29, Israel)

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) and other 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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