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Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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This article details the canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics qualifying phase. Similar to 2012 format, a qualification system has been set up for both slalom and sprint canoeing at these games. The quotas have already been set for each event by the International Canoe Federation in August 2014.

Summary

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NOC Slalom Sprint Total
K1
M
C1
M
C2
M
K1
W
Men Women Boats Athletes
K1
200
K1
1000
K2
200
K2
1000
K4
1000
C1
200
C1
1000
C2
1000
K1
200
K1
500
K2
500
K4
500
 Argentina X X X X 4 10
 Australia X X X X X X X X X X X 11 18
 Austria X X 2 2
 Azerbaijan X X X X 4 4
 Belgium X 1 1
 Brazil X X X X X X X X 8 10
 Bulgaria X X 2 2
 Canada X X X X X X X X X X 10 11
 China X X X X X X X X 8 10
 Cook Islands X X 2 2
 Cuba X X X X 4 6
 Czech Republic X X X X X X X X X 9 12
 Denmark X X X 3 5
 Ecuador X 1 1
 Egypt X X 2 2
 France X X X X X X X X X X X X X 13 17
 Georgia X 1 1
 Germany X X X X X X X X X X X 11 16
 Great Britain X X X X X X X X 8 13
 Hungary X X X X X X X X X X X X 12 18
 Italy X X X X X X 4 4
 Japan X X X X 4 5
 Kazakhstan X X X X X X X X 8 13
 Latvia X X 2 2
 Lebanon X 1 1
 Lithuania X X X X 4 6
 Moldova X 1 1
 Morocco X 1 1
 Mexico X 1 1
 Mozambique X 1 2
 New Zealand X X X X X X X 7 9
 Nigeria X 1 1
 Palau X 1 1
 Poland X X X X X X X X X X X 11 14
 Portugal X X X X X 5 7
 Russia X X X X X X X X X X X X 12 17
 Samoa X 1 1
 São Tomé and Príncipe X 1 1
 Senegal X 1 1
 Serbia X X X X X X X 7 10
 Slovakia X X X X X X X X 8 12
 Slovenia X X X X X X 6 6
 South Africa X 1 1
 South Korea X 1 2
 Spain X X X X X X X X 8 11
 Sweden X X X X 4 5
 Tunisia X X X 3 3
 Turkey X 1 1
 Ukraine X X X X X 5 9
 United States X X X X X 5 6
 Uzbekistan X X X X 4 4
Total: 51 NOCs 21 15 10 19 12 12 7 7 11 10 9 8 14 14 9 12 179 314

Slalom

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For the slalom events, the men competed in C-1, C-2, and K-1. Women competed in K-1 only. Qualifications were allocated to NOCs, not to specific competitors. NOCs were limited to one boat per event. Qualification spots were earned as follows:

  • World Championships: The top placed boats (considering only one boat per NOC) earned their NOCs a qualification. 15 qualification spots were available in the K-1 events, 10 in the C-1, and 8 boats (16 athletes) in the C-2.
  • Continental Qualification Events: Only NOCs that did not earn qualification in a given event through the World Championships were eligible. For the K-1 and C-1 events, 1 qualification spot was available for each continent. For the C-2 event, only 3 total qualification spots were available; these were assigned to continents based on World Championship results: the best ranked non-qualifying NOCs from three different continents at the World Championships earned their continent one boat qualification place.
  • Host country: Brazil, as the host country, was guaranteed one entry in each event if not already qualified.
  • Tripartite Commission: Canoeing (both slalom and sprint) had a total of 2 qualification spots that would be awarded through Tripartite Commission invitations.
  • Reallocation: Unused quota spots were reallocated. In practice, this was used where one of an NOC's C-2 competitors also competed in the C-1 event, freeing up the athlete quota spot that NOC had earned in the C-1.

Timeline

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Event Date Venue
2015 Pan American Games July 18–19, 2015 Canada Toronto, Canada
2015 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships September 16–20, 2015 United Kingdom Lee Valley, Great Britain
2015 African Canoeing Championships[2] November 6–8, 2015 Kenya Sagana, Kenya
2016 Oceania Canoeing Championships February 19–21, 2016 Australia Penrith, Australia
2016 Asian Canoe Slalom Championships April 23–24, 2016 Japan Toyama, Japan
2016 European Canoe Slalom Championships May 13–15, 2016 Slovakia Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia

Qualification table

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Event Men's K-1 Men's C-1 Men's C-2 Women's K-1
Host nation  Brazil  Brazil  Brazil
2015 World Championships  Czech Republic
 Slovenia
 Germany
 Italy
 United States
 Poland
 France
 Azerbaijan
 Russia
 Great Britain
 Japan
 Austria
 Slovakia
 New Zealand
 Australia
 Cook Islands*
 Slovakia
 Slovenia
 Great Britain
 Germany
 France
 Poland
 Japan
 Russia
 Czech Republic
 United States
 Great Britain
 Poland
 Germany
 Slovenia
 France
 Slovakia
 Russia
 Czech Republic
 Spain
 Australia
 Germany
 Czech Republic
 Great Britain
 Slovakia
 New Zealand
 China
 Brazil
 Austria
 France
 Russia
 Slovenia
 Poland
 Japan
 Cook Islands*
2015 Pan American Games  Canada  Canada  United States  Canada**
 United States
2015 African Championships  Nigeria  Senegal  Morocco
2016 Oceania Championships  Australia
2016 Asian Championships  China  China  Japan  Kazakhstan
2016 European Championships  Netherlands
 Sweden
 Spain  Switzerland  Ukraine
Tripartite Invitation  Lebanon
Reallocation  Argentina
 Portugal
 Italy
Total 21 19 12 21

Italic: National federation has qualified a boat but the athlete that did this was already counted in another boat
* No continental qualifying race held as less than three nations are eligible.
** National federation is limited to two athlete quota places at a continental qualifying event.

Sprint

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NOCs are limited to one boat per event, and in kayaking to 8 men and 6 women positions. Qualification enables an NOC to participate, not necessarily in the person of the paddler who gained the place. Quotas given are for boats.[3] Qualification spots were earned as follows:

  • World Championships: The top placed boats (considering only one boat per NOC) earned their NOCs a qualification. 8 boat qualification spots were available in the K-1 events (1 of which was reserved for the host country in the men's 1000 metre and women's 500 metre events), 6 in the K-2 events, 10 in the K-4 events, 7 in the C-1 events (1 of which was reserved for the host country in the 1000 metre event), and 6 in the C-2 event.
  • Continental Qualification Events: Only NOCs that did not earn qualification in a given event through the World Championships were eligible. For the K-1, C-1, and C-2 events, 1 boat qualification spot was available for each continent (except that Europe received 2 spots). For the K-2 events, Europe was guaranteed a boat qualification spot but only 3 total qualification spots were available for the remaining 4 continents; these were assigned to continents based on World Championship results: the best ranked non-qualifying NOCs from three different continents at the World Championships earned their continent one boat qualification place.
  • Host country: Brazil, as the host country, was guaranteed entries in certain events as listed in the World Championship section.
  • Tripartite Commission: Canoeing (both slalom and sprint) had a total of 2 qualification spots that would be awarded through Tripartite Commission invitations.
  • Reallocation: Unused quota spots were reallocated. In practice, this was used where some of an NOC's competitors in a larger boat category also competed in a smaller category, freeing up the athlete quota spot that NOC had earned in the smaller category.

Timeline

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Event Date Venue
2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships August 19–23, 2015 Italy Milan, Italy
2015 Asian Canoe Sprint Championships November 4–7, 2015 Indonesia Palembang, Indonesia
2016 Oceania Canoeing Championships February 12–14, 2016 Australia Adelaide, Australia
2016 African Sprint Qualifier March 29 – April 2, 2016 South Africa Pretoria, South Africa
2016 European Sprint Qualifier May 18–19, 2016 Germany Duisburg, Germany
2016 Pan American Sprint Qualifier May 19–20, 2016 United States Gainesville, United States

Qualification table

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Event 2015 World
Championships
Continental qualification Total
Men Kayak Europe Americas Asia Africa Oceania
K-1 200 m  Canada
 France
 Sweden
 Lithuania
 Russia
 Ecuador
 Poland
 Czech Republic
 Argentina
 Serbia
 Spain
 Italy
 Latvia
 Brazil
 Cuba
 Kazakhstan  South Africa
 Egypt
 Australia 14
K-1 1000 m  Denmark
 Czech Republic
 Portugal
 Germany
 Belarus
 Australia
 Bulgaria
 Slovakia
 Serbia
 Belgium^
 Hungary
 Russia
 Spain
 Canada  Uzbekistan  Tunisia  New Zealand 14
K-2 200 m  Hungary
 Russia
 Serbia
 France
 Great Britain
 Germany
 Lithuania^
 Canada
 Spain  Brazil  South Korea  Australia 10
K-2 1000 m  Germany
 Australia
 Serbia
 Slovakia
 BelarusΔ
 France
 Lithuania^[4]
 Hungary  Cuba  Kazakhstan 10
K-4 1000 m  Argentina
 BelarusΔ
 Czech Republic
 Australia
 Hungary
 Kazakhstan
 Portugal
 Romania
 Russiaº
 Slovakia
 Spain
11
Event 2015 World
Championships
Continental qualification Total
Men Canoe Europe Americas Asia Africa Oceania
C-1 200 m  Belarus
 China
 Brazil
 Russia
 Lithuania
 Azerbaijan
 Hungary
 Portugal
 Ukraine^
 Spain
 Georgia
 Mexico  Kazakhstan
 Iran
 Tunisia  Cook Islands 13
C-1 1000 m  Germany
 Czech Republic
 Moldova
 Ukraine
 Russia
 Poland
 Hungary
 France^
 Latvia
 Italy
 Bulgaria
 Canada  Uzbekistan
 China
 São Tomé and Príncipe  New Zealand 13
C-2 1000 m  Brazil
 Hungary
 Poland
 Ukraine
 Russia
 BelarusΔ
 RomaniaΔ
 Czech Republic
 Moldova
 Cuba  Uzbekistan  Mozambique  Australia 12
Event 2015 World
Championships
Continental qualification Total
Women Europe Americas Asia Africa Oceania
K-1 200 m  New Zealand
 Poland
 Spain
 Azerbaijan
 Cuba
 Russia
 France
 Kazakhstan
 Hungary
 Serbia
 Slovenia
 Turkey
 Germany
 Sweden
 Slovakia
 Portugal
 Austria
 Canada  Uzbekistan  Egypt  Samoa 14
K-1 500 m  New Zealand
 Hungary
 China
 Poland
 Azerbaijan
 Slovenia
 Belarus
 Great Britain
 Portugal
 South Africa
 Canada
 Brazil*
 Germany
 Slovakia
 United States  Kazakhstan  Tunisia  Australia
 PalauTR
15
K-2 500 m  Hungary
 Serbia
 Germany
 Poland
 Russia
 China
 Denmark
 Romania^Δ
 Great Britain
 Sweden
 Austria
 Canada  Kazakhstan  Australia 10
K-4 500 m  Argentina
 Belarus
 Canada*
 China
 Denmark^
 France^
 Germany
 Great Britain
 Hungary
 New Zealand
 Poland
 Serbia
 Ukraine
11
^* Host quota
  • Italic: National federation has qualified a boat but the athlete that did this was already counted in another boat
  • TR: National federation has received an invitation from the Tripartite Commission
  • ^: ICF decided that some of the events in Africa and Oceania needed to be reattributed to the World Championships lists because the events seen as invalid due to lack of eligible competitors.
  • º: ICF decided that two quota places were combined and reallocated to the next best ranked NOC not qualified in a larger boat category, should they be available from team boats in the same gender and category.
  • Δ: On July 16, 2016, the ICF bans Romania and Belarus sprint teams for a year due to systemic doping.[5]
  • On July 25, the ICF revoked four entries held by Russia, as a response to the previous doping bans and to the implications in the 'disappearing positive methodology' set out in the McClaren Report on the nation's state-sponsored doping.[6]
  • *: Canada qualified a composite boat, as it qualified four athlete quotas in the other three women's kayak events.

References

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  1. ^ "Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Canoe Slalom" (PDF). ICF. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  2. ^ https://www.canoeicf.com/sites/default/files/2015_african_championship.zip [bare URL]
  3. ^ a b "Qualification System – Games of the XXXI Olympiad – Canoe Sprint" (PDF). ICF. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Lietuvai – dar viena vieta Rio de Žaneiro olimpiadoje" [Lithuanians earned one more place for Rio 2016] (in Lithuanian). Lithuania: Delfi. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  5. ^ "ICF Backs-up Zero Tolerance Stance and Removes Cheats Olympic Places". International Canoe Federation. 13 July 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  6. ^ "Canoeing Removes Five Russian Athletes from Rio 2016 Olympic Games". International Canoe Federation. Retrieved 26 July 2016.