OLYMPIC MARKS

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32707, 9 September 1971, Page 24

OLYMPIC MARKS

The national athletics selectors have set marks as standards of achievement to qualify for selection for next year’s Munich Olympic Games.

Included in parentheses are the International Amateur Athletic Federation’s, qualifying marks if a country wants to enter more than one athlete in an event. The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association decided at a management committee meeting this week that the selectors’ marks for men’s long jump, pentathlon and women’s discus would be only provisional. As they are well below the international federation requirements the New Zealand standards for these three qyents are likely to be tightened.

Men 100 metres, 10.3 (10.3); 200 metres, 20.9 (20.9); 400 metres, 46.4 (46.4); 800 metres, 1:47.5 (1:47.6); 1500 metres, 3:41.2 (3:41.6); 5000 metres, 13:44 (14:48); 10,000 metres, 28:46 (28:50); steeplechase, 8:37 (8:38); 110 metres hurdles, 13.9 (14.0); 400 metres hurdles, 50.6 (50.6). High jump, 7:J (7:0); long jump, 25:8| (26:3); triple jump, 53:34 (53.2); pole vault, 16:9J (16:8). Shot put, 62:10 (62:4); diseus, 197:3 (193.6); hammer, 220:0 (216:6); decathlon, 7600 points (7600); marathon, 2:16:0 (no qualifying time); 20 kilometre walk, 1:31:0 (no qualifying time); 50 kilometre walk, 4:21:0 (no qualifying time). Women 100 metres, 11.5 (11.5); 200 metres, 23.6 (23.6); 400 metres, 53.6 (54.0); 800 metres, 2:4.6 (2:5.0); 1500 metres, 4:20.0 (4:20.0); 100 metres hurdles, 13.5 (13.5). High jump, 5:10 (5:9); long Jump, 20:9 (20:8). Shot put, 52:10 (53:0); discus, 179:0 (180:5); javelin, 178:0 (177:2); pentathlon; 4790 (4800).