2016 IAAF World U20 Championships

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• 21 Jul - Kugapriya 100m result.
• 2 Jul - Kugapriya D/O Chandran is Poland-bound.
• 14 Apr - Page posted.

Info

Date: 19-24 July 2016

Venue: Bydgoszcz, Poland

Official website: https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-u20-championships

Schedule: View here

Results

Kugapriya 100m result.

1. ATHLETE ELIGIBILITY

Only Singapore citizen are nominated for this competition.

Enquiries for selection criteria please contact SAA

NOTE: REGISTRATION/PARTICIPATION CRITERIA IS SUBJECTED TO CHANGES BY THE ORGANIZER.

Submit your interest to SAA by 26 April 2016

U20 Athletes
Athletes aged 18 or 19 years on 31 December 2016 (born in 1997 or 1998), may compete in any event.

U18 Athletes
Athletes aged 16 or 17 years on 31 December 2016 (born in 1999 or 2000), may compete in any event. However, the maximum number of events in which an U18 athlete can compete is two individual events plus one of the relays. If the two individual events are Track Events, only one of these may be longer than 200m.

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

2. ENTRY STANDARDS

Events contested listed below are tentative, and pending confirmation of events by the organizer.

*3000m performance can be used for 5000m qualification

3. GENERAL PROGRAMME

4. ENTRY RULES

• A maximum of two athletes from any one Member can compete in each event (with the exception of the Relays).
• Three athletes can initially be entered per event, provided each has achieved the Entry Standard, but only two will be allowed to compete.
• Members who have no male and/or female qualified athletes whom they wish to enter in any Championships event, may enter one unqualified male athlete OR one unqualified female athlete in one event of the Championships (except the Field Events (see below), Combined Events, 10,000m, 3000m Steeplechase and 5000m Women).
• Members who have no male and/or no female qualified athlete but whose best athlete excels in a Field Event, may submit to the IAAF, by the time of the Preliminary Entry deadline, the name of their athlete plus performance they would like to enter in the Field Event. The Technical Delegates will make the final decision and, to do so, may seek the opinion of the relevant Area Association
• If the host country of the World Junior Championships does not have an athlete qualified in an event, it may enter one athlete in these events regardless of any entry standard.
• Every Member may enter one team for each relay race, composed by a maximum of six athletes. Any four athletes among those entered for the competition, whether for the relay or for any other event, may then be used in the composition of the team for the first round.

4. CONDITIONS FOR VALIDITY OF PERFORMANCES

• All performances must be achieved during the period 1 October 2015 to 30 June 2016. Please note that the Final Entries deadline will be 1 July 2016.
• All performances must be achieved during an official competition organised in conformity with IAAF Rules.
• All performances must be achieved during competitions organised 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 organised.
• 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:
  o road performances will be accepted
  o 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. SELECTION OF UNQUALIFIED ATHLETES FOR SINGAPORE ATHLETICS

a) Singapore Athletics will have to submit the Preliminary Entries to IAAF by 26 April 2016.

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 Junior Championships using the:

IAAF scoring points to rank every athlete’s performances from the start of qualification period to 20 June 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 Junior 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 May/June 2016 to perform at IAAF World Junior 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.

7. QUALIFICATION TIMELINE

Related links:
2014 IAAF World Junior Championships
2012 IAAF World Junior Championships