FINA has released its qualifying times for the 2015 World Championships to take place in Kazan, Russia beginning July 24, 2015.

The standards once again include an “A” cut and a “B” cut. Any federation can enter 1 swimmer in each event given that swimmer has hit a “B” cut in the event. To enter two swimmers in the same event, both have to have “A” times.

A federation with no qualifying swimmers can still be represented at the World Champs by entering 4 unqualified swimmers, up to two men and two women. A federation with only 1 or 2 qualified swimmers can also bring 4 unqualified swimmers, once again, two male and two female. A federation with just 3 qualified swimmers can bring one unqualified athlete as long as their final team represents both genders. You can read more about the qualifying procedures here.

New to these qualifying procedures are the mixed relays, now a part of the World Championships schedule – each federation is allowed to enter 1 mixed 4×100 Medley Relay and 1 mixed 4×100 Free Relay in addition to the 1 entry in each of the traditional relays (4×100 medley, 4×100 free, 4×200 free).

The standards themselves have changed up quite a bit. While the 2013 standards all got slower or stayed the same compared to their earlier counterparts (the 2012 Olympic qualifying times), the 2015 list varies greatly event to event and gender to gender. Qualifying times in 7 men’s events have gotten slower compared to 9 that have gotten faster (the 200 IM stayed the same). The women flipped that ratio, with 9 slower event times and 8 faster ones.

Below are the “A” and “B” standards. The number in parenthesis tells how much the standards changed from 2013, with a “+” symbol meaning a time standard got slower and a “-” indicating a faster 2015 time. (You can find the 2013 standards and qualifying procedures here).