2024 Paris Olympics: Meet the 60 qualifiers for the women’s golf competition

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Lydia Ko of New Zealand plays her second shot on the 10th hole during the second round of the KPMG Women's PGA Championship. (David Cannon/Getty Images)

Written by Sarah Kellam

The qualification period for the women’s golf competition has concluded and the International Golf Federation has announced the 60 qualifiers for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Two countries will have three representatives at Le Golf National, as Nelly Korda, Lilia Vu and Rose Zhang will compete for the United States and Jin Young Ko, Amy Yang and Hyo Joo Kim are slated to play for the Republic of Korea. Yang claimed a last-minute spot in the field after winning her first career major title at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the final qualifying event for the women’s competition.

Over 20 athletes will make their Olympic debuts, including Swedes Maja Stark and Linn Grant, and nearly 20 players (four men, 15 women) will be teeing it up in their third straight Games, most notably two-time medalist Lydia Ko of New Zealand, Canadian Brooke Henderson and Australia’s Minjee Lee.

Australia’s Minjee Lee will compete in her third straight Olympic Games. (Scott Halleran/Getty Images)

Maja Stark and Linn Grant qualified for Sweden for the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Angel Martinez/Getty Images)

Lydia Ko of Team New Zealand celebrates with the silver medal at the victory ceremony after the final round of the Women's Individual Stroke Play on day fifteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Kasumigaseki Country Club on August 07, 2021 in Kawagoe, Japan. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

Other notable qualifiers are Colombian Mariajo Uribe, who has announced that the 2024 Paris Olympics will be her last event as a professional golfer, and Yuka Saso, who, after representing the Philippines at the 2020 Tokyo Games, will compete for Japan for the first time in Paris. Saso earned her second Olympic berth by winning the U.S. Women’s Open presented by Ally at Lancaster Country Club.

For the first time ever, Singapore will be represented in the Olympic golf competition with Shannon Tan’s qualification. She is the first Singaporean to ever compete in the Olympic golf competition in either the men’s or women’s competitions.

Take a look at all 60 of the 2024 Olympic qualifiers:

United States: Nelly Korda, Lilia Vu, Rose Zhang
Republic of Korea: Jin Young Ko, Amy Yang, Hyo Joo Kim
People’s Republic of China: Ruoning Yin, Xiyu Lin
France: Celine Boutier, Perrine Delacour
Australia: Hannah Green, Minjee Lee
Great Britain: Charley Hull, Georgia Hall
Japan: Yuka Saso, Miyu Yamashita
Thailand: Atthaya Thitikul, Patty Tavatanakit
Canada: Brooke Henderson, Alena Sharp
New Zealand: Lydia Ko, Momoka Kobori
Sweden: Maja Stark, Linn Grant
Spain: Carlota Ciganda, Azahara Munoz
Ireland: Leona Maguire, Stephanie Meadow
South Africa: Ashleigh Buhai, Paula Reto
India: Aditi Ashok, Diksha Dagar
Mexico: Gaby Lopez, Maria Fassi
Germany: Esther Henseleit, Alexandra Forsterling
Switzerland: Albane Valenzuela, Morgane Metraux
Denmark: Emily Kristine Pedersen, Nanna Koerstz Madsen
Chinese Taipei: Peiyun Chien, Wei-Ling Hsu
Netherlands: Anne van Dam, Dewi Weber
Philippines: Bianca Pagdanganan, Dottie Ardina
Belgium: Manon De Roey
Austria: Emma Spitz
Singapore: Shannon Tan
Norway: Celine Borge, Madelene Stavnar
Czech Republic: Klara Davidson Spilkova, Sara Kouskova
Colombia: Mariajo Uribe
Italy: Alessandra Fanali
Malaysia: Ashley Lau
Finland: Ursula Wikstrom, Noora Komulainen
Slovenia: Ana Belac
Morocco: Ines Laklalech