Qualifying For World's Just Got A Whole Lot More Difficult

El CabaIIo

IAAF just released the qualifying standards for Doha next year as some of the standards have been made a lot lower.



Thoughts? I think some of the standards are ridiculous tbh, 2.30 for the high jump for instance, how many people actually jump that high every year? A lot of them will affect Irish athletes as well as it will take near or National records to even qualify. The Women's 800m in particular for instance where there was a lot around the old standard seems really far away now. I think nearly every standard on the track has got harder.

Chivito550

El CabaIIo wrote: »

IAAF just released the qualifying standards for Doha next year as some of the standards have been made a lot lower.



Thoughts? I think some of the standards are ridiculous tbh, 2.30 for the high jump for instance, how many people actually jump that high every year? A lot of them will affect Irish athletes as well as it will take near or National records to even qualify. The Women's 800m in particular for instance where there was a lot around the old standard seems really far away now. I think nearly every standard on the track has got harder.

I don't think it is ridiculous personally. If they can fill the total allocated spots through these standards then the standards are not too difficult. If they can't fill them, then the next fastest outside the qualification marks will qualify via a quota system anyway (assuming that they will revert to this system now that the World Rankings have been scraped).

The cold reality is that most Irish athletes are just not good enough to compete at global level at the moment. Very few made much of a mark at European level in Berlin sure.

El CabaIIo

Chivito550 wrote: »

I don't think it is ridiculous personally. If they can fill the total allocated spots through these standards then the standards are not too difficult. If they can't fill them, then the next fastest outside the qualification marks will qualify via a quota system anyway (assuming that they will revert to this system now that the World Rankings have been scraped).

The cold reality is that most Irish athletes are just not good enough to compete at global level at the moment. Very few made much of a mark at European level in Berlin sure.

Yeah, I know what you are saying but it lowers the guaranteed Q mark, before if you hit it, you were in if only 2 more athletes from your nation hit it, that's not the case here where someone can hit the old mark now and miss out through the quota. IIrc, the womens 800m went to quota entries last time so I don't get why they are lowering even more.

The highjump mark for instance, that's been a medal contender in a lot of major championships for the last few years. It's still better than the ranking system imo, did you see you that yet? Wilson Kipsang was ranked no.2 in the marathon despite not running a good race since January 2017. It's completely against new athletes coming through, you could have a world record holder in an event not qualify but they had a poor summer or were injured the year before or just broke on the scene.

Testosterscone

The standards are influenced by the top lists somewhat so I imagine the standards represent current world trends.

I imagine there is also the fact that Rankings qualification is still in pipeline they are probably trying to use higher standards as a way to slowly transition.

For me the bigger news than the standards is the fact that IAAF have changed there sponsorship policy to allow National Sponsor logo on singlets Hopefully this can help attract more sponsorship into the sport and have a knock on affect for the athletes down the line.

El CabaIIo

Testosterscone wrote: »

The standards are influenced by the top lists somewhat so I imagine the standards represent current world trends.

I imagine there is also the fact that Rankings qualification is still in pipeline they are probably trying to use higher standards as a way to slowly transition.

For me the bigger news than the standards is the fact that IAAF have changed there sponsorship policy to allow National Sponsor logo on singlets Hopefully this can help attract more sponsorship into the sport and have a knock on affect for the athletes down the line.

Also, the IAAF have continued Russia's ban into next year until they can provide samples and evidence that they are compliant. The only governing body to do this.

walshb

Some real high standards there. All high; though the one that stands out for me is 45.3 for men's 400...

As a percentage of the WR in each track race I wonder which one is the toughest.....