Fencing Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Road to Paris 2024

[Makedonas 1,585]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5BL6CxMczW/?img_index=1

 

So many famous fencers commenting on this post, it's nice to see how they support each other! Poor Despina 

[Pasolini 142]

11 hours ago, Makedonas said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5BL6CxMczW/?img_index=1

 

So many famous fencers commenting on this post, it's nice to see how they support each other! Poor Despina 

Sad for her, but I don't get the whole idea of "let's change the system because of one specific case".

 

The Olympics is also about have more nations represented. Having said that, I would like to see a bigger fencing draw, like 48? And then we could have a rule of "if you are in top10 you can have 2 individual athletes qualified", like in Badminton for instance or tennis doubles

[Jur 544]

I'm sad for her but the post is giving sore loser. And she knew about the qualification process years in advanced, nothing is new.

[Adriano 455]

Maybe it's time to let 2 athethes per NOC to qualify via ranking like in table tennis.

[Pasolini 142]

18 minutes ago, Jur said:

I'm sad for her but the post is giving sore loser. And she knew about the qualification process years in advanced, nothing is new.

and i don't get how a country with 2 of the 5 best athletes in the world can't get a reasonable team. 

[Pasolini 142]

On 3/26/2024 at 9:21 AM, Faramir said:

First part of the qualification is over, now we'll have:

 

1) Zonal Qualification tournaments in April - this will bring the total to 34 athletes per individual event;

2) since France won't need to use any host quota place, 8 Universality Places decided by the Tripartite Commission. That's a lot of places, especially considering that the few decent fencers from eligible countries could be qualified on their own by then;

3) reallocation of unused Universality Places:

"if the Tripartite Commission is not able to allocate Universality Place(s), such unallocated Place(s) will be attributed by the FIE to the next highest-ranked eligible athlete in the Individual Senior Adjusted Official Ranking (AOR) as of 1 April 2024, across all weapon and all FIE Zones, but strictly respecting the following:
- The maximum number of athletes in each individual event (37) and

- The NOC must not have any athlete already qualified in the corresponding individual event "

 

The following would be the first fencers in line for such reallocations - of course some of them will likely qualify first through their Zonal QT

 

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RANK	NAME	NOC	POINTS	EVENT
8	ILIEVA Yoana	BUL	115	w sabre
13	LLAVADOR Carlos	ESP	98	m foil
17	XIAO Ruien	CAN	76,5	w epee
19	BASHTA Anna	AZE	75	w sabre
20	YILDIRIM Enver	TUR	78	m sabre
20	ERBIL Nisanur	TUR	71	w sabre
22	NAVARRO Araceli	ESP	70	w sabre
23	BAYARD Alexis	SUI	68	m epee
23	TEODOSIU Iulian	ROU	66	m sabre
25	DI TELLA Isabel	ARG	58	w epee
28	FRAZAO Miguel	POR	55,5	m epee
29	PEREIRA Yulen	ESP	55	m epee
29	HRYCIUK Szymon	POL	53	m sabre

 

I think some AIN athletes could  benefit from that. I can see they giving out 4 tripartite and 4 AIN quotas or something like that.

[Faramir 54]

7 minutes ago, Pasolini said:

I think some AIN athletes could  benefit from that. I can see they giving out 4 tripartite and 4 AIN quotas or something like that.

No way. It's clearly stated that unused tripartite quotas go to the highest ranked eligible fencers.

[Pasolini 142]

5 minutes ago, Faramir said:

No way. It's clearly stated that unused tripartite quotas go to the highest ranked eligible fencers.

clearly stated does not mean much hahaha but yeah, i think anyway they would be given WC so it would be an extra.
 

[intoronto 4,244]

1 hour ago, Pasolini said:

and i don't get how a country with 2 of the 5 best athletes in the world can't get a reasonable team. 

This is the question I have too.

Maybe @Makedonascan explain

[phelps 6,882]

2 hours ago, Pasolini said:

and i don't get how a country with 2 of the 5 best athletes in the world can't get a reasonable team. 

it might happen...

 

and it's not even the first time it actually happens

 

in Rio, Italy didn't qualify the women's epee team despite having Fiamingo (undisputed no.1 in the world at that time, world champion and world cup champion in 2014 and 2015) and Navarria (who in 2016 was the no.2 in the world behind Fiamingo and had to miss those Olympic Games because of that same rule)

 

p.s. to qualify the team, it's not enough being a "reasonable" team, in Europe you generally need to be among the 5 best teams in the world to qualify (look at Germany in the men's team sabre...they're no.6 in the world and despite that, they're out)

fencing is one of the sports with the hardest qualifying pathways, it's easier to win a medal when you're in than qualifying for the Games