There are seven places in the men's eight in the female and the setting will be the test event of the Games, in April, the Rio Olympic Arena.
The Canadian Rosannagh MacLennan took the gold medal in the London Games 2012 (Photo: Getty Images / Ronald Martinez)
Text: Marcelo Feffer
The April 19 will be decisive for the definition of the last qualified for the springboard of Rio club dispute 2016. This is the date on which the competition will take place this discipline within the Qualifier Gymnastics Final test event to be held in the Arena Olympic River. And, according to the competition leader of the sport in Rio 2016, Mariana Accardo, this is the main championship sport through August, a preview of the Olympic Games.
Will be 16 participants from each sex in the Olympic Games. The World Championship 2015 indicated eight athletes (with a maximum of two per country) among men and women, and also defined that Brazil will use his unique job as host nation in the men's competition. The other countries that will compete in Rio 2016 will be known from the results of the test event.
Russian Dmitry Ushakov took the silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics (Photo: Getty Images / Cameron Spencer)
already classified
Female: China (2) Belarus (2), Canada, Great Britain (2) and Georgia
Male: China (2), Belarus, Russia (2), Japan (2), France and Brazil
Stay tuned!
Li Dan (China), Liu Lingling (China) and Tatsiana Piatrenia (Belarus) who were on the podium in the women's competition at the 2015 World Cup, and Gao Lei (China), Uadizislau Hancharou (Belarus) and Andrey Yudin (Russia) male medalists in the same competition, participate in the Qualifier Gymnastics Final, but their performances in this competition will not affect the classification process for the Games
Li Dan has secured one of the two Olympic spots for their country - and world champion status, has huge chances to be part of the Chinese team in Rio 2016. It is one more comeback athlete, world champion also in 2010, whose career has a sequence of ups and downs.
Li Dan became world champion in 2015 and participate in the April 19 test event (Photo: Getty Images / Lintao Zhang)
Leader of medals of the Olympic Games, the United States have never been on the podium in five sports: badminton, rhythmic gymnastics, handball, table tennis and trampoline.
In London in 2012, the American Savannah Vinsant, 19 years old, took the sixth place in the women's final of the trampoline But the performance of US athletes in the World 2015 decreased expecting to reach the first Olympic medal of the country in sport in 2016.
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