2016 Summer Olympics / Triathlon

Triathlon at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games
information
venue	Rio de Janeiro
Competition venue	Forte de Copacabana
Nations	41
Athletes	110 (55 , 55 )
date	August 18 and 20, 2016
decisions	2
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At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , two triathlon competitions were held on August 18 and 20, 2016 in Forte de Copacabana , a military base at the southern end of the Copacabana district , one each for women and men. The Olympic distance in triathlon included a 1.5 km swim , 40 km bike ride and a 10,000 meter run . 55 athletes each started in the separate men's and women's competitions.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Great Britain	1	1	1	3
2	United States	1	-	-	1
3	Switzerland	-	1	-	1
4th	South Africa	-	-	1	1
total		2	2	2	6th

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Men	Alistair Brownlee ( GBR )	Jonathan Brownlee ( GBR )	Henri Schoeman ( RSA )
Women	Gwen Jorgensen ( USA )	Nicola Spirig ( SUI )	Vicky Holland ( GBR )

Competitions and schedule

View from the north of Copacabana

Route

Competitions and schedule triathlon
Competitions	August
Women	17th	18th	19th	20th
Single Olympic Distance
Men	17th	18th	19th	20th
Single Olympic Distance

The ITU had appointed a total of 82 referees from 37 nations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Austrian Friedrich Schwarz and the Swiss Stefane Maurin were among the International Technical Officials . As in 2012 in London, Germany was the only major triathlon nation to have no judges.

Results

Men

→ Main article : 2016 Summer Olympics / Triathlon - singles (men)

Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee on the bike course

Date: August 18, 2016, 11:00 a.m. UTC − 3

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	GBR	Alistair Brownlee	1:45:01
2	GBR	Jonathan Brownlee	1:45:07
3	RSA	Henri Schoeman	1:45:43
4th	RSA	Richard Murray	1:45:50
5	POR	João Pereira	1:45:52
6th	BEL	Marten Van Riel	1:46:03
7th	FRA	Vincent Luis	1:46:12
8th	ESP	Mario Mola	1:46:26
9	OUT	Aaron Royle	1:46:42
11	SVK	Richard Varga	1:47:17
16	SUI	Andrea Salvisberg	1:47:56
19th	SUI	Sven Riederer	1:48:15
47	AUT	Thomas Springer	1:55:14

Women

→ Main article : 2016 Summer Olympics / Triathlon - singles (women)

Gwen Jorgensen and Nicola Spirig-Hug on the running track

Date: August 20, 2016, 11:00 a.m. UTC − 3

space	country	Athlete	Time (h)
1	United States	Gwen Jorgensen	1:56:16
2	SUI	Nicola Spirig-Hug	1:56:56
3	GBR	Vicky Holland	1:57:01
4th	GBR	Non Stanford	1:57:04
5	CHI	Bárbara Riveros Díaz	1:57:29
6th	OUT	Emma Moffatt	1:57:55
7th	NZL	Andrea Hewitt	1:58:15
8th	BER	Flora Duffy	1:58:25
9	MEX	Claudia Rivas	1:58:28
10	NED	Rachel Klamer	1:58:55
14th	SUI	Jolanda Annen	1:59:42
28	DEU	Laura Lindemann	2:01:52
36	DEU	Anne Haug	2:02:56
37	AUT	Sara Vilic	2:03:10

qualification

Qualification criteria

The nomination of athletes for the starting places allocated to a participating country was made by the NOKs .

There were five possibilities for the NOKs to get a starting place at the Olympic Games. Up to eight NOKs could get the maximum number of three starting places per gender. The other NOKs were each given up to two starting places.

The first five starting positions went to the winners of five continental qualifying competitions. Three more places went to the top 3 at the ITU World Championship Series 2015 , with athletes who had already won a continental qualification being skipped. The next 39 places went to the NOKs, whose athletes were placed highest in the Olympic qualification ranking, whereby already qualified athletes were also not taken into account. The 48th place went to Brazil as the host country. Two places were awarded by the Tripartite Commission. Finally, five more places were given to the NOKs via the ITU Points List, with one place being allocated per continent.

List of qualifying competitions:

• European Games in Baku , June 13-14, 2015 
• Pan American Games in Toronto , July 11-12, 2015 
• International qualifying competition in Rio de Janeiro , August 1st to 2nd, 2015 
• Oceania Championship in Gisborne , March 19-20, 2016 
• Africa Cup of Nations in East London , 20th March 2016 
• Asian Championship in Hatsukaichi , April 29th to May 1st, 2016 
• ITU Olympic qualification ranking as of May 15, 2016

This resulted in the following number of starting places per NOK on May 15, 2016 (the links lead to the respective nominated athletes):

	3 starting places	2 starting places	1 starting place
Women	OUT  CAN  GER  GBR  JPN  NZL  ESP  United States	AUT  BEL  HUN  ITA  MEX  NED  RUS  SUI	BER  BRA  CHI  CHN  CZE  ECU  EST  FRA  IRL  MUS  POLE  SLO  RSA  SWE  UKR
Men	OUT  FRA  GBR  MEX  POR  RUS  ESP  United States	ARG  BEL  CAN  GER  HUN  ITA  NZL  RSA  SUI	AZE  AUT  BAR  BRA  CHN  CRI  THE  IRL  ISR  JOR  JPN  NOR  SLO

nomination

The decision as to which athletes were nominated for the Olympic Games was made by the National Olympic Committee at the suggestion of the national triathlon associations. The international umbrella organization ITU only set the maximum number of starting places per country. The criteria to be met by an athlete for a nomination were determined differently at national level.

Since not all NOKs took up all the starting places due to their country and these were then assigned by the ITU, the following final compilation of the starting places resulted:

	3 starting places	2 starting places	1 starting place
Women	OUT  CAN  GBR  JPN  RUS  ESP  United States	AUT  BEL  GER  FRA  HUN  ITA  MEX  NZL  SUI  RSA	BER  BRA  CHI  CHN  CZE  ECU  EST  IRL  MUS  NED  POLE  SLO  SWE  UKR
Men	OUT  FRA  GBR  MEX  POR  RUS  ESP  United States	ARG  BEL  CAN  HUN  ITA  NZL  RSA  SUI	AZE  AUT  BAR  BRA  CHN  CRI  THE  IRL  ISR  JOR  JPN  NOR  PURE  SLO  UKR

Both the female and male triathletes were thus divided into 31 nations each, with a total of starters from 42 nations represented in both triathlon competitions - more than at all previous Olympic Games .

Germany

As a target agreement for Rio, the German Triathlon Union and the German Olympic Sports Confederation agreed on a medal and a top eight placement in 2013. The German nomination criteria were a placement among the top eight in selected competitions or, alternatively, a top 5 placement in the 2015 World Cup series .

meeting	criteria	place	Women	Men
0Aug 2, 2015	Place 1 - 8 in the qualification competition	Rio de Janeiro	Anne Haug a	-
21 Sep 2015	1st - 5th ITU World Championship Series 2015	-	-	-
05th Mar 2016	Place 1 - 8 in the ITU World Triathlon Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabi	-	-
Apr 10, 2016	Place 1 - 8 in the ITU World Triathlon Gold Coast	Gold coast	- b	-
May 15, 2016	Place 1 - 8 in the ITU World Triathlon Yokohama	Yokohama	-	-

^aValidation of the qualification with a top 15 position at a World Championship Series event by May 15, 2016 at the latest, which took place with fourth place at the ITU World Triathlon Cape Town on April 24, 2016.

^b Gold Coast only counted as a qualifying competition for men

Lisa Perterer and Anne Haug , originally nominated for Austria, lead a cycling group at the ITU World Championship Series 2013 in Stockholm.

After two quota places for men and three quota places for women were available for the German team on May 15, 2016, but only Anne Haug fulfilled the sporting qualification criteria agreed between the DTU and the DOSB, the DTU considered a nomination proposal of the season results up to June 16, 2016, the two best-placed German men on the ITU Olympic qualification list, Steffen Justus (31st place) and Gregor Buchholz (34th place) and (alongside Anne Haug) Laura Lindemann (65th place) and Anja Knapp ( 47th place) proposed to the DOSB.

The DOSB will make the final decision on July 12th. Anne Haug and Steffen Justus had already represented Germany in London in 2012. The best-placed German women on the ITU Olympic qualification list were Rebecca Robisch (19th place), Hanna Philippin (28th place), Anja Knapp (47th place) and Sophia Saller (50th place); for women, the DTU's nomination was made under team -Tactical considerations.

Rebecca Robisch and Hanna Philippin achieved through Claudia Wisser as a judge at the sports arbitration tribunal that they were also subsequently proposed by the DTU for a start in Rio, so that the DOSB had five athletes suggested for three starting places. The DOSB then decided to only nominate Anne Haug for a start in Rio and to return the other four starting places unused. On July 19, the DOSB announced that it would nominate Lindemann after a decision by the Frankfurt Regional Court. Two days earlier, Lindemann had finished ninth at the World Championship race in Hamburg , and at the World Championship in Mixed Relay Lindemann had won the bronze medal. This left three of the five starting positions for which DTU athletes had fulfilled the international qualification guidelines unoccupied.

Austria

In Austria, the position on the ITU Olympic qualification list was decisive for the nomination. Two qualification races before the end of the qualification period, the Carinthians Lisa Perterer and Sara Vilic, with 16th and 31st place respectively on the qualification list, had such a large cushion of points on their pursuers that they could no longer be caught.
For the men it was a “shaky match” until the end: In the last qualifying race in Yokohama, Thomas Springer slipped into the ranking on 54th qualifying place over the “European new flag” and thus became the Austrian Olympic together with Perterer and Vilic from the Austrian association Tri Austria Comité proposed for nomination. Lisa Perterer has already competed at the Olympic Games in London , while Vilic and Springer took part in the Olympic Games for the first time. Due to an injury that had not healed, Lisa Perterer was unable to start on August 20, so the 22-year-old Julia Hauser from Vienna was nominated by the ÖTRV presidium via a “last minute ticket” .

The Swiss team in Rio: from left Sven Riederer , Nicola Spirig , Jolanda Annen and Andrea Salvisberg (photo from the European Triathlon 2015 in Geneva)

Switzerland

The Swiss Olympic selection committee selected Jolanda Annen , Sven Riederer and Andrea Salvisberg for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, thereby following the Swiss Triathlon proposal .
After the Olympic champion from London 2012, Nicola Spirig , had already been selected in June 2015, four triathletes - Annen, Riederer and Salvisberg - now belonged to the Swiss Olympic Team for Rio 2016. Annen, Riederer and Salvisberg had the international as well as the national Performance criteria met. Sven Riederer took part in the Olympic Games for the fourth time after Athens 2004 (3rd place), Beijing 2008 (23rd place) and London 2012 (8th place). For Annen and Salvisberg, Rio 2016 meant an Olympic premiere.

Web links

Commons : 2016 Summer Olympics / Triathlon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Site Rio 2016 - Triathlon
• Rio 2016 (on the ITU website)
• Nomination criteria of the German Triathlon Union

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Qualification system for Rio 2016
2. ^ Frank Wechsel: No German nominated for London February 27, 2012
3. ↑ Fabian Fiedler: Germany is empty again February 25, 2016
4. ↑ ^{a b} Qualification System - Games of the XXXI Olympiad - Triathlon (English) (PDF), ITU . February 2014. 
5. ↑ Olympic Qualification List Criteria In: ITU December 15, 2013
6. ↑ Start list 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games
7. ↑ Target agreement DOSB DTU ( Memento of the original dated August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. February 21, 2013
8. ↑ ^{a b} Oliver Kubanek: “Apart from Anne Haug, nobody has a personal right to start Rio 2016” In: Deutsche Triathlon Union May 20, 2016
9. ↑ Fabian Fiedler: Via Abu Dhabi to Rio de Janeiro In: tri-mag.de , January 28, 2016
10. ↑ Fabian Fiedler: Anne Haug bought the ticket to Rio de Janeiro In: tri-mag.de , August 2, 2015
11. ↑ Fabian Fiedler: Stimpson wins, Spirig and Philippin fall In: tri-mag.de , March 5, 2016
12. ↑ Fabian Fiedler: Mario Mola puts the first exclamation mark In: tri-mag.de , March 5, 2016
13. ↑ Frank Wechsel: Olympic Qualification : German Disaster in Down Under In: tri-mag.de , April 9, 2016
14. ↑ Fabian Fiedler: Anne Haug qualifies for Olympia In: tri-mag.de , April 24, 2016
15. ↑ ITU Olympic Qualification List: Rio 2016 | Men's Standings In: ITU May 14, 2016
16. ↑ ^{a b} Frank Wechsel: DTU nominates Lindemann, Knapp, Justus and Buchholz In: tri-mag.de June 19, 2016
17. ↑ ITU Olympic Qualification List: Rio 2016 | Women's Standings In: ITU May 14, 2016
18. ↑ Mark Weishaupt: Court: Triathlon Union must propose a triathlete for the Olympic nomination In: Saarbrücker Zeitung July 12, 2016
19. ↑ Oliver Kubanek: Further suggestions for the Olympic nomination after the DIS judgment In: DTU July 11, 2016
20. ↑ Oliver Kubanek: DOSB nominates triathlete Anne Haug alone for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro In: DTU July 12, 2016
21. ↑ Triathlete Laura Lindemann and two canoeists nominated ( memento of the original from August 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: DOSB July 19, 2016
22. ↑ Nathalie Mainka: Spectacular finish sprint secures World Cup bronze In: Stuttgarter Zeitung July 18, 2016
23. ↑ Joschi Kopp: Perterer and Vilic are sitting on the plane . In: Small newspaper . May 7, 2016. Archived from the original on June 1, 2016.
24. ↑ Stefan Leitner: ÖTRV Trio qualifies for the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 In: trinews.at May 18, 2016
25. ↑ Stefan Leitner: Perterer missed the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio In: trinews.at August 11, 2016
26. ↑ Reinhard Standke: Three more triathletes selected for Rio ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Swiss Triathlon May 26, 2016