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Canoeing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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This article details the canoeing at the 2020 Summer Olympics qualifying phase. The 2020 Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Similar to 2012 and 2016 format, a qualification system has been set up for both slalom and sprint canoeing at these games. The quotas have already been set for each event by the International Canoe Federation in October 2018.

Qualification summary

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NOC Slalom Sprint Total
K1
M
C1
M
K1
W
C1
W
Men Women Boats Athletes
K1
200
K1
1000
K2
1000
K4
500
C1
1000
C2
1000
K1
200
K1
500
K2
500
K4
500
C1
200
C2
500
 Algeria Yes 1 1
 Andorra Yes 1 1
 Argentina Yes Yes Yes Yes 4 4
 Australia Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 8 16
 Austria Yes Yes Yes Yes 4 5
 Belarus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 6 12
 Belgium Yes Yes Yes 3 4
 Belize Yes 1 1
 Brazil Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 5 5
 Bulgaria Yes 1 1
 Canada Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 10 18
 Chile Yes 1 2
 China Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 11 18
 Cook Islands Yes Yes Yes 3 3
 Croatia Yes Yes Yes 3 3
 Cuba Yes Yes Yes 3 5
 Czech Republic Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 7 9
 Denmark Yes Yes 2 4
 Egypt Yes Yes 2 2
 France Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 10 13
 Germany Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 11 21
 Great Britain Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 8 8
 Hungary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 9 18
 Iran Yes 1 1
 Ireland Yes 1 1
 Italy Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 6 7
 Japan Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 8 12
 Kazakhstan Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 6 7
 Latvia Yes 1 1
 Lithuania Yes 1 1
 Mexico Yes 1 1
 Moldova Yes Yes 2 3
 Morocco Yes Yes 2 2
 Mozambique Yes 1 1
 Netherlands Yes 1 1
 New Zealand Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 5 8
 Nigeria Yes 1 1
 Norway Yes 1 1
 Poland Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 10 13
 Portugal Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 5 8
 Refugee Olympic Team Yes 1 1
 Romania Yes 1 2
 ROC Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 9 17
 Samoa Yes Yes Yes 3 3
 São Tomé and Príncipe Yes 1 2
 Senegal Yes 1 1
 Serbia Yes Yes Yes 3 3
 Slovakia Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 6 9
 Slovenia Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 5 6
 South Korea Yes 1 1
 Spain Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 10 15
 Sweden Yes Yes Yes 3 3
 Switzerland Yes Yes Yes 3 3
 Chinese Taipei Yes 1 1
 Thailand Yes 1 1
 Tunisia Yes Yes Yes 3 4
 Ukraine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 6 11
 United States Yes Yes Yes Yes 4 4
 Uzbekistan Yes 1 2
Total: 59 NOCs 24 17 24 17 12 15 10 10 13 14 16 11 8 12 14 13 230 331

Slalom

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For the slalom events, the men and women competed for each in C-1 and K-1. Qualifications were allocated to NOCs, not to specific competitors. NOCs were limited to one boat per event. Qualification spots were earned as follows:

  • World Championships: The top placed boats (considering only one boat per NOC) earned their NOCs a qualification. 18 qualification spots were available in the K-1 events, and 11 in the C-1.
  • Continental Qualification Events: Only NOCs that did not earn qualification in a given event through the World Championships were eligible. For the K-1 and C-1 events, 1 qualification spot was available for each continent.
  • Host country: Japan, as the host country, is guaranteed one entry in each event if not already qualified.
  • Tripartite Commission: Canoeing (both slalom and sprint) has a total of 2 qualification spots that would be awarded through Tripartite Commission invitations.
  • Reallocation: Unused quota spots were reallocated.

Timeline

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Event Date Venue
2019 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships September 25–29, 2019 Spain La Seu d'Urgell, Spain
2020 Oceania Canoe Slalom Championships February 1–3, 2020 New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand
2021 African Canoe Slalom Olympic Qualifiers March 20–21, 2021 Spain La Seu d'Urgell, Spain[2]
2021 Asian Canoe Slalom Olympic Qualifiers May 1–2, 2021[3] Thailand Pattaya, Thailand[2]
2021 European Canoe Slalom Championships May 7–9, 2021 Italy Ivrea, Italy[2]

Qualification table

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Event Men's K-1 Men's C-1 Women's K-1 Women's C-1
Host nation  Japan  Japan  Japan  Japan
2019 World Championships  Czech Republic
 Great Britain
 Portugal
 ROC
 Australia
 Spain
 Slovakia
 France
 Germany
 Canada
 Italy
 Austria
 Switzerland
 Slovenia
 United States
 Brazil
 Sweden
 New Zealand
 France
 Poland
 Slovenia
 Slovakia
 Switzerland
 Ireland
 Spain
 Canada
 Croatia
 Czech Republic
 Great Britain
 Czech Republic
 Slovakia
 Austria
 Ukraine
 France
 Great Britain
 New Zealand
 Poland
 Netherlands
 Germany
 Andorra
 Spain
 Slovenia
 Italy
 ROC
 Cook Islands
 Canada
 China
 Spain
 Australia
 Germany
 Czech Republic
 Austria
 Brazil
 United States
 Great Britain
 Italy
 France
 Slovenia
2020 Oceania Championships *  Australia * *
2021 African Championships  Morocco  Senegal  Morocco *
Pan American Allocation  Argentina  United States  Mexico  Canada
2021 Asian Qualifier  China  Kazakhstan  Kazakhstan  China
2021 European Championships  Poland  Germany  Switzerland  Slovakia
Tripartite Invitation
Reallocation  Belgium*  Chinese Taipei*  Poland*
 Hungary
 Switzerland*[5]
Total 24 17 24 17

Italic: National federation has qualified a boat but the athlete that did this was already counted in another boat
* No continental qualifying race held as less than three nations are eligible.
** National federation is limited to two athlete quota places at a continental qualifying event.

Sprint

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NOCs are limited to one boat per event, and in kayaking to six men and six women positions. In Canoeing, the maximum is three men and three women. Meaning a country can enter up to 18 athletes overall. Qualification enables an NOC to participate, not necessarily in the person of the paddler who gained the place. Quotas given are for boats.[6] Qualification spots were earned as follows:

  • World Championships: The top placed boats (considering only one boat per NOC) earned their NOCs a qualification. 5 boat qualification spots were available in the K-1 events with an additional place reserved for the host country each in the men's 1000 m and women's 500 m, 6 in the K-2 events, 10 in the K-4 events, 6 in the C-1 events (1 of which was reserved for the host country in the 1000 metre event), and 8 in the C-2 event.
  • World Cup 2: The top placed boat (considering only one boat per NOC) in each individual event earned their NOCs a qualification.
  • Continental Qualification Events: Only NOCs that did not earn qualification in a given event through the World Championships were eligible. For the K-1 and C-1 events, 1 boat qualification spot was available for each continent (except that Europe received 2 spots). For the K-2 and C-2 events, Europe was guaranteed two boat qualification spots but only 6 total qualification spots were available for the remaining 4 continents; these were assigned to continents based on World Championship results: the best ranked non-qualifying NOCs from four different continents at the World Championships earned their continent one boat qualification place.
  • Host country: Japan, as the host country, was guaranteed entries in certain events as listed in the World Championship section.
  • Tripartite Commission: Canoeing (both slalom and sprint) had a total of 2 qualification spots that would be awarded through Tripartite Commission invitations.
  • Reallocation: Unused quota spots were reallocated. In practice, this was used where some of an NOC's competitors in a larger boat category also competed in a smaller category, freeing up the athlete quota spot that NOC had earned in the smaller category.

Timeline

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Event Date Venue
2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships August 21–25, 2019 Hungary Szeged, Hungary
2019 African Games August 26–31, 2019 Morocco Rabat, Morocco
2020 Oceania Canoe Sprint Qualifier February 14–16, 2020 Australia Penrith, Australia
2021 Asian Canoe Sprint Olympic Qualifiers May 5–7, 2021 Thailand Pattaya, Thailand[6]
2021 European Canoe Sprint Qualifier May 12–13, 2021 Hungary Szeged, Hungary[6]
2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup 2 May 19–23, 2021 Russia Barnaul, Russia[6]

Qualification table

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The following boats and athletes qualified.[7]

Event 2019 World
Championships
Continental qualification 2021 World
Cup 2
Total
Men Kayak Europe Americas Asia Africa Oceania
K-1 200 m  Great Britain
 Serbia
 France
 Italy
 Sweden
 ROC
 Latvia
 Argentina  South Korea  South Africa
 Egypt
 Samoa  Lithuania 12
K-1 1000 m  Czech Republic
 Portugal
 Slovakia
 ROC
 Belarus
 France
 Argentina
 Serbia
 Belgium
 Norway
 Brazil
 BelizeTR
 Iran  Tunisia  Cook Islands  China
 Refugee Olympic TeamIP
15
K-2 1000 m  Germany
 Spain
 France
 Czech Republic
 Australia
 Italy
 Hungary  Canada  China  New Zealand 10
K-4 500 m  Germany
 Spain
 Slovakia
 ROC
 Hungary
 Portugal
 Belarus
 Australia
 Japan
 Canada
10
Event 2019 World
Championships
Continental qualification 2021 World
Cup 2
Total
Men Canoe Europe Americas Asia Africa Oceania
C-1 1000 m  Brazil
 Poland
 France
 Germany
 Czech Republicº
 Japan*
 Ukraine  Cuba  China  Tunisia
 MozambiqueTR
 Australia
 Samoa
 Moldova 13
C-2 1000 m  China
 Cuba
 Brazil
 Germany
 Romania
 Poland
 ROC
 Ukraine
 Czech Republicº
 Spain
 Hungary
 Canada  Kazakhstan  São Tomé and Príncipe 14
Event 2019 World
Championships
Continental qualification 2021 World
Cup 2
Total
Women Kayak Europe Americas Asia Africa Oceania
K-1 200 m  New Zealand
 Poland
 Denmark
 Spain
 Ukraine
 Hungary
 Serbia
 Portugal
 Great Britain
 Italy
 Argentina  Japan  Algeria  Cook Islands  ROC 16
K-1 500 m  New Zealand
 Belarus
 Hungary
 Serbia
 Denmarkº
 Sweden
 Great Britain
 Spain
 Croatia
 Canada  Kazakhstan  Egypt  Samoa  Portugal 11
K-2 500 m  Belarus
 Poland
 Slovenia
 Belgium
 France
 UkraineAQ
 China
 Germany  Austria**  South Africa
 Tunisia
 Australia 8
K-4 500 m  Hungary
 Belarus
 Poland
 New Zealand
 France
 Germany
 Australia
 Ukraine
 China
 Canada
 ROC
 Denmarkº
12
Event 2019 World
Championships
Continental qualification 2020 World
Cup 2
Total
Women Canoe Europe Americas Asia Africa Oceania
C-1 200 m  United States
 ROC
 Belarus
 Chile
 Canada
 Poland
 Ukraine
 Hungary
 Great Britain
 Spain  Bulgaria**  Thailand  Nigeria  New Zealand
 China
 Croatia 14
C-2 500 m  China
 Hungary
 Belarus
 Germany
 Uzbekistan
 Cuba
 Ukraine
 Chile
 Moldova
 ROC
 Japan**  Kazakhstan  Australia 13
^* Host quota
  • Italic: National federation has qualified a boat but the athlete that did this was already counted in another boat
  • AQ: National federation has qualified a boat but one of two athletes that did this was already counted in another boat
  • IP: Invitational place given by the IOC[8]
  • TR: National federation has received an invitation from the Tripartite Commission[9]
  • ^: ICF decided that some of the events in Africa and Oceania needed to be reattributed to the World Championships lists because the events seen as invalid due to lack of eligible competitors.
  • º: ICF decided that two quota places were combined and reallocated to the next best ranked NOC not qualified in a larger boat category, should they be available from team boats in the same gender and category.
  • South Africa declined all their quotas obtained in African Games 2019.
  • ** Owing to the cancellation of the Americas qualifiers, ICF decides to allocate the quotas according to the results from the 2019 World Championships. Where insufficient athletes were available from the Americas, quotas were re-allocated.

In the men's kayak category, Spain had qualifying boats in the K-4 500m, K-2 1000m, and K-1 200m; because each NOC could earn a maximum of 6 athlete spots, the K-1 200m athlete quota spot was reallocated to Sweden. Hungary qualified boats in the K-4, K-2, and K-1 1000m, requiring reallocation of the K-1 1000m place. Josef Dostál of the Czech Republic qualified in the K-1 1000m and was also a part of a qualifying K-2 1000m boat. The athlete quota spot from the K-1 was reallocated. The two spots went to the next best in K-1 1000m, but could not be allocated to France (Étienne Hubert was France's K-1 1000m athlete, but had already earned a spot in K-2) or to Spain (which already had 6 athlete quotas), so went to Belarus and Argentina as the first two possible recipients. Japan earned a team spot in the K-4, so its host spot in the K-1 1000m also head to be reallocated; it could not go to Australia (which had 6 places already), so 11th-placed Serbia qualified.

In the men's canoe category, Isaquias Queiroz of Brazil qualified in both the C-1 and C-2 events; his C-1 athlete quota spot was reallocated. This spot went to the next-best NOC in C-2, the Czech Republic, as it could fill the C-2 boat because one the two athletes (Martin Fuksa) had already earned an athlete quota spot in C-1 and only 1 spot was needed to fill the boat.

In the women's kayak category, numerous quota spots were reallocated, in a two-step process. The first step was that athletes who qualified in both K-1 events were assigned the 500m place and the 200m place was reallocated to the next boat in the 200m. Lisa Carrington of New Zealand and Emma Jørgensen fit that criterion; they were treated as qualifying in the 500m and their 200m spots reallocated to Hungary and Serbia. Because the Serbia spot would have gone to Milica Starović, who (like Carrington and Jørgensen) had qualified in the 500m, that spot was further reallocated to Portugal.

The second step in women's kayak was for athletes qualifying in multiple boat sizes. Volha Khudzenka of Belarus was part of the K-4, K-2, and K-1 500m boats that qualified, requiring reallocation of her K-2 and K-1 quota places. Maryna Litvinchuk was also in both the K-4 and K-2 boats for Belarus, so her K-2 quota place had to reallocated. Karolina Naja and Anna Puławska were in Poland's K-4 and K-2 boats; both of their quota places from the K-2 were reallocated. The same was true of Sarah Guyot and Manon Hostens of France and Mariya Povkh of Ukraine. Mariia Kichasova-Skoryk, also of Ukraine, qualified in both the K-4 boat and the K-1 200m; her K-1 spot was reallocated. Finally, Carrington was part of New Zealand's K-4 boat, so her K-1 500m spot was reallocated. These 10 spots were allocated to fill K-4 boats (ROC received 4 and Denmark netted 3, adding to Jørgensen's K-1 500m spot). The remaining 3 places were not enough to qualify Great Britain in the K-4, so the next step was allocating them to the K-2. The 3 remaining spots then went first to China in the K-2. This left 1 spot; Austria was next in the K-2 but neither athlete was qualified yet, so the spot would not fill the boat and therefore went to the K-1 500m. Sweden got the quota as next NOC in the K-1 500m.

In the women's canoe, María Mailliard of Chile qualified in both the C-2 and the C-1; her quota place was reallocated. The 1 reallocated spot was not enough to fill a C-2 boat (Japan did not have a qualifier in C-1), so went to the next C-1 competitor: Poland.

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 d "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Canoe Slalom" (PDF). ICF. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  3. ^ Pattaya 2021 — ICF
  4. ^ "Tokyo 2020 Olympic Qualification - Canoe Slalom" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Nachträglicher Startplatz - Kanutin Marx für Olympia nachselektioniert". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 2021-07-19. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Canoe Sprint" (PDF). ICF. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Tokyo 2020 Canoe Sprint Qualification – Quota Allocation" (PDF). International Canoe Federation. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  8. ^ "IOC Refugee Olympic Team Tokyo 2020" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  9. ^ "Belize and Mozambique awarded tripartite Olympic quotas". International Canoe Federation. Retrieved 2021-05-21.