Athletics Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016

[dcro 10,210]

3 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

It looks like we may go over the 2005 athlete limit set by IAAF. Even ignoring relay only athletes and Russia we're already around the max. I know the larger nations have additional requirements so the real number is lower, but once you add wild cards and relay only athletes plus last minute qualifiers it doesn't look like they will finish at or below the number, especially if Russia is let back in.

 

I wonder if the IOC will do anything about

 

That would be just cruel. And I very much doubt it will happen.

 

IOC would basically have to say to athletes three weeks before Olympics that they can't go because too many qualified. Not to mention that small nations would be the victims.

[De_Gambassi 1,267]

Il y a 3 heures , JoshMartini007 a déclaré:

It looks like we may go over the 2005 athlete limit set by IAAF. Even ignoring relay only athletes and Russia we're already around the max. I know the larger nations have additional requirements so the real number is lower, but once you add wild cards and relay only athletes plus last minute qualifiers it doesn't look like they will finish at or below the number, especially if Russia is let back in.

 

I wonder if the IOC will do anything about

 

Probably nothing that time, but maybe we might see IOC and IAAF moving to a fixed number of athletes by event more akin to other sport for future games (droping standards basically) ?

 

Coe was allready admiting after the London Games that they had too many athletes qualified.

 

 

[heywoodu 16,036]

Wouldn't it be a better idea to just use a system where the Top-X athletes in event Y qualify a quota place (with of course the usual maximum number of athletes per nation per event)?

[JoshMartini007 2,769]

IAAF could have avoided this if they made their standards harder and added the next highest ranked athletes if needed like in swimming (in fact that's pretty much what is said in the qualification document). Do we really need almost 200 runners in both marathons?

[heywoodu 16,036]

Just now, JoshMartini007 said:

IAAF could have avoided this if they made their standards harder and added the next highest ranked athletes if needed like in swimming (in fact that's pretty much what is said in the qualification document). Do we really need almost 200 runners in both marathons?

No, we really do not. 100 is more than enough if you ask me. 

[dcro 10,210]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

No, we really do not. 100 is more than enough if you ask me. 

 

Disagree, I will be more than happy to see so many athletes (and so many nations) in this event.

[Xander 53]

Today was the best Ukrainian national championship ever for me, the most intense in my life.

 

3 athletes jumped past 8 m in men's long jump. Serhiy Nykyforov 8.18 (wind assisted +2.2 m/s, 8.11 is legit), 8.11 for Taras Neledva (wind assisted) and 8.05 for Viktor Kuznetsov.

 

Women's 400 m

Olha Bibik - 51.69

Yuliya Olishevska - 51.70

Tetiana Melnyk - 51.92

 

Women's High Jump

Yulia Levchenko - 1.95 (U23 NR from the 1st attempt, she's 18 years old )

Oksana Okuneva improved her standard to 1.97

Georgian athlete Valentina Lyashenko almost cleared 1.93 ... she missed it just by a little.

 

Women's Long Jump

Maryna Bekh - 6.93

(not something unexpected though, she was close to the standard pretty often and FINALLY... + attempts on 6.88 & 6.80)

Oxana Zubkovska - 6.70

Anna Kornuta - 6.70

 

Kornuta lost her guaranteed spot in the Olympic team by the number of better attempts. Very dramatic!

Anna Lunyova jumped 6.63. Hryshytyna (she's got a standard already) jumped 6.62 so the battle for the 3rd place between them is not over until the end of  July.

 

7 new standards  during the 2nd day. Crazy results. I hope the next 2 days will be as exciting as today.

 

ps. Nataliya Pohrebniak (100 m) became the winner with 11.11 with -2.2 m/s headwind.

 

 

 

Edited June 18, 2016 by Xander

[dcro 10,210]

It appears as though Guam has selected a male 800m runner and a female 100m runner as their wild card athletes. Cambodia also selected their athletes, two marathon runners.

[tirtha22 238]

On 16/06/2016 at 10:32, Xander said:

Oleksandr Dryhol chose Israel + he's not in the NCH start list so it's 100% that he won't represent Ukraine. I have no info whether he's on "quarantine". But our federations are on good terms so he can appear in Israeli team at the Olympics

 

As for events where more than 3 athletes have got the Olympic standard only gold and silver guarantee a place in the Olympic team. The rest 2 athletes (or more) will be judged by the trainers council.

 

Our NCH is open for everyone so we will see many athletes (from the other countries) who are close to achieving the standard.

If Levchenko gains the standard in high jump there will be 4 Ukrainian competitors and none of them can feel safe, because everybody has a real chances to clear 1.93 and higher. + esp gonna cheer for the guest high jumpers: Valentina Lyashenko and Kumari Sahana. Go, girls!

Except Georgia & India, there're Uzbekistan, Belarus, Turkey, Venezuela, Israel & Moldova. Including Belarusian Olympic (2004) champion in 100m.

 

 

 

Link to the event page please. Is the event where Sahana Kumari from India participating a olympic qualification event?

[Xander 53]

Just now, tirtha22 said:

Link to the event page please. Is the event where Sahana Kumari from India participating a olympic qualification event?

Of course it is. This is our national championship (it's open for everyone)

 

The results:

10th in qualification: http://nc-lutsk2016.info/index.php?r=site/resultOld&id=49b9719d-3306-11e6-a66f-001e3df64532&s=01167BA4-03A6-4430-91C8-C4D2297E2166

8th in the final: http://nc-lutsk2016.info/index.php?r=site/result&id=720ee211-33a8-11e6-9de0-001e3df64532&s=41B9CF71-703C-4143-9BA5-BBEFFFD813AC

 

 

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