He qualification system to participate in the golf tournament in Paris 2024 Olympic Games, established by the International Golf Federation, which is facing its final phase. As it happened in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2020 editions, the participation reached 60 golfers, both male and female categories, who will fight for gold, silver and bronze medals through a 72-hole stroke play competition, over four days. One of the The men’s category will be held from August 1 to 4Meanwhile he The women’s tournament will take place from the 7th to the 10th of the same monthin both cases on the route of Le Golf National, located near the town of Versailles.
The 60 available positions in each category are assigned by the so-called Olympic Golf Ranking (OGR) published on the website of International Golf Federation (IGF)based on World Golf Ranking as follows:
– The first 15 classified in the Olympic Golf Ranking, both in the men’s and women’s categories, from June 17 (men) and June 24, 2024 (women), are directly qualified to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with the exception of that there cannot be more than 4 golfers from the same country within that Top 15.
– Other places are filled from 16th place upwards, with a maximum of 2 golfers per country for those without more than 2 representatives within the Top 15.
The host nation, France, is guaranteed at least one representative in each men’s and women’s category if it is not eligible for any based on position within its respective Official World Rankings.
Also, the presence of at least one representative from each of the five continents of the Olympic Movement (Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania) in both men’s and women’s events is guaranteed, if they cannot achieve this through aforementioned World. Ranking. Officer.
The Olympic golf qualification period is from June 13, 2022 to June 17, 2024 (men), and from June 20, 2022 to June 24, 2024, for women.
The OGR Olympic Golf Ranking is published weekly on the International Golf Federation website, www.internationalgolffederation.org.
Four Spanish representatives still need to be identified
Based on this criteria, Spain currently has four spots in the Olympic golf tournament, two in each category. Jon Rahm and Pablo Larrazabal They currently occupy the first two places assigned to Spain in the provisional list of men’s participants. The Basque golfer occupies third place in the Olympic Ranking based on his third place, also, in the World Ranking. For his part, the Barcelonan is currently located in 34th place in the Olympic Ranking, in his case as a result of his 104th place in the World Ranking. The following Spanish golfers appearing on the list, in the event of any incident or change in future position from this moment until June 17, 2024, are Jorge Campillo (109th in the World Ranking), Adrián Otaegui (118th), Nacho Elvira (240th), David Puig (245th) and Alejandro del Rey (250th).
In the female category the positions are more defined, being Carlota Ciganda and Azahara Muñoz who, for the third time in a row, once again has the best chance to represent Spain in the women’s category. Navarra and Malaga are in 23rd and 31st positions in the Olympic Ranking this week based on their positions of 29 and 80 in the World Ranking.
The following players who have options at this time to grab an Olympic place are Ana Peláez (110th in the World Ranking), Nuria Iturrioz (161st) and Carmen Alonso (248th).
Source: La Verdad
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