Aleah Finnegan
Over the past week, the qualification and apparatus competitions at world championships served to qualify a number of teams and individuals to next year’s Olympic Games, with the majority of the athletes we’ll see next year having gotten through via the process in Antwerp.
Below, you can see all of the new qualifiers to Paris 2024!
The Teams | WAG
The top nine NOCs qualified full five-member teams based on their finish in team qualifications, with these teams joining the United States, Great Britain, and Canada, all of which qualified last year.
– China
– Brazil
– Italy
– Netherlands
– France
– Japan
– Australia
– Romania
– South Korea
The Individuals | WAG
A total of 15 individual athletes qualified nominative spots based on their finish in all-around qualifications (one per NOC, with the 15th spot reallocated from the host country place), while four individuals qualified nominative spots based on their apparatus ranking.
Additionally, the top three NOCs that didn’t qualify full teams each earned one non-nominative spot, which they’ll be able to award to an athlete at their discretion at a later date.
– Kaylia Nemour (Algeria)
– Pauline Schäfer (Germany)
– Alexa Moreno (Mexico)
– Filipa Martins (Portugal)
– Aleah Finnegan (Philippines)
– Lili Czifra (Hungary)
– Alba Petisco (Spain)
– Anna Lashchevska (Ukraine)
– Lena Bickel (Switzerland)
– Hillary Heron (Panama)
– Caitlin Rooskrantz (South Africa)
– Sona Artamonova (Czechia)
– Lihie Raz (Israel)
– Lucija Hribar (Slovenia)
– Rifda Irfanaluthfi (Indonesia)
– Csenge Bacskay (Hungary)
– Ahtziri Sandoval (Mexico)
– Ana Perez (Spain)
– Sarah Voss (Germany)
– Germany (TBD)
– Mexico (TBD)
– Hungary (TBD)
The Teams | MAG
The top nine NOCs qualified full five-member teams based on their finish in team qualifications, with these teams joining China, Japan, and Great Britain, all of which qualified last year.
– United States
– Canada
– Germany
– Italy
– Switzerland
– Spain
– Türkiye
– Netherlands
– Ukraine
The Individuals | MAG
A total of eight individual athletes qualified nominative spots based on their finish in all-around qualifications (one per NOC), while six individuals qualified nominative spots based on their apparatus ranking.
Additionally, the top three NOCs that didn’t qualify full teams each earned one non-nominative spot, which they’ll be able to award to an athlete at their discretion at a later date.
– Milad Karimi (Kazakhstan)
– Artem Dolgopyat (Israel)
– Artur Davtyan (Armenia)
– Krisztofer Meszaros (Hungary)
– Lee Junho (South Korea)
– Diogo Soares (Brazil)
– Luka van den Keybus (Belgium)
– Andrei Muntean (Romania)
– Carlos Yulo (Philippines)
– Rhys McClenaghan (Ireland)
– Eleftherios Petrounias (Greece)
– Kevin Penev (Bulgaria)
– Noah Kuavita (Belgium)
– Tin Srbic (Croatia)
– Brazil (TBD)
– South Korea (TBD)
– Belgium (TBD)
What’s Next?
Next year, an additional eight WAG and 12 MAG athletes will be added to the Paris 2024 roster through the apparatus world cup series, while another five WAG and five MAG athletes will join via the continental championships.
There will also be one universality or tripartite place available for both WAG and MAG, which will be named at the end of the qualification process.
In terms of the host country place, the WAG spot has already been reallocated to the all-around pool since France qualified a full team to the Games, but if the French MAG program doesn’t qualify any individuals through the world cups or European Championships next year, they will be able to use that spot. If they do qualify in their own right, that spot will be returned to the worlds all-around pool, with Khabibullo Ergashev (Uzbekistan) next in line.
Article by Lauren Hopkins
The Gymternet 
Even though Mexico, Germany and Hungary just missed out on a team spot, they will each have 3 athletes compete so that’s like a mini “team” for each of them at least.. what an exciting competition this was overall..
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At the risk of the answer requiring many more blog posts, what are the rules for qualifying during the World Cup and Continental Championships? There are 13 spots… how many can come from the same country? Can any of those spots come from countries that already have qualified a team (like Tokyo)?
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A country not qualified to the Olympics as a full team can have up to 3 individual gymnasts compete in Paris.
Any country with a tam qualified are ineligible for any spots.
Germany (Schaffer-Betz=AA, Voss=Floor Team=+1 non nominative)
Mexico (Moreno=AA, Sandoval=UB, Team=+1 non nominative)
Hungary (Czifra=AA, Bacskay=VT, +1 non nominative)
are maxed out at 3 athletes each and cannot acquire any other spots.
Spain qualified Ana Perez (through floor ranking at Worlds) and Alba Petisco (all around ranking at Worlds), so Spain is eligible for one more spot via World Cup or Continentals.
Ukraine qualified Anna Lashchevska via the AA at Worlds, so they are eligible for 2 spots.
Russia did not compete Worlds, so they are eligible for 3 spots.
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So unlike the last quad, the countries with a team can’t go to World Cup events and get another specialist spot. Can they send athletes to World Cup events for competition experience? I assume so. At a World Cup event, how do they determine who gets those spots? Is it the top X competitors from countries who are eligible? I remember last time around it was some kind of meshing of all the World Cup results that I never really understood.
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Anyone can attend World Cups, they just have to register. But full teams or any teams that met the 3 individual max at Worlds will not count toward Olympic qualification.
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New language here? What are NAGs, WAGs and NOCs?
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MAG= Men’s Artistic Gymnastics
WAG= Women’s Artistic Gymnastics
NOC= National Olympic Committee
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I think that it was very Unfair to Deny Russian Athletes their rights to Compete. The Paris Olympics is unfair and discriminatory.
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Well If It Isn’t The Consequences of Russia’s Own Unprovoked Aggression Against Ukraine Coming Back To Bite Them
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You mean “Illegal, Unprovoked, Full-scale Invasion”. Just like on CNN. Over and over, repeat the narrative. Just like a parrot
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Ah sem dúvida, super injusto!!! Justo seria colocar russos competindo no mesmo ambiente que atletas ucranianos estarão!
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There are no “rights” to compete, it is a privilege.
How about the rights of the people of Ukraine have to LIVE?
Maybe if there was not a you know government led INVASION of another country, Russia wouldn’t have the sanctions in place.
You do realize that the majority of Russian athletes are actually military and actively involved in the war efforts.
The athletes aren’t all innocent in this major aggression.
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Thank you Sallygenova – you said it much better than I could
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If the French MAG program doesn’t qualify any individuals through the world cups or European Championships next year, wouldn’t that spot be automatically given to Leo Saladino (1st AA for FRA) with Jim Zona (2nd AA for FRA) the alternate ?
A country can qualify max 2 gymnast through WC Circuit, right ? (learning the qualifying process this quad is as tricky as last quad’ for me !)
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Host country spot is non-nominative. So anyone can be named.
2 gymnasts through World Cup circuit, 1 through Europeans.
Should FRA qualify 1 spot via any of these routes, the host country spot will be reallocated.
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Thank you. I read somewhere else it would be Saladino because of the ‘1st AA’ rule
Last question: can a country let as many gymnasts as they want to compete for the WC circuit (with a max of 6 MAG and 4 WAG of course), or is the number limited ? Ex: can FRA send 6 MAGs (with the hope of getting 1 or 2 tickets at the end)
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Host country spot is non-nominative, so it can go to anyone.
If France qualifies 2 through World Cup or 1 through the Continental spot then the host country is allocated to the next in line from 2023 Worlds AA rankings, which is Uzbekistan.
France has a decent shot at Europeans next year as Russia is unlikely to have any men. The rest of Europe will be short on competition because GBR, TUR, ITA, SUI, GER, NED, and ESP qualified full teams. Belgium has its max 3 (+1 non nominative, Luka van den Keybus=AA, Noah Kuavita= PB.
So France could manage to win the European AA spot. They will have to contend with the men from Finland, Hungary (Meszoros is qualified), and Israel (Dolgopyat is qualified) as well as Heggemsnes from Norway, Tikhonova from Azerbaijan, and Georgiou of Cyprus.
France can send who they want to World Cups, but only 2 could make it
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Thank you ! That’s precise and helpfull
I guess FRA will try to get 2 or 3 spots. Given the depth on some events from “smaller programs” (does it mean anything these days in MAG … ?) it won’t be easy but Osberger (FX PH) Samir (RI) Saladino (VT, AA) Zona (AA) Carvalho (PB) and Cameron Lee (PB) come to my mind as possible contenders. Maybe Philippe if he has recovered from his august’s injury.
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Where are Loris Frasca and Cyril Tommasone?
Have they retired?
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Neither is retired but Frasca hasn’t been doing much this quad, and Tommasone (and Aït Saïd) didn’t make this team because there wasn’t room for specialists. Both Tommasone and Aït Saïd competed at the world cup in Paris, and I think could be in position to help qualify spots next year, though maybe more Aït Saïd than Tommasone since he’s not SUPER competitive in the current pommels field.
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Loris competed at the Elites in june this year but not on all events. And none of what he showed was world class which is a shame as he’s really gifted. From what I perceive there may be physical problems (small injuries just like most elites) but probably not only
Cyril Tommasone (36) … should retire ….. he’s only training one event (at least Samir at some points this year trained 3 events) and was just 3rd on PH EF at Nationals this year. His D is average (by world class standards I mean). Never got why he was selectionned to compete at the Paris World Cup Challenge mi september when less experienced and youngsters Desanges or Carvalho – both representing FRA in Antwerp – were sent ‘Hors Concours’ in Paris …… Just BAD strategy
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Is Aleah Finnegan’s spot actually non-nominative? The press has sounded pretty definitive about it being hers, but theoretically, do the Philippines have the option of assigning it to the best gymnast at the time of the Olympics?
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No, her spot belongs to her (nominative)! The Philippines can’t award it to anyone else, and if they withdraw her, it would go to the first reserve based on AA qualifications at worlds, not to the Philippines.
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