From: pcannon@spotlight.Corp.Sun.COM (Phil Cannon)
Newsgroups: rec.running
Subject: Re: Olympic Trials Qualification Times
Date: 24 Jul 1992 05:15:52 GMT
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In article <1992Jul23.224032.18741@aero.org> davisr@cs.ucdavis.edu writes:
>Just for curiosities sake, I was wondering if someone could post the times
>required to compete in the olympic trials.
>
>-- Robert Davis

Robert, these questions and many more can be answered within the
pages of Track & Field News (1-800-GET-TRAK; 1-415-948-8188). If
you're aiming for Atlanta '96, top-30 performances from '92 to '94
should be an indicator of what it will take. I've provided the
men's times, since you asked for times, and not distances/heights,
and I assumed you're male.... I have the women's times and field
marks too.

There are/were three levels of standards for competing at the
Trials, some of which are more difficult than the standards for
competing at the Games. The gist is that the TAC wants to replicate
the stress of the preliminary heats and rounds of the Games and
keep the size of the fields manageable, so they wanted 15
competitors for the walks, 18 for the multis, 24 in field events
and the 10,000's and the women's 3000, 32 in the sprints and
hurdles and 800 and 36 in the 1500's, steeple and the 5000. With
all that said, here were the marks to shoot for:

Automatic Qualifying		  
	A(1)		B(2)	  Provisional	Olympic*
M100	10.23		10.25		10.37	    10.30
 200	20.47		20.60		20.85	    20.80
 400	45.49		45.80		46.40	    45.90
 800  1:47.20	      1:47.65	      1:49.10	  1:46.20
1500  3:41.35	      3:41.80	      3:43.50	  3:37.00!!
3kStp 8:41.00	      8:41.00	      8:48.64	  8:29.00!
5000 13:45.00	     13:47.00	     13:58.00	 13:27.30
10K  28:38.00	     28:40.00	     29:10.00	 28:07.00!
110H	13.64		13.65		13.90	    13.80
400H	50.20		50.30		51.00	    50.00
20KmW 1:30:00	      1:30:00	       top 15		?

(1) This level of times assures an invitation to the Trials
and that the TAC will pick up the airfare, room and board.
(2) This level also guarantees entry into the meet, but no
expenses are covered unless you're neededto fill out the field
or you finish in the top 3.
Provisional marks are essentially another watermark for filling out
the field, if necessary; I don't think *any* "provisional" athletes
competed in New Orleans

* If a nation has more than one athlete competing in an event, they
must ALL meet the Olympic Standard during the qualifying period.
For both the Trials and the Games, this is usually the 12 months
preceding the event.

To get around qualifying standards, you can check your parent's
nationalities and see if you have dual citizenship. Who knows,
maybe you can represent Liechtenstein in the 400!! :)  Don't laugh,
a former teammate will probably represent that country in the
1500, not that he isn't good, just not "world class".

PacMan, the TrackFan
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