By Retta Race on SwimSwam
The Japanese Swimming Federation (JASF) has released the selection criteria for the 2028 Summer Olympic Games set to be hosted in Los Angeles, California and the qualifying times are indeed tough.
To determine the nation’s qualification times for each event, the federation looked at the 8th-place finishing times across the past four World Championships and the 2024 Olympic Games and compared them to the World Aquatics ‘A’ benchmarks for LA2028. Whatever time was fastest among these was slotted as Japan’s QT.
According to the JASF, the standards are truly meant to select those Japanese swimmers most likely to medal in each event, as opposed to just representing the nation by getting up on the blocks in the Olympics.
There are only two men’s events where the Japanese QT equals the ‘A’ cut – 100m breast and 400m IM. On the women’s side, the 100m back, 100m breast, 200m breast, 200m IM and 400m IM equal the ‘A’ cuts.
There are several instances where the JASF standard is faster than the reigning Japanese national record.
Event JPN QT JPN Record Men’s 100m free 47.64 47.85 Men’s 800m free 7:44.59 7:48.34 Men’s 1500m free 14:45.59 14:50.18 Men’s 100m fly 50.88 50.81 Women’s 400m free 4:03.83 4:05.19 Women’s 800m free 8:22.20 8:23.68The sole qualifying competition at which swimmers can achieve these time standards is the 2028 Japanese Championships, which historically have taken place in March or April.
Japan had a disappointing showing at the 2024 Olympic Games, where Tomoyuki Matsushita represented the nation’s sole medalist after having earned silver in the men’s 400m IM.
That was after Japan was also on the lackluster end of the spectrum at the home-hosted 2020 Olympics. There in Tokyo, only Yui Ohashi (gold in 200m IM, gold in 400m IM) and Tomoru Honda (silver in 200m fly) took home hardware.
Comparison of Japanese Qualification Times & World Aquatics ‘A’ Cuts for LA2028
JPN Men ‘A’ Men Event ‘A’ Women JPN Women 21.64 21.69 50m Free 24.56 24.39 47.64 47.86 100m Free 53.60 53.04 1:45.60 1:45.83 200m Free 1:56.43 1:56.03 3:44.33 3:45.46 400m Free 4:06.27 4:03.83 7:44.59 7:47.04 800m Free 8:26.71 8:22.20 14:45.59 14:51.62 1500m Free 16:08.65 16:01.95 52.57 53.00 100m Back 59.49 59.49 1:55.64 1:56.05 200m Back 2:08.95 2:08.79 59.27 59.27 100m Breast 1:06.10 1:06.10 2:09.32 2:09.35 200m Breast 2:23.49 2:23.49 50.88 51.06 100m Fly 57.38 56.93 1:54.62 1:54.69 200m Fly 2:08.15 2:07.53 1:57.23 1:57.54 200m IM 2:09.90 2:09.90 4:11.52 4:11.52 400m IM 4:37.33 4:37.33
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