SlowFatMaster wrote:
Uh, if you are running in the world championships and there is a qualifying time for the world championships, and you have run that qualifying time, then you are "world class" are you not?
At Doha 2:00 got you into the semis and 1:59 got you into the final. In fact, 2:00.8 got you into the final if you came in second in your semi-final section.
https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-championships/iaaf-world-athletics-championships-doha-2019-6033/results/women/800-metres/semi-final/result
No, I completely disagree that the world champs qualifying standard is world class. World class is typically used to refer to performances that would get you into the final of a major champs year in year out. A top 8 performance if you will. What do you use to distinguish between athletes that qualify and athletes that would make the final? They aren’t both world class.
I’d refer to a female 800m athlete as world class once she runs a 1:57 time. In the final the women all have PBs between 1:55 and 1:58.0
There is not point looking at times run at the championships as indicative of what the athletes could run. Most races are tactical.
I stand by my comments. Having a PB of 1:59.x will not get you very far on the world stage, as Green showed. In a championship the heats will be run in a tactical 1:59/2:00 and you will struggle to get through. All the women have run under 2:00 to get there.
You can’t tell me that last in your heat counts as ‘getting far’