International Association of Athletics Federations IAAF World Indoor Championships - Portland 2016Date (Open): Thursday 17 March 2016
Date (Close): Sunday 20 March 2016
Time: 19:05 to 21:00 (Day 1:Thursday);
10:30 to 21:00 (Day 2:Friday);
11:00 to 20:00 (Day 3:Saturday);
12:40 to 15:00 (Day 4:Sunday);
Venue: Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA
Competition/Events: http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-indoor-championships/iaaf-world-indoor-championships-5681/timetable/byday________________________________________________________________________________________
Venue: Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, USA The world’s best track and field athletes will gather at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon in March of 2016 to compete in the 16th IAAF World Indoor Championships. More than 600 athletes representing as many as 200 countries will participate in the biennial event.
This will be the first time the IAAF World Indoor Championships have been contested in the United States since the inaugural competition in Indianapolis in 1987. Athletes will compete in 13 men’s and women’s events over a three-day period, March 18-20, with medals awarded to the top three finishers in each event.
Team USA has been the most successful country at the IAAF World Indoor Championships with a total of 202 medals: 87 gold, 58 silver and 57 bronze. The U.S. will be looking to build on its strong performance at the 2014 meet in which it won eight gold medals, including Oregon Track Club Elite’s Ashton Eaton’s winning effort of 6,632 points in the heptathlon.
In terms of competitors, the biggest IAAF World Indoor Championships were held in Paris in 1997 with 712 athletes from 118 countries. The most countries represented were 171 at the 2012 meet in Istanbul, Turkey.
The facilities at the Oregon Convention Center will feature a new 200-meter IAAF-certified track. The 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships will be broadcast worldwide to an estimated audience of 140 million global viewers.
IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 Teaserhttps://www.youtube.com/v/FRCWk-yYcsU________________________________________________________________________________________
Competition Qualifying Standards
http://www.ttnaaa.org/compete/standards/2016/world_in.html
See NAAA General Selection Policy: http://www.ttnaaa.org/compete/standards/naaa_selection_policy.pdfWorld Indoor Championships 2016
Men Women
Indoor Outdoor Indoor Outdoor01 60 6.65 - 7.32 -
02 100 - 10.15 - 11.20
03 400 46.70 45.10 53.15 51.20
04 800 1:46.50 1:44.00 2:02.50 1:58.50
05 1,500 3:39.50 3:33.00 4:13.00 4:03.00
06 Mile 3:55.00 - 4:30.00 -
07 3,000 7:50.00 7:40.00 9:00.00 8:36.00
08 5,000 - 13:10.00 - 14:56.00
09 60 H 7.72 - 8.14 -
10 100 H - - - 12.85
11 110 H - 13.45 - -
12 4x400 No Standard No Standard No standard No standard
13 HJ 2.33m - 1.97m -
14 PV 5.77m - 4.71m -
15 LJ 8.18m - 6.75m -
16 TJ 17.00m - 14.30m -
17 SP 20.50m - 18.10m -
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Taken from Team Manual at this link:
http://portland2016.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/FINAL-IAAF-WIC-Portland-2016-Team-Manual-23-Feb.pdf9.14 Competition Awards
9.14.1 Prize MoneyThe IAAF Council has approved the following Competition Awards for the IAAF World
Indoor Championships in Portland:
Individual1st US $ 40,000 2nd US $ 20,000 3rd US $ 10,000
4th US $ 8,000 5th US $ 6,000 6th US $ 4,000
Relays 1st US $ 40,000 2nd US $ 20,000 3rd US $ 10,000
4th US $ 8,000 5th US $ 6,000 6th US $ 4,000
The Award Form for Individual Events can be found in Appendix 13.9. It must be
returned to awards@iaaf.org but it will also be possible to return it to the Stadium TIC.
The Relay awards will be managed directly with the Member Federations concerned.
Athletes receiving IAAF Prize Money must make themselves available to the IAAF and
its sponsors, at least twice in the 12 next months, for promotional activities, upon
requests handled by the IAAF.
9.14.2 World Record BonusIn the event that an athlete breaks a World Record during the IAAF World Indoor
Championships, a prize of USD 50,000 will be awarded.
The payment of any World Record Award is subject to the following conditions:
1. A World Record Award will only be made for performances which meet all conditions
necessary for ratification of an IAAF World Record in accordance with IAAF Rules
and only after the Record has been officially ratified by the IAAF.
2. To qualify for a World Record Award, the performance must be an improvement on
the existing IAAF World Record. Performances which equal the existing IAAF World
Record will not be eligible for a World Record Award.
3. World Record Awards will not be awarded for World Junior Records.
4. An athlete may only claim a World Record Award once in any one discipline at a
particular event. The effect of this rule is that if an athlete breaks an IAAF World
Record more than once in a discipline, that athlete will only be eligible for one World
Record Award.
5. If more than one athlete breaks the IAAF World Record in a particular discipline, the
athlete who has achieved the best performance will receive the World Record
Award.
6. IAAF World Records achieved in qualifying/preliminary rounds will be eligible for a
World Record Award (see also §4 above).
7. Relay teams achieving an IAAF World Record will receive one World Record Award
to be divided among the members of the team.
8. The athlete receiving a World Record Award will be solely responsible for the
payment of any taxes, duties and/or levies of any nature and will agree to hold the
IAAF and its partner(s) harmless in this regard.
Athletes eligible to receive a World Record Award shall make themselves available to
the sponsors of this scheme and the IAAF for promotional activities at the end of their
competition programme and until the end of the Competition in question.
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9.14.3 Rights and Obligations in Relation to the Prize Money and World Record BonusBy signing the respective Awards Forms, athletes acknowledge and agree to their rights
and obligations in regards to the above mentioned Prize Money and World Record
Bonus.
Should an athlete’s Doping Control results return positive, the awards and bonuses won
shall be withheld.