Nine more places allocated in 470 sailing class at Rio 2016 Olympic Games

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Nine more places allocated in 470 sailing class at Rio 2016 Olympic Games

By Rio 2016 20/10/2015 00H00

Six male and three female teams win Olympic quotas through World Championships in Haifa, Israel

Nine more places allocated in 470 sailing class at Rio 2016 Olympic Games — Haifa hosted the lastest edition of the 470 World Championship (Aquazoon/Ronan Topelberg)

Nine more slots in the 470 class Olympic sailing regattas at the Rio 2016 Games have been decided. Six men's teams and three women's teams earned places for their National Olympic Committees, the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) confirmed.

Qualifiers:

Men's: Argentina, Finland, Germany, Israel, South Africa, Turkey

Women's: Australia, Poland, Germany

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Rio2016.com is not an absolute authority on qualification for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which is an ongoing process. Final places will only be confirmed in July 2016 (for the Olympic Games) and August 2016 (for the Paralympic Games). The qualification systems are defined by each sport’s respective International Federation and the International Olympic Committee or International Paralympic Committee, and are subject to change. When an athlete or team wins a quota place for their nation, the final decision on whether this ‘slot’ is used and which athletes are sent is taken by the respective National Olympic Committee or National Paralympic Committee (NOC or NPC). Even when athletes win a ‘nominal’ place for themselves, NOCs/NPCs may have to decide who to send if the number of qualified athletes from one country exceeds the quota.