UKA Selection Criteria

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17 years ago 03/20/2007 4:00am EDT

I have noticed that the article on the front page shows UKA are not being consistent with what they have already published. If I came in the top 2 at the trial and ran the qualifying time I would challenge their selection policy and threaten legal action if I wasn’t selected.

The article on the front page contradicts the selection criteria which are published on the UKAthletics website.

Within the Guardian documents it states that:

“The new selection procedures suggests that the team chosen for this summer's World Championships in Osaka will be much more streamlined team than the usual 60-plus squad. A UKA document revealed athletes will no longer be guaranteed automatic selection even if achieving the criteria of previous years at the trials meeting in Manchester this July”.

However the selection criteria stated on UKA website is the usual:

“The first two athletes in each event will be automatically selected provided they achieve the A standard, or have already achieved the A standard within the qualifying period”.

If an athlete achieves the qualifying time and come 1st or 2nd in the trial then they should be on the team. I think it has already been shown taking smaller teams does not result in better results. People need experience and athletes develop at different rates. This is another example of the people running our sport in the UK having no experience of elite athletics.

http://www.ukathletics.net/competitions/selection-criteria/iaaf-world-championships-in-athletics/

http://sport.guardian.co.uk/athletics/story/0,,2037653,00.html

17 years ago 03/20/2007 4:06am EDT

re: Whos Frank?

maybe the guardian is wrong

17 years ago 03/20/2007 5:03am EDT

re: sun reader

http://www.ukathletics.net/competitions/selection-criteria/

One selection criteria doc here, another word doc also with blurb. Anyone see if it's contradictory? Don't have time to look just now.

17 years ago 03/20/2007 6:28am EDT

re: Whos Frank?

Whos Frank? wrote:
If an athlete achieves the qualifying time and come 1st or 2nd in the trial then they should be on the team. I think it has already been shown taking smaller teams does not result in better results.

My reading of it is that this will happen if they have the A standard. If they only have the B standard then the discretion of the selectors comes in (especially if there are others with the A standard). I'm guessing (and it is only a guess) that it is people with only the B-standard or those who fail to make the first two at the trials who are more likely to feel the effects of a harsher selection policy.

The IAAF system of who is allowed to be entered and then compete has changed for Osaka. So it is not just UKA re-examining who goes to the champs and how they are selected.

It looks like UKA has reacted to this:

"A number of implications follow from this but once again in simple terms we are more likely to pick an up and coming, podium potential performer against the B standard than purely to give a perhaps more senior athlete the chance of attending. The major change is that, if we wish, we can select a permutation of A and B qualified athletes, and are no longer limited to only selecting a B athlete if no A qualifications have been achieved."

Should they have carried on as if nothing had changed and as if they had no scope to make selections which were not possible under the old rules on A and B standards?

17 years ago 03/20/2007 9:24am EDT

re: Andy Barber

Selectors raise qualifying mark

UK Athletics has raised the qualifying standard for this summer's World Championships in Osaka with the aim of

boosting future British medal tallies.

Performance director Dave Collins hopes this will ensure all British athletes picked make an impression in Japan.

There is also the longer-term aim of aiding GB prospects at future Olympics.

"Smaller teams may result but that will enable us to target our resources more effectively to provide the optimum preparation for our teams," he said.

"In simple terms, it means that securing first or second place at the trials with the achievement of the A standard within the qualifying period may not now result in automatic selection."

The World Championships begin on 25 August with the British trials taking place in Manchester four weeks previously.

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