Athletics Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[Olympian1010 8,070]

  On 2/2/2020 at 12:02 AM, Wumo said:

21-year-old  Jemma Reekie has set a new British indoor 800m record in Glasgow with a time of 1:57.91. Her former personal best was 2:01.45 (outdoor). Reekie’s time is the fastest time set since 2006 on a indoor 800m and it moves her to 11th on the world all-time list on women's indoor 800m.  Laura Muir finished second in 1:58.44. 

 

There has also been some discussion about footwear. It has been stated by some that Jemma Reekie and Laura Muir used a new Nike prototype of spikes. These types of spikes are only available to selected elite athetes sponsored by Nike. 

 

It has to be said it is not clear if Reekie used the new protoype during the race, as it appears to be Muir who is holding the shoes on the picture to the right. 

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Also, I hate when Fosbury changed high jumping, and when swimmers wore swimwear that made them go faster, and when bobsledding embraced aerodynamics ?

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 2/2/2020 at 1:25 AM, Olympian1010 said:

Also, I hate when Fosbury changed high jumping, and when swimmers wore swimwear that made them go faster, and when bobsledding embraced aerodynamics ?

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That's all fun and well, but if I'm not mistaken World Athletics has a rule stating footwear has to be 'reasonably available to the general public' to allow it to be used. 

 

Those super swimsuits were banned relatively quickly by the way. And aerodynamics or (even worse) Fosbury's change are even way more terrible comparisons.

[Grassmarket 3,611]

  On 2/2/2020 at 9:25 AM, heywoodu said:

 

That's all fun and well, but if I'm not mistaken World Athletics has a rule stating footwear has to be 'reasonably available to the general public' to allow it to be used

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I am sure there is one tiny village shop deep in the forests of Oregon that has an amazing selection of shoes.  Similarly a village shop way up beyond the Norwegian Arctic Circle full of cross-country skis, another deep in the Black Forest that sells luges etc etc.  

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 2/2/2020 at 10:13 AM, Grassmarket said:

I am sure there is one tiny village shop deep in the forests of Oregon that has an amazing selection of shoes.  Similarly a village shop way up beyond the Norwegian Arctic Circle full of cross-country skis, another deep in the Black Forest that sells luges etc etc.  

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Not sure luge has those rules though and most of those top cross-country skis can in fact be bought by the general public, they're just rather expensive  

[Wumo 3,016]

Update  - Week 5 - January 27 to February 2 - 2020

 

Men's Pole Vault

 +1

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/australia/kurtis-marschall-289399

 

Men's Marathon

 +1

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/mongolia/byambajav-tseveenravdan-269888

 

Women's 800m

 +1

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/jemma-reekie-301102

 

Women's High Jump

 +1 

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/germany/imke-onnen-264496

 

Women's Hammer Throw

 +1

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/ukraine/iryna-novozhylova-206987

 

Qualified Quotas Overview
Men (Total Quota: 469)	Women (Total Quota: 459)

Edited February 4, 2020 by Wumo

[Wumo 3,016]

Update  - Week 6 - February 3 to February 9 - 2020

 

Men's High Jump

 +1

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/tom-gale-311989

 

Men's Pole Vault

 +1

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/harry-coppell-276107

 

Men's Discus Throw

 +1

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/jamaica/chad-wright-254190

 

Women's 1500m

 +1

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/kenya/beatrice-chepkoech-293209

 

Women's Triple Jump

 +1 

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/commonwealth-of-dominica/thea-lafond-263493

 

Qualified Quotas Overview
Men (Total Quota: 472)	Women (Total Quota: 461)

 

A few comments about this week's update:

 Thea Lafond becomes the small island nation's first athlete to qualify for Tokyo.

 Harry Coppell jump of 5.80m in Rouen is not listed on WA's season lists. It's marked with an "UNC". I'm not sure what this remark means? However, British Athletics mention it as an Olympic standard, so I will include him on my list: https://www.britishathletics.org.uk/news-and-features/weekend-update-10-02-2020/

Lastly, as you can see, I still include Russian athletes in my updates and list. Currently WA doens't give ANA-status to any Russian athletes. If WA again begins to give ANA-status to some Russian athletes, it's not certain any former performances under  flag will count. This could mean Morgunov would have to achieve the Olympic standard again to qualify. Nevertheless, I will continue to include any Russian athlete who achieves the Olympic standard in my updates and list. Bear in mind, my list of qualified athletes it's not a perfect resemblance of the final start lists for Tokyo. 

Edited February 11, 2020 by Wumo

[Khadidja Aisha 29]

Congrats Thea.

[EselTheDonkey 825]

Discus Throw

 

Shanice Craft https://www.istaf-indoor.de/live-ergebnisse/

[rohan sharma 7]

Bhawna Jat Qualify for Olympic with New National record in 20km race walking .she earn 32th quota for?? 

 

? She improve PB by 9 minutes and NR by 2 minute .read on ?

 

https://t.co/GlATQgxlRR

Edited February 15, 2020 by rohan sharma

[Ionoutz24 129]

 Mykhaylo Kokhan 77.62 in Hammer Throw National Championships Throw 14.04.2020 http://competitions.uaf.org.ua/2020.02.14-16_mukachevo/index.php?r=site/result&id=ed4f8689-4e7d-11ea-9cac-606dc75affbc&s=E4845491-4319-4172-9497-1DC35CC7DC6C