USA Weightlifting Releases New Selection Procedures for Tokyo Olympics

USA Weightlifting has some information: their procedures for choosing the weightlifters who will compete in Tokyo have been accepted by the United States Olympic Committee.

They revealed their new procedures on TeamUSA.org, and after we requested what has modified because the final time they labored on the choice protocol, USAW’s CEO Phil Andrews gave us some highlights.

Individuals Are the New Team

For the 2012 and 2016 Olympic cycles, nations typically certified with the mixed totals of six athletes on the previous two World Weightlifting Championships. If a nation didn’t earn Olympic quotas at these occasions they may use totals from their continental championships, just like the Pan Ams. If a nation nonetheless didn’t have a quota they’ll depend on a tripartite fee place or they’ll doubtlessly get a spot if considered one of their athletes was within the high 10 on the planet.

Now that system has completely modified. The IWF has devised a brand new system meaning you should personally qualify, not your workforce. It’s sophisticated (it’s price studying the doc we linked above) however the athlete additionally must compete six occasions in drug-tested, IWF-run competitions in the course of the qualifying interval. (This is as a result of upgraded doping controls.) Then from these competitions an athlete calculates his or her ROBI score, which as of June 2018 is the brand new means the IWF compares particular person outcomes throughout weight classes. In different phrases, it’s the brand new Sinclair.

You can even qualify robotically for the Olympics if you happen to’re ranked within the high 8 on the planet.

Weight Classes

There can be 7 body weight classes every for women and men within the Olympic Games, so the 10 weight lessons within the World Championships can be contested by simply 7 on the Olympics. To enable for this you solely should have competed twice within the related Olympic class.

USA Weightlifting CEO Phil Andrews informed BarBend,

Domestically, because of this our choice process is actually seeking to the IWF process. The solely time the US Olympic Committee and USA Weightlifting could intervene is that if there’s a cause to not endorse a person (for instance, they’re serving a home USADA ban, or another subject which prevents them from competing) or within the occasion now we have greater than 4 within the Top 8 within the World.

In this case, the US procedures present we are going to allocate these quotas to these ending highest within the IWF Rankings for their class. We actually assume the IWF has completed an important job upgrading this process.

Again, these are simply the abstract highlights. Check out the total doc for extra info.

Featured picture through @roblympian on Instagram.

Special thanks to USA Weightlifting CEO Phil Andrews for his assist explaining the finer factors of the brand new choice process.

Editor’s Note: BarBend is the Official Media Partner of USA Weightlifting. The two organizations preserve editorial independence except in any other case famous on particular content material tasks.

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