Dates have now been set for the 2021 Swim Ireland Performance Meet, which will be a final opportunity for a discrete number of Irish swimmers to qualify for the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.
The event will take place at the
Sport Ireland National Aquatic Centre in Dublin from June 24 to 26, featuring
individual Olympic events only, with meet entry times set to allow a similar
number of athletes to compete at the event as at the Irish National Team Trials
in April.
The focus will be on the 10 athletes
who came within 1.5% of a FINA 'A' time in April, with these athletes being:
·Jack McMillan
·Niamh Coyne
·Nicholas Quinn
·Eoin Corby
·Danielle Hill
·Brendan Hyland
·Calum Bain
·Conor Ferguson
·Jordan Sloan
·Finn McGeever
All athletes who enter the meet will
be able to post times which will be considered as part of the selection process
for the 2021 LEN European Championships (25m) in November and the 2021 FINA
World Championships (25m) in December.
Swim Ireland National Performance
Director, Jon Rudd, said: "When the 2021 Olympic Nomination Policy was
revised as part of the ongoing COVID-19 circumstances, we foresaw at that time
that athletes within the 1.5% of an Olympic qualification standard would travel
into Europe to find a meet of their choosing during June as their final attempt
at Tokyo qualification.
"With things as they currently
are, we concluded that it was much safer in all regards for such athletes to
make this attempt on home soil, avoiding international travel, whilst providing
an additional qualification opportunity for those wishing to race in the
international short course season at the end of this year."
Following the Trials in April,
Ireland has five FINA 'A' Olympic Qualification times in individual events:
·Shane Ryan - 100m Backstroke
·Darragh Greene - 100m Breaststroke
·Darragh Greene - 200m Breaststroke
·Mona McSharry - 100m Breaststroke
·Daniel Wiffen - 800m Freestyle
It is the hope that at least one
relay team will join these four athletes later this week when FINA reveals the
final Olympic relay rankings, with news expected on Friday, June 4.
Whilst swimming pools will be able to
reopen to the public at the time of the Performance Meet, and more sports
events will be able to take place than were permitted in April at Swim
Ireland's last event, strict COVID-19 protocols will remain in place.
These include the requirement for all
athletes, coaches, officials and Swim Ireland staff to produce a negative
antigen or PCR test prior to competing, and for all present to wear face masks
and remain socially distant at all times they are not in the pool.
For full details of the 2021 Swim
Ireland Performance Meet please visit: Competition Information. https://www.swimireland.ie/competitions-events/competition-information#entry:1857
Press Release Issued by Swim Ireland,
whose Performance Programme is supported and funded by Sport Ireland &
Sport Northern Ireland
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