Following the 10km open water swimming competitions for women and men at the World Aquatics Championships – Doha 2024, the Olympic qualification pathway for the Marathon Swimming events at the Paris 2024 Olympics has been finalised.
A total of 44 athletes – 22 women and 22 men – either automatically qualified or earned their National Olympic Committee (NOC) quota places for the Marathon Swimming events at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics, which will take place in the French capital on 8 and 9 August 2024.
The top three finishers in both genders of the open water swimming 10km events at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships, held last July in Fukuoka, Japan, earned a personal invitation and automatically qualified these athletes and their countries for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
In Fukuoka, the following athletes qualified for the Marathon Swimming event at the Paris 2024 Olympics:
For the women: Leonie Beck (GER), gold; Chelsea Gubecka (AUS), silver; Katie Grimes (USA), bronze.
For the men: Florian Wellbrock (GER), gold; Kristof Rasovszky (HUN), silver; Oliver Klemet (GER), bronze.
The final 19 positions for women and men in the Marathon Swimming competitions at the Paris 2024 Olympics were earned at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships, which are currently underway in Doha, Qatar (2-18 February 2024). The 10km open water event for women took place on 3 February, followed by the 10km competition for men on 4 February.
The 13 highest-placed athletes in 10km competitions for women and men in Doha earned a quota place for their NOC to the Paris 2024 Olympics (D.1.2), provided they had not already qualified in Fukuoka.

In Doha, the following countries earned NOC quota position for women in Marathon Swimming (listed in the order of the country’s highest-positioned athlete from the open water swimming 10km event for women in Doha):
- Netherlands (1 NOC quota position)
- Spain (2 NOC quota positions)
- Portugal (1 NOC quota position)
- Australia (1 NOC quota position)
- Brazil (1 NOC quota position)
- United States (1 NOC quota position)
- France (2 NOC quota positions)
- Italy (1 NOC quota position)
- Monaco (1 NOC quota position)
- Japan (1 NOC quota position)
- Hungary (1 NOC quota position)
In Doha, the following countries earned NOC quota position for men in Marathon Swimming (listed in the order of the country’s highest-positioned athlete from the open water swimming 10km event for men in Doha):
- France (2 NOC quota positions)
- Great Britain (2 NOC quota positions)
- Australia (2 NOC quota positions)
- Hungary (1 NOC quota position)
- Italy (2 NOC quota positions)
- Israel (1 NOC quota position)
- Ecuador (1 NOC quota position)
- Greece (1 NOC quota position)
- United States (1 NOC quota position)