Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos
With the two-year qualification process for the 2024 Olympic Games finally coming to a close with the conclusion of the continental championships in May, and with national federations that qualified full teams submitting the names of athletes to their Olympic Committees earlier in July, we finally have a complete list of every gymnast set to compete in Paris.
Women’s artistic gymnastics had a total of 98 spots available for the Paris Games, 60 of which were reserved for the 12 qualified teams (five members per team), while the remaining 38 were available for individual athletes. Below, we break down the rules for each team and individual qualifier, and we also talk through any changes and reallocations that have happened since the athletes who earned these spots were originally determined.
Teams
A total 12 women’s teams (up to 60 women) will qualify by NOC, including the top 3 based on the team final at the 2022 world championships and an additional 9 from the qualification round at the 2023 world championships.
Individuals | World Championships
A total of 22 individual athletes will qualify to the Olympics through the qualification round at the 2023 world championships, including 15 by name based on the all-around qualification rankings, 4 by name based on the apparatus qualification rankings, and 3 by NOC based on the team qualification rankings.
| ALL-AROUND QUALIFIERS | |
| 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)* | |
| APPARATUS QUALIFIERS | |
| Csenge Bacskay (Hungary) | Ahtziri Sandoval (Mexico) |
| Ana Perez (Spain) | Sarah Voss (Germany) |
| NOC INDIVIDUAL QUALIFIERS | |
| Helen Kevric (Germany) | Natalia Escalera (Mexico) |
| Zoja Szekely (Hungary)** | |
*Reallocated from host country berth
**Zsofia Kovacs, originally named to represent Hungary as the NOC individual, suffered an injury in podium training on July 25 and was replaced by Szekely.
Individuals | Apparatus World Cup Series
A total of 8 individual athletes will qualify by name to the Olympics through the 2024 apparatus world cup overall series rankings (highest-ranked eligible athletes, 2 per apparatus).
| WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS | |
| An Chang Ok (North Korea) | Valentina Georgieva (Bulgaria) |
| Georgia-Rose Brown (New Zealand) | Levi Jung-Ruivivar (Philippines) |
| Nina Derwael (Belgium) | Ting Hua-Tien (Taiwan) |
| Charlize Mörz (Austria) | Laura Casabuena (Spain) |
Individuals | Continental Championships
A total of 5 individual athletes will qualify by name to the Olympics through the 2023-2024 continental championships series (highest-ranked eligible athletes, 1 per continent).
| CONTINENTAL QUALIFIERS | |
| Luisa Blanco (Colombia) | Maellyse Brassart (Belgium) |
| Jana Mahmoud (Egypt) | Emma Malabuyo (Philippines) |
*Despite qualifying for a continental berth, Gymnastics New Zealand did not submit Brett to the New Zealand Olympic Committee for evaluation and she will not attend the Games. With no other eligible qualifiers from Oceania, her spot will not be reallocated.
Individuals | Tripartite Commission
A total of 1 individual athlete will qualify by name to the Olympics through the tripartite commission quota spot process.
| TRIPARTITE ATHLETE |
| Lynnzee Brown (Haiti) |
The Gymternet 
Can’t believe Japan and their archaic way of handling this! Kiss a medal good bye and PRAY that no one gets injured on their remaining team.
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I think sending her home is understandable (a bit harsh but not outrageous), but it does seem odd that they wouldn’t just bring Aiko in, especially given that she has the experience to handle it.
I would assume if someone else did get injured they’d bring Aiko in at that point, but I feel like even if there’s some reason they want to have the other four carry it, they could still put Aiko on the team while leaving her out of the lineups, that way they’d at least have her there and able to compete in the event of a last-minute injury.
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I actually admire and respect the Japanese for this. They’re upholding honor and propriety even at the expense of medals, in other words, the important intangible things over material gains. In a very materialistic world, this is a significant move and message that some may not easily comprehend. But yeah, it would be better if they just replace her in the team instead of just 4 gymnasts going forward.
What is actually more surprising for me is how NZ did not take their opportunity and just left a qualified athlete at home.
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I don’t think anyone is objecting to her being removed, it’s the not replacing her part that’s raising eyebrows. The other gymnasts (and Sugihara Aiko, the alternate) aren’t responsible for what Miyata did, they shouldn’t be hamstrung for it. To punish the entire team for it is basically the equivalent of a teacher punishing the whole class because one person misbehaved.
Also, with the way Olympic rosters work (specifically, you have to submit a “final roster” I think 24hrs before competition and then that’s it, no one else can participate), it’s playing with fire not to put a fifth person on the team. Even if they feel like having the other four carry the load is important, they could still officially name Aiko on the team with the understanding that she won’t actually compete unless someone gets injured, but that way they at least have her available to step in if someone goes down at the last minute.
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Well… if this is a reply to me, I mean, I agree with you a hundred percent. And my post was not a reply to you but to the original post. Because it seems like you’re trying to contradict me with your opening line, when it is rather clear we share the same thoughts.
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I think the confusion is that I read the top comment (“their archaic way of handling this”) as applying to the entire situation, not just dismissing Miyata, and was reading the response in that context.
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I don’t understand the logic behind not bringing up a Japanese alternate, either–maybe they thought that other team members had been covering up or otherwise abetting Miyata somehow (pure speculation here)?
As for New Zealand, maybe the fact that Brett recently switched from representing Australia to representing New Zealand (her mother’s from NZ) had something to do with it. In any case, NZ almost seems to go out of their way sometimes to not send athletes to big (read “expensive”) international competitions unless there’s a good chance of success, and not just in gymnastics.
On a completely different note: In an interview about the Olympic team selection process, Alicia Sacramone Quinn commented, “[The US] could send a B or C team and still do well.” I’ll note that there are 5 American-born women among the individual athletes (the 3 competing for the Philippines, Blanco for Colombia, and Brown for Haiti), so in a way, the US did send another women’s team :-).
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5590270/2024/06/26/olympics-gymnastics-usa-team-simone-biles/
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I believe Brett has always competed for NZ. Georgia Rose Brown used to compete for Australia and now is representing NZ and is going to the Olympics. I believe the issue with Brett is that she didn’t meet the score requirement set by NZOC (which is something like needs a score to finish in the top 16) so Gymnastics NZ didn’t submit her. A total waste of a spot. I hope NZOC look at their requirements (I assume GNZ had some input into this at some point) to make them more realistic and GNZ change to represent the gymnasts of New Zealand
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(Replying to Anne but out of nesting)
This is actually a thing that’s happened in the past — South Africa, for one, was known for this back when continental representation spots were a thing. I think this one is just more stark because in most cases, if one country rejects the spot, there’s a dozen other countries’ athletes who are next in line. It almost feels like it just never occurred to the people in charge that you could actually reach a point where you basically run out of eligible participants. I would’ve liked there to be some sort of alternative as opposed to just poofing the spot away.
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