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Biathlon at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022


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Can :NOR in M Individual and :SWE in W Individual enter 5 athletes in Beijing ? The rule about the extra-quota for the reigning olympic champion is still in place ?

 

In this case in both individuals we can have 93 starters, in the sprints 92 (20x4 + 12x1) Interesting JT Boe & H. Oeberg are the only 2 active Olympic champions from the individual events in PC 2018 (the others already retired Dahlmeier, Fourcade, Peiffer and Kuzmina)

 

So now when all this nerve-wracking qualification is finally over, let have a look thow it all ended

 

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:NOR:FRA and :GER  will travel to Beijing with six men, and another seven countries will go with five. These will be :RUS:SWE:ITA:BLR:AUT:UKR and :CZE .

:SLO , :CAN , :SUI , :USA , :FIN , :LTU , :BUL , :BEL , :EST and :SVK can field each four competitors.    

:JPN , :MDA and, with an exception, also host :CHN , earned two places through the IBU qualification points.  :LATBirkentals, :ROU Coltea, :POL Guzik, :KAZ Kiriyev, :KOR Lapshin and :NZL Wright will also travel to Beijing as sole representatives of their respective countries. :CRO Crnkovic remained the first under the line but his hope are not vompletely dead as there chances of refused quotas from previous NOCs (especially :NZL )

 

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Among women, :NOR and :FRA can count on six competitors, as well as :SWE , five will represent :GER , :BLR , :RUS , :UKR , :AUT , :ITA and :CZE .       Four athletes will have :SUI , :USA , :POL , :CAN , :FIN , :EST , :CHN , :SVK , :JPN and :BUL .

:SLO , :KOR and :MDA won two places from IBU qualification points. One for :KAZ Vishnevskaya, :LAT Bendika, :ROU Ushkina, :LTU Kocergina, :BEL Lie, and 20-year-old Ukaleq Slettemark, who represents Greenland, has won a quota as well, but since the IOC does not recognize :GRL , so she will compete for :DEN

 

So we should have 20 classic relays for both men and women, and 21 in the Mixed Relay

Sadly, Lithuania, Belgium and Poland can not field a Mixed Relay because they qualified 4 + 1 athletes, but :SLO , :JPN and host :CHN will have 4 + 2 competitors, so they can start also in the Mixed relay. Same based on the qualification points for :MDA with two women and two men qualified. 

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39 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Can :NOR in M Individual and :SWE in W Individual enter 5 athletes in Beijing ? The rule about the extra-quota for the reigning olympic champion is still in place ?

 

No, this rule just for World Championships.

But in mass start any country can partipicate 5 athletes. 

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1 hour ago, hckošice said:

:LATBirkentals, :ROU Coltea, :POL Guzik, :KAZ Kiriyev, :KOR Lapshin and :NZL Wright will also travel to Beijing as sole representatives of their respective countries.

I know Guzik has been confirmed and Wright and Lapshin are obvious choices. But the quotas are not nominative. So for :LAT it could also be Patrijuks, for :ROU I guess Shamaev, Buta or Puchianu are possible choices, and Mukhin for :KAZ.

Same applies for the women, :LTU will probably send Lescinskaite.

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2 hours ago, SalamAkhi said:

I know Guzik has been confirmed and Wright and Lapshin are obvious choices. But the quotas are not nominative. So for :LAT it could also be Patrijuks, for :ROU I guess Shamaev, Buta or Puchianu are possible choices, and Mukhin for :KAZ.

Same applies for the women, :LTU will probably send Lescinskaite.

Latvia will not have a male quota unless via reallocation 

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32 minutes ago, JonPhi said:

:mumble:

They removed the quota for Latvia since it was earned by Rastorgujevs.

They added :KAZ.

They removed the 2nd quota for China since it was not in the top 12, to give it via "host country places" (+1 another one).
So that's only 11 quota via the IBUQP, why is :CRO not included ? 

 

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