2026 Ontario Swimming Championships

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Sanction

• Sanctioned 2026-03-19 - Entries open
• Meet Package - version 1 2026-03-19
• Event File - version 1 2026-03-16
• Event Schedule

Format

• Long Course – single ended
• Prelims & Finals & Timed Final (Open Sessions) events Wed - Sun
  • Finals Age Groups: 14&Under, 15-16, 17&Over
    • There is an “A” final only for 400m events.
    • There is an “A” and “B” final for each age group. The “A” final will swim before the “B” final
  • PARA Finals: OPEN age - A Final
• Timed Final (Youth Sessions) events Thurs - Sat
  • Age Groups: 11&Under, 12
    • seeding age combined with fastest heat of each agroup swimming together except 800m

Eligibility

This event is restricted to Ontario based athletes including UofOttawa swimmers (registered with Swimming Canada as Competitive or Varsity ) aged

• Open Sessions: All ages
• Youth Sessions: 12 & Under
• Out-of-country foreign teams are not permitted to attend.
• Para swimmers - Level 2 classification
• A competitor’s age is their age as of July 8, 2026
• See Meet Package for full details.

Entry & Bonus Information

• Entry Deadline: Monday, June 22, 2026 at ⚠️10 PM ⚠️
• Qualifying Period: January 1, 2025 – Sunday, June 21, 2026
• Qualifying Standards:
  • Olympic Program (OP) Swimmers: 2026 Ontario Swimming Championship Standards – TABLE view
  • PARA Swimmers: 2026 Para Ontario Swimming Championship Standards (unchanged from 2025) – pdf view
• All OP swimmers must achieve at least 2 (two) 2026 Ontario Swimming Championship Standard in two separate events to attend the competition.
  • 12&U swimmers that achieve 2 (two) 13&U qualifying time in two separate events must choose to participate in all the Open sessions or all the Youth sessions. They cannot participate in both.
• All PARA swimmers must achieve at least 2 (two) 2026 Para Ontario Swimming Championship Standard in two separate events to attend the competition.

Bonus Swims

• Olympic Program swimmers must have achieved the Provincial Consideration Time to enter a Bonus event (excludes non eligible bonus events)
  • Consideration Times (CT): These times allow athletes to enter in bonus events but do not guarantee a swim. If we cannot accommodate everyone within a reasonable session length, we will reject the slowest entries, based on time, across the different events of that day. This will be done proportionally across events in all age groups.
• Structure
  • 2 QTs = 2 Bonus swims with CT time in either SCM or LCM
  • 3 QTs = 1 Bonus swim with CT time in either SCM or LCM
  • 4 or more QTs = 0 Bonus swim
• 400 IM and 400/800/1500 Free events are NOT ELIGIBLE AS BONUS SWIMS
• Swimmers are limited to a maximum of 1 bonus swim per day.

Club Meet Inquiries

• Club inquiries are to be directed to Nicole Parent meetentries@swimontario.com
• Parent/Guardian inquiries are to be directed to their swimmer's coach.

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