AAG U-23 Trails Standards released

Aug 15, 2012 Sports

– athletes to take the track this weekend

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) will be hosting their 2012 Youth and Under-23 Trails and Senior Invitational Competition on Saturday and Sunday at the Police Sports Club, Eve Leary for all club affiliated athletes, schools and sports districts.
The main purpose of this three in one competition is to select a team for the upcoming South American Under-23 Games in September in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The competition which is affiliated to the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) will see all standard events under starters and officials instruction over the weekend for U-18, U-23 and Open athletes.
All competitors must follow the regulations: age category (16/17 as at December 31 (Youth), 18-22 as at December 31 (U-23) and 23 and older as at December 31 (Open). For this competition, Athletes will only be allowed to compete in their respective age category.
The events for the meet are as follows: 100m,200m,400m,800m,1500m,3000m,5000m,10,000m,long jump, shot putt, discus, javelin. The following events will only get underway once there are more than two competitors.
Field event athletes will be given three trials as the required weights will be used for the throws in the respective age categories.
Subject to the restrictions set out above, participants in the Youth category will be allowed to compete in only one event over 200 meters, the U-23 category, two events and the Senior (Open Women and Men) three events.
The release further stated that all athletes must wear the official number which was issued to them from the athletics association on their chest during their events, if not they will not be allowed to compete.
Qualifying standards:

Youth Under_23

Events Females Males Females Males

100m 11.80 10.70 11.50 10.50

200m 24.50 22.00 23.80 21.30

400m 57.90 49.00 54.20 47.00

800m 2:14 1:54.30 2:10.00 1:50.00

1500m 4:50 4:10 4:38 3:50

3000m/10000m 10:15 8:60 36:50 31:50

5000m NIL NIL 17:49 14:30

Long Jump 5.59m 7.20m 5.74m 7.62m

Triple Jump 12m 14.15m 12.30m 16.02m

High Jump 1.63m 1.90m 1.70m 2.09m

Discus 40.50m 48.10m 38.09m 50.20m

Shot Putt 12.90m 16.50m 12.93m 17.30m

Javelin 41.10m 60.20m 42.15m 63.42m

The above track event standards are electronic times, hence .25 seconds will be subtracted to convert to manual timings for the sprint races (100,200,400m).

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