End point for the European Games: The 91 direct places on the way to Paris 2024 have been defined

Among the various possible ways to measure the success of the 48 delegations in the third edition of the European Games, which reached its end last Sunday, there is one that seems to have an advantage: counting the number of direct places obtained for the next Olympic Games. Krakow - Małopolska 2023, the continent’s supreme multidisciplinary event in which nearly 7,000 athletes from 29 sports lived together, delivered 91 spots to Paris in 10 disciplines.

The notorious exclusions of Russia and Belarus, first and second in the medals table of the previous edition, paved the way for Italy as the new leader. Its 35 golds were reinforced with twelve guaranteed Olympic tickets, a figure only equaled by France.

None of the three core Olympic sports have been classified in these EG2023: neither gymnastics, in any of its three modalities, nor swimming were part of the program, while in athletics there were no places in dispute. In contrast, boxing distributed 44 direct flights, 22 by gender.

Of the 91 places, 47 were non-nominal. In this sense, the five rankings offered by archery, for example, fell on the winning CON and not the athletes. In the specialty of mixed team recurve, Miguel Alvariño and Elia Canales struck the blow and became European champions, but Spain as a country qualified for Paris.

In the French capital, artistic swimming will have men’s quotas for the first time in its Olympic life. However, at the European Games, where men also competed, it was only women with the same blood who won another of the non-nominal tickets. The outstanding Anna-Maria and Eirini Marina Alexandri were crowned two-time European champions on the fourth day of competition and awarded Austria the only classification in play, in the free duet event.

Like few other disciplines, rugby sevens in Paris 2024 now knows more than half of its participating teams: 14 of the 24. Seven in the women’s draw and the same amount in the men’s draw. The spots in discord in Krakow - Malopolska 2023 were left to the Great Britain women’s team, European champion after an overwhelming 33-0 win over the host in the final, and the men’s team from the Republic of Ireland, the executioner of their British neighbors in the gold medal match. The silver and bronze medalists earned a place in the repechage: Poland and the Czech Republic did so on the women’s side while Great Britain and Spain on the men’s side.

One special page was written by breaking, the urban sport that is preparing to savor its Olympic premiere: the first two European dancers to achieve Olympic status were decided. B-girl India Sardjoe from the Netherlands, winner of the women’s competition, was included in the Paris list, an achievement conquered, until then, only by the Moroccan Fatima El-Mamouny. On the male level, France will know who to root for: B-boy Dany Dann is the European champion and also joins a dancer from Morocco among the qualifiers (Bilal Mallakh).

Here is the list of all those qualified to Paris 2024 through the European Games:

• BOXING (44): Laura Fuentes (Spain), Buse Naz Çakıroğlu (Turkey), Wassila Lkhadiri (France), Giordana Sorrentino (Italy), Charley-Sian Ta Davison (Great Britain), Stanimira Petrova (Bulgaria), Lenuta Lacramioara Perijoc (Romania), Hatice Akbas (Turkey), Michaela Walsh (Republic of Ireland), Svetlana Kameno Staneva (Bulgaria), Irma Testa (Italy), Amina Zidani (France), Harlie ington (Republic of Ireland), Gizem Ozer (Turkey), Natalia Shadrina (Serbia), Estelle Moselly (France), Anna Luca Hamori (Hungary), Rosie Joy Eccles (Great Britain), Davina-Myhra Michel (France), Aoife O’Rourke (Republic of Ireland), Busenaz Surmeneli (Turkey), Oshin Derieuw (Belgium), José Quiles (Spain), Vasile Usturoi (Belgium), Javier Ibáñez Díaz (Bulgaria), Nebil Mahmud Ibrahim (Sweden), Lasha Guruli (Georgia), Dean Clancy (Republic of Ireland), Sofiane Oumiha (France), Richard Kovacs (Hungary), Makan Traoré (France), Nikolai Terakyan (Denmark) Hid Abbasov (Serbia), Tugrulhan Erdemir (Turkey), Gabrijel Veocic (Croatia), Salvatore Cavallaro (Italy), Oleksandr Khyzhniak (Ukraine), Murad Allahverdiyev (Azerbaijan), Billal Bennama (France), Samet Gumus (Turkey), Jack Marley (Republic of Ireland), Aziz Abbes Mouhiidine (Italy), Mahammad Abdullayev (Uzbekistan) and Delicious Orie (Great Britain).
  
• MODERN PENTATHLON (16): Alice Sotero (Italy), Laura Heredia (Spain), Olivia Green (Great Britain), Laura Asadauskaite (Lithuania), Marie Oteiza (France), Michelle Gulyas (Hungary), Annika Zillekens (Germany), Lucie Hlavackova (Czech Republic), Giorgio Malan (Italy), Joe Choong (Great Britain), Csaba Bohm (Hungary), Valentin Prades (France), Marvin Faly Dogue (Germany), Lukasz Gutkowski (Poland), Oleksandr Tovkai (Ukraine) and Alexandre Dallenbach (Switzerland).
  
• TIRO (12): Switzerland (women’s 10-meter air rifle), Austria (men’s 10-meter air rifle), Italy (women’s and men’s pit and women’s skeet), Hungary (men’s 3-position 50-meter rifle), Norway (3-position 50-meter female rifle), Poland (women’s 10-meter air gun), Turkey (men’s 10-meter air gun), Sweden (men’s skeet), Georgia (women’s 25-meter pistol) and France (men’s 25-meter fast pistol) and France (men’s 25-meter fast pistol))
  
• ARCHERY (5): Spain (mixed team recurve), Italy and Great Britain (women’s singles recurve), Germany and Moldova (men’s singles recurve)
  
• SLALOM CANOEING (4): Ricarda Funk (Germany), Jiri Prskavec (Czech Republic), Elena Lilik (Germany), Ryan Westley (Great Britain)
  
• JUMPS (4): Great Britain (women’s 10 m platform), Germany (10 m platform and 3 m men’s trampoline) and Italy (3 m women’s trampoline)
  
• RUGBY 7s (2): Great Britain (women) and Republic of Ireland (men)
  
• BREAKING (2): India Sardjoe (The Netherlands) and Dany Dann (France)
  
• TABLE TENNIS (1): Dang Qiu and Nina Mittelham (mixed duo from Germany)
  
• ARTISTIC SWIMMING (1): Austria (free duet)