Australian browsing star Sally Fitzgibbons will compete as a wildcard on the World Browsing Video games as she goals to earn choice for the Paris Olympics by way of a left-field avenue.
Broad World of Sports activities can completely reveal that Fitzgibbons and Australian younger gun Morgan Cibilic have attained wildcards for the World Browsing Video games, to be held at Puerto Rico within the Caribbean throughout February and March.
The match at Arecibo, a municipality on the north coast of Puerto Rico, will function the ultimate alternative for Olympic qualification.
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Tyler Wright and Molly Picklum have already secured the 2 Olympic girls’s spots out there to Australia by means of the 2023 World Surf League Championship Tour rankings.
Australia’s Ethan Ewing and Jack Robinson will be part of Wright and Picklum on the Olympic browsing competitors within the Tahitian village of Teahupo’o, having snapped up the 2 males’s spots on supply by means of the 2023 rankings.
If Australia is to be granted an extra quota place for the Olympic girls’s occasion, the ladies’s workforce on the World Browsing Video games should win gold.
Browsing Australia’s high-performance workforce would then be tasked with deciding which athlete takes the third spot. Fitzgibbons, India Robinson and Isabella Nichols are among the many potential candidates.
Likewise, Australia should win workforce gold within the World Browsing Video games males’s match if it is to take three male surfers to the Olympics. Cibilic, Ryan Callinan and Connor O’Leary are amongst those that may get the call-up.
Fitzgibbons and Stephanie Gilmore, who’s now an eight-time world champion, competed within the girls’s occasion on the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Fitzgibbons, a former world No.1, bowed out within the quarter-finals and completed equal fifth as browsing made its Olympic debut.
The World Browsing Video games can be held between February 22 and March 3.
Australia can be represented by Wright, Picklum, Ewing, Robinson, Fitzgibbons and Cibilic.
