Don’t Have The 2015 IAAF World Championships Standard? Don’t Worry About It — You Can Still Go to Worlds (Particularly If You Are American)
by LetsRun.com
June 18, 2015
(Editors note: We’ll be previewing the 800s, 1500s and steeples for the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the coming days but wanted to put up this article before we do).
Are you dreaming of the World Championships but don’t have the IAAF standard? Or are you are a fan of a pro that doesn’t have the standard?
Don’t worry about it. This year, the IAAF is going to go down the descending order list and will fill the field with 48 competitors in the 800 and 45 in the 1500 and steeple. As a result, every single American who finishes at top three at USAs in those events is basically a lock to make it to Worlds – even if they don’t currently have the standard.
Remember, each country can only have a maximum of three entrants in an event unless they boast the reigning World or Diamond League champion, in which case they get to run up to four.
Thus the 5th, 6th, 7th – hell, 12th Kenyan – all need to be removed from the list. The same thing is true for the Americans, who boast a lot of depth. When you remove all of the extra people, it’s not all that fast when you get way down to #45 or #48.
In the charts below, we have gone down the 2015 descending order list and removed the extra people from each country.
In the men’s 800, where the IAAF standard is 1:46.00, when you cap all countries at a maximum of three per country, the 48th-fastest man in the world is Italy’s Jacopo Lahbi at 1:46.72. He’s actually #78 in the world.
Similarly, in the men’s 1500, where the IAAF standard is 3:36.20 (3:53.30 for the mile), when you cap all entries at three per country except give Kenya (which gets four as it boasts the reigning DL and World champs), the 45th-fastest person this year is the Netherlands’ Richard Douma and he has run just 3:39.71. He’s actually the 90th-fastest 1500 guy in the world this year.
So the fact that American star Leo Manzano doesn’t have the standard is pretty irrelevant. At Pre, he just missed the 3:53.30 mile standard by running 3:53.55. While you can qualify in the mile, we don’t think the IAAF is converting miles to 1500 for the rolling list, but regardless, in the middle of that Pre race Manzano was timed at 1500 in 3:38.04. 3:38.04 places him just 58th in the world so far this year at 1500 but when you remove all the extra people from Kenya, Ethiopia, etc, Manzano is #33 and thus pretty safe to qualify as is.
In the men’s steeple, where the IAAF standard is 8:28.00, the 45th-fastest person in the world when you cap it at three per country but once again give Kenya four (as it boasts the reigning DL and World champs) is Australia’s James Nipperess, and he’s run just 8:35.39. He’s actually the 79th-fastest man in the world.
Looking at the women, in the women’s 800 where the standard is 2:01.00, the 48th-fastest person in the world this year when you cap it at three per country but once again give Kenya four (as it boasts the reigning DL and World champs) is Poland’s Sofia Ennaoui at 2:02.31. She’s really the 81st-fastest person in the world.
In the women’s 1500 where the standard is 4:06.50 (4:25.20 mile), the 45th-fastest person in the world this year when you cap it at three per country but give the USA four (as we boast the DL champ) is Norway’s Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal at 4:12.09. She’s really the 92nd-fastest woman in the world.
In the women’s steeple where the standard is 9:44.00, the 45th-fastest person in the world this year when you cap it at three per country but give Kenya and Ethiopia four (as they have reigning World and DL champs) is Eva Krchová of the Czech Republic at 9:48.75. She really is the 92nd-fastest woman in the world.
Sure, the results will improve somewhat between now and August, but not by a ton. Plus, many countries not named the USA won’t send someone unless they think they’ll do well, so that would make it easier for an American to get into the top 45 or 48 depending on their event.
See the results for yourself. We apologize if there is an error or two as we did it kind of quickly and just removed the duplicates that were most obvious to us.
One last thing, all of that being said, the athletes probably will go chase times regardless. Why? They’ll need them for the 2016 Olympics, which doesn’t have a rolling standards (2016 Olympic Track and Field Qualifying standards). The qualifying window for track events for the 2016 Olympics began on May 1.
Please note. The list below is only using outdoor times for 2015. The qualifying window actually began of October 1 of last year but we didn’t bother to see if anyone ran a track meet in October, November or December of last year and we also didn’t add in indoor times. That would have taken a lot more time as we don’t have access to a combined indoor and outdoor list and our thought process was that the vast majority of the fast indoor runners are a) also running fast indoors b) from one of the countries that already has 3 qualifiers or c) not on the outdoor list because they are injured and won’t be going to Worlds.
Discuss this topic on our world famous fan forum: MB: Leo the Lion doesn’t have the IAAF standard for Worlds but it doesn’t matter – He’ll still go if he’s top 3 at USAs.
Men’s 800
2015’s 48 Fastest Guys at 800 (max 3 per country, except Ethiopia and Botswana can get 4 (they don’t but could)) | |||
1 | 01:43.56 | Mohamed Aman | ETH |
2 | 01:43.58 | David Rudisha | KEN |
3 | 01:43.78 | Ayanleh Souleiman | DJI |
4 | 01:43.80 | Nijel Amos | BOT |
5 | 01:43.84 | Boris Berian | USA |
6 | 01:43.88 | Pierre-Ambroise Bosse | FRA |
7 | 01:43.92 | Job Kinyor | KEN |
8 | 01:43.94 | Adam Kszczot | POL |
9 | 01:44.00 | Ferguson Cheruiyot | KEN |
10 | 01:44.25 | Marcin Lewandowski | POL |
11 | 01:44.62 | Matthew Centrowitz | USA |
12 | 01:45.07 | Giordano Benedetti | ITA |
13 | 01:45.17 | Taoufik Makhloufi | ALG |
14 | 01:45.21 | Artur Kuciapski | POL |
15 | 01:45.24 | Leo Manzano | USA |
16 | 01:45.29 | Jeff Riseley | AUS |
17 | 01:45.38 | Alex Rowe | AUS |
18 | 01:45.48 | Robin Schembera | GER |
19 | 01:45.53 | Rafith Rodriguez | COL |
20 | 01:45.59 | Ali Saad Al-Daran | KSA |
21 | 01:45.59 | Kevin López | ESP |
22 | 01:45.73 | André Olivier | RSA |
23 | 01:45.77 | Antoine Gakeme | BDI |
24 | 01:45.81 | Abraham Rotich | BRN |
25 | 01:45.83 | Mark English | IRL |
26 | 01:45.87 | Brandon McBride | CAN |
27 | 01:45.97 | Sofiane Selmouni | FRA |
28 | 01:46.03 | Nader Belhanbel | MAR |
29 | 01:46.06 | Khalid Benmahdi | MAR |
30 | 01:46.07 | Jena Umar | ETH |
31 | 01:46.11 | Thijmen Kupers | NED |
32 | 01:46.13 | Yeimer López | CUB |
33 | 01:46.14 | Abdulrahman Musaeb Balla | QAT |
34 | 01:46.14 | İlham Tanui Özbilen | TUR |
35 | 01:46.17 | Julian Parker | USA |
36 | 01:46.28 | Andy González | CUB |
37 | 01:46.33 | Amine El Manaoui | MAR |
38 | 01:46.36 | Thiago André | BRA |
39 | 01:46.49 | Andrés Arroyo | PUR |
40 | 01:46.51 | Peter Bol | AUS |
41 | 01:46.58 | Anthony Romaniw | CAN |
42 | 01:46.66 | Amel Tuka | BIH |
43 | 01:46.67 | Brice Leroy | FRA |
44 | 01:46.71 | Jozef Repčík | SVK |
45 | 01:46.72 | Ryhardt van Rensburg | RSA |
46 | 01:46.74 | Ronald Musagala | UGA |
47 | 01:46.79 | Sho Kawamoto | JPN |
48 | 01:46.79 | Jacopo Lahbi | ITA |
Men’s 1500
2915’s 45 Fastest Guys at 1500 (Max 3 per country, except Kenya gets 4) | |||
1 | 03:32.88 | Abdelaati Iguider | MAR |
2 | 03:32.97 | Evan Jager | USA |
3 | 03:33.27 | Fouad El Kaam | MAR |
4 | 03:33.34 | İlham Tanui Özbilen | TUR |
5 | 03:33.64 | Robert Biwott | KEN |
6 | 03:33.98 | Elijah Kiptoo | KEN |
7 | 03:34.13 | Garrett Heath | USA |
8 | 03:34.29 | Yassine Bensghir | MAR |
9 | 03:34.32 | Benson Seurei | BRN |
10 | 03:34.54 | Kyle Merber | USA |
11 | 03:34.68 | Jonathan Sawe | KEN |
12 | 03:34.73 | Aman Wote | ETH |
13 | 03:34.84 | Silas Kiplagat | KEN |
14 | 03:34.90 | Bekele Gutema | ETH |
15 | 03:35.02 | Ronald Musagala | UGA |
16 | 03:35.73 | Mekonnen Gebremedhin | ETH |
17 | 03:35.90 | Thiago André | BRA |
18 | 03:35.95 | Pieter-Jan Hannes | BEL |
19 | 03:35.98 | Jakub Holuša | CZE |
20 | 03:36.15 | Mohamed Al-Garni | QAT |
21 | 03:36.34 | Johan Cronje | RSA |
22 | 03:36.51 | Ryan Gregson | AUS |
23 | 03:36.51 | Dumisani Hlaselo | RSA |
24 | 03:36.53 | Samir Dahmani | FRA |
25 | 03:36.66 | Adel Mechaal | ESP |
26 | 03:36.87 | Jeff Riseley | AUS |
27 | 3:37.00+ | Ayanleh Souleiman | DJI |
28 | 03:37.12 | Imad Touil | ALG |
29 | 03:37.40 | Mourad Amdouni | FRA |
30 | 03:37.68 | Nate Brannen | CAN |
31 | 3:37.93+ | Henrik Ingebrigtsen | NOR |
32 | 03:37.97 | Elroy Gelant | RSA |
33 | 03:38.20 | Jeroen D’Hoedt | BEL |
34 | 03:38.26 | Yassine Hathat | ALG |
35 | 3:38.32+ | Charles Philibert-Thiboutot | CAN |
36 | 03:38.56 | Yoann Kowal | FRA |
37 | 03:38.59 | Carlos Alonso | ESP |
38 | 03:38.78 | Florian Orth | GER |
39 | 03:39.05 | Josh Wright | AUS |
40 | 03:39.06 | Ross Murray | GBR |
41 | 03:39.16 | Ross Proudfoot | CAN |
42 | 03:39.25 | Thomas Farrell | GBR |
43 | 03:39.35 | Sami Lafi | ALG |
44 | 03:39.61 | Álvaro Rodríguez | ESP |
45 | 03:39.71 | Richard Douma | NED |
Men’s steeple
2015’s 45 Fastest Steeplers (Max 3 per country, except Kenya gets 4) | |||
1 | 08:01.71 | Ezekiel Kemboi | KEN |
2 | 08:01.83 | Jairus Birech | KEN |
3 | 08:05.20 | Conseslus Kipruto | KEN |
4 | 08:05.28 | Evan Jager | USA |
5 | 08:11.39 | Paul Kipsiele Koech | KEN |
6 | 08:14.75 | John Koech | BRN |
7 | 08:18.33 | Brahim Taleb | MAR |
8 | 08:18.38 | Yoann Kowal | FRA |
9 | 08:18.78 | Hamid Ezzine | MAR |
10 | 08:19.07 | Donn Cabral | USA |
11 | 08:19.30 | Amor Benyahia | TUN |
12 | 08:19.85 | Roberto Alaiz | ESP |
13 | 08:20.34 | Matt Hughes | CAN |
14 | 08:21.00 | Ilgizar Safiulin | RUS |
15 | 08:21.10 | Hicham Sigueni | MAR |
16 | 08:21.59 | Tarik Langat Akdag | TUR |
17 | 08:22.44 | Krystian Zalewski | POL |
18 | 8:22.9h | Tolosa Nurgi | ETH |
19 | 8:23.0h | Nikolay Chavkin | RUS |
20 | 08:23.93 | Stanley Kebenei | USA |
21 | 08:24.84 | Alexandre Genest | CAN |
22 | 8:25.1h | Hailemariyam Amare | ETH |
23 | 08:25.46 | Taylor Milne | CAN |
24 | 08:25.62 | Mitko Tsenov | BUL |
25 | 08:25.82 | Chala Beyo | ETH |
26 | 08:26.34 | Abdelaziz Merzoughi | ESP |
27 | 08:27.95 | Ángel Mullera | ESP |
28 | 8:29.53A | Gerard Giraldo | COL |
29 | 08:29.83 | Benjamin Kiplagat | UGA |
30 | 08:31.47 | José Gregorio Peña | VEN |
31 | 08:32.17 | Dikotsi Lekopa | RSA |
32 | 08:32.36 | Mateusz Demczyszak | POL |
33 | 08:32.45 | Viktor Bakharev | RUS |
34 | 8:32.6h | Bilal Tabti | ALG |
35 | 08:33.02 | Tumisang Monnatlala | RSA |
36 | 08:33.17 | Kaur Kivistik | EST |
37 | 8:33.2h | Abdelhamid Zerrifi | ALG |
38 | 08:33.22 | Ole Hesselbjerg | DEN |
39 | 08:33.37 | Yuri Floriani | ITA |
40 | 08:33.45 | Jamel Chatbi | ITA |
41 | 08:33.51 | Daniel Lundgren | SWE |
42 | 08:33.51 | Martin Grau | GER |
43 | 08:33.69 | Aoi Matsumoto | JPN |
44 | 08:34.84 | Zak Seddon | GBR |
45 | 08:35.39 | James Nipperess | AUS |
Women’s 800
2015’s 48 Fastest Gals at 800 (Max 3 per country, except Kenya gets 4) | |||
1 | 01:57.82 | Eunice Sum | KEN |
2 | 01:57.87 | Ajeé Wilson | USA |
3 | 01:58.75 | Anastasiya Bazdyreva | RUS |
4 | 01:59.06 | Brenda Martinez | USA |
5 | 01:59.35 | Rose M. Almanza | CUB |
6 | 01:59.37 | Janeth Jepkosgei | KEN |
7 | 01:59.39 | Renelle Lamote | FRA |
8 | 01:59.47 | Chanelle Price | USA |
9 | 01:59.91 | Sahily Diago | CUB |
10 | 01:59.94 | Fiona Benson | CAN |
11 | 01:59.98 | Abeba Aregawi | SWE |
12 | 02:00.14 | Selina Büchel | SUI |
13 | 02:00.33 | Joanna Jóźwik | POL |
14 | 02:00.37 | Lynsey Sharp | GBR |
15 | 02:00.42 | Laura Muir | GBR |
16 | 02:00.50 | Alison Leonard | GBR |
17 | 02:00.62 | Sifan Hassan | NED |
18 | 02:00.67 | Melissa Bishop | CAN |
19 | 02:00.73 | Malika Akkaoui | MAR |
20 | 02:00.97 | Noélie Yarigo | BEN |
21 | 02:01.04 | Angie Petty | NZL |
22 | 02:01.07 | Jessica Smith | CAN |
23 | 02:01.20 | Maryna Arzamasova | BLR |
24 | 02:01.21 | Ciara Everard | IRL |
25 | 02:01.31 | Yuliya Stepanova | RUS |
26 | 02:01.32 | Natoya Goule | JAM |
27 | 02:01.32 | Margaret Wambui | KEN |
28 | 02:01.32 | Fabienne Kohlmann | GER |
29 | 02:01.41 | Flavia de Lima | BRA |
30 | 2:01.46A | Déborah Rodríguez | URU |
31 | 02:01.50 | Aníta Hinriksdóttir | ISL |
32 | 02:01.53 | Tintu Luka | IND |
33 | 02:01.59 | Simoya Campbell | JAM |
34 | 02:01.64 | Angelika Cichocka | POL |
35 | 02:01.69 | Trine Mjåland | NOR |
36 | 02:01.82 | Annet Mwanzi | KEN |
37 | 02:01.93 | Natalija Piliušina | LTU |
38 | 02:02.04 | Esther Guerrero | ESP |
39 | 02:02.06 | Anastasiya Kalina | RUS |
40 | 02:02.07 | Anastasiya Tkachuk | UKR |
41 | 02:02.11 | Lucia Klocová | SVK |
42 | 02:02.12 | Yusneysi Santiusti | CUB |
43 | 02:02.17 | Brittany McGowan | AUS |
44 | 02:02.19 | Lenka Masná | CZE |
45 | 02:02.20 | Charline Mathias | LUX |
46 | 02:02.20 | Olha Lyakhova | UKR |
47 | 02:02.22 | Gabriela Medina | MEX |
48 | 02:02.31 | Sofia Ennaoui | POL |
Women’s 1500
2015’s 48 Fastest Gals at 1500 (Max 3 per country, except SWE, USA get 4) | |||
1 | 03:59.31 | Jenny Simpson | USA |
2 | 03:59.68 | Sifan Hassan | NED |
3 | 03:59.76 | Dawit Seyaum | ETH |
4 | 04:00.39 | Laura Muir | GBR |
5 | 04:00.94 | Faith Kipyegon | KEN |
6 | 04:01.26 | Mercy Cherono | KEN |
7 | 04:01.41 | Viola Kibiwot | KEN |
8 | 04:01.86 | Senbera Teferi | ETH |
9 | 04:01.95 | Anna Mishchenko | UKR |
10 | 04:01.97 | Abeba Aregawi | SWE |
11 | 04:02.28 | Shannon Rowbury | USA |
12 | 04:02.63 | Luiza Gega | ALB |
13 | 04:02.64 | Maureen Koster | NED |
14 | 04:02.94 | Rabab Arrafi | MAR |
15 | 04:03.00 | Axumawit Embaye | ETH |
16 | 04:03.06 | Angelika Cichocka | POL |
17 | 04:03.20 | Sarah Brown | USA |
18 | 04:03.39 | Alexa Efraimson | USA |
19 | 04:04.30 | Anna Shchagina | RUS |
20 | 04:04.49 | Malika Akkaoui | MAR |
21 | 04:04.66 | Siham Hilali | MAR |
22 | 04:04.70 | Laura Weightman | GBR |
23 | 04:04.74 | Renata Pliś | POL |
24 | 04:04.97 | Sofia Ennaoui | POL |
25 | 04:05.03 | Nikki Hamblin | NZL |
26 | 04:05.56 | Melissa Duncan | AUS |
27 | 04:06.03 | Yekaterina Sharmina | RUS |
28 | 04:06.30 | Zoe Buckman | AUS |
29 | 04:06.37 | Susan Kuijken | NED |
30 | 04:07.37 | Anastasiya Kalina | RUS |
31 | 04:07.47 | Sasha Gollish | CAN |
32 | 04:08.54 | Angie Petty | NZL |
33 | 04:08.55 | Heidi See | AUS |
34 | 04:09.14 | Sheila Reid | CAN |
35 | 04:09.16 | Muriel Coneo | COL |
36 | 04:09.23 | Nicole Sifuentes | CAN |
37 | 04:09.25 | Tigist Gashaw | BRN |
38 | 04:09.45 | Maren Kock | GER |
39 | 04:09.56 | Rhianwedd Price | GBR |
40 | 04:09.63 | Maryam Jamal | BRN |
41 | 04:10.04 | Corinna Harrer | GER |
42 | 04:10.18 | Amela Terzić | SRB |
43 | 04:10.68 | Juliana Paula dos Santos | BRA |
44 | 04:11.58 | Isabel Macías | ESP |
45 | 04:12.09 | Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal | NOR |
Women’s Steeple
2015’s 48 Fastest Gals at 1500 (Max 3 per country, except Kenya and Ethiopia get 4) | |||
1 | 09:15.08 | Hyvin Jepkemoi | KEN |
2 | 09:15.75 | Virginia Nyambura | KEN |
3 | 09:16.87 | Hiwot Ayalew | ETH |
4 | 09:20.44 | Lydia Chepkurui | KEN |
5 | 09:21.56 | Madeleine Heiner | AUS |
6 | 09:23.04 | Sofia Assefa | ETH |
7 | 09:24.91 | Birtukan Fente | ETH |
8 | 09:27.07 | Tigist Mekonen | BRN |
9 | 09:27.92 | Stephanie Garcia | USA |
10 | 09:29.16 | Magdalene Masai | KEN |
11 | 09:29.32 | Colleen Quigley | USA |
12 | 09:31.32 | Ashley Higginson | USA |
13 | 09:31.70 | Sviatlana Kudzelich | BLR |
14 | 09:31.88 | Salima Alami | MAR |
15 | 09:33.34 | Tuğba Güvenç | TUR |
16 | 09:34.13 | Lalita Babar | IND |
17 | 09:35.10 | Maruša Mišmaš | SLO |
18 | 09:35.17 | Genevieve LaCaze | AUS |
19 | 09:35.69 | Geneviève Lalonde | CAN |
20 | 09:36.21 | Gesa-Felicitas Krause | GER |
21 | 09:36.72 | Bezuayehu Mohamed | ETH |
22 | 09:36.79 | Yekaterina Ivonina | RUS |
23 | 09:36.98 | Özlem Kaya | TUR |
24 | 09:39.10 | Silvia Danekova | BUL |
25 | 09:39.19 | Aisha Praught | JAM |
26 | 09:39.20 | Jessica Furlan | CAN |
27 | 09:39.61 | Ruth Chebet | BRN |
28 | 09:39.78 | Victoria Mitchell | AUS |
29 | 09:40.24 | Amina Betiche | ALG |
30 | 09:40.63 | Fabienne Schlumpf | SUI |
31 | 09:41.20 | Lyudmila Lebedeva | RUS |
32 | 09:41.42 | Rosa Flanagan | NZL |
33 | 09:41.43 | Li Zhenzhu | CHN |
34 | 09:41.84 | Lucie Sekanová | CZE |
35 | 09:42.15 | Erin Teschuk | CAN |
36 | 09:43.91 | Yekaterina Doseykina | RUS |
37 | 09:46.37 | Diana Martín | ESP |
38 | 09:46.81 | Sanaa Koubaa | GER |
39 | 09:46.82 | Zhang Xinyan | CHN |
40 | 09:46.91 | Lennie Waite | GBR |
41 | 09:47.16 | Rolanda Bell | PAN |
42 | 09:47.87 | Emma Oudiou | FRA |
43 | 09:48.33 | Ana Narvaez | MEX |
44 | 09:48.48 | Elif Karabulut | TUR |
45 | 09:48.75 | Eva Krchová | CZE |