The Rio Test Event - All You Need to Know

The Rio Test Event will take place on April 16-18 at the Rio Olympic Arena. This will be the last chance for gymnasts to qualify for the Olympic Games in Rio later this year. Not only is it a high stakes event and a great chance to give international experience and try out new seniors on a big stage, it is also a chance for gymnasts and coaches to scope out the arena, the Olympic Village, training halls, etc. It's a great time to start planning for the big trip - jet lag, climate acclimation, etc.

Teams that placed 9-16 at the World Championships in 2015 will have an additional chance to qualify. The top 4 teams at this meet will go to the Olympics. The other 4 teams will be able to choose one athlete to send to the Olympics. All other athletes competing at the Test Event, are vying for their spot at the Olympics.


On the men's side
Japan, China, Great Britain, Russia, USA, Switzerland, Brazil, and Korea have already qualified a team.
Rayderley Zapata (FX) of Spain, Harutyun Merdinyan (PH) of Armenia, Eleftherios Petrounias (SR) of Greece, Ri Se Gwang (VT) of North Korea, Marian Dragulescu (VT) of Romania, Oleg Verniaiev (PB) of Ukraine, Oleg Stepko (PB) of Azerbaijan, and Manrique Larduet  (HB) of Cuba have already qualified to the Olympics as an individual.
Belarus withdrew as a team. This allows Belgium to bring a team of gymnasts to the Test Event and Belarus will bring 2 gymnasts instead.
Russia has already qualified as a team and is able to send 2 gymnasts but no gymnasts are on the nominative list.


On the women's side
USA, Russia, Great Britain, China, Italy, Japan, Canada, and the Netherlands have already qualified a team.
Hong Un Jong of PRK (silver on vault) and Pauline Schaefer of GER (bronze on balance beam) have already qualified to the Olympics.
The People's Republic of Korea has withdrawn their team from contention so only Hong will represent them at the Olympics. The 2 alternates will now attend the test event, Colombia and India.
USA, Russia, and Japan have already qualified as a team and are able to send 2 gymnasts each but no gymnasts are listed on the nominative list.



SCHEDULE
The event finals schedule is very interesting and not sure if it'll stay that way.

April 14	MAG Podium Training
April 16	MAG Team and AA Competition
10:30-13:00 BRT 9:30-12:00 EDT	Subdivision 1 (GER, MG 9, MG 1, MG 5, MG 7, CAN) MG9: COL, COL, JPN, JPN, GBR, GBR MG1: AZE, LTU, POR, ARM, AUS MG5: GRE, GRE, GRE, HKG, ARG, PRK MG7: RUS, RUS, SUI, SUI, CRC
14:30-17:00 BRT 13:30-16:00 EDT	Subdivision 2 (ROU, ESP, MG 2, FRA, MG 6, MG 4) MG2: TPE, TPE, HUN, BLR, BLR MG6: USA, USA, UZB, RSA, CZE, ALG MG4: KOR, KOR, PUR, PUR, BRA, BRA
18:30-21:00 BRT 17:30-20:00 EDT	Subdivision 3 (UKR, NED, MG 3, BEL, MG 10, MG 8) MG3: MEX, MEX, CHI, IRL, TUR MG10: ITA, ITA, NOR, CYP, NZL, VIE MG8: CHN, CHN, JAM, ISR, CUB, FIN
April 15	WAG Podium Training
April 17	WAG Team and AA Competition
9:30-11:30 BRT 8:30-10:30 EDT	Subdivision 1 (AUS, ROU, MG 5, MG 6) MG5: HUN, HUN, CHN, CHN, POL, POL, CRO MG6: COL, IND, BLR
13:00-15:00 BRT 12:00-14:00 EDT	Subdivision 2 (MG 4, MG 1, BRA, SUI) MG4: AZE, SVK, UKR, MAS, VEN, ARG, ARM MG1: GRE, GRE, NED, NED, GBR, GBR, UZB
16:30-18:30 BRT 15:30-17:30 EDT	Subdivision 3 (MG 7, MG 8, GER, KOR) MG7: ESP, ESP, SWE, SWE, CUB, TTO, NZL MG8: RUS, RUS, PER, POR, GUA, CHI, VIE
20:00-22:00 BRT 19:00-21:00 EDT	Subdivision 4 (BEL, MG 2, FRA, MG 3) MG2: CAN, CAN, SLO, IRL, ALG, JAM, ISL MG3: MEX, MEX, ITA, ITA, AUT, AUT, TUR
April 18	MAG and WAG EF
13:10-14:10 BRT 12:10-13:10 EDT	MAG FX, WAG VT
Awards
14:25-15:25 BRT 13:25-14:25 EDT	MAG PH, WAG UB
Awards
Break
17:10-17:40 BRT 16:10-16:40 EDT	MAG SR
Awards
18:00-18:30 BRT 17:00-17:30 EDT	MAG VT
Awards
18:40-19:10 BRT 17:40-18:10 EDT	WAG BB
Awards
Break
20:30-22:00 BRT 19:30-21:00 EDT	MAG PB & HB, WAG FX
Awards

LIVE STREAM
Updated Apr 14 - FIG will upload "52 minute highlight videos of both the individual and team competitions" for both MAG and WAG the day after competitions for both qualifications and event finals. Here's the link to the FIG Youtube Channel.


ROSTER

WAG		MAG
IOC	Name	IOC	Name
USA	-	JPN	Chihiro Yoshioka
RUS	-	CHN	Sun Wei Liao Junlin
GBR	Becky Downie Gabby Jupp	GBR	Brinn Bevan Nile Wilson
CHN	Zhang Jin Gong Kangyi	RUS	-
ITA	Giorgia Campana Lara Mori	USA	Jake Dalton John Orozco
JPN	-	SUI	Marco Rizzo Kevin Rossi
CAN	Isabela Onyshko Victoria Kayen Woo	BRA	Sergio Sasaki Arthur Zanetti
NED	Lieke Wevers Sanne Wevers	KOR	Hansol Kim Wonchul Yoo
BRA	Rebeca Andrade Jade Barbosa Daniele Hypolito Lorrane Oliveira Flavia Saraiva Carolyne Pedro Milena Theodoro	GER	Lukas Dauser Andreas Bretschneider Marcel Nguyen Philipp Herder Andreas Toba Ivan Rittschik Helge Liebrich - alternate
FRA	(Camille Bahl - alternate) Marine Boyer Marine Brevet Loan His Anne Kuhm Louise Vanhille Oreane Lechenault	FRA	Samit Ait Said Kevin Antoniotti Guillaume Augugliaro Julien Gobaux Cyril Tommasone Axel Augis Zachari Hrimeche
BEL	Axelle Kinckaert Julie Croket Laura Waem Rune Hermans Gaelle Mys Senna Deriks Cindy Vandenhole - alternate (Nina Derwael)	NED	Michel Bletterman Bart Deurloo Frank Rijken Casimir Schmidt Jeffrey Wammes Epke Zonderland Anthony van Assche - alternate
GER	Tabea Alt Leah Griesser Pauline Schaefer Sophie Scheder Elisabeth Seitz Pauline Tratz Maike Enderle - alternate	UKR	Oleg Verniaev Igor Radivilov Vladyslav Kryko Maksym Semiankiv Illia Yehorov Andrii Sienichkin
ROU	Diana Bulimar Ana Maria Ocolisan Catalina Ponor Dora Vulcan Silvia Zarzu Andreea Iridon - alternate Maria Holbura	ESP	Nestor Abad Joel Plata Adria Vera Alberto Tallon Rayderly Zapata Ruben Lopez Andres Martin - alternate
AUS	Georgia-Rose Brown Emily Little Larrissa Miller Rianna Mizzen Kiara Munteanu Emma Nedov Alexandra Eade - alternate	ROU	Alexandru Andre Ursache Cristian Ioan Bataga Vlad Cotuna Andrei Muntean Marian Dragulescu Marius Berbecar Daniel Radeanu
KOR	Jeong Hee Yeon Kim Chae Yeon Kim Ju Ran - alternate Lee Eun Ju Lee Go Im Lee Hye Been Yun Na Rae	CAN	Rene Cournoyer Mathieu Csukassy Scott Morgan Anderson Loran Jay Hugh Smith Jackson Payne Kenneth Ikeda
SUI	Caterina Barloggio Thea Brogli Nicole Hitz - alternate Ilaria Kaeslin Laura Schulte Stefanie Siegenthaler Giulia Steingruber	BEL	Maxime Gentges Jimmy Verbaeys Daan Kenis Bram Louqije Siemon Volkaert Dennis Goossens Florian Landuyt - alternate
ESP	Claudia Colom Ana Perez	BLR	Dzmitry Barkalau Andrey Likhovitskiy
HUN	Zsofia Kovacs Noemi Makra	COL	Jossimar Calvo Javier Sandoval
POL	Gabriela Janik Katarzyna Jurkowska-Kowalska	ITA	Ludovico Edalli Matteo Morandi
PRK	-	GRE	Vlasios Maras Eleftherios Kosmidis
MEX	Ana Lago Alexa Moreno	PUR	Luis Revera Andres Perez Gines
SWE	Emma Larsson Jonna Adlerteg	HUN	Botond  Kardos Vid Hidvegi
AUT	Lisa Eckerle Elisa Haemmerle	TPE	Chen Chih-Yu Lee Chih Kai
GRE	Argyro Arfrati Vasiliki Millousi	MEX	Kevin Cerda Daniel Corral
VEN	Jessica Lopez	CUB	Randy Leru
POR	Ana Filipa Martins	ARM	Artur Davtyan
UZB	Oksana Chusovitina	CRO	Filip Ude
CUB	Marcia Vidiaux	HKG	Shek Wai Hung
SLO	Teja Belak	CHI	Tomas Gonzalez
TTO	Marisa Dick	POR	Gustavo Palma Simoes
PER	Ariana Orrego	NZL	Mikhail Koudinov
GUA	Ana Sofia Gomez	CZE	David Jessen
JAM	Toni-Ann Williams	TUR	Ferhat Arican
TUR	Tutya Yilmaz	CYP	Marios Georgiou
ARM	Houry Gabeshian	NOR	Stian Skjerahaug
MAS	Farah Ann Abdul Hadi	LTU	Robert Tvorogal
ALG	Farah Boufadene	FIN	Oskar Kirmes
NZL	Courtney McGregor	IRL	Kieran Behan
BLR	Kylie Dickson	AZE	Petro Pakhnyuk
ARG	Ailen Valente	RSA	Ryan Patterson
VIE	Phan Thi Ha Thanh	UZB	Anton Fokin
AZE	Marina Nekrasova	ISR	Alexander Shatilov
SVK	Barbora Mokosova	JAM	Caleb Faulk
UKR	Angelina Kysla	VIE	Pham Phuoc Hung
CHI	Simona Castro	ALG	Mohamed Abdeldjalil Bourguieg
IRL	Ellis O'Reilly	CRC	Tarik Soto
CRO	Ana Derek	ARG	Nicolas Cordoba
ISL	Irina Sazonova	AUS	Michael Mercieca
COL	Catalina Escobar Gomez	IND	alternate
IND	Dipa Karmakar	SVK	alternate
RSA	alternate	DOM	alternate

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