Aquatics at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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Aquatics competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Istanbul are to be held at the İkitelli Olympic City Zone for the indoor events and the Bosphorus Zone for open water events. Artistic swimming, diving, swimming, and water polo are the four types of aquatic sports in the category, and include a total of 49 events.

Artistic swimming

Artistic swimming
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
 
Venue İkitelli Olympic City Zone
No. of events 2
Competitors 104

Artistic swimming (formerly synchronised swimming) at the 2020 Summer Olympics will feature a total of 104 athletes competing in two medal events, namely the women's duet and the women's team.

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Duet
Details
Team
Details

Diving

Diving
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
 
Venue İkitelli Olympic City Zone
Dates 25 July – 8 August
No. of events 8
Competitors 136

The diving competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics will feature eight events.

The events will be men's and women's versions each of: 3m springboard, synchronised 3m springboard, 10m platform, and synchronised 10m platform.

The diving competitions feature up to 136 athletes. All divers had to be at least 14 years old on or by 31 December 2020.

Medalists

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
3 m springboard
10 m platform
Synchronized 3 m springboard
Guanyu Zhao
He Yang
  China
Craig Elder
Henry Roos
  United Commonwealth
Ivan Borisov
Lubov Kozlov
  Russia
Synchronized 10 m platform
Ben Page
Hans Singh
  Great Britain
Bogdan Melnik
Ipati Voronin
  Russia
Dong Chan
Bo Guan
  China

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
3 m springboard
10 m platform
Synchronized 3 m springboard
Gabriela Campana
Imelda Chavarría
  Mexico
Kerstin Bachman
Friede Hasenkamp
  Germany
Clara Von Ingersleben
Emily Miller
  Superior
Synchronized 10 m platform
Min Wang
Zhihao Kwok
  China
Jordan Atilla
Minnie Decamp
  Brazoria
Anfisa Andreev
Veronika Chaykovsky
  Russia

Swimming

Swimming
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
 
Venue Bosphorus Zone
Dates 25 July – 2 August (pool)
5–6 August (open water)
No. of events 37
Competitors 928

The swimming competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Istanbul will take place from 25 July to 2 August at the Bosphorus Zone. The women's 10 km open-water marathon will be held on August 5, with the men's race happening a day later (August 6) at the Bosphorus Zone.

Swimming will feature a record total of 37 events (18 for each gender and 1 mixed), with the addition of the men's 800 m freestyle, women's 1500 m freestyle, and the mixed 4×100 m medley relay.

Events

Swimming in 2020 will feature a total of 37 events (18 each for men and women and 1 mixed event), including two 10 km open-water marathons. This is slight increase from the 34 events contested in the previous Olympic Games. The following events will be contested (all pool events are long course, and distances are in metres unless stated):

Medalists

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle Jakeb Painter
  United Commonwealth
21.07 Jacques Deforest
  France
21.46 Pablo Alvarez
  Mexico
22.54
100 m freestyle Jakeb Painter
  United Commonwealth
47.02 Tim Ongkingco
  Sierra
47.23 Vasiliy Kovalchuk
  Ussuria 48.19
200 m freestyle Dudley Mason
  Great Britain
1:45.40 Kenny Tiller
  Great Britain
1:45.48 Toma Ciobanu
  Romania
1:46.03
400 m freestyle Mohammed Saqqaf
  Tunisia
3:42.59 Brad North
  Sierra
3:43.12 Eddie Su
  Sierra
3:43.40
800 m freestyle Yura Bondarenko
  Ukraine
7:41.57 Włodek Łaska
  Poland
7:42.16 Chase Mason-Chalmers
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7:44.24
1500 m freestyle Wendall Ledecky
  Sierra
14:38.43 Yura Bondarenko
  Ukraine
14:39.02 Duško Tomčić
  Serbia
14:41.18
100 m backstroke Vitaliy Naumov
  Russia
51.92 Leonti Volkov
  Russia
52.04 Bobby Tanner
  Brazoria
52.14
200 m backstroke
100 m breaststroke Flavio Biagi
  Italy
57.22 Jelle Dries
  Netherlands
58.02 Haruto Yoshida
  Japan
58.33
200 m breaststroke
100 m butterfly
200 m butterfly
200 m individual medley
400 m individual medley
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
4 × 100 m medley relay
10 km open water

a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle
100 m freestyle
200 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
800 m freestyle
1500 m freestyle
100 m backstroke
200 m backstroke
100 m breaststroke
200 m breaststroke
100 m butterfly
200 m butterfly
200 m individual medley
400 m individual medley
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
4 × 100 m medley relay
10 km open water

b Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Mixed events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
4 × 100 m medley relay

b Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Water polo

Water polo
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
 
No. of events 2
Competitors 242

The water polo tournaments at the 2020 Summer Olympics are going to include twenty-two teams (twelve for men and ten for women) that will compete, an increase of two from the previous editions. Similar to Rio 2016, games that end in ties in elimination rounds will be decided by shootouts, as overtime has been abolished since 2013.

Men's qualification

Event Dates Venue(s) Quota Qualifier(s)
Host nation N/A N/A 1   Anatolian Republic (ANL)
2019 FINA World League 18–23 June 2019   Serbia 1   Bulgaria (BUL)
2019 FINA World Championships 15–27 July 2019   Manchuria 2   Italy (ITA)
  Serbia (SRB)
2019 Pan American Games 4–10 August 2019   United People's Committees 1   United Commonwealth (UCS)
Oceanian Continental Selection 1   New Zealand (NZL)
African Continental Selection 1   Morocco (MAR)
2020 European Championships 14–26 January 2020   Hungary 1   Austria (AUT)
2018 Asian Games 25 August–1 September 2018   Tondo 1   Kazakhstan (KAZ)
World Qualification Tournament 14–21 February 2021   Germany 3   Croatia (CRO)
  Montenegro (MNE)
  Ukraine (UKR)
Total 12

Women's qualification

Event Dates Venue(s) Quota Qualifier(s)
Host nation N/A N/A 1   Anatolian Republic (ANL)
2019 FINA World League 4–9 June 2019   Hungary 1   Sierra (KSI)
2019 FINA World Championships 14–26 July 2019   Korea 1   Spain (ESP)
2019 Pan American Games 4–10 August 2019   United People's Committees 1   Superior (SUP)
Oceanian Continental Selection 1   Australia (AUS)
African Continental Selection 1   Gabon (GAB)
2020 European Championships 12–25 January 2020   Hungary 1   Russia (RUS)
2018 Asian Games 16–21 August 2018   Tondo 1   Tondo (TON)
World Qualification Tournament 19–24 January 2021   Germany 2   Germany (GER)
  Portugal (POR)
Total 10

Men's tournament

Women's tournament

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men
Women

See also