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Meanwhile, Rwanda’s women volleyball players win a historic place in the Paralympic Games, another sport completes its line-up and more canoeists paddle to qualification
Shooting, rugby, sitting volleyball and canoe slalom are the latest sports to confirm qualifications for Rio 2016 (Getty Images/World Rugby/World ParaVolley/USA Shooting)
Every week more and more athletes and teams are earning places at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In recent days, qualification slots have been confirmed in four sports – find out who is coming to the first editions of the Games in South America with our round-up below.
Check out our interactive infographics for each of the Olympic and Paralympic sports.
World Cup runners-up Australia have confirmed their place at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where rugby will make its return to the Olympic fold after 92 years, in the sevens format. The Australians won the men’s Oceania Sevens title, while Fiji won the corresponding women’s event to earn their place in Rio. Both teams were in dominant form in Aukland, going through the weekend unbeaten. Meanwhile, Kenya won the men’s African qualifying tournament in Johannesburg, Dennis Ombachi’s 65-metre sprint earning them a last-minute try and victory over Zimbabwe in the final.
Australia’s men join fellow Oceania teams Fiji and New Zealand – who qualified through the World Series – along with Kenya, South Africa, Brazil, Great Britain, Argentina, USA, France and Japan as teams already qualified for the 12-team tournament. Fiji’s women join Brazil, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Colombia, USA, France and South Africa on the list of teams qualified for the women’s event.
Senegal, Morocco and Nigeria earned slots at the Rio 2016 Games via the African Canoe Slalom Championships in Nairobi, which was contested on a natural course constructed on the Sagana River, 100km north of the Kenyan capital.
Jean Pierre Bourhis won a slot for Senegal in the men’s C1 event, Hind Jamili qualificed Morocco in the women’s K1, while Johnathan Akinyemi earned a place for the Nigeria in the men’s K1. The qualifications were confirmed by the International Canoe Federation.
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The final places in the Paralympic Games shooting competition were confirmed following the third round of the IPC Shooting World Cup in Fort Banning, USA. Click here to see the full list of 144 of slots that were won by athletes for their National Paralympic Committees. Of the remaining six places, three will go to Brazil as host nation and the other three will be by invitation by the IPC.
Shooting follows football 7-a-side and football 5-a-side in completing its line-up for Rio 2016.
Ukraine overcame Russia in the final of the 2015 ParaVolley European women’s championships in Podcetrtek, Slovenia, to confirm their place in Rio. They are joined by Rwanda, who won the women’s title at the African championships on home soil in Kigali. Their victory over Egypt in the final means they will be the first African women’s sitting volleyball team to compete in the Paralympic Games. The roles were reversed in the men’s final, where Egypt cruised to victory over Rwanda.
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