Bermuda, Kenya, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, and Cambodia have all introduced their Olympic rosters for Paris subsequent month.
Smaller international locations with swimmers who haven’t hit Olympic qualifying occasions can nonetheless ship one male and one feminine swimmer to Paris in accordance with World Aquatics’ universality choice standards.
Bermuda
The sibling duo of Emma Harvey and Jack Harvey will each characterize Bermuda within the 100 backstroke, in keeping with the Bermuda Olympic Affiliation. Emma earned a universality nod because of her personal-best 1:01.21 on the Mare Nostrum cease in Barcelona final month, nonetheless greater than a second off the Olympic ‘A’ minimize (59.99). Jack secured his spot courtesy of his personal-best 55.19 finally month’s AP Race London Worldwide, additionally greater than a second off the Olympic ‘A’ minimize (53.74).
They competed finally yr’s Pan American Video games, with Jack making the 200 again B-final (2:04.57) and Emma putting eighth within the 100 again (1:02.35), ninth within the 100 butterfly (1:00.72), and eleventh within the 50 freestyle (25.81). Additionally they gained worldwide racing expertise on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham, England. Emma simply wrapped up her NCAA profession at Penn State whereas Jack is a rising senior for the Nittany Lions.
Kenya
Maria Brunlehner and Ridhwan Mohamed punched their tickets to Paris by totaling probably the most World Aquatics factors amongst Kenyan swimmers. Brunlehner, a 24-year-old rising senior at Grand Canyon College in Phoenix, Arizona, just lately lowered her personal nationwide file within the 50 free (26.12) on the 2024 World Championships in February. The Olympic ‘A’ minimize sits at 24.70.
Mohamed certified within the 400 free along with his personal-best 4:04.39 from the Golden Bear Meet earlier this month in Zagreb, Croatia, which lowered his personal nationwide file (4:06.44) February’s World Championships. He’s nonetheless a methods off the Olympic qualifying time of three:46.78.
Puerto Rico
Kristen Romano, a former Ohio State swimmer who now trains at Tennessee, will characterize Puerto Rico in Paris alongside Yeziel Morales. Romano is recent off a season-best 2:13.09 200 IM that received the occasion finally month’s Atlanta Basic. At February’s World Championships, she positioned twelfth within the 200 IM (2:13.33), eleventh within the 400 IM (4:45.78), and twentieth within the 200 again (2:14.46).
Morales earned a runner-up end within the 200 again (1:58.76) finally month’s Atlanta Basic. At February’s World Championships, the 28-year-old positioned seventeenth within the 200 again (1:59.38). It will likely be the primary Olympics for each Morales and Romano.
Paraguay
Former SMU swimmer Luana Alonso is headed to her second Olympics for Paraguay together with Matheo Mateos, an incoming graduate switch from Lindenwood to Purdue. Alonso positioned twenty eighth within the 100 fly (1:00.37) on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She additionally positioned twentieth within the 100 fly (1:01.25) on the 2022 World Championships, thirty third (1:01.16) at 2023 Worlds, and thirtieth at 2024 Worlds (1:02.33).
Mateos just lately equaled his greatest 200 IM from 2022 with a 2:03.31 finally month’s Brazilian Olympic Trials. Purdue hasn’t boasted an incoming Olympic males’s swimmer since Gerald Koh (Singapore) again in 1996.
Cambodia
Former Ball State swimmer Apsara Sakbun will characterize Cambodia on the Paris Olympics subsequent month. She’ll compete within the 50 free on August third after clocking a nationwide file of 26.44 on the Southeast Asian Video games final Could. Sakbun is the sister of Brandon Sakbun, mayor of Terre Haute, Indiana.
“Each youngster who swims grows up dreaming of going to the Olympic Video games,” mentioned Sakbun, who balances coaching with a full-time job at Wells Fargo in Charlotte, North Carolina. “I’m past honored to have the chance to characterize Cambodia on the highest degree.”
