2016 RIO OLYMPIC GAMES
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Swimming: August 6-13
- Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Barra Olympic Park, Rio de Janeiro
- Prelims – 9:00 a.m/12:00 p.m PST/EST (1:00 p.m local), Finals – 6:00 p.m/9:00 p.m PST/EST (10:00 p.m local)
- SwimSwam previews
- Live Stream (NBC)
We’ll be checking occasionally over the course of the week to provide an update for how your favorite NCAA teams are fairing at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
As this is designed to give a snapshot of how the top schools are represented in Rio, we’re using a pretty wide definition of who will count in our hypothetical medal tables. Essentially we’ll consider anyone who will represent a particular school in 2016 as contributing to that school’s medal table. So, we’re including swimmers who chose to sit out this past NCAA season and redshirt, those who chose to defer matriculation for a year and will start in this fall, and those who have just graduated.
Given those parameters, Stanford has jumped out to an early lead, with Cardinal swimmers having collected four total medals through the first two days of competition. Stanford benefitted by having three current or future students on the women’s 4×100 free relay, including incoming freshman Katie Ledecky, who shattered her own world record in the 400 free relay a day after helping team USA to victory in the aforementioned freestyle relay.
Gold Medalists
- Katie Ledecky, Stanford, 400 Freestyle
- Caeleb Dressel, Florida, 4×100 Freestyle Relay
- Ryan Held, NC State, 4×100 Freestyle Relay
- Blake Pieroni, Indiana, 4×100 Freestyle Relay (Prelims)
Silver Medalists
- Chase Kalisz, Georgia, 400 IM
- Katie Ledecky, Stanford, 4×100 Freestyle Relay
- Simone Manuel, Stanford, 4×100 Freestyle Relay
- Lia Neal, Stanford, 4×100 Freestyle Relay (Prelims)
- Abbey Weitzeil, California, 4×100 Freestyle Relay
Bronze Medalists
- Leah Smith, Virginia, 400 Freestyle
- Chantal van Landeghem, Georgia, 4×100 Freestyle Relay
Other Finalists
- Santo Condorelli, 4×100 Freestyle Relay
- Beryl Gastaldello, 4×100 Freestyle Relay
- Jay Litherland, 400 IM
- Brittany MacLean, Georgia, 400 Freestyle
Medal Count by School
- Stanford: 1/3/0 = 4 total
- Georgia: 0/1/1 = 2 total
- Florida: 1/0/0 = 1 total
- Indiana: 1/0/0 = 1 total
- NC State: 1/0/0 = 1 total
- California: 0/1/0 = 1 total
- Virginia: 0/0/1 = 1 total
Did the swim coaches switch-out simone manuel for dorada in last nite’s relay race
Who said college swimmers only swim in bath tub and can’t swim LCM?
College swimmers represent! And winning!
Well the best of the swimmers on this list didn’t swim for a college yet and was primarily training LCM. 🙂 and a few others took the season off.
But all kidding aside where has our Bobo been? I haven’t seen any commentary by him since the Games began
Bobo is still alive and commenting furiously in France swimming forum. He’s been lamenting the loss of France men’s 4×100.
Not sure why Abbey and Ledecky keep being counted in the numbers for Cal and Stanford (on other sites too not just here) when neither have been coached by those programs and have no affiliation to those teams yet. Seems unfair to their clubs and club coaches.
This is a disservice to the club teams and coaches who made these swims possible. Ledecky and Weitzeil have never attended a class (or have been coached by college coaches) at these universities and should not be included as part of the count for Cal or Stanford as neither programs had anything to do with their results.
Give credit where credit is due, and it ain’t Cal or Stanford for the two aforementioned ladies.
You are missing Stanford’s own Maya Dirado from 400 IM!!!
She graduated
How about non-US swimmers? Many foreign swimmers are actually swimming in NCAA.
And they shouldn’t. If they are so proud to represent their country,,,,go and live there and go to school there. It’s pathetic.
Wanna build that wall, huh?
If that’s what it takes to get the American college system to prioritize actual American families who work their butts off to pay into the tax base that funds our public universities, rather than these foreign athletes who exploit our coaching and resources then go represent their own countries, then let it be! So sad to see so many incredible US athletes get the scholarship SHAFT because their team brought in some 21 year old Eastern European freshman. It’s bs is what it is.
So by that logic scholarships should only go to swimmers that are in-state, since they’ve been paying the state taxes that support public universities? California for the Californians?
At the biggest public universities the athletic department pays for scholarships out of the revenues generated by football.
Any problem with Western Europeans or just Easterns? Swimmers with dual citizenship that choose to represent another country?
Katy take a lesson from Missy and take the endorsements now. No one can know the future and it is in front of you right now.
It would be really neat–albeit at least a little more work–to see alumni totals too (aka Adrian for Cal, Katinka for USC, etc).