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European canoe slalom teams have been very successful at this year’s Canoe Slalom World Chmapionships which was the first qualifying event to acquire the Olympic quotas for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Nineteen European teams have managed to secure at least one quota place for the Olympic Games which will be held next year in Tokyo. Five countries won quotas in all four events –Czech Republic, Spain, France, Great Britain and Slovenia were the most successful ones. Three quotas were won by Austria, Germany, Italy and Slovakia, two quotas were won by Poland, Russia and Switzerland, while one quota went to Andorra, Croatia, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and Ukraine.

Allocation of quotas (European Countries only):

AND – WK1

AUT – MK1, WK1, WC1

CRO – MC1

CZE – MK1, WK1, MC1, WC1

ESP – MK1, WK1, MC1, WC1

FRA – MK1, WK1, MC1, WC1

GBR – MK1, WK1, MC1, WC1

GER – MK1, WK1, WC1

IRL – MC1

ITA – MK1, WK1, WC1

NED – WK1

POL – MC1, WK1

POR – MK1

RUS – MK1, WK1

SLO – MK1, WK1, MC1, WC1

SUI – MK1, WC1

SVK – MK1, MC1, WK1

SWE – MK1

UKR – WK1