Medalists at London 2012 not Qualified for Rio 2016

[heywoodu 16,279]

2 hours ago, MantaRaymarc said:

for United States:

* Beach Volleyball: Misty May-Treanor has already retired after her competition play in London with her partner Kerri Walsh, whose teamed up currently with April Ross for their Rio 2016 bid.

* Boxing: Olympic bronze medalist Marlene Esparza lost her bid to Virginia Fuchs in the women's flyweight at the Olympic trials.

* Diving: Boudia's synchronized platform partner Nick McCrory retired in March 2015 to pursue medical studies. 

* Gymnastics: Although the U.S. women's artistic gymnastics team already qualified for Rio to defend their title, Olympic silver medalist McKayla Maroney retired just less than six months before the Games. Obviously, the Americans are expected to have a few new faces among their members, including rising star Simona Biles, (thus meaning that not all the London medallists will be in Rio).

* Shooting: Olympic champion Jamie Lynn Gray has already retired, and did not compete since London 2012.

* Taekwondo: Terrence Jennings lost his bid to five-time Olympian Steven Lopez at the Olympic trials.

 

Any details missing?

 

I'll add Esparza and Jennings to the list when I have time to create a list  

 

Retired athletes didn't really miss out on qualification, they simply didn't try to qualify.

[heywoodu 16,279]

How about Cuban taekwondo athlete Robelis Despaigne? Bronze in 2012, but apparently wasn't good enough to participate at this years qualifiers...or was he injured/retired?

[dareza 911]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

How about Cuban taekwondo athlete Robelis Despaigne? Bronze in 2012, but apparently wasn't good enough to participate at this years qualifiers...or was he injured/retired?

he still can compete in Rio. Cuba won quota in +80kg

[Agger 1,747]

Håkan Dahlby (Sweden) - Double trap.

[heywoodu 16,279]

10 minutes ago, dareza said:

he still can compete in Rio. Cuba won quota in +80kg

Oops  

 

I put the first few names in the list but after some minutes I lost interest for today so I'll continue another day  

[hckošice 15,984]

Great thread

 

For Slovakia, it´s almost everyone

 

from our 4 medal winners of London we will have probably only 1 athlete competing in Rio.

The biggest failure is ofc the legend of the legends of the canoeing slalom. Michal Martikán who won a medal at each olympic games in C1 since Atlanta 1996 to London 2012 (2 times Gold, 2x silver and 1 bronze) failed this time in our extremely tough internal qualification with Matej Beňuš...the good thing for Michal, is that he apparently recovered from his frustration and already said that he will not end his career and will try to end his incredible career with the Tokyo 2020 gold ..what a athlete

 

also Rio 2016 most likely will miss another canoeing slalom legend the Hochschorner twins 3 times olympic champions in C2 in a row since Sydney to Beijing and bronze medalists from London, are in huge troubles in our internal qualification against the Škantár cousins, in fact only an hardly imaginable miracle can help them to surpass their opponents during the last stage next may at european champs, they need to win and the Škantárs don´t qualify from the heats, which is let tel the true..almost impossible..

 

and finally also Zuzana Štefečeková double silver medalist from Beijing and London in womens shotgun trap won the quota but will miss the games, because she is pregnant and wait her first child.

 

so our only medalist from London who is expected to compete and is already qualified is our IOC member Danka Barteková bronze medalist from London in womens shotgun skeet.

[Bearas 617]

Jevgenij Shuklin (silver in Canoeing C1-200) is more than likely to miss Rio because he might be replaced by youngster Henrikas Žustautas who dominating the discipline.

[MantaRaymarc 132]

On 3/22/2016 at 5:07 AM, Bearas said:

Jevgenij Shuklin (silver in Canoeing C1-200) is more than likely to miss Rio because he might be replaced by youngster Henrikas Žustautas who dominating the discipline.

Jevgenij Shuklin will most likely miss Rio? How did it happen?

[dcro 10,210]

Mavzuna Chorieva of Tajikistan, unless she pulls out something amazing at the World Championships.

[heywoodu 16,279]

23 minutes ago, dcro said:

Mavzuna Chorieva of Tajikistan, unless she pulls out something amazing at the World Championships.

 

I'm planning on writing a special on this topic for a Dutch website, on which I will most definitely mention this Totallympics thread  (who knows, maybe it gives Totallympics one or two extra Dutch users)