Nominative Roster Set for Cottbus, First FIG Competition in the 2024 Quad

Artem Dolgopyat

The FIG released the nominative roster for the Cottbus world cup, which will mark the first major international competition of the new quad and will serve as a qualifier for this year’s world championships.

Yes, beginning in 2022, athletes and nations will need to qualify to world championships, and can do so via both continental championships and the apparatus world cup series. At the end of the series, the eight highest-ranked eligible gymnasts per apparatus without a team qualified and who haven’t already qualified via the all-around will qualify to worlds by name, with a maximum of two gymnasts per country per apparatus. The ranking is based on the top three highest scores in the four-meet series, which after Cottbus includes world cups in Doha, Cairo, and Baku.

The same messy points system that determined Olympic qualification in 2020 will now also be used for worlds this quad. With continental championships serving as the primary qualifier for worlds, yet happening after the world cup series concludes, it means those who are ranked via the apparatus world cups but who later qualify through the all-around or on a team that qualifies will have their points reallocated to the next-eligible gymnasts. Here we go again!

So Cottbus is where this system kicks off, and we should expect to see over a hundred gymnasts attempting the first stage of worlds qualification, including 2020 Olympic men’s floor champion Artem Dolgopyat of Israel and 2021 world pommel horse champion Stephen Nedoroscik of the United States.

The competition will begin with qualifications on February 24, and should be available to watch on the Olympic Channel. A full list of all competitors who have registered is below.

Article by Lauren Hopkins