Badminton Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[Dolby 754]

9 minutes ago, hckošice said:

How is is possible, are not only 34 players qualified for the singles ?

Additional spots open up due to 1) Japan not needing host quota and 2) athletes qualifying in multiple events. For example, British pair of Ellis/Smith are qualifying in XD. But both Ellis and Smith are also qualifying in MD and WD. Hence, one additional spot is available in both MS and WS. 

[Agger 1,701]

3 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Why would they decline? Tough qualification standard?

Generally Sweden has the criteria that an athlete should be in contention for top 8. Talents can get an easier selection for their first Games (could be his chance) but at the age of 26 he can hardly be called a big talent.

[intoronto 6,468]

2 minutes ago, Agger said:

Generally Sweden has the criteria that an athlete should be in contention for top 8. Talents can get an easier selection for their first Games (could be his chance) but at the age of 26 he can hardly be called a big talent.

Interesting. Is this new? They didn't decline in 2016 and had an older athlete 

[Adriano 625]

https://www.docudeporte.es/ranking-olimpico-de-badminton/  Hart probably can't represent  Poland in women's single. So 0 polish players this time at Olympics Games. 

[Agger 1,701]

3 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Interesting. Is this new? They didn't decline in 2016 and had an older athlete 

Not really new, no. Had forgotten that Hurskainen actually did participate twice (I believe that 2nd place at the Ech (including beating some top class Danes) helped quite a bit). It doesn't always make sense, but still wouldn't be too surprised.

[Benolympique 2,414]

http://www.badmintoneurope.com/cms/default.aspx?clubid=4685&m=8463175&cmsid=239&pageid=5381

 

Men’s singles

WR 3 – Anders Antonsen (DEN)

WR 4 – Viktor Axelsen (DEN)

WR 34 – Brice Leverdez (FRA)

WR 35 – Mark Caljouw – (NED)

WR 44 – Pablo Abian (ESP)

WR 45 – Misha Zilberman (ISR)

WR 53 – Toby Penty (GBR)

WR 54 – Felix Burestedt (SWE) 

WR 60 – Nhat Nguyen (IRL)

WR 64 – Kalle Koljonen (FIN)

WR 67 – Sergey Sirant (RUS)

WR 68 – Kai Schaefer (GER)

WR 69 – Ade Resky Dwicahyo (AZE)

WR 79 – Raul Must (EST)

WR 82 – Luka Wraber (AUT)

WR 84 – Artem Pochtarov (UKR)

WR 91 – Gergely Krausz (HUN)

WR 94 – Emre Lale (TUR)

 

Women’s singles

WR 4 – Carolina Marin (ESP)

WR 18 – Mia Blichfeldt (DEN)

WR 23 – Evgeniya Kosetskaya (RUS)

WR 26 – Kirsty Gilmour (GBR)

WR 29 – Neslihan Yigit (TUR)

WR 37 – Qi Xuefei (FRA)

WR 41 – Yvonne Li (GER)

WR 42 – Lianne Tan (BEL) 

WR 50 – Sabrina Jaquet (SUI)

WR 52 – Ksenia Polikarpova (ISR)

WR 54 – Kristin Kuuba (EST)

WR 58 – Soraya De Visch Eijbergen (NED)*

WR 61 – Laura Sarosi (HUN)

WR 62 – Linda Zetchiri (BUL)

WR 67 – Jordan Hart (POL)*

WR 68 – Airi Mikkela (FIN)*

WR 72 – Martina Repiska (SLK)

 

Men’s doubles

WR 11 – Kim Astrup/ Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (DEN)

WR 15 – Mark Lamsfuss/ Marvin Seidel (GER)

WR 18 – Vladimir Ivanov/ Ivan Sozonov (RUS)

WR 19 – Marcus Ellis/ Chris Langridge (GBR)

WR 36 – Jelle Maas/ Robin Tabeling (NED)*

 

Women’s doubles

WR 11 – Gabriela Stoeva/ Stefani Stoeva (BUL)

WR 15 – Maiken Fruergaard/ Sara Thygesen (DEN) 

WR 16 – Chloe Birch/ Lauren Smith (GBR)

WR 17 – Selena Piek/ Cheryl Seinen (NED)

 

Mixed Doubles

WR 8 – Marcus Ellis/ Lauren Smith (GBR)

WR 14 – Thom Gicquel/ Delphine Delrue (FRA)

WR 15 – Robin Tabeling/ Selena Piek (NED)

WR 16 – Mark Lamsfuss/ Isabel Herttrich (GER)

WR 17 – Mathias Christiansen/ Alexandra Bøje (DEN)

[rybak 3,307]

@Benolympique what does "*" means in your last post? Those players aren't confirmed yet, right?

 

Btw. I have read lately that Jordan Hart started playing for Poland instead her home country  

Our badminton federation didn't mentioned anything about her, I think that they even aren't aware of this fact  I wonder, since she changed nationality some weeks ago if she will be allowed to compete in Olympic under new flag, or have try to qualify to Paris 2024.

[szy123 79]

31 minutes ago, rybak said:

@Benolympique what does "*" means in your last post? Those players aren't confirmed yet, right?

 

Btw. I have read lately that Jordan Hart started playing for Poland instead her home country  

Our badminton federation didn't mentioned anything about her, I think that they even aren't aware of this fact  I wonder, since she changed nationality some weeks ago if she will be allowed to compete in Olympic under new flag, or have try to qualify to Paris 2024.

* means that an athlete won't compete in Tokyo. Jordan has no citizenship yet, she just changed Federation allegiance (PZBad accepted this) as surprisingly Poland has better conditions for badminton training than Wales (according to her).

 

That means there will be three reallocations and as my friend who knows much about badminton calculated, it means that Wiktoria Dąbczyńska will get the quota probably. Nothing can be said for sure until official statements from the International federation tho. 

 

Edit: typo

[Griff88 2,009]

6 hours ago, rybak said:

@Benolympique what does "*" means in your last post? Those players aren't confirmed yet, right?

 

Btw. I have read lately that Jordan Hart started playing for Poland instead her home country  

Our badminton federation didn't mentioned anything about her, I think that they even aren't aware of this fact  I wonder, since she changed nationality some weeks ago if she will be allowed to compete in Olympic under new flag, or have try to qualify to Paris 2024.

Soraya won't be going since the Dutch NOC has "tough standard"

Airi Mikella and Jelle Maas has retired from professional badminton...

[Agger 1,701]

On 12/05/2021 at 15:48, Agger said:

They may get it. Wouldn't be surprised if Sweden decline Burestedt's spot

Oh well. I was wrong. Burestedt has been selected