Our NOC today officially approved the Slovak Team for Rio.
as expected all 52 quotas are accepted and all 52 athletes will go to Rio, there still posibility untill the 18th July to add athletes in Athletics or Swimming. you can find the team below.
there in fact 2 surprise to notice:
first Martin Haring will not go to Rio. yes Patrik Tybor was selected today to start in road cycling road race ! coaches said he had better results in Tour de Slovakia in June than Martin Haring.
and second, I really don´t know why, but we have a change in weightlifting. Ondrej Krúžel +105kg will compete in Rio instead of previously announced reigning Under 23 european champion in -105kg Matej Kováč.
also our canoe sprint quota in C1-1000m will be used by Vincent Farkaš who surprisingly defeated today Matej Rusnák in internal qualifying Race but ok, the coach of both athletes who was the referee in todays race said that Vincent has actually a clearly better shape and is much stronger.
The Flag bearer will be Danka Barteková bronze medalist in womens skeet in London 2012, our only IOC member.
The Slovak Olympic Oath in front of the president of the Republic will be made 23rd July in Bratislava castle by Erik Varga double back to back world champion in Trap and Alexandra Longová who won our first historic olympic Archery quota. the next day will be the day of the departure to Rio for our first part of the team (Archery, Swimming, Shooting, Table Tennis, Tennis, Canoe Slalom, Artistic Gymnastics and Road Cycling).
Here the official team
Zoznam slovenských športovcov, ktorých účasť na OH 2016 v Riu de Janeiro schválilo 50. VZ SOV (52): ATHLETICS(16): Lucia Hrivnák Klocová (800 m W), Katarína Berešová (marathon W), Dana Velďáková (triple Jump W), Martina Hrašnová (Hammer W), Mária Gáliková, Mária Czaková (both 20 km Race Walk W), Iveta Putalová (400 m W), Jana Velďáková (Long Jump W), Anton Kučmín (20km Race Walk M), Jozef Repčík (800 m M), Matúš Bubeník (High Jump M), Matej Tóth (50 km Walk Race M, he has also quota for 20km but will not use it), Martin Tišťan and Dušan Majdán (both 50 km Walk Race M), Marcel Lomnický (Hammer M), Martin Kučera (400 m Hurdles M) CANOEING SPRINT (7): Denis Myšák, Erik Vlček, Juraj Tarr, Tibor Linka (K4-1000 m M), Vlček, Tarr (K2-1000 m M), Peter Gelle (K1-1000 m M), Martina Kohlová (K1-500 m W, K1-200 m W), Vincent Farkaš (C1-1000 m M and will also start in C1-200 m M) CANOEING SLALOM (5): Matej Beňuš (C1 M), Jana Dukátová (K1 W), Jakub Grigar (K1 M), Ladislav and Peter Škantár (C2 M) SHOOTING (5): Erik Varga (trap M), Juraj Tužinský and Pavol Kopp (50m Pistol M and Air Pistol M), Danka Barteková (skeet W), Marián Kovačócy (trap M - replacing Zuzana Rehák-Štefečeková in maternity leave) TENNIS (4): Dominika Cibulková, Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (both singles W and Doubles W), Martin Kližan (singles M and Doubles M), Andrej Martin (Doubles M) SWIMMING (3): Katarína Listopadová (100 m Butterfly W, 100 m Backstroke W), Tomáš Klobučník (100 m Breaststroke M), Richard Nagy (400 m Individual Medley M, 1500 m Free Style M., 10 km Marathon Swimming M) TABLE TENNIS (3): Wang Yang (singles M), Barbora Ódorová, Barbora Balážová (both Singles W) SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING (2): Naďa Daabousová, Jana Labáthová (duets W) ARCHERY (2): Boris Baláž (individual M), Alexandra Longová (Individual W) ROAD CYCLING (1): Patrik Tybor (Road Race M) MTB CYCLING (1): Peter Sagan (cross country M) ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS (1): Barbora Mokošová (All-Around W) TRIATHLON (1): Richard Varga (Individual M) WEIGHTLIFTING (1): Ondrej Kružel (+105 kg M)
Official LINK https://www.olympic.sk/aktuality-sov/50-valne-zhromazdenie-sov-schvalilo-zlozenie-slovenskej-vypravy-na-oh-2016-istych-je-52-sportovcov-slub-slozia-e-varga-a-longova-s-vlajkou-na-otvaracom-ceremoniali-bartekova