Mario Mola leader of the Olympic Ranking and Miriam Casillas roza the 3ª place for Spain

As of today 41 countries have insured place

A few months ago we explained [1] in a summarized way how the places were assigned for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, remember that in triathlon there are 55 for men and 55 for women.

The WTS of Abu Dhabi and the World Cup of Mooloolaba they were the first competitions that have awarded points for qualifying for Rio. The rest of the events are the World Cups of New Playmouth, Chengdu and Huatulco and the WTS of Gold Coast, Cape Town and Yokohama, the latter competes the 14 and 15 of May and will be the last competition to award points for the Olympic Games. of Rio de Janeiro.

Today's date 41 countries have insured place, being Australia, Great Britain, Germany and the United States the only four countries with the highest number of classified triathletes (3 men and 3 women). One step below with 5 is Russia, New Zealand, Italy, Canada and Spain.

Men's Selection

As regards the Spanish national team, there will be 3 places for men, 2 of them are already assigned fulfilling the FETRI criteria and are for Javier Gómez Noya y Mario Mola.

For the election of the third triathlete according to FETRI criteria "The tests that will be followed up will be the WS of Abu Dabhi, Gold Coast, Cape Town and Yokohama."

The best positioned to get the third position are Fernando Alarza (5º of the Olympic Ranking) and Vicente Hernández (15º of the Olympic Ranking). A pity that having 4 top15 triathletes worldwide one of them can not go to the Olympics.

Women's Team

On the other hand for the female competition Spain currently has 2 seats, thanks to Carolina Routier and Ainhoa ​​Murua which are the 41ª and 44ª in the Olympic ranking. For its part Miriam Casillas roza the third place for Spain, thanks to his 7ª place in Mooloolaba 8 has moved up positions placing the 64 of the Olympic ranking, just 103 points of the Belgian Michel Claire who has the last place. 103 points, for reference 100 points is approximately a top30 in a WTS or top 20 in a WC.

For the selection of the women's team ahead of the Rio Olympic Games, according to the FETRI criteria: "The tests that will be followed up will be the WS of Abu Dabhi, Gold Coast, Cape Town, Yokohama and the Moololaba WC, New Plymouth, Chengdhu and Huatulco. "

The logical thing is that if you get 3 seats (sure girls in Spain also get the 3) is that Carolina, Ainhoa ​​and Miriam classified, as unfortunately Tamara Gomez is injured and the rest of the girls are quite far from the three first in the Olympic classification.

As a curiosity, the "problem" that exists in Spain, with 4 triathletes that by their own merits would be in Rio but where there can only be 3, so do other selections, such as the United States and Great Britain that has 5 triathletes or France that has up to 7 men placed in the ranking in Olympic position.

For their part, women in Australia and the United States have 7 triathletes in the Olympic ranking, Japan 5 and Germany 4.

[1] https://www.triatlonnoticias.com/noticias-triatlon/39-paises-plaza-jj-oo-rio-16

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