Road to Rio: WAG Team Test Event and Automatic Qualifiers

This world championships is the last world championships before the Rio Olympic Games in Summer of 2016.

These world championships are a big deal because this event is acting as a qualifier to not only the Olympics themselves, but the Olympic Test event, the final qualifying event for the Olympics. The qualifications from the past two days in Glasgow have been a mad scramble to get that ticket to Rio.

The list of automatic qualifiers and those who must qualify through the test event.


The qualification process is a little complicated, but I can do my best to simplify it. I have included resources that can

The qualifications yesterday were a big part.

Let's start with the teams.

Here is what you need to know:

• Teams placing in the top 8 (so team final qualifiers) get an automatic spot in the Olympic Games. 
• Teams placing 9-16 must fight to the death in the Hunger Games, ahem, the Test Event, April 16.24, 2016. From there, the top 4 placing teams will earn a ticket to Rio.
• Teams who placed 17-24 can send 2 all-around gymnasts to the April test event 

For individuals to qualify without a team they must:

• Win a medal in Glasgow or...
• If they placed high enough in the all-around during Glasgow - they can participate in the test event as an individual - but the spot technically belongs to the country and the country can name the individual that goes to the test event. 
• They can be named via the Universality or Tripartite clauses. Universality = Europe, Asia, Africa and American Continents must be represented by at least 1 gymnast. Tripartite = spot named by the Olympic Tripartite Committee. Applies to countries who qualified 6 or less gymnasts to the last two Olympics.
• Win the Hunger Games. Ok, that last one was sarcastic, but really, it kinda is in a way,...

This is really very complicated. GymCastic made a handy flow chart you can reference for a better understanding. (I highly recommend that. Unless you're super entertained by my Hunger Games jokes). The Gymternet also explained this in depth.

Based on the conclusion of the past two days of Qualifications for the World Championships here are automatic team qualifiers and who is going to the test event - complete with their rank and qualifying score:

Going to Rio:

Rank	Team	Total Score
1	USA	236.611
2	Russia	231.437
3	Great Britain	227.162
4	China	225.127
5	Italy	224.452
6	Japan	223.863
7	Canada	222.780
8	Netherlands	222.354

Needs to get a spot through the test event:

Rank	Team	Total Score
9	Brazil	221.861
10	France	219.919
11	Belgium	219.780
12	Germany	219.261
13	Romania	217.220
14	Australia	214.812
15	South Korea	213.744
16	Switzerland	213.094

Not sending a team - but CAN send 2 individual all-around gymnasts to the test event:

Rank	Team	Total Score
17	Spain	210.094
18	Hungary	209.552
19	Poland	208.527
20	North Korea	207.987
21	Mexico	206.628
22	Sweden	206.262
23	Austria	201.793
24	Greece	198.948

Full list of individual qualifiers will be listed later.