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The 2023 European Games will be a major qualification pathway event for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and it is all covered on Totallympics and Totallympics News. The sports Most Olympic sports contested in Poland (specifically Kraków and the greater Lesser Poland region) will qualify spots for the Olympics. In Artistic Swimming, the European place automatically goes to hosts France. However, qualifying a team automatically qualifies a duet as well. Therefore, France are automatically in the duet, and the host spot reserved for them opens up again. The top duet team, combining technical and free routines (which are separate medal events here) will snag the spot. Non-Olympic qualifying events are the Team technical and free, as well as Mixed duet technical and free, acrobatic routine, and free combination routine. Staying in the aquatics category and Diving will be integrated into the European Diving Championships for the first time. In each of the four Olympic individual events per gender, the champion will get a place, provided that they do not qualify in the 2023 World Championships in Japan (which is higher up on the priority but later this year). While the writing is a little ambiguous, it seems that the spot will not be retrospectively reallocated if the champion has already qualified, instead it will pass on to the 2024 Championships in Qatar. Apart from these four events, there are the usual synchro events (including the mixed ones), the 1m springboard and a mixed team event. In Archery, the top ranked team in the recurve event per gender will qualify a spot, subject to the World Championships in neighbouring Germany (which is higher up on the priority despite being later chronologically). Should a team qualify, they also enter three individual athletes. The top mixed team will also qualify one man and one woman. Having at least one man and one woman will qualify. Finally, the top two athletes (from different countries) in the individual recurve competitions per gender will earn a place. In addition to the five Olympic events, there are three compound events: the men's/women's individual and mixed team. Athletics sees another already existing event integrated in the form of the European Team Athletics Championships. There is no direct qualification here, but ranking points can be earned in the relays. There will be European Games medallists for the first division in the usual events: gendered 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m, 110m (male)/100m (female) hurdles, 400m hurdles, 3,000m steeplechase, 4x100m, high jump, pole vault, long jump, triple jump, shot put, discus throw, hammer throw, and javelin throw; and a mixed 4x400m relay. Badminton has a purely rankings-based system for which points will be won, which will apply for the men's/women's singles and men's/women's/mixed doubles. 3x3 Basketball has a mostly rankings-based system and countries can win points here, with a men's and women's event. Beach Handball is a non-Olympic sport, with men's and women's competition. Beach Soccer is another non-Olympic sport, which also has one competition per gender. Boxing sees a major European Olympic qualifier. The events match up with the Olympic weights. In most events, the top four will qualify, while in the Men's Flyweight, Heavyweight, and Super Heavyweight; and the Women's Middleweight, only the top two will. In the new sport of Breaking, the winner qualifies a spot in both events (male and female). In Canoe Slalom, the top athlete who hasn't qualified already (the top fifteen in K1 and the top twelve in C1 at the World Championships) will earn a spot. This is applied retrospectively as the Worlds in Great Britain are not until September. There are also Kayak Cross events but these do not qualify for Paris, as well as C1 and K1 team events for both genders. Staying in the boats with Canoe Sprint, for both genders we see K1 and C1 events in 200m and 500m, K2, C2 and K4 events in 500m, and mixed K2 and C2 events at 200m. However, these do not qualify for the Olympics (I suppose they have bended their 'all Olympic sports' rule to count Canoeing as one sport; if counting ranking points didn't bend them enough. From the boats to the bikes, and Cycling BMX Freestyle is here but just like Canoe Sprint, this does not qualify for the Olympics in the men's or women's park categories. Mountain Bike sees continental championships exist, but Europe is not included and so only the ranking points matter in the men's and women's event. Fencing has the usual twelve events, but only the ranking points matter, and only for the team ones (although a team spot is the main way to qualify individual athletes) The integration of the European Mixed Team Judo Championships has in some form or another been present at all European Games and this is no different. Ranking points are on the line. Only one gold medal will be handed out for the winner. Eight Modern Pentathlon places are up for grabs per gender (one per NOC), as long as an athlete didn't grab a place in the earlier World Cup Final (where a non-European won the men's event but Italy's Elena Micheli won the women's) or the World Championships in August in Great Britain. There are also non-Olympic events in the form of gendered team events and a mixed relay. The non-Olympic sport of Muaythai sees five weight categories for Men (Light Welterweight, Welterweight, Light Middleweight, Middleweight, and Heavyweight) and five for Women (Flyweight, Bantamweight, Featherweight, Lightweight, and Light Welterweight). Another non-Olympic sport, Padel, sees Men's, Women's, and Mixed Doubles competitions. In Rugby Sevens, this is the European qualifier with the winner getting a place. Hosts France have already qualified by default, while in the Women's event Ireland are another European team to already confirm a berth (through the World Series). In Shooting, the winner of each individual event (all are being contested) get a spot. These exclude athletes who have already qualified or from countries that have the maximum two spots already: of Europeans, these are: Men's 50m Rifle Three Positions: Jon-Hermann Hegg (Norway), Petr Nymburský (Czech Republic), Serhiy Kulish (Ukraine), Tomasz Bartnik (Poland) Men's 10m Air Rifle: Danilo Sollazzo (Italy), Jiří Přívratský (Czech Republic), Maximilian Ulbrich (Germany), Patrik Jány (Slovakia) Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol: Germany (two qualified already), Clément Bessaguet (France) Men's 10m Air Pistol: Pavlo Korostylov (Ukraine), Damir Mikec (Serbia), Ruslan Lunev (Azerbaijan) Men's Trap: Jiří Lipták (Czech Republic), Rickard Levin-Andersson (Sweden), Nathan Hales (Great Britain) Men's Skeet: Luigi Lodde (Italy), Jakub Tomeček (Czech Republic), Stefan Nilsson (Sweden) Women's 50m Rifle Three Positions: Rikke Ibsen (Denmark), Veronika Blažíčková (Czech Republic), Jenny Stene (Norway) Women's 10m Air Rifle: Julia Ewa Piotrowska (Poland), Seonaid McIntosh (Great Britain), Jeanette Hegg Duestad (Norway) Women's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol: Doreen Vennekamp (Germany), Klaudia Breś (Poland), Antoaneta Kostadinova (Bulgaria) Women's 10m Air Pistol: Greece (Two qualified) Zorana Arunović (Serbia), Elmira Karapetyan (Armenia), Camile Jedrzejewski (Poland) Women's Trap: Silvana Stanco (Italy), Lucy Hall (Great Britain), Carole Cornmeier (France), Fátima Gálvez (Spain) Women's Skeet: Amber Hill (Great Britain), Nadine Messerschmidt (Germany), Diana Bacosi (Italy), Vanesa Hocková (Slovakia), Iryna Mavlochiko (Ukraine) There is no direct qualification for the mixed events, but qualifying one man and one woman will earn a space. Currently, Great Britain have a place in the Trap (with Italy, France, and Spain one man away and the Czech Republic and Sweden one woman away), and Italy have one in the Skeet (with Great Britain, Germany, Slovakia and Ukraine one man away; and the Czech Republic and Sweden one woman away). Apart from these, there are also gendered team events for every event, and mixed team events for every other event, which are not on the Olympic programme. Ski Jumping is on the programme but as a Winter Olympic sport does not qualify for Paris. There is a men's, women's and mixed normal hill event and a men's and women's large hill. Sport Climbing is here but does not qualify Olympic places. There are boulder, lead, and speed events for both genders. Table Tennis has the usual Olympic five events but this is only the European qualifying event in Mixed Doubles. The winner gets a spot. Taekwondo will contribute Olympic ranking points. There are double the weights; as well as the Olympic ones there will be Finweight, Bantamweight, Lightweight and Middleweight. The non-Olympic sport of Teqball sees Men's and Women's Singles and Doubles in addition to Mixed Doubles. Finally, Triathlon sees ranking points in both the gendered individual and mixed relay events. There are some non-medal demonstration sports as well: these are Amputee Football, Chess, Motor Racing, Mountaineering, Orienteering, and Sumo, as well as the usual separate but connected E-Sports competition. Totallympics Totallympics will have you covered throughout the Games, which will last from 21 June to 2 July with some prelimiaries on 20 June. Totallympics News will update on the Olympic qualification, while you can check the forums to discuss the Games as a whole, your favourite sport, and every detail from the mascots to the broadcast graphics, as well as find a helpful community for the best links to watch the Games. Finally, you can join your country's national club to talk about the Games with your "teammates" in your own language, those in European countries are: Serbia Germany Croatia Joint Czech Republic-Slovakia Romania Spain Greece Poland Italy Great Britain Hungary Ireland Israel Netherlands France And if yours doesn't exist yet, you can create your own! The Results Database will also be open (and will probably be better than the official one!) Whatever it is you want from the Games, Totallympics has you covered Patrick Green Writer, Totallympics News

China have again led the charge as the 50m and 25m events at the World Shooting Championships (Rifle and Pistol) came to a close. The Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions, Men's Rapid Fire Pistol, Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions and Women's 50m Pistol events all took place at the championships in Cairo, Egypt. The top four athletes in each event earned their country a spot at Paris 2024. There were a couple of permutations: in each event, each athlete could only earn one place each, and those that have already done so (at the European Championships in Poland) could not earn another one. Starting on the Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions, and 101 athletes entered, with Norway's Jon-Hermann Hegg and the Czech Republic's Petr Nymburský ineligible to earn a spot (having already done so in Poland), meaning that ninety-nine were eligible. There was an additional pre-qualifying round (the elimination relay), in which Hungary's Zalan Pekler topped the scoresheet with 593 hits out of six hundred, as the total was whittled down to seventy. The top eight would make it out of qualifying, with six hundred shots once more. It was China's Liu Yukun who was top with 596, with India's Swapnil Kusale on 593 (40x) and Ukraine's Serhiy Kulish on 593 (37x) in second and third. Polish duo Maciej Kowalewicz (37x) and Tomasz Bartnik (32x) were next on 592, with Hegg (30x) joining Jonghyun Kim (30x) of South Korea on 591. The eighth spot went to Germany's Maximilian Dallinger, who was on 590 (42x), and beat out Denmark's Steffen Olsen (36x) and Norway's Simon Claussen (35x) to the final spot by virtue of having more inner tens shot. To the ranking match, where all eight would face off, with two series each in all three positions. Then, the bottom two would be eliminated, with an additional series in the standing position, where two more would be eliminated, and then another series in that position, where two more would be eliminated and the remaining two would advance to the gold medal match. After two series of each, it would be Dallinger (305.7) and Kim (304.5) that would be eliminated. The German struggled with the standing position after doing creditably with the first two, while Kim couldn't recover after a bad start kneeling. After the next series, subpar performances eliminated Liu (357.0) and Kowalewicz (356.6). In the final series, Kulish extended his lead with a final score of 413.9 in the final, to join Bartnik who struggled somewhat but also had enough of a lead to go through with 409.4. Hegg closed the gap to 407.9 while Kusale had a bad series that cost him a big chance to make the final and finished fourth on 407.6. In the gold medal match, both athletes would take turns shooting, with the higher score earning the athlete two points (if they were tied, both would have one point), and the first to sixteen being crowned world champion. With the score at 8-6 to Kulish, the Ukrainian won the next four shots to claim a 16-6 win. Thus, the first quota spots went to Ukraine (Kulish) and Poland (Bartnik). The next would ordinarily go to Hegg, but as he already earned a spot at the European championships, the next spots went to India (Kusale) and China (Liu) instead. In the Men's Rapid Fire Pistol, seventy-eight athletes entered, with France's Clément Bessaguet and Germany's Oliver Geis earning a spot in Poland, the other seventy-six were eligible. In qualifying, there would be six hundred shots, with the top eight making it. Bessaguet topped qualifying with 589, with South Korea's Lee Gunhyeok (23x) and Germany's Christian Reitz (19x) on 586. China's Lu Zhiming was next on 585, with the Czech Republic's Matej Rampula (24x), Pakistan's Ghulam Mustafa Bashir (19x), South Korea's Lee Jaekyoon (19x), and Germany's Florian Peter (19x) all qualifying, and Ukraine's Pavlo Korostylov (19x) just missing out: with the same number of tens, the next tiebreaker for the four was the last series: where Bashir earned 95 points, Lee and Peter 94, and Korostylov just 92. The ranking matches would be split into two matches of four, with the top two after four series of five (twenty shots) advancing. Bessaguet, Lee Jaekyon, Rampula, and Reitz were in the first match, but Lee's perfect second series was enough to carry him through. It was a three-way race for the second spot with Rampula on ten and both Bessaguet and Reitz on nine with one shot to go, but two misses for Rampula eliminated him while his adversaries got a perfect five. Thus, Bessaguet and Reitz entered a shoot-off, with the Frenchman winning 5-3. Lee was through on fifteen, as was Bessaguet on fourteen, while Reitz (fourteen) and Rampula (thirteen) missed out. In the other match, Bashir, Lee Gunhyeok, Lu, and Peter did battle. This race was much less close: Lee was through with sixteen alongside Bashir on fifteen, with Lu on thirteen and Peter on twelve. In the final, whoever was fourth would be eliminated after four series of five (twenty shots), with another eliminated after two more series (ten more shots), and a winner declared after two more. After twenty shots, both Bessaguet and Lee Gunhyeok had eighteen and were through, but Bashir and Lee Jaekyon both had fifteen: both missed their twentieth shot to avoid a shoot-off. In the shoot-off, it was tied 3-3, so another was held, with Bashir winning 5-3, eliminating one of the two South Koreans. But Bashir took just four of his next ten and was eliminated with nineteen hits to claim bronze. Meanwhile, Lee Jaekyon had hit nine of those ten while Bessaguet could only hit five, opening a 27-23 lead. But Lee missed six of the next four, finishing on thirty-one: his French opponent needed eight for a shoot-off, or nine for victory, but could only manage seven to finish on thirty. Thus, Lee Jaekyon was champion and earned the first quota for South Korea. With Bessaguet ineligible having already won a spot in Poland, the next spot went to Bashir. Lee Gunhyeok was ineligible as well as South Korea already had a quota in this event. For the final two spots, scores in the ranking round were compared. Reitz earned the first spot, meaning Germany have now a full team of two in this event, with the other spot going to China (Lu): tied with Rampula, Lu got the nod based on superior qualification. 102 entered 50m Rifle 3 Positions qualification, with Denmark's Rikke Maeng Ibsen and the Czech Republic's Veronika Blažíčková already qualified, meaning one hundred remained who could. China's Shi Mengyao qualified top with 590 in the elimination relay, as the final seventy took off, again fighting for eight positions over sixty shots (and a maximum of six hundred points). China's Miao Wanru (32x) and Norway's Jenny Stene (28x) were top, ahead of Norwegian Jeanette Hegg Duestad on 591. The USA's Sagen Maddalena was next on 590, with Mongolia's Yesugen Oyunbat on 589. It was hugely close for the last three spots with five shooters on 587. Lee Eunseo of South Korea (33x), India's Anjum Moudgil (31x) and Austria's Nadine Ungerank (28x) all qualified, with Germany's Lisa Mueller (28x) and Switzerland's Nina Christen (27x) missing out: Ungerank getting the nod ahead of Mueller due to a better score on the final standing series (98-97). The format for the ranking match was the same as in the men's event. Both Oyunbat (301.1) and Ungerank (300.6) struggled in the standing position and this was their downfall as they were the first to go. The same could be said about Lee (356.8) and Moudgil (355.4) and they couldn't recover in the final series and also were eliminated. Stene (412.5) and Miao (411.4) had strong final series and had also been the most consistent, putting them through to the gold medal match ahead of Duestad (410.0) and Maddalena (409.9). In the gold medal match, Stene opened a 10-4 lead before losing the next four to go 12-10 down. Miao was world champion after winning 17-13 in the end. Therefore, the first places went to China (Miao) and Norway (Stene). With Norway having already gotten a place, Duestad was ineligible for the next spot, so it went to the USA (Maddalena) instead, with South Korea (Lee) getting the last place. Finally, in the Women's 25m Pistol, ninety-one entered: German Doreen Vennekamp and Pole Klaudia Breś had already qualified meaning eighty-nine were eligible. In qualifying, where the maximum score was six hundred, Vennekamp was top on 590, with Iranian Haniyeh Rostamiyan next on 588. Indian Rhythm Sangwan was next on 587, ahead of Bulgarian Antoaneta Kostadinova on 586. France's Mathilde Lamolle was next on 585 (21x), ahead of China's Chen Yan, also on 585 (21x) by virtue of a superior final series: 100-99. South Korea's Kim Jangmi was seventh on 584, with a close-run four-way tie for 583 and the final spot, with Greece's Anna Korakaki (28x) just beating out German Monika Karsch (23x), Indian Manu Bhaker (19x) and Michelle Skeries (15x), also of Germany. The ranking matches worked just like the Men's Rapid Fire Pistol, with Kim, Lamolle, Sangwan and Vennekamp. Lamolle was well behind after three series with six, with Sangwan leading on eleven, Kim on ten (having missed three of her last five in the third series) and Vennekamp on nine. However, Sangwan remarkably missed all five of her final shots to get eliminated: Vennekamp and Kim went through on fourteen, Sangwan was eliminated on eleven ahead of Lamolle on ten. In the other ranking match it was Chen, Korakaki, Kostadinova, and Rostamiyan who were doing battle. Kostadinova led after three with twelve hits, with Rostamiyan on ten edging out Chen and Korakaki on nine. However, Rostamiyan only hit one of her final four while Korakaki only hit two. Thus it was Kostadinova (sixteen) who went through with Chen (thirteen), and Rostamiyan and Korakaki both missed out on eleven. In the medal match, Kostadinova lost her form and missed all shots in the third series, and was generally shaky, hitting just eight out of twenty and was eliminated miles behind. With the medallists decided, it was a tight battle as with Chen in front on fifteen after foru series, Kim and Vennekamp were both on fourteen with one to go. Chen was perfect to mean she was pretty much safe in the fifth, and Kim hit four and Vennekamp hit three. In the next, both were perfect, meaning the German was eliminated and won bronze on twenty-two. Meanwhile, both Chen (who missed two in the sixth series) and Kim were both on twenty-three. Chen had the advantage, 28-27 after hitting a perfect seventh series, but opened the door by missing two in her final series. Kim hit a perfect five to win gold, 32-31. The first quotas went to South Korea (Kim) and China (Chen). Vennekamp was ineligible having already won a spot, so the next place went to Bulgaria (Kostadinova). The next spot was based on ranking round, but with Korakaki, Rostamiyan, and Sangwan all level on eleven, Iran got the final place based on Rostamiyan's superior qualifying performance. With these championships now wrapped up, the next chance to watch shooting places be decided for Olympic places is the CAT XIII Championship in Lima, Peru, next month. Patrick Green Writer, Totallympics News