The following is about the qualification rules and the quota allocation for the freestyle skiing events at the 2014 Winter Olympics.[1]
Qualification standard
editAn athlete must have placed in the top 30 in at a World Cup event after July 2012 or at the 2013 World Championships in that respective event and also have a minimum number of FIS points (80 for all events, except slopestyle which is 50 points).
A total of 282 quota spots are available to athletes to compete at the games. A maximum of 26 athletes can be entered by a National Olympic Committee, with a maximum of 14 men or 14 women.
Allocation of quotas
editAt the end of the qualification period of January 19, 2014 quotas will be awarded using the Olympic Quota Allocation List (which includes all results of the World Cups from July 2012 and the results of the 2013 World Championship). The spots will be awarded to each country per athlete appearing on the list starting at number one per event until a maximum for each event is reached. Once an NOC has reached the maximum of 4 quota spots in an event, it will no longer be counted for the allocation of quotas. If a nation goes over the total of 14 per sex or 26 total it is up to that nation to select its team to meet the rules by January 22, 2014. Any vacated spots will be then awarded in that event starting from the first athlete not to be awarded a quota.
- Maximum athletes per event
| Event | Aerials | Halfpipe | Moguls | Ski cross | Slopestyle | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | 25 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 30 | 147 |
| Women | 25 | 24 | 30 | 32 | 24 | 135 |
| TOTAL | 50 | 54 | 60 | 64 | 54 | 282 |
Qualification summary
editAssigned quota list was published on January 25.[2] The original quota distribution before reallocation.[3]
| NOC | Men | Women | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moguls | Aerials | Ski cross | Halfpipe | Slopestyle | Moguls | Aerials | Ski cross | Halfpipe | Slopestyle | ||
 Australia |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 21 | |
 Austria |
4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | |||||
 Belarus |
4 | 7 | |||||||||
 Belgium |
1 | 1 | |||||||||
 Brazil |
1 | 1 | |||||||||
 British Virgin Islands |
1 | 1 | |||||||||
 Canada |
4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 26 | ||||||
 Chile |
1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
 China |
4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | |||||||
 Czech Republic |
1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||||||
 Finland |
4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||||||
 France |
3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 21 | |||
 Germany |
4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | ||||||
 Great Britain |
2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
 Italy |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
 Japan |
2 | 4 | 10 | ||||||||
 Kazakhstan |
3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | ||||||
 New Zealand |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||||||
 Norway |
3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | |||||
 Paraguay |
1 | 1 | |||||||||
 Poland |
1 | 1 | |||||||||
 Russia |
4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 26 | |
 Slovakia |
2 | 2 | |||||||||
 Slovenia |
1 | 1 | |||||||||
 South Korea |
1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
 Spain |
1 | 1 | |||||||||
 Sweden |
2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | |||||
 Switzerland |
4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 24 | |||
 Ukraine |
2 | 4 | 7 | ||||||||
 United States |
4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 26 | |||||
| Total: 30 NOCs | 30 | 32 | 30 | 24 | 24 | 276 | |||||
Next eligible NOC per event
editIf a country rejects a quota spot or reduces its team (in the case of Canada and the United States) then additional quotas become available. Countries in bold indicate that country received a rejected quota spot. Here the top 10 eligible countries per event (some events have less). Note: a country can be eligible for more than one quota spot per event in the reallocation process. Countries in bold have gotten a reallocation of a quota spot in the respective event. The reallocation quota's have been added to the table above.
- Men
| Moguls | Aerials | Ski Cross | Halfpipe | Slopestyle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russia France Sweden Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Sweden Japan Norway Japan Switzerland Sweden
|
Russia Ukraine Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Ukraine Great Britain Great Britain |
Russia Switzerland Norway Switzerland Sweden Italy Italy Russia Russia Japan
|
Austria South Korea Russia Japan |
Japan France Czech Republic Germany Japan Canada Finland Netherlands Czech Republic New Zealand
|
- Women
| Moguls | Aerials | Ski Cross | Halfpipe | Slopestyle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Korea Norway Sweden Sweden Norway Germany Great Britain Austria Spain China
|
Belarus Belarus Belarus Brazil Brazil
|
Russia Great Britain Japan Czech Republic Norway Chile Czech Republic Russia Great Britain Japan |
Austria Japan Germany Russia Canada Netherlands Sweden South Korea Austria New Zealand
|
Canada Austria Great Britain Czech Republic Japan Italy Sweden Germany Austria New Zealand
|
References
edit- ^ "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014" (PDF). International Ski Federation. December 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2014.
- ^ "Freestyle assigned quota list for Olympic Games 2014". www.fis-ski.com. FIS. 25 January 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-01-29. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^ "Summary of Quota allocation as per 20.01.2014" (PDF). www.fis-ski.com. FIS. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.[permanent dead link]