Jordan Wilimovsky and Sean Ryan became the first swimmers to make the 2016 U.S. Olympic team Monday, with Wilimovsky winning the World Championships open-water 10km and Ryan finishing fourth in Kazan, Russia.
The top 10 in the event (maximum two per country) qualified for the Rio Olympic open-water 10km.
Wilimovsky, 21, and Ryan, 22, made their first Olympic teams. The open-water 10km debuted at the Olympics in 2008. A U.S. man has not won an Olympic medal in the event.
Wilimovsky and Ryan’s qualification means that Andrew Gemmell, the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships open-water 10km champion, cannot make the U.