Olympic Qualification Update: Four Female Surfers Get Tickets to Teahupo'o
More Olympic surfing qualifiers for Paris 2024 are trickling in.
With competition underway at the ISA World Surfing Games in Puerto Rico, the final available slots for the upcoming Paris 2024 Games are slowly being finalized.
And today, after day six of competition, four women secured their tickets to Teahupo’o.
Yolanda Sequeira (Portugal), Sol Aguirre (Peru), Nadia Erostarbe (Spain), and Tainá Hinckel (Brazil) all provisionally qualified for Paris 2024 via the 2024 ISA World Surfing Games, which will be held July 27th-August 4th at Teahupo’o, Tahiti.
Joining these new faces on the women’s side, here’s who has already qualified:
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Caroline Marks (USA)
Carissa Moore (USA)
Caity Simmers (USA)
Tyler Wright (Australia)
Molly Picklum (Australia)
Tatiana Weston-Webb (Brazil)
Johanne Defay (France)
Brissa Hennesy (Costa Rica)
Teresa Bonvolat (Portugal)
Vahine Fierro (France)
Shino Matsuda (Japan)
Sarah Baum (South Africa)
Saffi Vette (New Zealand)
Sanoa Dempfle-Olin (Canada)
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And as a reminder, here’s the hierarchy on how to qualify:
2023 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour: First 10 eligible men and first 8 eligible women.
2023 ISA World Surfing Games: 4 men and 4 women selected based on their continent. Top finishing eligible surfer of each gender from Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
2023 Pan American Games: First eligible man and first eligible woman in the surfing competitions.
2024 ISA World Surfing Games: First 5 eligible men and first 7 eligible women.
2024 ISA World Surfing Games: The winning teams by gender, will qualify 1 place for their respective country/NOC, regardless of the 2-per country quota limit.
2022 ISA World Surfing Games: The winning teams by gender, will qualify 1 place for their respective country/NOC, regardless of the 2-per country quota limit.
Host nation slot: One man and one woman slot will be guaranteed for the host nation of France, unless already filled through the above hierarchies. Should athletes from France qualify regularly, their slots will be reallocated to the highest ranked eligible surfers from the 2024 World Surfing Games.
Universality Place: For the first time, one place per gender will be made available to eligible NOCs. Special consideration will be given to the nature of the wave in Teahupoo in terms of the eligibility criteria for these places. Should there deemed to be no qualified surfers in this category, these slots will be reallocated to the highest ranked eligible surfers from the 2024 World Surfing Games The complete process and selection criteria for these places will be communicated by the IOC at a later date.
Stay tuned; more qualifying surfers to come.
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