USA Swimming has posted to its website the meet information for this summer’s Phillips 66 National Championships. The meet will be held at the IUPUI Natatorium in Indianapolis and serve as the qualifier for the FINA World Championships (July 23-30 in Budapest, Hungary).
The meet will follow a familiar Tuesday through Saturday format, just as the Nationals in 2009 and 2013 did, running from June 27 through July 1. The schedule will include every event contested at the World Championships, including the non-Olympic 50s of stroke, the women’s 1500 free and men’s 800 free.
While USA Swimming has yet to release selection criteria for the World Championships, it’s likely that the top two finishers in each Olympic event (and top six in the 100 and 200 free) and the winner of each non-Olympic event will be named to the World Championships roster.
The day-by-day schedule of events is identical to that followed in 2013 and also at the National Championships in Irvine in 2014, which served as the selection meet for the Pan Pacific Championships and 2015 World Championships. As usual, all events will be direct-to-finals, with no semifinals like those contested at Olympic Trials last summer.
There will be three heats of finals, with the C-final limited to 18-and-under athletes, as has become typical for the National Championships. No foreign swimmers will be allowed, and no relays will be contested, which is a change from the format of years’ past at World Championships qualifying meets.
Entries are due Tuesday, June 20, one week before the meet begins.
Read the full meet information (along with the schedule of events) by clicking here.
I think that ratter than no foreign swimmers “announced” they mean “allowed” which is too bad as many foreign collegians may still be in U.S. Training for Budapest in late June and it wouldn’t hurt to,Allie them to swim in consols or even just prelims.
Ha, thanks for the catch, Bill. In 2009 foreigners did compete, but they were limited to B-finals. Cesar Cielo actually had faster times in the consol heats of both the 50 and 100 free than Adrian did in winning the events, and Fred Bousquet was pretty fast then, too.
Liz Gould Andrews