Till just lately, Ethiopia had not formally disclosed the listing of athletes who met the qualifying occasions (minimal) for the lads’s 1500m and 800m occasions on the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The Nationwide Federation, in collaboration with the Ethiopian Olympic Committee, has now introduced that whereas many athletes have achieved the qualifying occasions for the World Athletics Championships in recent times, not all these occasions meet the stringent standards for main worldwide competitions just like the Olympics.
To deal with this, they plan to leverage the athletes’ World Rating factors to safe participation in these prestigious occasions.
World Athletics has engineered a database system to meticulously observe and disseminate the outcomes of competitions, essential for accruing World Rating factors, such because the Olympics, inside specified timeframes. In furtherance of this endeavor, a web-based platform dubbed “Street to Paris 2024” is slated for unveiling in October 2024, aimed toward facilitating the monitoring of athlete {qualifications} for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.
In line with Asfaw Dagne, the Sports activities Director of the Federation, the Ethiopian Athletics Federation stays dedicated to fielding athletes within the males’s 1,500 and 800-meter middle-distance occasions till the conclusion of the qualifying interval, making certain athletes have ample alternatives to compete.
– Commercial -He added that World Athletics offers this chance by choosing athletes with the best scores from throughout the globe.
In line with knowledge from World Athletics (Street to Paris 2024), 70 male marathon athletes have met the time restrict (minimal), with a further 10 seizing the chance, making a complete of 80 certified athletes. Equally, within the ladies’s class, 88 athletes have certified primarily based on the time (minimal) for the Paris Olympics.
Moreover, the info system specifies that if any member federation exceeds three certified rivals in a selected occasion, they’re restricted to getting into solely three athletes. “The Nationwide federations may have the autonomy to decide on their representatives primarily based on their inner choice standards when choosing these three athletes,” instructed Asfaw to The Reporter.
In Could 2024, the Ethiopian Athletics Federation introduced the names of the nationwide athletes chosen to characterize Ethiopia in each males’s and ladies’s marathons on the Paris 2024 Olympics.
