﻿{"id":208049,"date":"2016-06-17T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T17:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=208049"},"modified":"2016-06-17T10:57:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T17:57:55","slug":"new-zealand-will-not-send-open-water-qualifiers-to-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/new-zealand-will-not-send-open-water-qualifiers-to-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Will Not Send Open Water Qualifiers to Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend in\u00a0Set\u00fabal, Portugal, both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/chinas-lijun-zu-leads-final-qualifiers-for-mens-olympic-open-water-10k\/\" target=\"_blank\">men<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/chinas-xin-xin-claims-first-at-2016-open-water-qualifiers\/\" target=\"_blank\">women<\/a> had their final opportunities to qualify for the Rio Olympics 10K open water race, after the initial spots were granted at last summer&#8217;s World Championships in Kazan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlotte Webby\u00a0<\/strong>finished 31st in the women&#8217;s race. While she was outside the top 10, she earned Oceania&#8217;s continental berth since an Australian earned a direct qualification.\u00a0<strong>Kane Radford\u00a0<\/strong>finished 19th on Sunday, but qualified by the same circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0Webby and Radford will not be allowed to compete in Rio. The New Zealand Olympic Committee required the athletes to prove that they could finish in the top 16, with hopes of reaching the top eight, in order to be allowed to enter the Olympic Games. Their performances last weekend were deemed insufficient to reach those standards.<\/p>\n<p>In their <a href=\"http:\/\/swimming.org.nz\/article.php?group_id=21143\" target=\"_blank\">official statement<\/a>, Swimming New Zealand said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;However the selectors were not satisfied that there was sufficient evidence that either of the swimmers is capable of achieving the published nomination criteria which is that an individual swimmer must be capable of achieving a top 16 placing at the Games with the potential to win an Olympic Diploma (top eight placing).<\/p>\n<p>This is the over-arching criteria established by the New Zealand Olympic Committee for selection of all New Zealand athletes across all sports.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Webby and Radford will have the opportunity to appeal this ruling.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand is not the only nation to have set its own more difficult standards for Olympic qualification. This spring, there was controversy surrounding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2016-french-open-swimming-championships\" target=\"_blank\">French Open Championships<\/a>\u00a0in which very few swimmers met that federation&#8217;s tougher than FINA A standard requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend in\u00a0Set\u00fabal, Portugal, both the men\u00a0and women had their final opportunities to qualify for the Rio Olympics 10K open water race, after the initial spots were granted at 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