How are the heats decided for NCAA championships in the 800m and 1500m? Is it by season best time, or regional heat time and how do they make the heats fair?
How are the heats decided for NCAA championships in the 800m and 1500m? Is it by season best time, or regional heat time and how do they make the heats fair?
How are the heats decided for NCAA championships in the 800m and 1500m? Is it by season best time, or regional heat time and how do they make the heats fair?
Who gets to determine what's fair?
I'm just wondering what the process is for determining how runners are assigned to the heats.
In theory they use the time that qualified the athlete for the next round but looking at last year it is not clear that was done.
That's what I meant about who gets to determine what's fair... if you read the tech manual notes they can essentially do what they want to make them 'fair'.
as seedseedfirst posted ranks the 4 heat winners by time then assign h1/h2/h2/h1 then 4 seconds but h2/h1/h1/h2, etc
c. Principles of forming heats for second and subsequent rounds of competition are as follows: 1) Weigh place first. 2) Weigh time second. Note: For fully automatic timing malfunctions, see Rule 15-12.4. 3) Seed each group of place winners as a unit by their times. Seed winners, then seed second-place runners, etc. Work from left to right, and from right to left and then all qualifiers on time in descending order."
How are the heats decided for NCAA championships in the 800m and 1500m? Is it by season best time, or regional heat time and how do they make the heats fair?
SMH...the same way they have been for a decade.
Season best time? WTH? It's a track meet, advancement is never ever based on a Season Best time. Advancement is based on place and then time qualifiers. Serpentine
How are the heats decided for NCAA championships in the 800m and 1500m? Is it by season best time, or regional heat time and how do they make the heats fair?
Who gets to determine what's fair?
The same people who decide what is and is not a woman