Taekwondo WTO Oceanian Olympic Games Qualifier 2020

[MHSN 3,621]

I can imagine Safwan Khalil is the only registered athlete for 58kg and most probably Malia Paseka for women's 67kg but I wonder who is that lucky girl for women's 49kg !? or ?

[MHSN 3,621]

just finished watching the finals. the followings qualified for the Olympics and Pita qualified too ! all finals were one sided maybe except 68kg were the PNG guy showed some resistance

 

68 Thomas Burns

80 Jack Morton

+80 Pita Taufatofua

 

57  Stacey Hymer

+67 Reba Stewart

 

no mention of who qualified in other weights in that live stream !

Edited February 29, 2020 by MHSN

[MHSN 3,621]

Yes Malia Paseka  was the only entry for 67kg and grabbed the free quota and of course Safwan Khalil won men's 58kg quota as expected

 

but apparently nobody registered for 49kg ! which is weird because there were 3 girls in the preliminary list, two from and and other TGA/PNG athletes in the list showed up  and finished the competition.

 

I was reading the official document, can't see anything there about a situation like this. but I assume normally the quota should go to the next best athlete in the World Ranking which was Yvette Yong from Canada.

[intoronto 5,645]

16 minutes ago, MHSN said:

Yes Malia Paseka  was the only entry for 67kg and grabbed the free quota and of course Safwan Khalil won men's 58kg quota as expected

 

but apparently nobody registered for 49kg ! which is weird because there were 3 girls in the preliminary list, two from and and other TGA/PNG athletes in the list showed up  and finished the competition.

 

I was reading the official document, can't see anything there about a situation like this. but I assume normally the quota should go to the next best athlete in the World Ranking which was Yvette Yong from Canada.

This would be interesting, because Canada has entered someone else in the 49kg qualifier ... Would be a reprieve for Yong.

[Olympian1010 7,977]

Pita! 

Time to break out the oil (and facemask)

[heywoodu 15,145]

Oceanian taekwondo qualifiers must be one of the most pathetic things in the entire Olympic qualifying cycle...?

[Olympian1010 7,977]

11 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Oceanian taekwondo qualifiers must be one of the most pathetic things in the entire Olympic qualifying cycle...?

Well, most Oceania qualifiers are. A necessary evil.

[dcro 10,210]

To be fair, it's not an entirely free quota they get. Presumably they also need to pass the weigh in.

[MHSN 3,621]

39 minutes ago, dcro said:

To be fair, it's not an entirely free quota they get. Presumably they also need to pass the weigh in.

 

it seems so

http://www.worldtaekwondo.org/australia-new-zealand-and-tonga-secure-places-at-tokyo-2020-olympic-games/

 

The W-49kg saw no athlete qualify after an athlete disqualification due to being over the weight limit for that category and two athletes no shows.

[dcro 10,210]

Wow, that is just hilariously sad.