The Road to London....... Build up to World Championships mod notes #342 and #653

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Rather than just wait till they cam

When?
4th - 13th August

Current List of Irish Qualifiers

Thomas Barr (400m hurdles)
Brian Gregan (400m)
Ciara Mageean (800m)
Mark English (800m)
Fionnuala McCormack (10,000m)
Mick Clohisey (Marathon)
Paul Pollock (Marathon)
Sean Hehir (Marathon)
Claire McCarthy (Marathon)
Alex Wright (50km walk)
Brendan Boyce (50km walk)
Robert Heffernan (50km walk)

Will try do a bit around season performances and timetables when I get a chance but figured it might be worth generating a bit of interest in build up.

Any others with a chance of making the cut off in the next week?

BeepBeep67

I'm heading over to watch some of the events, marathon (which is free), have tickets for the Monday evening and hopefully another session if I can come across reasonably priced tickets for 4.

Chivito550

Absolutely zero chance of anyone else making it I'm afraid.

Walk and Marathon have soft qualification standards so always going to have big team there, but only 5 inside the stadium is very low.

Keep an eye on Sinead Diver going for Australia in the marathon.

average_runner

How does the numbers compare to other similar competitions?

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Below are the closest non qualifiers to standards (Marathon/Walks not included due to full quota/ Teams already announced)

Men
Event|Athlete|Performance|Standard|
100m|Marcus Lawler|10.30|10.12|
200m|Marcus Lawler|20.70|20.44|
400m|Christopher O'Donnell|46.92|45.50|
800m|Keiran Kelly|1.47.87|1.45.90|
1500m|Paul Robinson|3.38.16|3.36.00|
5000m|John Travers|13.52.67|13.23.60|
10,000m| Stephen Scullion|28.58.28|27.45|
3000m S/C| Tomas Cotter| 8.50.06|8.32.00|
110m Hurdles| Ben Reynolds| 13.67|13.48|
400m Hurdles| Paul Byrne| 50.03|49.35|
High Jump| Jamie Murtagh| 2.12|2.30|
Pole Vault| Sean Roth| 4.90| 5.70|
Long Jump| Adam McMullen| 7.85| 8.15|
Triple Jump| Denis Finegan| 15.58| 16.80|
Shot| Sean Breathnach| 18.20| 20.50|
Discus| Colin Quirke| 57.97|65.00|
Hammer| Dempsey McGuigan| 70.55| 76.00|
Javelin| Stephen Rice| 65.48| 83.00|
Decathlon| Peter Glass| 7120| 8100|


Both Lawler and Cotter have sadly had to finish up there qualification attempts due to injury.

https://www.balls.ie/athletics/marcus-lawler-road-becoming-fastest-irishman-ever-368263

https://twitter.com/Cottsy149/status/873244995985297408


I will see if I can locate relay rankings. Women to follow.

Chivito550

average_runner wrote: »

How does the numbers compare to other similar competitions?

Excluding unused relay subs we had the following in past champs competing on the track or in the field:

Osaka 2007: 10
Berlin 2009: 10
Daegu 2011: 13
Moscow 2013: 6
Beijing 2015: 11

5 is very low.

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average_runner wrote: »

How does the numbers compare to other similar competitions?

2015 team

Thomas Barr (Ferrybank) 400m Hurdles
Mark English (UCD) 800m
Kerry O'Flaherty (Newcastle), 3,000m steeplechase
Michelle Finn (Leevale) 3,000m steeplechase
Tori Pena (Finn Valley) Pole Vault
Alex Wright (Leevale) 20km/50km Race Walk
Robert Heffernan (Togher) 50km Race Walk
Brendan Boyce (Letterkenny) 50km Race Walk
4x400m relay

Ben Reynolds - 110m hurdles (quota Q)
Kelly Proper - 200m (quota Q)
Sara Treacy - 3000m S/C (quota Q)
Ciara Everard - 800m (quota Q)

Ciara Mageean was also offered quota spot but turned down due to regaining fitness.

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Chivito550 wrote: »

Walk and Marathon have soft qualification standards so always going to have big team there, but only 5 inside the stadium is very low.

Should be noted the irregardless of times, two women do have qualification by virtue of top 10 performances in a WMM (Berlin) from last year

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Closest non qualifiers

Women
Event|Athlete|Performance|Standard|
100m|Amy Foster|11.42|11.26|
200m|Phil Healy|23.65|23.10|
400m|Sinead Denny|53.50(A)|52.10|
800m|Siofra Cleirigh Buttner|2.02.11|2.01.00|
1500m|Claire Tarplee|4.16.23|4.07.50|
5000m|Emma Mitchell|15.50.55|15.22.00|
10,000m| Emma Mitchell|32.51.78|32.15.00|
3000m S/C| kerry O'Flaherty|9.50.75|9.42.00|
100m Hurdles|Sarah Lavin| 13.47|12.98|
400m Hurdles| Christine McMahon| 58.08|56.10|
High Jump| Sommer Lecky| 1.85|1.94|
Pole Vault| Sarah McKeever| 3.95|4.55|
Long Jump| Sarah McCarthy|6.33|6.75|
Triple Jump| Sarah Buggy|13.16|14.10|
Shot| Micheala Walsh|16.13|17.75|
Discus| Clare Fitzgerald| 53.18|61.20|
Hammer| Michaela Walsh| 63.01|71.00|
Javelin| Grace Casey| 48.05|61.40|
Heptathlon| Elizabeth Morland| 5669| 6200|

BeepBeep67

Fionnuala is doing the marathon

Chivito550

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

Fionnuala is doing the marathon

No she's not. She's running Berlin in September and doing 10000m at Worlds.

BeepBeep67

Chivito550 wrote: »

No she's not. She's running Berlin in September and doing 10000m at Worlds.

That's not what she told me.

Chivito550

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

That's not what she told me.

Must be a U-turn so.

Be fascinating to see who will win between her and Diver in London so.

rainbow kirby

Going to quite a few sessions - our stack of tickets is quite thick at home! Saturday morning, Sunday morning, Sunday evening, Tuesday evening and Friday evening if I remember correctly, might be missing one.

Should be good craic

RayCun

We're in Sunday morning, Monday evening, Wednesday evening. All of the men's 400m hurdles, as it worked out - if you're reading, Thomas, no pressure!

BeepBeep67

RayCun wrote: »

We're in Sunday morning, Monday evening, Wednesday evening. All of the men's 400m hurdles, as it worked out - if you're reading, Thomas, no pressure!

I plan to watch the marathons around the Tower of London near the Tower Hill station, there's a few coffee shops etc around there and then get up a close to the finish at Tower Bridge as it allowed.

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If anyone is looking for tickets for the last night (Sunday 13th) I know of 2 tickets FV for Category B going (125e) drop me a PM

Chivito550

I've also got 5 tickets to sell too:

First 2 morning sessions: £20 and £12.91

2 Monday evening tickets Cat C: Beside each other £60 each

Wednesday evening Cat £35

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Paddy's Choices

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Big PB for Phil Healy tonight in the 200 with a 23.32

Chivito550

Testosterscone wrote: »

Big PB for Phil Healy tonight in the 200 with a 23.32

Is there a link to the quota rankings anywhere? Be interesting to see how far off she is from it.

Fantastic run. 200m is her best event.

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Chivito550 wrote: »

Is there a link to the quota rankings anywhere? Be interesting to see how far off she is from it.

Fantastic run. 200m is her best event.

Still looking for this though the window closes this Thursday so should know early next week (invitations sent 24 hours after window closes)

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Chivito550 wrote: »

Is there a link to the quota rankings anywhere? Be interesting to see how far off she is from it.

Fantastic run. 200m is her best event.

Looks as though she is still off the standard by a bit.

Currently 8 slots available with Maroussia Pare (FRA) sitting in the last Q place with 23.26 however this could reduce even further as I am sure there will be a few last min attempts over the weekend across the world.

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Current Qualifying lists

Working class heroes

Testosterscone wrote: »

Rather than just wait till they cam

When?
4th - 13th August

Current List of Irish Qualifiers

Thomas Barr (400m hurdles)
Brian Gregan (400m)
Ciara Mageean (800m)
Mark English (800m)
Fionnuala McCormack (10,000m)
Mick Clohisey (Marathon)
Paul Pollock (Marathon)
Sean Hehir (Marathon)
Claire McCarthy (Marathon)
Alex Wright (50km walk)
Brendan Boyce (50km walk)
Robert Heffernan (50km walk)

Will try do a bit around season performances and timetables when I get a chance but figured it might be worth generating a bit of interest in build up.

Any others with a chance of making the cut off in the next week?

Another one to the list, maybe?
https://www.balls.ie/amp/athletics/leon-reid-ireland-369450

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Working class heroes wrote: »

Another one to the list, maybe?
https://www.balls.ie/amp/athletics/leon-reid-ireland-369450

Given that his application went in just before the IAAF put in the transfer freeze chances of that being pushed through in next 3 days are highly unlikely.

BeepBeep67

Anyone fancy a 10k gallop on the Sunday morning?
http://www.regentsparkraces.org/

09:30 Start, still plenty of time to get the tube back over to Tower Hill to catch the marathon.

finbarrk

RayCun wrote: »

We're in Sunday morning, Monday evening, Wednesday evening. All of the men's 400m hurdles, as it worked out - if you're reading, Thomas, no pressure!

Going Wednesday evening ourselves. Got a spare adult and child ticket for that evening if anyone wants.

Chivito550

Will just update:

I've 2 tickets left to sell:

Sat 05 Aug Morning Session : Brian Gregan and Mark English's heats (£20)

Sun 06 Aug Morning Session: Thomas Barr heats (£12.91)

PM if interested

BeepBeep67

Managed to get 4 seats together for the Tuesday evening also - happy out

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namloc1980

Got tickets for the Thursday night expecting a showdown between Bolt and Van Niekerk in the 200m but Bolt has decided not to run. Big letdown.