16th IAAF World Indoor Championships 2016 (Portland, USA)

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Date: 17- 20 March 2016

Venue: Portland, Oregon, United States

Official website: https://portland2016.com

Results

To be posted after event completion.

Selection Criteria

Only Singapore citizen are nominated for this competition.

1. ATHLETE ELIGIBILITY

• Youth athletes (any athlete aged 16 or 17 years on 31 December 2016, i.e. born in 1999 or 2000) cannot be entered in the Shot Put.
• Athletes younger than 16 years (on 31 December 2016, i.e. born in 2001 or later), CANNOT be entered in any event.

2. ENTRY STANDARDS

As approved by IAAF Council in April 2015:

3. ENTRY RULES

Running Events (except the Relays)

• Each Member is entitled to enter up to three athletes in each event of the
  Championships, provided all have achieved the corresponding entry standard.
• A maximum of two athletes from any Member Federation may compete in each
  event.

Field Events

• In the High Jump and Pole Vault, events shall be held as straight Finals with twelve athletes starting in each event. Entries will be determined by a combination of entry standards and ranking.
• In the Long Jump, Triple Jump and Shot Put, events shall be held as straight Finals with sixteen athletes starting in each event. Entries will be determined by a combination of entry standards and ranking.
• In all cases a maximum of two athletes from any one Member may compete in each event.

Combined Events

• Twelve athletes will be invited by the IAAF in the Heptathlon and in the
  Pentathlon as follows:
• the winner of the 2015 Combined Events Challenge
• the five best athletes from the 2015 Outdoor Lists (as at 31 December 2015), limited to a maximum of one per country
• the five best athletes from the 2016 Indoor Lists (as at 29 February 2016)
• one athlete which may be invited at the discretion of the IAAF
• In total no more than two male and two female athletes from any one Member will be invited. Upon refusals or cancellations, the invitations shall be extended to the next ranked athletes in the same lists respecting the above conditions.

For the Relays, there is no entry standard and each Member Federation will be able to enter up to 6 athletes in each team.

Unqualified Athletes

• Members who have no male and/or no female qualified athletes (whether by Entry Standard or by Invitation) in any event may enter one unqualified male athlete OR one unqualified female athlete in a running event (except the 800m). In exceptional cases, and as agreed by the Technical Delegates, entry of unqualified athletes in the 800m, Long Jump, Triple Jump or Shot Put may be accepted. Applications for such entries must be submitted to the IAAF no later than 29 February 2016.
• If the host country does not have a qualified athlete in an event, it may enter one athlete in this event regardless of any Entry Standard (except the Combined Events). For the Field Events, the entry is at the discretion of the Technical Delegates.

4. CONDITIONS FOR VALIDITY OF PERFORMANCES

• Performances must be achieved during the qualification period of 1 January 2015 to 7 March 2016 (midnight Monaco time), except for the Combined Events (see above).
• Performances must be achieved during competitions organized or authorized by the IAAF, its Area Associations or its National Member Federations. Thus, results achieved at university or school competitions must be certified by the National Federation of the country in which the competition was organized.
• Performances must be achieved during an official competition organized in conformity with IAAF Rules.
• Performances achieved in mixed competitions in track events will not be accepted. Exceptionally, in accordance with IAAF Rule 147, performances achieved in events of 5000m may be accepted in circumstances where there were insufficient athletes of one or both genders competing to justify the conduct of separate races and there was no pacing or assistance given by an athlete(s) of one gender to an athlete(s) of the other gender under specific circumstances and conditions (see Rule 147).
• Wind-assisted performances will not be accepted.
• Hand-timed performances in 60m, 100m, 400m, 60m Hurdles, and 100m/110m Hurdles will not be accepted
• For the running events of 400m and over, performances achieved on oversized tracks will NOT be accepted

5. SELECTION OF UNQUALIFIED ATHLETES FOR SINGAPORE ATHLETICS

a) Singapore Athletics will have to submit the Preliminary Entries to IAAF by 18 December 2015.

b) If Singapore Athletics do not have any athletes who meet the Entry Standards, we will nominate one male OR one female athlete to the IAAF World Indoor Championships using the:

IAAF scoring points to rank every athlete’s performances from the start of qualification period to 22 February 2016.

(IAAF Scoring Table: https://www.iaaf.org/about-iaaf/documents/technical)

c) If the top two ranked athletes are 10 or less IAAF Scoring Points away from each other, Singapore Athletics will review based on the average of their best 3 performances during the qualifying period. If the point difference is still 10 or less after this process, the last 3 performance will be used. The Training and Selection committee will then come to a decision on who to nominate for IAAF World Indoor Championships, putting the athletes’ current form as the main priority for selection.

d) Singapore Athletics reserves the right to drop any athlete if the athlete is deemed medically unfit or has no performance within 50 points to his/her best performance after Jan/Feb 2016 to perform at IAAF World Indoor Championships.

e) If for some reason that the first ranked athlete is unable to go or cannot participate, the next best ranked athlete will be nominated.

6. QUALIFICATION TIMELINE

Related links:
15th IAAF World Indoor Championships 2014
14th IAAF World Indoor Championships 2012