Great Britain’s women’s Rugby Sevens team qualified for Paris 2024 with gold in the European Games. The event would take place from 23-27 June at Stadion Mijeski im. Henryka Reymana in Kraków (POL). It is the home stadium of Polish top-division football side Wisła Kraków, thirteen times national champions. On the Men’s side, qualification was …
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Three of GB’s boxers have booked their ticket to Paris at the 2024 European Games. In most events, the top four would qualify, apart from the Women’s Middleweight and Men’s Flyweight, Heavyweight, and Super Heavyweight. Starting with the Men’s Flyweight, Kiaran MacDonald got a bye to the Round of 16. Here he faced German Salah …
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The 2023 European Games was a qualifying event for Table Tennis. The event was held at the Hutnik Arena in Kraków, a “sports and entertainment hall” attached to a football stadium that may be familiar to seasoned fans of British sport: England used it as a training camp for UEFA Euro 2012. This only served …
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The European Games in Kraków (POL) saw Archery qualification for the Olympics. The winners of the Mixed Team event would qualify one man and one woman, while the top two in each individual event would also qualify. The top Brits in each gender were Penny Healy (681) and Monty Orton (683), so their 1364 was …
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The Artistic Swimming event at the 2023 European Games in Oswiciem saw the GB pair impress but fail to win the qualification spot for the Olympics. The European Games is the main European qualifier, but the team spot went to Olympic hosts France. So would the duet spot, apart from the fact teams automatically qualify …
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Despite a stacked team, GB’s shooters did not add any places to their already existent four-strong Paris team at the European Games in Kraków. Qualifiers took place in the twelve individual events: Men’s/Women’s 10m Air Rifle, 10m Air Pistol, 50m Rifle 3 Positions, Rapid Fire Pistol (M)/25m Pistol (W), Trap, and Skeet. The top athlete …
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Eden Cheng qualified for the Paris Olympics after a Gold Medal in the European Diving Championships (Rzeszów, POL, 22-28 Jun 2023). The winner of each individual event would qualify for the games. However, that would not be the last of it, as the 12 spots won at the World Aquatics Championships (Fukuoka, JPN, 14-30 Jul …
British athletes will be taking to the Bahamas, Mexico, and Hungary in attempts to qualify for the Paris Olympics. World Athletics have announced details for one of their qualifying events. The 2024 World Relays will take place in Nassau (BAH) from 4 to 5 May 2024. The top fourteen teams in all track relay events …
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The European Games’ opening ceremony hasn’t started yet but there has been some good news for the British duet at the Aquatics Centre in Oświęcim. Kate Elizabeth Shortman and Isabelle Anya Thorpe entered Free qualifying with the top twelve reaching the final. Their routine, with a difficulty score of 29.80, passed well and they never …
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Football’s Men’s European qualifier takes place in Romania and Georgia but Great Britain are not allowed to make the games. Even though in Women’s Football, England’s results are allowed to count for Great Britain, and this is the case for other team sports such as Hockey and Curling in which different home nations compete, this …
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