Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships


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The swimming portion of the 2011 FINA World Championships was held July 24–31 at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China.[1] Swimming is one of five aquatic disciplines at the championships.

In January 2010, the FINA Bureau approved the swimming qualification system for the 2011 World Aquatics Championships. This represented the first time that a qualification system (including time standards) was used for the swimming portion of the world championships.[2] Times had to be swum at a FINA approved competition/meet between March 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. The qualification meets included continental championships in 2010 and 2011 (e.g. European Championships, Asian Games, Pan American Games); and international competitions approved by FINA in advance. All meets for the qualification were swam in 50 meters course.

The time standards for the 2011 FINA World Championships
Men Event Women
A standard
(2 entries) 		B standard
(1 entry) 		A standard
(2 entries) 		B standard
(1 entry)
22.35 22.90 50 freestyle 25.43 26.06
49.23 50.44 100 freestyle 55.24 56.60
1:48.72 1:51.40 200 freestyle 1:59.29 2:02.24
3:49.96 3:55.63 400 freestyle 4:11.26 4:17.64
8:10.26 8:37.52 800 freestyle 8:35.98 8:48.70
15:13.16 15:35.67 1500 freestyle 16:41.49 17:10.88
25.34 25.98 50 backstroke 29.07 29.80
55.14 56.50 100 backstroke 1:01.70 1:03.22
1:59.72 2:02.67 200 backstroke 2:12.73 2:16.01
27.63 28.32 50 breaststroke 31.52 32.31
1:01.57 1:03.08 100 breaststroke 1:09.01 1:10.72
2:13.69 2:16.99 200 breaststroke 2:28.21 2:31.87
23.73 24.32 50 butterfly 26.68 27.35
52.86 54.16 100 butterfly 59.35 1:00.82
1:57.67 2:00.57 200 butterfly 2:10.84 2:14.07
2:01.40 2:04.39 200 individual medley 2:15.27 2:18.57
4:18.40 4:24.77 400 individual medley 4:45.08 4:52.11

The qualifying system for individual events was similar to what is employed for the Olympics. Historically, there has been a limit of 2 swimmers per country per individual event, and one relay team per country per relay event. This limitation remains; however, if a country wished to have more than one male and one female swimmer in up to 2 events each, then an athlete(s) had to meet one of two standards:

  • a B standard which qualifies up to one swimmer per event, or
  • an A standard which qualifies up to two swimmers per event, where both swimmers must meet this faster standard.

The swimming competition featured races in a long course (50 m) pool in 40 events (20 for males, 20 for females; 17 individual events and 3 relays for each gender).

The evening session schedule for the 2011 World Aquatics Championships[3] is shown below.

Date Sunday
July 24, 2011 		Monday
July 25, 2011 		Tuesday
July 26, 2011 		Wednesday
July 27, 2011
E
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t
s 		Women's 100 fly [sf]
Men's 400 free
Women's 200 IM [sf]
Men's 50 fly [sf]
Women's 400 free
Men's 100 breast [sf]
Women's 4×100 freestyle
Men's 4×100 freestyle 		Women's 100 fly
Men's 100 back [sf]
Women's 100 breast [sf]
Men's 50 fly
Women's 100 back [sf]
Men's 200 free [sf]
Women's 200 IM
Men's 100 breast 		Men's 200 free
Women's 100 back
Men's 50 breast [sf]
Women's 1500 free
Men's 100 back
Women's 200 free [sf]
Men's 200 fly [sf]
Women's 100 breast 		Men's 100 free [sf]
Women's 50 back [sf]
Men's 200 fly
Women's 200 free
Men's 800 free
Women's 200 fly [sf]
Men's 200 IM [sf]
Men's 50 breast
Date Thursday
July 28, 2011 		Friday
July 29, 2011 		Saturday
July 30, 2011 		Sunday
July 31, 2011
E
v
e
n
t
s 		Women's 100 free [sf]
Men's 200 IM
Women's 200 breast [sf]
Men's 100 free
Women's 200 fly
Men's 200 breast [sf]
Women's 50 back
Men's 200 back [sf]
Women's 4×200 freestyle 		Women's 100 free
Men's 200 back
Women's 50 fly [sf]
Men's 50 free [sf]
 Women's 200 breast
Men's 100 fly [sf]
Women's 200 back [sf]
 Men's 200 breast
Men's 4×200 freestyle 		Women's 50 fly
Men's 50 free
Women's 50 breast [sf]
Women's 200 back
Men's 100 fly
Women's 50 free [sf]
Men's 50 back [sf]
Women's 800 free
Women's 4×100 medley 		Women's 50 breast
Men's 400 IM
Women's 50 free
Men's 50 back
Men's 1500 free
Women's 400 IM
Men's 4×100 medley

Note: prelims/semifinals/finals will be swum in events 200 m and shorter; prelims/finals in events 400 m or longer. For prelims/semifinals/finals events, prelims and semis will be held on the same day, with finals being the evening of the following day. For the 400 m events and the 800 m relays, prelims and finals are the same day. For the individual 800 m and 1500 m races, prelims are in the morning of one day, with finals in the evening of the next day. Preliminary sessions began at 9:00 a.m.; finals at 6:00 p.m.

The following world records were established during the competition:

Date Event Time Name Nation
July 28, 2011 Men's 200 m individual medley final 1:54.00 Ryan Lochte   United States
July 31, 2011 Men's 1500 m freestyle final 14:34.14 Sun Yang   China
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