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Rankings for "World Athletics Final"August 28, 2006
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The top 11 Athletes in races of 1500m and longer, such as women's steeplechase, who have the highest number of points from their best 5 races in designated scoring meets qualify automatically for the World Athletics Final on Sep 9 in Stuttgart. However, "it is a condition that athletes have scored points in at least 3 meetings." Listed below in rank order are women steeplers who have scored in 3 meets -- as of Aug 27 with no more steeple scoring meets scheduled. [M = Meets; P = Points]
| M | P | ATHLETE |
| 5 | 54 | Jeruto Kiptum, KEN |
| 5 | 45 | Salome Chepchumba, KEN |
| 5 | 43 | Victoria Mitchell, AUS |
| 3 | 42 | Wiolette Janowska, POL |
| 3 | 33 | Lyubov Ivanova, RUS |
| 5 | 24 | Gladys Jerotich Kipkemoi, KEN |
| 5 | 22 | Carrie Messner, USA |
| 4 | 21 | Cristina Casandra, ROM |
| 3 | 11 | Zenaide Vieira, BRA |
| 3 | 9 | Roisin McGettigan, IRL |
The 3-meet requirement creates a list (above) of 10 athletes. To get an 11-athlete total, WAF rules have this provision: "The IAAF reserves the right to invite a maximum of 1 wild-card Athlete per event." The question then arises: Who shall be invited?
One possibility is to invite an athlete with only 2 scoring meets but a high score such as Tatyana Petrova of Russia with 24 points. Another option is to invite a very fast steepler with only one scoring meet such as Docus Inzikuru of Uganda with 9:19.51 or Alesia Turava of Belarus with 9:20.16.
Restricting the wild-card provision to one athlete can encourage athletes participation in WAF-qualifying meets at all four levels: Golden League, Super Grand Prix, Grand Prix, and Area Permit. Ideally, it would also encourage meet managers and their national federations to offer a variety of events -- including women's steeplechase.
Interestingly, world leader Wioletta Janowska of Poland with a 9:17.15 time last month and three WAF scoring meets, is not atop the scoring list. Not all meets score the same. A win at Monaco last week earned 20 points but in some other meets only 6. |
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