USA Swimming has less than 4,500 tickets left to sell for the Olympic Trials next June in Omaha, Nebraska.
On October 13th, USA Swimming and the Omaha Sports Commission will release 4-day Olympic Trial Packages for swimming spectators.
There will be two seating packages. One package will be for the first four days of prelim and final competitions and the second package will offer the last four days of competition. Note: There are no prelims on the last day of trials, so that package will have 3 prelims and 4 finals. However, the final night will include announcements and introductions of the entire USA Olympic swim team and staff.
Single day tickets will likely go on sale in the February and March time frame and single sessions will follow sometime later.
Over 1380 athletes have already qualified for the event, which will start on June 26th and run through July 3rd. Prelims will start each day at 10:00 AM and finals at 6:45 PM. Over 26,000 room nights have already been sold in the Omaha area.
Races 400 meters and longer will not have semifinals, and thus only the top eight will advance to the finals. For the first time at U.S. Olympic Trials, only the final two heats of the preliminary races (400m and longer) will be championship-seeded instead of the normal last three heats. FINA instituted this new rule in 2014.
Mike Unger, USA Swimming’s Assistant Executive Director, said that 10 lanes will be used in the morning sessions and 8 lanes at night. “The prelim session of the 400s will have two tiers. The first tier will consist of the fastest five heats and the second tier (starting immediately after the first session is completed) will have the remaining qualifiers and will probably be swim from fastest to slowest,” Unger told Swimming World Magazine.
All races shorter than 400 will have prelim, semi-final and finals sessions. The top 16 semifinal swimmers from prelims will swim the semifinal round that evening. The top 8 from semi-finals will swim in the evening on the following day. The top two from each event will go on to represent the United States in Rio. Note: except for the men’s and women’s 100m and 200m freestyle, which typically take six athletes to the Olympic Games.
There are no relays during the Olympic Trials since those are selected from individual performances. The morning sessions will use 10 lanes with the outside lanes now having lane lines along the gutter. (In 2012, the width of the pool was shorter and lane lines along the gutter were not installed.)
Swimming World will announce when tickets official go on sale.
Has anyone received their tickets yet? I ordered them the day they went on sale, got a charge which is listed as “deferred” but nothing since then. Is this package the same as what I already have or includes hotel or such? I thought I bought an “all sessions” pass. Swear came to $2,000+ for 4 tickets, sound about right?
Yes, tickets were $420-$580 a pop depending on location.
The tickets won’t be mailed until next spring – probably May – at least that’s what they have done for previous Trials. And yes, the tickets for an all-session pass are about $500, so $2,000 for 4 all-session passes would be right.
alice
Jacy McEvoy take the girls!!! 😉 😉
Vicki Kobel are we road tripping?
Oh yeah! Summer Olympics this year!! Yeah!
It’s on my list !
Omg!
Magda Kapusta?? Whatcha think?
I think we should wait for the single day tickets. We need to go when Anni will swim 🙂
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Steve Brouwer
Diane Smith
I call shot gun for the second half
Aaah . Dus nice