Singapore Athletics Association (SAA) intends to nominate all athletes (except for relays) for the 18th Asian Junior Athletics Championships (AJAC) who have achieved the criteria. A maximum of two athletes from any one Member can compete in each event. The tentative travel dates will be from 5th to 11th June 2018.

2. Qualifying Period

The qualifying period lasts from 01.01.2018 until 16.04.2018.

3. General Eligibility

To be eligible for selection each athlete must:

3.2 Only athletes aged 16, 17, 18 or 19 years on 31 December 2018 (born in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002), may compete in any event.

3.3 Have met the performance requirements stated below (see table 1) in a competition mentioned under 5.;

3.4 Be able to commit to a AJAC finalist level training program which includes a structured annual plan and a AJAC finalist level event specific training program with at least ten hours of training every week until AJAC;

3.5 Have submitted the registration form to be considered for AJAC to SAA by 05. March 2018;

3.6 Have signed an athletes’ agreement;

3.7 Be available to fulfil the Team Commitments as listed below and any additional commitments following nomination and selection; as allowed by the permanent geographical training location;

3.8 Not used or administered any substance which if it had been detected as being present in the athlete’s body tissue or fluids, would have constituted doping, or used any prohibited method or committed any other doping offense as defined in ADS’s, WADA or IAAF’s Anti-Doping By-law.

4. Competitions for qualifying

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4.2 Achievements from overseas championships have to be properly accredited and sanctioned to be accepted. However, these have to be properly accredited and sanctioned to be accepted (written confirmation by SAA upon sending an email to SAA).

4.3 For 100m, 200m, 100m / 110m hurdles, long and triple jump events: only performances with legal wind-speed will be accepted.

4.4 For all track and road racing events: only performances measured by using an electronic timing system will be accepted. Road performances will be accepted for race walk.

5. Team Commitments

All athletes must:

5.2 Conform to SAA requirements regarding team participation. This includes, but may not be limited to, providing the required training plans, attendance at pre-event camp and wearing team uniform as required;

5.3 Make themselves available for all team activities designated by SAA, as allowed by the geographical training location;

5.4 Not act in such a manner to bring the athletes, officials or SAA in public disrepute;

5.5 Athletes are required to appear at events and platforms whereby their images and presence are needed to achieve SAA’s objective

b. Appearances will not exceed more than two [2] hours in duration.

6. Withdrawal

In the event that a selected athlete decides to withdraw from the competition (unless injured, proved by medical certificate) more than three days after SAA announced the final lists of participants, the athlete has to bear the full costs (air tickets, insurances, accommodation or other costs) that SAA has paid for the trip. No replacement will be made for last minute withdrawal.

7. Nomination process

Any eligible athlete achieving the entry standard mentioned in table 1 during the qualifying period will be considered for nomination.

8. Selection process

Individual events

8.2 In case there is a tie between two or more athletes, SAA will compare and choose the athlete’s 2nd best performance and so on, achieved in the respective period (comprising competitions mentioned at 5).

8.3 The nomination panel reserves the right not to nominate an athlete/team to represent Singapore in the AJAC if, in its sole opinion, the athlete/team concerned cannot meet the fitness and performance targets set by SAA.

8.4 Athlete/s shall be required to be certified medically fit to compete at the SAYC by qualified SSI personnel prior to nomination to the AJAC, and shall remain medically fit to compete to be eligible to compete in the AJAC.

9. Coaches selection

9.2 The number of team coaches selected will depend on the number of athletes selected and will be determined by the number of accreditations provided by the organiser.

9.3 The team coaches will be nominated in accordance to the following priority under these restrictions:

1st priority:
One [1) coach for each of the event groups (sprints / jumps / pole vault
/ throws / middle & long distances + race walking / multi-events) in which Singaporean athletes are competing at. The coach who is dealing with the highest ranked athlete will be selected first. The coach who is dealing with the next ranked athlete in another event group will then be selected as the 2nd coach (and so on).

10. Appeal

10.2 The appeal board should not be seen as:

10.3 Athletes may only appeal on the grounds that the nomination event was not executed in accordance with its notice of race or the nomination process was not carried out in accordance with this policy document.

10.4 The Athlete Selection Appeals Standing Committee made up of three MC members who are not part of the nomination panel to hear the appeal within one week of receipt.

10.5 Any appeal must accord with the following procedure:

Honorary Secretary General Singapore Athletics Association
3 Stadium Drive, 397630 Singapore

2. The Honorary Secretary General immediately informs the Athlete Selection Appeals Standing Committee. The Athlete Selection Appeals Standing Committee shall convene its first hearing within seven (7) days from receipt of such notice.

3. The Athlete Selection Appeals Standing Committee is not bound by the rules of evidence but must observe the principle of procedural fairness.

4. The Athlete Selection Appeals Standing Committee will give its decision as soon as practicable after the hearing and will provide their decision to SAA’s MC and the Sports Development and Performance team and the appellant with a statement of the reason for its decision.

Table 1: SAA Nomination Standard Asian Junior Athletics Championships 2018
Based on the 6th placing of previous championships.

Men	Event	Women
10.73	100m	11.95
21.51	200m	25.07
49.63	400m	56.74
01:54.31	800m	02:12.16
04:09.30	1500m	04:40.07
	3000m	11.35.53 ^
15:56.22	5000m	20:12.13
34:12.24	10000m
10:30.47	3000m Steeplechase 0.914m/0.762m	11:26.68
14.20	110m/100m Hurdles 0.991m/0.838m	14.86
54.07 ^	400mH 0.914m/0.762m	61.77
41.92 ^	4x100 Relay	46.90 ^
03:14.73	4x400 Relay	3:55.08 #
48:56.63	10,000m Walk	01:02:56.34
2.07	High Jump	1.68
5	Pole Vault	3.2
7.37	Long Jump	5.88
15.46	Triple Jump	12.65
17.03	Shot Put 6kg/4kg	7.86
49.54	Discus Throw 1.75kg/1kg	41.01
56.54	Hammer Throw 6kg/4kg	45.58
67.73	Javelin Throw 800g/600g	49.33
6214	Decathlon / Heptathlon	4564*

# 4th placing/last placing
^ 5th placing/last placing
* Based on 3rd placing/last placing

14th Feb 2018

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