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In biathlon, unlike many other Olympic sports in which the battle for qualification is still open, have already been established national quotas for Sochi 2014. When organizing the IOC has granted the biathlon men's 113 seats.
Sunday 13 October 2013 5 minutes reading time
The Ibu decided to distribute them according to a ranking called the National Olympic Committees Quote Ranking List (which from now on we will refer to by the acronym QRL) that takes into account the results of only 6 races: the sprint, the individual and the relay of the two previous World Championships at the Olympic Games (Nove Mesto Ruhpolding 2012 and 2013).
Among the men, the countries were divided into 4 groups, each of which provides different rights in terms of contingent registrable and participation in individual competitions: BAND - Nations between the 1st and the 5th place of the QRL. FRANCE - NORWAY - GERMANY - RUSSIA - AUSTRIA They can enter up to 6 athletes, will have four pectoral in the individual events and the right to deploy the relay. BAND B - Nations comprised between the 6th and 20th place of the QRL CZECH REPUBLIC - ITALY - SWEDEN - UNITED STATES - SLOVENIA - UKRAINE - SWITZERLAND - CANADA - BULGARIA - SLOVAKIA - BELARUS - ESTONIA - KAZAKHSTAN - POLAND - FINLANDIAPotranno enroll up 5 athletes, will in turn have four pectoral in the individual events and the right to deploy the relay. BAND C - Nations comprised between 21 ° and 28 ° instead of the QRL. LATVIA - JAPAN - LITHUANIA - CHINA - ROMANIA - GREAT BRITAIN - SERBIA - SOUTH KOREA They can enroll only 1 athlete, so will benefit from a single chest in the individual events and will not be able to deploy the relay. BAND D - Nations ranked from 29th place onwards the QRL. Can not participate in the Olympic Games, but be fished in the case of the twenty-eight qualifying countries there is someone who decides to take full advantage of its quota.
The following is the list of priority of the repechage. Every place is not exploited by the United Nations in the top-28 results in the repechage of a nation. I fished out of the nations will be assimilated in range C. 1. Spain 2. Belgium 3. Australia 4. Hungary 5. Turkey 6. Netherlands 7. Macedonia 8. Croatia 9. Bosnia and Herzegovina 10. Moldova 11. Denmark 12. Greece 13. Uzbekistan
The Olympic Committees must confirm the use of its quotas by January 22, 2014. Over the next two days Ibu announce any repechage event that not all the 113 seats granted to the 28 qualified nations are being exploited.
With regard to the participation in the medley relay, will be at the start of all nations to Sector A and Sector B with the exception of Slovenia and Bulgaria as excluded from the top-20 of the QRL female and then with the right to enter one athlete in the face of the two necessary.
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