Selection for overseas meets for the National teams for 2012

Note: Coaches & athletes – Submit your competitions requirement here

Dear Coaches and Athletes,

As you know we have been competing in many overseas invitational and Open competitions in 2011. We roughly know when these competitions are usually scheduled and we all look forward to them.

But for all these overseas competitions we can only act when we receive their actual letter of invitation. The invitation will confirm the competition dates and also the quota places of athletes and coaches given to us. Then we publish these on our website and/or email you to keep you informed and to seek your intention to compete or to skip it.

We would like to prepare ourselves earlier and not react only upon receiving the letter of invites, We want to also let you and your coach plan your competition calendar, both local and overseas, in such a way so that it can help you to challenge and improve your performance to qualify for any major competition that is scheduled in 2012.

We have identified a few probable overseas competitions for 2012 and we need you to express your interest to us by 31 January 2012, your interest based on your training and competition program, the competitions you are targeting. Please email to Jin Long (email) or Dr Valerie Obiko (email) for your competition of your choice for us to monitor the selection.

Each National Senior Team athlete will be limited to 3 overseas meets per year and each National Junior & Youth athlete will be limited to 2 overseas meets per year, if such meets with your events are available.

All members selected for such overseas competition will be endorsed and fully funded by SAA.

Once we receive the letter of invite, we will publish it on SAA website and also will email those who have registered their interest with SAA.

The selection will take place to nominate the number of athletes for the competition. If the competition format does include the Youth & Junior category, SAA would also like to select the Youth & Junior for the competition as well.

The final quota for all athletes will also be made known in SAA website and to those coaches and athletes who registered for the particular Meet.

All final nominations and selections will be based on the quota given by the host country. We will rank you using your best result according to the IAAF 2011 points table. Your ranking will be submitted to the TRAINING & SELECTION COMMITTEE for consideration to be selected.

Athletes not nominated/selected can appeal through their Club to SAA for sanction to compete in the competition (for Selected Overseas Meets only) They will represent their clubs and they will have to do their own booking of air ticket and room and board arrangement with their clubs. SAA will provide sanction letter and assist to inform and submit the entry list for such SAA sanctioned athletes to the organizer.

The final confirmation for participation will be from the host country.

Selected Overseas Meets and dates (All TBC)

• Asian Indoors Champs – Hang Zhou, China (Feb) (CLOSED)
• Thailand Open – Bangkok (Apr)
• Taiwan Open – Taipei (May)
• Hong Kong Open – Hong Kong (Jul)
• Malaysia Open – Kuala Lumpur (Jun)
• Vietnam Open – Ho Chi Ming or Hanoi (Sep)
• Hong Kong Golden Mile – Hong Kong (Oct)
• Taiwan Inter cities Invitation – Taipei (Aug)
• Asian GP – 3 Cities in Thailand (May)
• Malaysia State Meets – (TBC)
  1. Either PraSukma Kuantan Pahang (U23) or Penang Open/and U18 – 28-29 Apr
  2. Negeri Sembilan Open – 06-07 MAY
  3. MAAU Open Bukit Jalil – 16-17 JUNE
  4. Selangor Open – 07-08 July

Meets where no co payment applies and no requests for sanctions are permitted

• World Indoors – Istanbul, Turkey (Mar)
• SEA Youth 2012 – Singapore (Apr)
• Asian Juniors – Colombo, Sri Lanka (June)
• World Junior – Barcelona, Spain (July)
• London 2012 Olympics – London, England (Aug) (CLOSED)

NOTE:

Selected Overseas Meets refer to meets that are invited by Host country with No qualifying marks but under aquota list.

Only national teams, national junior, national youth athletes who have already met the entry criteria will be included for the nomination/selection.

No extra Trials will be organized for the selection of athletes for overseas Meets.

SAA reserves the right to call for a final selection trail for overseas Meets that require qualifying marks..

Athletes will be selected using their ranking based on the results from the last competition organized by SAA before the submission of entries for a particular overseas Meet.

Full details of program/schedule and events list will only be made known once the details are received from organizer.

Wind assisted results might be accepted for selection of overseas Meets unless submission needs to be within legal wind time. But it is not for records rectification, SAA ranking, and submission for qualifying mark for submission for major competition that required qualifying mark.

A maximum of 2 athletes per event will be selected for any one Meet.

SAA reserves the right to review all nominated athletes and coaches for the overseas Meets.

Once a decision has been made, all coaches and athletes have up to 3 days to appeal to SAA from the date the team list was published in the SAA website.

For any appeal cases, please show objective proof why you should be included.

Once the deadline is over, the decision is final. SAA also reserves the right to cancel/drop the Meet or drop any team member/members at any point of time before the competition.

If any selected member withdraws from the selected Meet after the confirmation, they will have to write in officially to inform SAA immediately.

Any last minute withdrawal without a reasonable excuse may result in the athlete/coach having to bear the FULL cost, unless a refund was obtained from the airline and host country.

SAA reserves the final right to select its coaches and officials to lead the team for the Meet.

Related Links:
SAA Co-Payment Scheme for 2012
Sanction Rules
Records Breaking Incentives for 2012
Entry marks into National Team
2012 Team Selection Criteria (PDF)
2013 Sea Games Qualifying Marks (PDF)
2012 Asian Junior Qualifying Marks (PDF)
2012 SEA Youth Qualifying Marks (PDF)
2012 Olympics Qualifying Marks (PDF)