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Triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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This article details the qualifying phase for triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics (postponed to 2021[1] due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 110 athletes coming from their respective NOCs; each has been allowed to enter a maximum of three. All athletes must undergo a qualifying process to earn a spot for the Games through the Continental Qualification Events, the World Qualification Event, and then the Olympic Qualification List that began on May 11, 2018, and then concludes two years later on the same date.[2]

Summary

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Ten NOCs will each earn four quota spots (two per gender) through mixed team qualification. The top seven NOCs in the ITU mixed relay rankings of 31 March 2020 will qualify. NOCs other than those seven can participate in the 2020 ITU Mixed Relay Olympic Qualification Event, with three more teams earning Olympic quota places through that competition.[2] This ensures a minimum field of ten teams in the mixed relay.

The individual rankings of 11 May 2020 will provide quota spots to 31 athletes in each gender. The first 26 spots will go sequentially to the best ranked athletes, subject to a limit of three per NOC (if all three are in the top 30) or two per NOC (if the third would be outside the top 30). For the purposes of this allocation, any NOC that qualified through mixed relay (and thus already has two quota places in each gender) must ignore its two highest-ranked competitors in each gender. Five additional spots will be awarded by continent, to the best-ranked remaining athlete from that continent whose NOC has not already qualified any quota places.[2] A team that qualifies two individuals in both the men's and women's events will then be eligible to join the ten previously qualified teams in the mixed relay event. In 2021, seven further teams achieved at least two quotas in both events, and thus also qualified for mixed relay.

Two places per gender are reserved for the host, Japan. Two final places in each gender are awarded by Tripartite Commission invitation.

NOC Men Women Mixed Total
 Argentina 1 1
 Australia 3 3 Yes 6
 Austria 2 2 Yes 4
 Azerbaijan 1 1
 Belgium 2 2 Yes 4
 Bermuda 1 1
 Brazil 1 2 3
 Canada 2 2 Yes 4
 Chile 1 1 2
 China 1 1
 Czech Republic 2 2
 Ecuador 1 1
 Egypt 1 1
 Estonia 1 1
 France 3 2 Yes 5
 Germany 2 2 Yes 4
 Great Britain 2 3 Yes 5
 Hong Kong 1 1
 Hungary 2 2 Yes 4
 Ireland 1 1 2
 Israel 2 2
 Italy 2 3 Yes 5
 Japan 2 2 Yes 4
 Luxembourg 1 1
 Mexico 2 2 Yes 4
 Morocco 1 1
 Netherlands 2 2 Yes 4
 New Zealand 2 2 Yes 4
 Norway 3 1 4
 Portugal 2 1 3
 ROC 2 2 Yes 4
 Romania 1 1
 South Africa 2 2 Yes 4
 Spain 3 2 Yes 5
 Switzerland 2 2 Yes 4
 Syria 1 1
 Ukraine 1 1
 United States 2 3 Yes 5
Total: 38 NOCs 55 55 18 110

Timeline

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Event Date Venue
Mixed relay ranking March 12, 2020
2021 ITU Mixed Relay Olympic Qualification Event May 21, 2021 Portugal Lisbon
Cut-off for individual rankings June 15, 2021

Men's event

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Event Places Qualified NOC Selected triathlete
Mixed relay rankings[3] 14  France Vincent Luis
Dorian Coninx
 Australia Jacob Birtwhistle
Aaron Royle
 Great Britain Jonathan Brownlee
Alex Yee
 New Zealand Hayden Wilde
Tayler Reid
 Germany Jonas Schomburg
Justus Nieschlag
 Netherlands Marco Van Der Stel
Jorik Van Egdom
 United States Morgan Pearson
Kevin McDowell
Mixed relay event[4] 6  Belgium Jelle Geens
Marten van Riel
 Italy Gianluca Pozzatti
Delian Stateff
 Switzerland Max Studer
Andrea Salvisberg
Individual ranking – World[5] 25  Spain Javier Gómez Noya
 Norway Kristian Blummenfelt
 Spain Mario Mola
 South Africa Henri Shoeman
 Canada Tyler Mislawchuk
 Norway Gustav Iden
 Hungary Bence Bicsák
 South Africa Richard Murray
 France Léo Bergère
 Spain Fernando Alarza
 Austria Alois Knabl
 Norway Casper Stornes
 Portugal Joao Pereira
 Portugal Joao Silva
 Australia Matthew Hauser
 Mexico Crisanto Grajales
 Denmark xxx
 Brazil Manoel Messias
 Israel Shachar Sagiv
 Canada Matthew Sharpe
 Mexico Irving Pérez
 Azerbaijan Rostyslav Pevtsov
 Austria Lukas Hollaus
 ROC Dmitry Polyanski
 Israel Ran Sagiv
 Hungary Tamás Tóth
Individual ranking – Africa 1  Morocco Mehdi Essadiq
Individual ranking – Americas 1  Chile Diego Moya
Individual ranking – Asia 1  Hong Kong Oscar Coggins
Individual ranking – Europe 1  Romania Felix Duchampt
Individual ranking – Oceania 0 None eligible xxx
Host nation 2  Japan Kenji Nener
 Japan Makoto Odakura
Tripartite Commission 1  Syria Mohamad Maso
Not allocated xxx
Reallocation 3  Luxembourg Stefan Zachäus
 Ireland Russell White
 ROC Igor Polyanski
Total 55

Women's event

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Event Places Qualified NOC Selected triathlete
Mixed relay rankings[3] 14  France Cassandre Beaugrand
Léonie Périault
 Australia Ashleigh Gentle
Jaz Hedgeland
 Great Britain Jess Learmonth
Georgia Taylor-Brown
 New Zealand Ainsley Thorpe
Nicole van der Kaay
 Germany Laura Lindemann
Anabel Knoll
 Netherlands Maya Kingma
Rachel Klamer
 United States Katie Zaferes
Summer Rappaport
Mixed relay event[4] 6  Belgium Valerie Barthelemy
Claire Michel
 Italy Angelica Olmo
Alice Betto
 Switzerland Nicola Spirig
Jolanda Annen
Individual ranking – World[6] 26  Great Britain Vicki Holland
 United States Taylor Knibb
 Austria Lisa Perterer
 Czech Republic Vendula Frintová
 Bermuda Flora Duffy
 Canada Joanna Brown
 Spain Miriam Casillas
 Italy Verena Steinhauser
 Brazil Vittória Lopes
 Australia Emma Jeffcoat
 Austria Julia Hauser
 Norway Lotte Miller
 Brazil Luisa Baptista
 Ukraine Yuliya Yelistratova[7]
 Spain Anna Godoy
 Portugal Melanie Santos
 ROC Alexandra Razarenova
 Mexico Cecilia Pérez
 Hungary Zsanett Bragmayer
 Estonia Kaidi Kivioja
 South Africa Simone Ackermann
 Hungary Zsófia Kovács
 Chile Bárbara Riveros
 Mexico Claudia Rivas
 Czech Republic Petra Kuříková
 Ecuador Elizabeth Bravo
Individual ranking – Africa 1  Egypt Basmla ElSalamoney
Individual ranking – Americas 1  Argentina Romina Biagioli
Individual ranking – Asia 1  China Zhong Mengying
Individual ranking – Europe 1  Ireland Carolyn Hayes
Individual ranking – Oceania 0 None eligible xxx
Host nation 2  Japan Yuko Takahashi
Niina Kishimoto
Tripartite Commission 0 Not allocated xxx,xxx
Reallocation 3  ROC Anastasia Gorbunova
 Canada Amélie Kretz
 South Africa Gillian Sanders
Total 55

References

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  1. ^ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". IOC. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Tokyo 2020 – ITU Triathlon Qualification System". ITU.
  3. ^ a b Teams fight for relay spots as France, Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand, Germany, Netherlands, USA and hosts Japan already qualified
  4. ^ a b Triathlon, World. "Results: Mixed Relay | 2021 World Triathlon Mixed Relay Olympic Qualification Event Lisbon". World Triathlon. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  5. ^ "World Triathlon Individual Olympic Qualification Ranking: Tokyo 2020 — World Triathlon". 2021-06-28. Archived from the original on 2021-06-28. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  6. ^ "World Triathlon Individual Olympic Qualification Ranking: Tokyo 2020 — World Triathlon". 2021-06-28. Archived from the original on 2021-06-28. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  7. ^ "International Testing Agency-The International Testing Agency (ITA) asserts an apparent anti-doping rule violation against Ukrainian triathlete Yuliya Yelistratova". International Testing Agency. Retrieved 2022-09-22.