17th Asian Junior Athletics Championships 2016

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• 19 May - Finalised schedule uploaded.
• 15 Apr - Page posted.

Info

Date: 3-6 June 2016

Venue: Thong Nhat Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Official website: https://dienkinh.vn

Schedule: Download the PDF here

Selection and qualifying criteria for Team Singapore

Quota: 9 athletes, 2 officials

1. ATHLETE ELIGIBILITY

Athletes aged 16, 17, 18 or 19 years on 31 December 2016 (born in 1997,1998, 1999, 2000), may compete in any event.

No athlete younger than 16 years of age on 31 December 2016 (born in 2001 or later) may be entered.

2. ENTRY STANDARDS

Entry standard is based on the 6th placing of previous Games.

3. ENTRY RULES

• Individual Events:
  A maximum of two athletes from any one Member can compete in each individual event.
• Team Events:
  Each participating Association may enter one team for each relay event.

  Any four athletes from among have entered the competition, only two additional athletes may take part in subsequent rounds as substitutes.

  Substitutes may only be taken from the list of athletes entered for the athletic competition and running order must be officially declared before the start of each round of the competition.

  An athlete who has taken part in one round and has subsequently been substituted by another cannot then form part of the team again.

4. CONDITIONS FOR VALIDITY OF PERFORMANCES

• All performances must be achieved during the period 1 October 2015 to 22 May 2016.
  Singapore Athletics will be submitting the Preliminary Entries to organizer by 26 April 2016.
  Please note that the Final Entries deadline will be 12 May 2016.

• All performances must be achieved during an official competition organized in conformity with IAAF Rules.
• All performances must be achieved during competitions organized or sanctioned by the IAAF, its Area Associations or its Member Federations. Thus, results achieved at school competitions must be certified by the Member Federation of the country in which the competition was organized.
• 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 and 10,000m 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. For Race Walks the results will always be accepted.
• Wind assisted performances (over 2m/sec) will not be accepted.
• Indoor performances will be accepted.
• Hand-timed performances for events up to and including 800m will not be accepted.
• For Race Walks:
  • road performances will be accepted
  • results of races conducted using the pit lane will be accepted
• For the running events of 200m and over, performances achieved on over-sized tracks will not be accepted.

6. QUALIFICATION TIMELINE

All athletes who are nominated and selected will have to attend all Team Training, Briefing & Camps.

SA reserves the right to drop any qualified Athlete if the Athlete is deemed unfit to perform at a competitive level.

Results

Team Singapore results.

Age Categories

Athletes aged 16, 17, 18 or 19 years on 31 December 2016 (born in 1997,1998, 1999, 2000), may compete in any event.

No athlete younger than 16 years of age on 31 December 2016 (born in 2001 or later) may be entered.

Technical Meeting

Technical Meeting will be held in a meeting room in the Thong Nhat Stadium at 10:00AM on 2nd June, 2016. A maximum of two (2) official representatives from each member federation may attend. Details concerning technical conducts will be addressed. An instruction brochure will be distributed to the team managers before the meeting. All questions must be sent to Championships Information Desk (CID) in each hotel before 15:00pm on 1st June 2016.

Contested events

Related links:
16th Asian Junior Athletics Championships 2014
15th Asian Junior Athletics Championships 2012