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London 2012 Olympics Entry/Qualification Standards
- Individual Events & Relays


Monte-Carlo – The Ranking List for teams wishing to qualify for the Relay events at the Games of the XXX Olympiad London 2012 is now available.

Click here (http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Document/06/44/08/64408_PDF_English.pdf) to download the Relay Ranking List (pdf) last updated 25 June 2012 or scroll down to view 4th post (Reply #3) in this thread.

Next update: July 3.

The qualification process for the Relay events (4 x100m and 4 x 400m) at London 2012 is as follows:

Relays

a. There shall be a maximum of 16 qualified teams in each relay event, based on the aggregate of the two fastest times achieved by national teams in the qualification period of 1 January 2011 to 2 July 2012. For the results to be valid for qualification purposes, a minimum of three international teams must compete in the race.

b. A total of six athletes may be entered for a relay team. Should an NOC have entered individual athletes and a relay team in the same distance, the entered individual athletes (including the eventual reserve) must be included in the total of six athletes entered for the relay events.

c. The deadline for national relay teams to record qualifying performances for the Olympic Games Athletics competition is 2 July 2012. On 3 July 2012, the final rankings (top 16 teams) in each of the relays will be published on the IAAF website. The IAAF will inform the NOCs of each of these national teams of their eligibility to compete in the Olympic Games relay competitions.

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The official Qualification System for the Athletics Competitions of the Games of the XXX Olympiad London 2012 can be downloaded here: (http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Document/Statistics/Standards/05/90/83/20110119112034_httppostedfile_QualificationSystem-Athletics-IAAF-21112010_23249.pdf) or simply scroll down to view 6th post (Reply #5) in this thread.

Olympic qualification standards – click here (http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/OLY12/Standards/Standards.aspx) or simply scroll down to view the next two posts (Reply #1 & Reply #2) in this thread.

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Men
Event A Standard B Standard

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100m 10.18 10.24
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200m 20.55 20.65
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400m 45.30 45.90
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800m 1:45.60 1:46.30
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1500m 3:35.50 3:38.00
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5000m 13:20.00 13:27.00
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10,000m 27:45.00 28:05.00
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Marathon 2:15:00 2:18:00
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3000m SC 8:23.10 8:32.00
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110m H 13.52 13.60 
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400m H 49.50 49.80
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High Jump 2.31 2.28
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Pole Vault 5.72 5.60
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Long Jump 8.20 8.10
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Triple Jump 17.20 16.85
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Shot Put 20.50 20.00
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Discus Throw 65.00 63.00
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Hammer Throw 78.00 74.00
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Javelin Throw 82.00 79.50
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Decathlon 8200 7950 
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20km Race Walk 1:22:30 1:24:30
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50km Race Walk 3:59:00 4:09:00
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4x100m Top 16 teams
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4x400m Top 16 teams
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Approved by IAAF Council April 2011, amended by IAAF Council November 2011
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Women
Event A Standard B Standard

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100m 11.29 11.38
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200m 23.10 23.30
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400m 51.55 52.35
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800m 1:59.90 2:01.30
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1500m 4:06.00 4:08.90
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5000m 15:20.00 15:30.00
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10,000m 31:45.00 32:10.00
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Marathon 2:37:00 2:43:00
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3000m SC 9:43.00 9:48.00
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100m H 12.96 13.15
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400m H 55.50 56.65
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High Jump 1.95 1.92
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Pole Vault 4.50 4.40
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Long Jump 6.75 6.65
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Triple Jump 14.30 14.10
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Shot Put 18.30 17.20
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Discus Throw 62.00 59.50
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Hammer Throw 71.50 69.00
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Javelin Throw 61.00 59.00
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Heptathlon 6150 5950
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20km Race Walk 1:33:30 1:38:00
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4x100m Top 16 teams
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4x400m Top 16 teams
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Approved by IAAF Council April 2011, amended by IAAF Council November 2011
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London 2012 Olympics Entry/Qualification Standards - Men & Women Relays
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2012, 07:49:48 PM »
http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Document/06/44/08/64408_PDF_English.pdf

Best Relay Performances (updated as at 25 June 2012)

Next Update: July 3

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4x100m MEN
MF 2 RACES 1st performance 2nd performance
AGGREGATE AVERAGE Time Comp Time Comp

=================================
1 JAM 75.11 37.56 37.04 WC 38.07 WC
2 USA 75.69 37.85 37.79 WC 37.90 Lignano
3 FRA 76.58 38.29 38.20 WC 38.38 WC
4 GBR 76.64 38.32 38.29 WC 38.35 WK
5 TRI 76.80 38.40 37.91 WC 38.89 CAC
6 BRA 76.81 38.41 38.18 PAG 38.63 Rio
7 POL 76.87 38.44 38.37 WC 38.50 WC
8 GER 76.96 38.48 38.41 Weinheim 38.55 Weinheim
8 SKN 76.96 38.48 38.47 WC 38.49 WC
10 HKG 77.18 38.59 38.47 Taipei 38.71 Kanchanaburi
11 CAN 77.28 38.64 38.63 GGala 38.65 GGala
12 ITA 77.30 38.65 38.41 WC 38.89 GGala
13 JPN 77.35 38.68 38.66 WC 38.69 f**kuroi
14 CHN 77.36 38.68 38.65 Kanchanaburi 38.71 f**kuroi
15 AUS 77.53 38.77 38.69 WC 38.84 f**kuroi
16 RSA 77.80 38.90 38.72 WC 39.08 NC
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17 GHA 77.88 38.94 38.93 Ghana GP 38.95 AfG
18 TPE 77.97 38.99 38.78 Taipei 39.19 Kanchanaburi
19 SUI 78.06 39.03 38.98 Résisprint 39.08 GGala
20 KOR 78.23 39.12 39.04 Asian GP 39.19 Asian GP

=================================
4x400m MEN
MF 2 RACES 1st performance 2nd performance
AGGREGATE AVERAGE Time Comp Time Comp

=================================
1 USA 5:57.93 2:58.97 2:58.62 WC 2:59.31 WC
2 RSA 5:59.08 2:59.54 2:59.21 WC 2:59.87 WC
3 JAM 5:59.23 2:59.61 2:59.13 WC 3:00.10 WC
4 CUB 5:59.86 2:59.93 2:59.43 PAG 3:00.43 IbAmC
5 RUS 6:01.03 3:00.51 3:00.22 WC 3:00.81 WC
6 BEL 6:01.12 3:00.56 3:00.41 WC 3:00.71 WC
7 GBR 6:01.54 3:00.77 3:00.38 WC 3:01.16 WC
8 BAH 6:01.89 3:00.94 3:00.56 PennR 3:01.33 CAC
9 GER 6:02.05 3:01.03 3:00.68 WC 3:01.37 WC
10 TRI 6:02.10 3:01.05 3:00.45 NC 3:01.65 CAC
11 KEN 6:02.12 3:01.06 3:00.97 WC 3:01.15 WC
12 VEN 6:02.52 3:01.26 3:00.82 PAG 3:01.70 IbAmC
13 AUS 6:03.14 3:01.57 3:01.56 WC 3:01.58 Daegu
14 DOM 6:03.46 3:01.73 3:00.44 PAG 3:03.02 IbAmC
15 JPN 6:03.68 3:01.84 3:01.04 Daegu 3:02.64 WC
16 POL 6:05.46 3:02.73 3:01.84 WC 3:03.62 ECu23
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17 FRA 6:07.01 3:03.50 3:03.33 ETC 3:03.68 WC
18 BRA 6:07.58 3:03.79 3:03.05 IbAmC 3:04.53 Sao Paulo
19 BOT 6:07.73 3:03.87 3:03.84 AfrGP 3:03.89 GGala
20 GRN 6:08.96 3:04.48 3:04.27 CAC 3:04.69 PennR

=================================
4x100m WOMEN
MF 2 RACES 1st performance 2nd performance
AGGREGATE AVERAGE Time Comp Time Comp

=================================
1 USA 83.50 41.75 41.56 WC 41.94 WC
2 JAM 83.93 41.97 41.70 WC 42.23 WC
3 UKR 85.14 42.57 42.51 WC 42.63 WC
4 FRA 85.30 42.65 42.60 WC 42.70 WC
5 NGR 85.67 42.84 42.74 WC 42.93 WC
6 RUS 85.71 42.86 42.78 WC 42.93 WC
7 BRA 85.80 42.90 42.85 PAG 42.95 WC
8 NED 86.34 43.17 42.90 Genève 43.44 WC
9 GER 86.52 43.26 43.19 Weinheim 43.33 Weinheim
10 TRI 86.56 43.28 43.21 Nassau 43.35 Nassau
11 COL 86.97 43.49 43.44 PAG 43.53 WC
12 JPN 87.04 43.52 43.39 Kawasaki 43.65 Asian GP
13 BAH 87.14 43.57 43.52 Nassau 43.62 NC
14 BLR 87.21 43.61 43.54 Bydgoszcz 43.67 ETC
15 GBR 87.35 43.68 43.50 ETC 43.85 Résisprint
16 AUS 87.48 43.74 43.69 Kawasaki 43.79 WC
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17 POL 87.55 43.78 43.77 ETC 43.78 Marseille
18 SUI 87.71 43.86 43.81 Genève 43.90 Lausanne
19 BEL 87.84 43.92 43.84 Oslo 44.00 Aviva
20 PUR 87.86 43.93 43.81 PAm 44.05 PAm

=================================
4x400m WOMEN
MF 2 RACES 1st performance 2nd performance
AGGREGATE AVERAGE Time Comp Time Comp

=================================
1 USA 6:39.27 3:19.63 3:18.09 WC 3:21.18 PennR
2 RUS 6:40.30 3:20.15 3:19.36 WC 3:20.94 WC
3 JAM 6:40.72 3:20.36 3:18.71 WC 3:22.01 WC
4 GBR 6:46.68 3:23.34 3:23.05 WC 3:23.63 WC
5 UKR 6:47.99 3:24.00 3:23.86 WC 3:24.13 WC
6 BLR 6:49.92 3:24.96 3:24.28 WC 3:25.64 WC
7 CZE 6:52.58 3:26.29 3:26.01 WC 3:26.57 WC
8 CUB 6:54.83 3:27.41 3:26.74 WC 3:28.09 PAG
9 NGR 6:55.41 3:27.71 3:25.59 WC 3:29.82 WC
10 GER 6:56.20 3:28.10 3:27.31 WC 3:28.89 ETC
11 ITA 6:56.59 3:28.30 3:26.48 WC 3:30.11 ETC
12 IRL 6:58.09 3:29.05 3:27.48 WC 3:30.61 Bydgoszcz
13 BRA 6:58.15 3:29.08 3:28.56 IbAmC 3:29.59 PAG
14 FRA 6:59.15 3:29.57 3:28.02 WC 3:31.13 ETC
15 TUR 6:59.54 3:29.77 3:29.40 ETC 3:30.14 WUG
16 CAN 5:59.80 2:29.90 2:27.92 WC 3:31.88 PennR
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17 COL 7:02.78 3:31.39 3:29.94 PAG 3:32.84 Caixa
18 POL 7:04.68 3:32.34 3:29.33 Bydgoszcz 3:35.35 ECu20
19 BEL 7:05.58 3:32.79 3:31.49 Gent 3:34.09 ETC
20 AUS 7:06.39 3:33.19 3:32.27 WC 3:34.12 Brisbane Clas.
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Compiled by the IAAF Statistics Office
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London 2012 Olympics Qualification System - Rules
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2012, 08:24:29 PM »
http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Document/Statistics/Standards/05/90/83/20110119112034_httppostedfile_QualificationSystem-Athletics-IAAF-21112010_23249.pdf

QUALIFICATION SYSTEM – GAMES OF THE XXX OLYMPIAD IAAF
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ATHLETICS FEDERATIONS

Athletics

A. Events (47)

MEN’S EVENTS (24)
Track

100m
200m
400m
800m
1500m
5000m
10,000m
110m Hurdles
400m Hurdles
3000m Steeplechase
4 x 100m Relay
4 x 400m Relay
Field
High Jump
Pole Vault
Long Jump
Triple Jump
Shot Put
Discus Throw
Hammer Throw
Javelin Throw
Combined
Decathlon
Road
Marathon
20km Race Walk
50km Race Walk

WOMEN’S EVENTS (23)
Track

100m
200m
400m
800m
1500m
5000m
10,000m
100m Hurdles
400m Hurdles
3000m Steeplechase
4 x 100m Relay
4 x 400m Relay
Field
High Jump
Pole Vault
Long Jump
Triple Jump
Shot Put
Discus Throw
Hammer Throw
Javelin Throw
Combined
Heptathlon
Road
Marathon
20km Race Walk

B. Quota

The target number of athletes for the sport of Athletics is 2,000.
NOCs may enter up to three athletes for each event on the athletics program, provided they have achieved the A standard. In addition they can enter one reserve athlete for the same event provided he/she has also achieved the A standard.
NOCs may enter one athlete for each event on the athletics program if he/she has achieved at least the B standard. In addition they can enter one reserve athlete for the same event provided he/she has also achieved at least the B standard.

C. Athlete Eligibility ATHLETE ELIGIBILITY

All athletes must comply with the provisions of the Olympic Charter currently in force and only those athletes who have complied with the Olympic Charter may participate in the Olympic Games.

Junior Athletes
Any athlete aged 18 or 19 years on 31 December in the year of the competition (born in 1993 or 1994) may compete in any event except the Marathon and 50km Race Walk.

Youth Athletes
Any athlete aged 16 or 17 years on 31 December in the year of the competition (born in 1995 and 1996) may compete in any event except the throwing events (male athletes only), Decathlon, 10,000m, Marathon and Race Walk.

Athletes Younger than 16
No athlete younger than 16 years of age on 31 December in the year of the competition (born in 1997 or later) may be entered.

D. Qualification System QUALIFICATION PATHWAY

1. Qualification Standards
In order to be entered in the Olympic Games Athletics competition, an athlete will be required to achieve the appropriate Qualification Standard in the event(s) in which he/she is entered. The Qualification Standards and relevant criteria shall be established by the IAAF in the year preceding the Olympic Games and confirmed by 15 April 2011 for all events (the final list can be found in section H below).

2. Qualification Period
Athletes must reach the standards as set by the IAAF during the following prescribed periods: - 10,000m, Marathon, Race Walk and Combined Events: 1 January 2011 to 8 July 2012 - All other individual events: 1 May 2011 to 8 July 2012 - Relays: 1 January 2011 to 2 July 2012 (see 5).

3. Qualifying Events
All performances must be achieved during competitions organised or authorised by the IAAF, its Area Associations or its National Member Federations in conformity with IAAF Rules. Results achieved at university or school competitions must be certified by the National Federation of the country in which the competition was organised. Performances achieved in mixed events between male and female participants, held completely in the stadium, may be accepted under specific circumstances and conditions (see IAAF Rule 147). Wind-assisted performances will not be accepted. Hand timing performances in 100m, 200m, 400m, 110m/100m Hurdles, 400m Hurdles and 4x100m Relay will not be accepted. Indoor performances for all field events and for races of 400m and longer, will be accepted. For the running events of 400m and over (including combined events), performances achieved on oversized tracks shall not be accepted.

4. Marathon & Race Walk
A list* of qualifying competitions for the Marathon and Race Walking events, which meet the IAAF’s qualifying criteria, will be produced by the IAAF by 1 January 2011. The first 20 runners in the Men’s Marathon and in the Women’s Marathon in the World Championships in Athletics of Daegu (Republic of Korea) 2011 and the top 10 finishers at the IAAF Gold Label Marathons in 2011 and 2012 (held during the qualification period) will also be considered as having achieved the “A” qualification standard.

5. Relays
a. There shall be a maximum of 16 qualified teams in each relay event, based on the aggregate of the two fastest times achieved by national teams in the qualification period of 1 January 2011 to 2 July 2012. For the results to be valid for qualification purposes, a minimum of three international teams must compete in the race.
b. A total of six athletes may be entered for a relay team. Should an NOC have entered individual athletes and a relay team in the same distance, the entered individual athletes (including the eventual reserve) must be included in the total of six athletes entered for the relay events.
c. The deadline for national relay teams to record qualifying performances for the Olympic Games Athletics competition is 2 July 2012. On 3 July 2012, the final rankings (top 16 teams) in each of the relays will be published on the IAAF website. The IAAF will inform the NOCs of each of these national teams of their eligibility to compete in the Olympic Games relay competitions.

6. Non-Qualified Athletes
a. NOCs for which no male or no female athlete has reached the required qualification standard will be allowed to enter their best male athlete and their best female athlete in one athletic event each, with the exception of the Combined Events, 10,000m and 3000m Steeplechase.
b. This applies equally to unqualified female entries from an NOC with qualified males, and vice versa.
c. Acceptance of unqualified entries in Field Events will be at the discretion of the IAAF Technical Delegates, based on the technical standard of the athlete and the numbers of qualified athletes in the respective event. In order to allow the IAAF Technical Delegates to assess the technical level of athletes requesting entries through this process, applications must be submitted by NOCs to the IAAF by 15 June 2012. The application must specify the event in which the entry is requested and the proof of the technical level and international participation of the nominated athlete. The IAAF shall subsequently confirm, in writing to NOCs, with a copy to LOCOG and IOC Sport, the approval or otherwise of the entry of the specified athlete(s).

7. Reserve Athletes
Reserve athletes may be selected to replace another entered athlete up until the time of the Final Confirmation for the respective event. At that time, if the reserve athlete is confirmed, the accreditation status of the replaced athlete will be transferred to the confirmed athlete who will then have access to the Olympic Village, the Warm-Up Venue and the Olympic Stadium. At the same time, the replaced athlete shall leave the Olympic Village.
* You will find the detailed list of events where it will be possible for athletes to achieve the Qualification Standards for London 2012, for Marathon and Race Walk Events to be held in 2011, on the IAAF website on www.iaaf.org/competitions

E. Confirmation process for quota places CONFIRMATION PROCESS FOR QUOTA PLACES

NOCs shall enter all athletes to LOCOG by the Entry by Name deadline of 9 July 2012. The entry process will then be considered closed. These entries shall be verified and approved by LOCOG in liaison with the IAAF Technical Delegates.

F. Reallocation of unused quota places REALLOCATION OF UNUSED IF QUOTA PLACES

Should an NOC confirm to the IAAF that they will not enter a qualified relay team, the place will be reallocated to the NOC with a relay team which has recorded the next fastest aggregate time in accordance with the IAAF’s criteria for the qualification of relay teams.

G. Qualification timeline

DATE MILESTONE

1 January 2011

Start of the qualification period for 10,000m, Marathon, Race Walk, Combined and Relay events. IAAF to confirm a list* of qualifying competitions for the Marathon and Race Walking events.

15 April 2011
IAAF to confirm the qualification standards for all events. The standards will be distributed to all NOCs and NFs.

1 May 2011
Start of the qualification period for all other individual events.

15 June 2012
Deadline for NOCs wishing to enter unqualified athletes in the field events to apply to the IAAF for approval.

2 July 2012
End of qualification period for relay teams.

3 July 2012
IAAF to publish the list of 16 qualified teams for each relay event.

8 July 2012
Deadline for athletes to achieve the qualification standards in individual events

9 July 2012
IAAF to confirm in writing to LOCOG:
- list of approved unqualified athletes in field events
- list of qualified relay teams Deadline for London 2012 Organising Committee to receive entry forms

* You will find the detailed list of events where it will be possible for athletes to achieve the Qualification Standards for London 2012, for Marathon and Race Walk Events to be held in 2011, on the IAAF website on www.iaaf.org/competitions

H. Entry Standards (Approved by the IAAF Council – Daegu 11 April 2011)
Please click here (http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/OLY12/Standards/Standards.aspx) or see posts for both Men Entry Standards (Reply #1) and Women Entry Standards (Reply #2) higher up in this thread.
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we need a women 4x4 badly man. We short changing we women.
Yeah most definitely!

Correction, we have a Women's 4x400m Relay team and they were scheduled to run in 2nd to last event at our National Champs on the weekend just gone but I think the race got scrapped because there were not enough teams entered or something like that.

2012 SENIOR/OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS  - 6/23/2012 to 6/24/2012           
                 HASELY CRAWFORD STADIUM, PORT OF SPAIN, T'DAD                 
                                 Meet Program                                 
 
Event 42  Women 4x400 Meter Relay
===============================================================================
Sunday 6/24/2012 - 6:35 PM
          NR:  3:32.57  4/24/1987   Jackson State University                   
                        G. Forde, D. Salazar, M. Jack, A. Valdez         
     Team                                                                   
===============================================================================
Section 1  Timed Finals
  1                                                                     
  2                                                                     
  3  Trinidad And Tobago                                                 
     1) Brooks, Aleena 91               2) MC Knight, Sparkle 91         
     3) James, Jessica 91               4) Fermin, Shauna 91
             
  4  Neon Trackers                                                       
     1) MC Knight, Sparkle 91           2) Bellille, Janeil 89           
     3) Modeste, Romona 83              4) James, Jessica 91             
  5  Trinidad And Tobago  'B'                                           
     1) Massiah, Dana 85                2) Bellille, Janeil 89           
     3) Modeste, Romona 83              4) Spann, Kernesha 94
             
  6                                                                     
  7                                                                     
  8                                                                     


Now check this out; Bahamas trying to qualify their women's 4x400m relay team before the deadline this coming Monday by sending them to the Jamaica Olympic Trials so maybe we should try to do the same.
Hopefully our NAAA & TTOC have the foresight to grab this opportunity like the Bahamas are doing and send our Women's 4x400m Relay squad to Jamaica to see if they can get a top 16 time and also qualify for the Olympics.

Read article at link below for more details on the Bahamas relay teams!

BAAA in last ditch attempt to qualify relay teams
Men's 4x100m and Women's 4x400m relay squads could be headed to Jamaica this weekend


http://www.thenassauguardian.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32195:baaa-in-last-ditch-attempt-to-qualify-relay-teams&catid=41:sports&Itemid=50

Maybe both the Bahamas & Grenada Women's 4x400m Relay teams should have taken part in the T&T National Trials on the weekend gone and at least one of them might have achieved the desired top 16 Olympic qualification time.
That was an opportunity missed by the Bahamas and maybe they would have been okay now.
Same goes for their Men’s 4x100m Relay team which is now in panic mode to try to make the Olympics.
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http://www.ttnaaa.org/results/2012/naaa_sagicor

Btw these are the times our 400m Women ran in the 400m final at National Champs/Trials.

2012 SENIOR/OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS  - 6/23/2012 to 6/24/2012         
              HASELY CRAWFORD STADIUM, PORT OF SPAIN, T'DAD               
 
Event 2  Women 400 Meter Dash
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          NR: ! 51.96  5/24/1998   Beverly Pierre                         
                51.55  # Olympic A Std.                                   
                52.35  @ Olympic B Std.                                   
    Name              Year Team                    Finals        H# Points
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Finals                                                                   
  1 MC Knight, Sparkle  91 Neon Trackers            52.44         2       
  2 Fermin, Shauna      91 Memphis Pioneers         53.39         2       
  3 Brooks, Aleena      91 Memphis Pioneers         54.27         2       
  4 Spann, Kernesha     94 Neon Trackers            54.35         2       
  5 James, Jessica      91 Neon Trackers            54.57         2       
  6 Massiah, Dana       85 Concorde                 54.60         2       
  7 Modeste, Romona     83 Neon Trackers            54.75         2       
  8 Hope, Karla         87 Concorde                 55.12         2       

NB: Only Sparkle MC Knight ran close to the Olympic B standard so our 400m women definitely need to improve. Our Women's 4x400m relay team would probably struggle to get a top 16 Olympic qualification time in the Mile Relay until most of them can at least run the Olympic B standard.
Still think they should go to the Jamaica Trials this weekend and have a go as they would only improve with competition even if they don't attain a top 16 Olympic qualification time.

Just had an idea to help boast our Women's 4x400m relay team!
Why not add our two world class 400m Hurdlers Josanne Lucas & Janeil Bellille to the squad?
They both ran Olympic B standards in the 400mH at National Champs on the weekend just gone.
Check their times just below. With those two added to our squad we definitely will be in the top 16 and qualify for the Olympics in the Women's 4x400m relay.

2012 SENIOR/OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS  - 6/23/2012 to 6/24/2012       
             HASELY CRAWFORD STADIUM, PORT OF SPAIN, T'DAD             
 
Event 35  Women 400 Meter Hurdles 0.762m
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          NR: ! 53.20  8/20/2009   Josanne Lucas                       
                55.50  # Olympic A Std.                               
                56.65  @ Olympic B Std.                               
    Name              Year Team                    Finals        Points
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Finals                                                                 
  1 Bellille, Janeil    89 Neon Trackers            56.31 @           
  2 Lucas, Josanne      84 Tobago Falcons           56.39 @
           
  3 Griffith, LA Toya   90 Barbados                 57.27             
  4 Modeste, Romona     83 Neon Trackers            58.45             
  5 Spann, Kernesha     94 Neon Trackers          1:00.40             
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Omega Timing’s Peter Hurzeler talks 2012 Olympic Games timekeeping innovations
by Chris LaMonica
July 17, 2012


Assuming its Official Timekeeper role of the Olympic Games for the 25th occurrence, the Games of the XXX Olympiad hold a unique significance for Omega Timing which is celebrating its 80th anniversary in partnership with the Olympic Games.  The Switzerland-based prestigious precision time and watch manufacturer comes full circle returning to London where it first birthed the modern sports timekeeping era in 1948 with photoelectric cells, athletics starting blocks and the slit photo finish camera.

Hence, the London 2012 Summer Games again represents for Omega Timing the opportunity to showcase their innovations and technological advancements in competitive athletic timekeeping.  And the Omega Time Board Member who initially joined the company in 1969 now presiding over his 16th and final Olympic Games humbly and somewhat surprisingly simplifies Omega’s latest efforts by stating, “The system to time is always the same but it’s maybe a little bit more sophisticated.”

 The truth is the responsibility and ingenuity attributed to the task at hand is indeed a highly sophisticated research and development process involving coordination with world class athletes, governing bodies and years of study.

 Today, a 74 year-old institution unto himself, Mr. Peter Hurzeler readies himself with an exuberance in preparation to witness and record the athletic events of the London Olympics with a system he labels as “fantastic.”   “Everything is controlled, the start is controlled, the wind speed is controlled and the finish is also controlled so you have a really clear document at the end,” states Hurzeler.

 After approximately a four year developmental process, the new Omega starting blocks, which have being introduced this year at all Diamond League Meetings, for which Omega Timing is also the official timekeeper, will make their Olympic debut. “[It’s] what the athletes were asking for,” explained Hurzeler revealing, “We have also a new false-start detection system.”   Of replacing the old system which had its roots of origin at the 1976 Montreal Games Hurzeler states, “we developed a new thing because the athletes were not so happy with the old system because it was a mechanical system and the block was moving about 5 millimeters and now we have a system that’s absolutely fixed, it’s not moving at all.”

 The new false start detection system of the updated blocks will abandon movement in exchange for “measurement” of pound-force against the back block to determine sprinters reaction times. “We are measuring the time between the starting gun and when the athlete is moving because to leave the starting block they had to push against and this power is very high,“ stated Hurzeler explaining that around the 2011 Lausanne Diamond League Meet, “We did a test last year with Asafa Powell and he was pushing 240 kilograms (529 lbs.) [so] as soon as he gives the time to push against the starting block, it means he will like to leave and we are measuring this in thousandths of seconds and if somebody is leaving before one hundredth thousandth of second, it’s automatically a recall, it’s a false start.”

 Additionally, Hurzeler, who adds that the foot rests are also a little wider, explains Omega “tested a lot of athletes (inclusive of Omega brand ambassadors Tyson Gay and Jessica Ennis) because normally we have to work for the athletes, for nobody else, and we have to do something that they have the best material to make really the best time and, for this reason, we are working always with the athletes.”

 And that work ethic will assuredly be most appreciated by the Olympic Men’s 100-meter final participants at the 2012 Games which promises to feature the fastest line-up in the history of the event with the aforementioned world's most sub-10 runner Powell alongside his fellow countrymen dual world recorder holder Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake as well as American sprinters Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay.

 “I remember last year in the Diamond League Meeting in New York,” recalls Hurzeler stating, “I showed the picture to Tyson Gay because he lost by a half of a thousandth of a second.”   Specifically, Hurzeler is referring to the 100-meter race at the 2011 Adidas Grand Prix at Randall’s Island where after three false-starts, Jamaica’s Steve Mullings defeated Gay by the narrowest of finishes which was announced after a period of judges’ discernment exceeded the NBC broadcast television window leaving viewers uncertain as to the outcome.

 The 100-meter event is historically accustomed to false starts, with the 2011 Adidas Grand Prix event reminiscent of the 1996 Olympic Games Men’s 100-meter final in Atlanta that also featured three false starts as well with one attributed to Trinidad & Tobago’s Ato Boldon and two attributed to the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games defending 100m Champion, Great Britain’s Lindford Christie who subsequently earned a disqualification from the Atlanta final which would ultimately witness Canada’s Donovan Bailey establish a new World Record of 9.84 seconds.

 Unique to this race, was Omega’s inauguration of the measurement of running speed and acceleration, which displayed Bailey to have the slowest reaction time but produced the greatest acceleration and “consistently highest speed to the finish line.”

 Now sixteen years removed from the 1996 Olympics, the consequential price tag affixed to the false-start penalty has significantly reduced its leniency from two to one with the IAAF 2010 rules change which no longer levies the first false start to the field before issuing an athlete ejection for subsequent false starts.  The dire consequences of this pressurizing rule have thus far consumed the 2011 World Championship 100m aspirations of Usain Bolt last August; hence, Omega’s timing system must be flawless and impervious to athlete protest.  “No I don’t think so,” offered Hurzeler when asked if the new blocks allowed any room for protest adding, “because with our new system we have a big advantage.  If somebody is moving a little bit before, you can force your neighbor to make a false start because he is maybe thinking he may leave; and this we have a curve in our computer and you can see if somebody is moving before all the others.”

 With the athlete holding set position in the new blocks, Omega’s second advancement arrives with the starter’s pistol, which ironically has modern TSA regulations to accredit with its advancement.  “We had to change the whole thing because today it is forbidden to transport pistols in a plane,” explains Hurzeler, as Omega is responsible for sport timekeeping around the world, adding, “[and it is] for this reason we developed an electronic system.”

 Of this new system, Hurzeler believes it to be “fantastic for the athletes” because as he states in the case of the 100m field, the sprinters “were always waiting until they got the sound from the gun [but] today each starter block has also its own loud speaker and they are all listening on the same time as the gun.”   Whereas Hurzeler does admit “it’s maybe not loud enough” for spectators, he informs that “the gun on the top has a flashlight and as soon as the start is done, the light is flashing and everybody can see it.”

 And as is the case of ‘everybody seeing it,’ recent developments in Track and Field, have proven the finish line to now be as highly scrutinized as the starting line.

 “I can tell you in the last twenty years we have never had a ‘dead-race,’ but that’s possible; I don’t know,” offers Hurzeler, for which he clearly states has not viewed any photo finish images nor has any first hand knowledge, of the dead-heat ruling at June’s U.S. Olympic Trials in the Women’s 100-meter between Jeneba Tarmoh and Allyson Felix.

 Hurzeler states today, they “have the possibility to do 2,000 images a second,” which is a 100% increase from “four years ago at the Olympic Games in Beijing [where] we were able to make 1,000 pictures a second from the finish line from the first 8 millimeters.”    Furthermore, he explains, “We have always a judge in our control room.  We are showing him the result; normally, if everything is clear, if one is behind the other obscuring, maybe fifteen seconds to have all eight athletes” race outcomes decided.  Moreover, “It depends a lot on the officials from IAAF.  We give them the picture; we gave him the computer, he can push the cursor to the body, to the breast and then as soon as he says ok, he pushed the button and then it’s going to everybody, to the scoreboard, to the journalist, tv commentators, everywhere.”

 Hurzeler admits in certain circumstances a blanket finish may require substantially more time, but asserts, “If [the result] is given to the public, it’s really official, there is no change at all.”

 One change Hurzeler is pleased to welcome is “In Track and Field, they are timing the position, not the time finally,” adding, “you can have in one-hundredth of a second … more than one athlete; the first will be the win, the second will be second, third, fourth, but they all the same time.”

 In contrast, the change he finds least agreeable with all the timing innovations is the notion or “feeling” he possesses that “Today … it is becoming more important who will be first or second or third, it’s not like twenty or thirty years ago.”  To which Hurzeler reveals in Beijing 2008 after the Men’s 100-meter Butterfly Swimming event in which American Michael Phelps bested Serbia’s Milorad Cavic by one-hundredth of second Omega “had several press conferences to make sure to explain to people how [they] are doing the timing and finally we were right.”   Hurzeler formulates his conclusion of today’s ‘first place importance’ by comparison to the nearly non-existent inquisition of Suriname’s Anthony Nesty’s 1988 Seoul Olympic Games upset defeat of West Germany’s Michael Gross and America’s Matt Biondi in the very same Men’s 100-meter Butterfly final with the very same one-hundredth margin of victory.

 Hurzeler concludes, “We started four years ago to develop this new system and last year we tested it with the best athletes and we had also this system involved in the championships, local championships and European championships and today it’s official in the Olympic Games.”

Omega historical information and images provided courtesy of Omega’s London 2012 Press package.
De higher a monkey climbs is de less his ass is on de line, if he works for FIFA that is! ;-)

 

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