European Games 2023

[Cinnamon Bun 896]

1 hour ago, Rafa Maciel said:

Find it strange that  aren't entered into the judo event - seems a missed opportunity to potentially earn Olympic wildcard 

It's a mixed event + we probably didn't meet the requirements needed in all the weight categories. 

 

Overall it's a strong team, shame about the 3x3 though considering the money that's been pumped into it and B-Girl Shortbread not getting the nod in Women's Breakdancing. 

 

Maybe Team GB weren't permitted to announce these, but I'm pretty sure we earned quotas in Kickboxing and MuayThai along with the Universality quota we miraculously accepted in Karate.  

[rybak 3,217]

Will  compete in athletics?

[Cinnamon Bun 896]

5 minutes ago, rybak said:

Will  compete in athletics?

I believe we will but it'll be a weakened team. I think they only released entries on direct qualifying/qualification ranking events.    

Edited June 1, 2023 by Cinnamon Bun

[Gianlu33 4,552]

22 minutes ago, Cinnamon Bun said:

I believe we will but it'll be a weakened team. I think they only released entries on direct qualifying/qualification ranking events.    

I think that, as always, GBR will send their main team at the European Team Cup.

[Agger 1,662]

 Denmark at the European Games

 

 

Badminton:
Viktor Axelsen, herresingle - Anders Antonsen, herresingle - Mia Blichfeldt, damesingle - Line Kjærsfeldt, damesingle - Kim Astrup, herredouble - Anders Skaarup Rasmussen, herredouble - Maiken Fruergaard, damedouble - Sara Thygesen, damedouble - Mathias Christiansen, mixed double - Alexandra Bøje, mixed double

 

Beach Handball – Men:
Andreas Høgh - Jeppe Villumsen - Martin Vilstrup - Christian Nielsen - Frederik Bech Jensen - Laurids Nygaard Ulrichsen - Dines Kjeldgaard - Frederik Dinsen - William Lærke - Mikkel Drud Nielsen

 

Beach Handball – Women:
Josefine Mahler - Sandra Therkildsen Hansen - Line Gyldenløve Kristensen - Rikke Thyrsted Enevoldsen -Cecillie Lindgaard - Johanne Uhrhammer - Ann Cecilie Møller - Camilla Degn - Line Berggren Larsen - Johanne Graugaard - Ida Winding - Emma Mogensen

 

Boxing:
Frederik Lundgaard Jensen, -57 kilo - Abdallah Abou-Arab, -63,5 kilo - Nikolai Terteryan, -71 kilo - Sofie Vinther Rosshaug, -50 kilo - Melissa Juvonen Mortensen, -57 kilo

 

Table Tennis:
Jonathan Groth, herresingle/holdkonkurrence - Anders Lind, herresingle/holdkonkurrence - Tobias Kamph Rasmussen, holdkonkurrence - Thor Christensen, holdkonkurrence

 

Archery:
Kirstine Danstrup Andersen, recurve - Randi Degn, recurve - Nanna Grønbæk Jakobsen, recurve - Oliver Staudt, recurve - Tanja Kirstine Amdi Gellenthien, compound - Mathias Fullerton, compound

 

Fencing:
Jonas Winterberg-Poulsen, fleuret (individuel og hold) - Christopher Horn Nielsen, fleuret (individuel og hold) - Jonas Karlsen, fleuret (individuel og hold) - Patrick Jørgensen, kårde (individuel og hold) - August Lindstrøm Jensen, kårde (individuel og hold) - Conrad Seibæk Kongstad, kårde (individuel og hold) - Frederik von der Osten, kårde (individuel og hold), Laeticia Jørgensen, fleuret (individuel)

 

Kayak:
Emma Aastrand Jørgensen (K1 200, K1 500, K2 500, K2 mixed 200) - Bolette Nyvang Iversen (K4 500) - Frederikke Hauge Matthiesen (K2 500, K4 500) - Katrine Jensen (K4 500) - Sara Corfixen Milthers (K4 500) - Lasse Bro Madsen (K4 500) - Magnus Sibbersen (K1 500, K4 500, K2 mixed 200) - Morten Graversen (K2 500, K4 500) - Victor Gary Aasmul (K2 500, K4 500)

 

Karate:
Frederikke Bjerring, kata

 

Artistic Swimming:
Karoline Christensen, duet (teknisk og fri), Mia Heide, duet (teknisk og fri)

 

Mountainbike:
Caroline Bohé - Malene Degn – Simon Andreassen - Sebastian Fini

 

Muaythai:
Linn Sandegård, -57 kilo

 

Padel:
Emil Domela Hansen, herredouble - Marc Møller, herredouble - Maria Rasmussen, damedouble - Gitte Haxen, damedouble

 

Shooting:
Jesper Hansen, skeet - Emil Petersen, skeet - Frederik Larsen, 10 meter luftpistol - Nicklas Kildehøj, 10 meter luftriffel - Rikke Mæng Ibsen, 10 meter luftriffel, 50 meter riffel 3 positioner (individuel og hold) - Anna Nielsen, 10 meter luftriffel (individuel og hold), 50 meter riffel 3 positioner (individuel og hold) - Stephanie Grundsøe, 50 meter riffel 3 positioner (individuel og hold), 10 meter luftriffel (hold) - Steffen Olsen, 50 meter riffel 3 positioner (individuel og hold)

 

Taekwondo:
Tobias Otterstrøm Hyttel, -63 kilo - Otto Herlev Jørgensen, -68 kilo - Edi Hrnic, -80 kilo - Louise Sinkjær Lyngbæk, -53 kilo

 

Teqball:
Mathias Landén Jeppesen, herredouble/mixed double - Brian Mengel Thomsen, single/herredouble - Nanna Lind Kristiansen, single/damedouble - Mira Fænø Dahlmann, damedouble/mixed double

 

Triathlon:
Oscar Gladney, individuelt/mixed stafet - Emil Holm, individuelt/mixed stafet - Anne Holm, individuelt/mixed stafet - Alberte Kjær Pedersen, individuelt/mixed stafet

 

The athletics team will be announced later.

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On 6/1/2023 at 10:50 PM, Cinnamon Bun said:

I believe we will but it'll be a weakened team. I think they only released entries on direct qualifying/qualification ranking events.    

They are selecting tomorrow and announcing on Wednesday.

 

They would probably like to pick their strongest team, but they never realistically can because individual athletes will always decline selection - in events where GB has huge current depth, that's not really an issue - they will likely be competitive at middle distance regardless. But lose your top one or two in other event and the fall is precipitous. I would be shocked if Asher Smith, Muir, Hodgkinson or Zharnel Hughes showed up - Lansiquot, Courtney, Baker and Azu would be more likely.

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On 6/1/2023 at 7:16 PM, Cinnamon Bun said:

It's a mixed event + we probably didn't meet the requirements needed in all the weight categories. 

 

Overall it's a strong team, shame about the 3x3 though considering the money that's been pumped into it and B-Girl Shortbread not getting the nod in Women's Breakdancing. 

 

Maybe Team GB weren't permitted to announce these, but I'm pretty sure we earned quotas in Kickboxing and MuayThai along with the Universality quota we miraculously accepted in Karate.  

GBR has  a large number of kickboxing quotas, not so sure about MuayThai

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On 6/1/2023 at 11:12 AM, TeamGB said:

Team Great Britain Squad Released 

 

Only competitors in Olympic Sports will be competing.

 

Archery

 

Ella Gibson, Penny Healey, Monty Orton, Bryony Pitman, Jaspreet Sagoo, Alex Wise, James Woodgate.

 

Artistic Swimming

 

Eleanor Blinkhorn, Isobel Blinkhorn, Millie Costello, Beatrice Crass, Isobel Davies, Cerys Hughes, Aimee Lawrence, Daniella Lloyd, Kate Shortman, Robyn Swatman, Isabelle Thorpe, Ranjuo Tomblin

 

Badminton

 

Alexander Dunn, Marcus Ellis, Kirsty Gilmour, Adam Hall, Ben Lane, Julie MacPherson, Lauren Smith, Johnnie Torjussen, Ciara Torrance, Sean Vendy

 

BMX Freestyle

 

Declan Brooks, Sasha Pardoe, Holly Pipe, Kieran Reilly, Charlotte Worthington

 

Boxing

 

Harris Akbar, Taylor Bevan, Kerry Davis, Charley Davison, Jack Dryden, Rosie Eccles, Elise Glynn, Reese Lynch, Kiaran MacDonald, Delicious Orie, Demie-Jade Resztan, Shona Whitwell, Lewis Williams

 

Breaking 

 

B-Boy Kid Karam (Karam Singh), B-Boy Sunni (Sunni Brummitt)

 

Canoe Slalom

 

Chris Bowers, Adam Burgess, Joe Clarke, Jonny Dickson, Mallory Franklin, James Kettle, Sophie Ogilvie, Phoebe Spicer, Ryan Westley, Kimberley Woods

 

Canoe Sprint

 

Isabel Evans, Bethany Gill, Jonathan Jones, Deborah Kerr, Emily Lewis, Ben Phillips, Katie Reid, Emma Russell, Rebeka Simon

 

Diving

 

Desharne Bent-Ashmeil, Robyn Birch, Maisie Bond, Eden Cheng, Ben Cutmore, Matthew Dixon, Ross Haslam, James Heatly, Juliette John, Robbie Lee, Noah Penman, Holly-May Prasanto, Grace Reid, Amy Rollinson

 

Fencing

 

Ben Andrews, Kristjan Archer, Kate Beardmore, Yasmin Campbell, Jaimie Cook, James-Andrew Davis, Will Deary, Caitlin Maxwell, Marcus Mepstead, Susan Sica, Carolina Stutchbury, Amelie Tsang, JJ Webb

 

Modern Pentathlon

 

Charlie Brown, Kerenza Bryson, Joe Choong, Sam Curry, Charlie Follett, Olivia Green, Myles Pillage, Jess Varley

 

Mountain Bike

 

Annie Last, Cameron Mason, Cameron Orr

 

Rugby Sevens

 

Women:Ellie Boatman, Abbie Brown, Shona Campbell, Heather Cowell, Megan Jones, Jasmin Joyce, Rhona Lloyd, Isla Norman-Bell, Jade Shekells, Lisa Thompson, Lauren Torley, Emma Uren, Amy Wilson-Hardy

Men: James Barden, Kaleem Barreto, Api Bavadra, Alex Davis, Jordan Edmunds, Tom Emery, Robbie Fergusson, Will Homer, Ross McCann, Max McFarland, Freddie Roddick, Morgan Williams, Tom Williams

 

Shooting

 

Michael Bargeron, Kristian Callaghan, Matt Coward-Holley, Katie Gleeson, Sam Gowin, Lucy Hall, Aaron Heading, Emily Hibbs, Freddie Killander, Jess Liddon, Ben Llewellin, Seonaid McIntosh, James Miller, Georgina Roberts, Amber Rutter (nee Hill)

 

Sport Climbing

 

6 athletes TBC

 

Table Tennis

 

Charlotte Carey, Paul Drinkhall, Tin-Tin Ho, Thomas Jarvis, Liam Pitchford, Samuel Walker

 

Taekwondo

 

Bianca Cook (nee Walkden), Caden Cunningham, Phoenix Goodman, Jade Jones, Rebecca McGowan, Jodie McKew, Maddison Moore, Mohammed Nour, Aaliyah Powell, Zack Sarsoza, Bradly Sinden, Lauren Williams

 

Triathlon

 

Sophie Alden, Connor Bentley, Barclay Izzard, Olivia Matthias, Sian Rainsley, Hamish Reilly

 

 

Total - 178 athletes

 

Nice to see a full boxing squad but disappointed by the divers taking part, especially considering it's a direct olympic qualifier.

The Diving squad is more a reflection of split priorities - there's only one slot open per individual event - the world aquatics has FAR more spots open, and that's where the A-Team are going. If anything the Diving shows the enormous depth GB has, that they can send a Grace Reid, and that a Katherine Torrence can't even get into the B squad,

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On 6/1/2023 at 12:30 PM, Rafa Maciel said:

I think GB Swimming's hands were tied by the results of last week's national diving championships and to be fair, at the 2022 European Diving Champs, even with a pretty strong team, GBR only won 1 of the events where a quota would have been available - the women's 10m platform with Spendolini-Sirieix and I think it is a safe assumption to think she is capable of getting a top 12 finish at the worlds

 

I think the working assumption within the GB squad is that they could/should be in a position to wrap up the majority of the quotas at the world championship - I think there is a good chance that we could get both the men's synchro teams qualified and possibly 6 individual quotas in Fukuoka. Our weakest event is likely to be women's 3m springboard. 

 

But if the results in Fukuoka don't go the way GB Swimming expects, they will possibly regret not putting more focus on these games. 

 

For me, the most disappointing squad is in triathlon - we're guaranteed 2 quotas, but in order to get the third, we need 3 athletes in the top 30 of the rankings and at the moment, we only have Alex Yee. Barclay Izzard is currently 56 so has a chance to climb up, but Connor Bentley is ranked at 169 and Hamish Reilly isn't even listed in the Olympic rankings. 

At this point one of the women would be a higher ranked man than some of the candidate men! Brownlee's silver in today's European's was a welcome one, but he's clearly not the athlete he was 4-8 years ago (how could he be). That said, as a strong swimmer he's probably a very good bet for leg 1 of a relay so he's safe. Where the men have gone goodness knows - I hoped Djikstra might come through but he hasn't really made the move.

[Rafa Maciel 1,594]

On 6/2/2023 at 5:47 AM, rybak said:

Will  compete in athletics?

Team GB athletics squad due to be announced on Wednesday according to their selection policy docs.