Olympic Qualifiers

The 2016 Rio Test Event ended last week, and we finally have the full list of Olympic Qualifiers! Some of the spots were non-nominative, so we will have to wait until those countries have their internal testings later this summer.

Teams
1. United State of America
2. China
3. Great Britian
4. Russia
5. Japan
6. Canada
7. Italy
8. Netherlands
9. Brazil
10. Germany
11. Belgium
12. France

Individuals

• 1 Australian Representative
• 1 Swiss Representative
• 1 Romanian Representative
• 1  South Korean Representative
• 1 Tripartite Representative (Likely Bolivia)
• 1 Universality from Africa Representative (South Africa or Egypt)
• Farah Boufadene (ALG) (Universality Invite) 
• Hong Un Jong (PKR) (2015 World Championships Event Final Medal)
• Sofia Gomes (GUA)
• Jessica Lopez (VEN)
• Vasiliki Millousi OR Afrati Argyro (GRE)
• Zsofia Kovaks OR Noemi Makra (HUN)
• Ana Perez OR Claudia Colom (ESP)
• Angelaina Kysla (UKR)
• Alexa Moreno OR Ana Lago (MEX)
• Marcia Vidiaux (CUB)
• Filipa Martins (POR)
• Katarzyna Jurkowska-Kowalska OR Gabriela Janik (POL)
• Lisa Ecker (AUT)
• Toni-Ann Williams (JAM)
• Irina Sazonova (ISL)
• Phan Thi Ha Than (VIE)
• Dipa Karmakar (IND)
• Barbora Mokosova (SVK)
• Courtney McGregor (NZL)
• Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)
• Houry Gebeshian (ARM)
• Ariana Orrego (PER)
• Simona Castro (CHI)
• Teja Belak (SLO)
• Tutya Yilmaz (TUR)
• Emma Larsson (SWE)
• Marisa Dick (TTO)
• Ana Derek (CRO)
• Catalina Elena Escobar Gomez (COL)
• Kylie Dickson (BLR)
• Ellis O'Reilly (IRL)
• Ailen Valente (ARG)

Notable individuals to qualify include Toni-Ann Williams, who is a standout sophomore at Cal-Berkeley. Williams, who was one of the biggest reason Cal-Berkeley qualified a full team to Nationals for the first time in 24 years, had to make the hard decision of choosing the Olympics or NCAA Nationals. While her decision was met with a lot of criticism, Toni-Ann became the first gymnast to qualify to the Olympics from Jamaica. Speaking of first- time qualifiers, India and Armenia joined the party by each qualifying their first women gymnasts to the Olympics ever. Dipa Karmakar of India first made International Headlines when she first debuted the Produnova vault and won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The Produnova Vault, a handspring double front, is the most difficult vault being performed by women. She takes a big risk with this vault, but it has paid off! Houry Gebeshian is a American- born gymnast who has been representing Armenia since 2011. Gebeshian is a former standout at Iowa Gymnastics, winning the 2010 B1G 10 Beam Title as a junior. Gebeshian was very close to an Olympic Berth in 2012, when she was the third reserve after the Test Event. She took a break after that miss, and returned at Europeans in 2015, where she placed 19th in the All Around. On the other end of the spectrum, 1991 World Champion Oksana Chusovitina just qualified to her seventh Olympics. Chusovitina represented the Unified Team in 1992, Uzbekistan in 1996, 2000 and 2004, before moving to Germany in 2006 for her son's cancer treatments. She competed in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics as a German, before returning to Uzbekistan in 2013, which is the country she has represented since. Chusovitina is a 2-time Olympic Medalist and an 11-time World Medalist. Oksana will be 41 by the time her seventh Olympic Games start in Rio late this summer.