This section tabulates the heads of qualification in a form suitable to be filled in as events progress. The full qualification rules [1] for triathlon published by ITU contain intricate conditions too lengthy for inclusion in Wikipedia. |
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This article details the qualifying phase for triathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics . 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 for the first eight NOCs, while the remaining nations are limited to two. 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 begin on May 15, 2014 and then conclude two years later on the same date. [1] [2]
The triathlon competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 18 to 20 August 2016 at Fort Copacabana. Fifty-five athletes competed in each of the men's and women's events.
The winners of each of the five Continental Qualification Events are selected to compete for the Games, followed by the top three finishers at the 2015 ITU World Qualification Event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Thirty-nine athletes for each gender must directly qualify through the Olympic Qualification List as of May 15, 2016, ensuring that the first eight NOCs qualifying for positions are subjected to a maximum of three, and then the remaining NOCs to a limit to two. [1] [3] Host nation Brazil has guaranteed a single place for each gender, while further two berths are made available to NOCs through a Tripartite Invitation Commission. In the end, further five places are distributed to the NOCs without any quota through the ITU Points List. [1]
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area and the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape.
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Brazil was the host nation of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's twenty-second appearance at the Summer Olympics, having competed in all editions in the modern era from 1920 onwards, except the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Setting a milestone in Olympic history, Brazil became the first South American country to host the Summer Olympics, and the second Latin American host following the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico.
NOC | Men | Women | Total |
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2 | 0 | 2 | |
3 | 3 | 6 | |
1 | 2 | 3 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | |
2 | 2 | 4 | |
0 | 1 | 1 | |
1 | 1 | 2 | |
2 | 3 | 5 | |
0 | 1 | 1 | |
1 | 1 | 2 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | 1 | |
3 | 2 | 5 | |
2 | 3 | 5 | |
3 | 3 | 6 | |
2 | 2 | 4 | |
1 | 1 | 2 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | |
2 | 2 | 4 | |
1 | 3 | 4 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | 1 | |
3 | 2 | 5 | |
0 | 2 | 2 | |
2 | 3 | 5 | |
0 | 1 | 1 | |
3 | 0 | 3 | |
3 | 2 | 5 | |
1 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | 1 | |
2 | 2 | 4 | |
3 | 3 | 6 | |
0 | 1 | 1 | |
2 | 1 | 3 | |
1 | 1 | 2 | |
3 | 3 | 6 | |
Total: 38 NOCs | 56 | 56 | 112 |
Event | Date | Venue |
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World Qualification Event | August 1–2, 2015 | |
2015 European Games | June 13–14, 2015 | |
2015 Pan American Games | July 11–12, 2015 | |
2016 Oceania Triathlon Championships | March 19–20, 2016 | |
2016 African Triathlon Championships | March 20, 2016 | |
2016 Asian Triathlon Championships | April 29 – May 1, 2016 | |
Cutoff for World Rankings | May 15, 2016 | |
Re-allocation of unused quotas | June 13, 2016 |
^ 1. South Africa has awarded a quota place through the continental qualifier, but later declined, as SASCOC made an agreement on the Rio 2016 Olympics qualification criteria that the continental route would not be considered. [4]
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