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August 15 entry deadline for World Champs
Paul Reid
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
ATHLETES who are yet to make the A standards in their respective events and who are seeking spots on the Jamaican team to this summer's 13th IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea will have until August 15 to attain the standard to be considered for selection.
Each member country is allowed three entrants in each track and field event at the biennial global event and a fourth if they have a defending champion who gets a bye, in that they don't have to qualify through their National Championships.
However, each event has two qualifying standards -- an 'A' automatic qualifying standard and a 'B'.
The rules of the championships, which take place in late August through early September, allow for each country to send one B standard if there are not enough A qualifiers.
A number of winners and top three finishers at last weekend's JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships have only attained the B standard so far, but according to Grace Jackson, first vice-president of the JAAA, they have until mid August to get the automatic standard as that is the deadline for entries to be submitted.
Jackson was a guest at the Observer's Monday Exchange along with treasurer Ludlow Watts, public relations officer Dennis Gordon and executive member Alfred Francis.
Among the top three finishers with only B standards are men's long jump champion Tarick Batchelor, who had a wind-aided 8.17m, the top three men in the 400m -- Riker Hylton, Leford Green and Lansford Spence, 400m hurdles third-place finisher Roxroy Cato, Decathlete Maurice Smith and shot putter Dorian Scott.
Jackson said the team should have a total of no more than 50 athletes, which is the average for the last eight years or so.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport...#ixzz1Qa5pPG7N
Paul Reid
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
ATHLETES who are yet to make the A standards in their respective events and who are seeking spots on the Jamaican team to this summer's 13th IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea will have until August 15 to attain the standard to be considered for selection.
Each member country is allowed three entrants in each track and field event at the biennial global event and a fourth if they have a defending champion who gets a bye, in that they don't have to qualify through their National Championships.
However, each event has two qualifying standards -- an 'A' automatic qualifying standard and a 'B'.
The rules of the championships, which take place in late August through early September, allow for each country to send one B standard if there are not enough A qualifiers.
A number of winners and top three finishers at last weekend's JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Championships have only attained the B standard so far, but according to Grace Jackson, first vice-president of the JAAA, they have until mid August to get the automatic standard as that is the deadline for entries to be submitted.
Jackson was a guest at the Observer's Monday Exchange along with treasurer Ludlow Watts, public relations officer Dennis Gordon and executive member Alfred Francis.
Among the top three finishers with only B standards are men's long jump champion Tarick Batchelor, who had a wind-aided 8.17m, the top three men in the 400m -- Riker Hylton, Leford Green and Lansford Spence, 400m hurdles third-place finisher Roxroy Cato, Decathlete Maurice Smith and shot putter Dorian Scott.
Jackson said the team should have a total of no more than 50 athletes, which is the average for the last eight years or so.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport...#ixzz1Qa5pPG7N