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UKA International Ultra Team Selection Early Season 2006

IAU 24 Hour World Challenge in Taipei 25 th /26 th February.

This event takes place early in the year whilst still within the 2005/6 financial year. This places considerable constraints upon the options for sending individuals or teams to the above event. The Ultra squad have had a limited budget this year and have budgeted carefully when sending a team to the World/European 24 hr in Worschach and individuals to the IAU European 100km Championship in Winschoten in September. Having reviewed the financial situation since the European 100km Championships earlier this month we have agreed that this has allowed us some limited funds for the key targets for early 2006. These are

1. to set up a successful squad weekend to build on our experiences and develop the squad further and then   

2. to send individuals/team to Taipei . However, we can only afford the latter if medals are indeed a real prospect. In addition the Taipei competition does not include the European 24hr Challenge as in previous years, thus individuals or teams would anyway require a higher standard to be of real medal potential for the World Challenge alone.

 

This background has lead to the following selection criteria for the World 24 hr Challenge in February. A separate selection policy will be announced in March if an IAU European 24 hr challenge is announced for later in the year.

 

The selection criteria are based on analysis of the World rankings for 24 hr road for 2005 up to and including the World 24 Challenge in Worschach in 2005 with reference to the rankings for 2004 and the individual selection criteria is based on the world 10 th ranking. The team selection criteria is based on the top 20th ranking together with knowledge of the average scores of the teams securing the bronze position in the last three years. The team standard is a minimum standard as analysis of the last three years shows that for bronze position the average distance achieved by team members can be up to 243km for men and 215km for women (Individual rankings for 2004 and mid 2005 can be found on www.iau.org.tw – statistics section. and a resume of medal positions for the three years of the World 24 hour Challenge are attached in an annex to this paper.)

Event		A Standard	Indicative Team Standard
24hr	Men	245 km	235 km
	Women	215 km	195 km

 

Performances will be considered if they have been achieved between 1 st October 2004 and 30 th October 2005 .

The selection committee reserve the right to take other factors into account when considering specific performances for the indicative team standard. .. Athletes who wish their names and relevant performances to go forward for consideration as individuals or for team selection should forward details to the Ultradistance Subcommittee. It will be necessary for current fitness to be evident prior to any selection and to be injury free and show fitness prior to competition. The final selection date will be on or soon after 31 st October 2005

 

Selection criteria and dates for the World 100km Challenge and other international championships will be announced after 31 st October.

 

Members of the UKA Ultradistance Subcommittee

Hilary Walker ( Chairman) hilary.walker@virgin.net

Walter Hill   (Secretary) wallyhelen@tiscali.co.uk

Harvey Jaquest (Coaching/Communication) post@jaquest.plus.com

Dave Walsh (Team management issues) daveroadwalsh@hotmail.com

Norman Wilson (Coaching/Fixtures) WILsONAnNE691@aol.com

Carolyn Hunter-Rowe ( team management) co-opted member.

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IAU WORLD 24 HOURS CHALLENGE

An individual IAU World 24 Hours Track Championships was held in 2001. An IAU World 24 Hours Challenge (with team event) was introduced in 2003 and held in conjunction with the IAU European 24 Hours Challenge.

Venues: 2001t Verona/San Giovanni Lupatoto, 2003 Uden (NED), 2004 Brno (CZE), 2005 Wörschach (AUT)

Men - Individual

	GOLD		SILVER		BRONZE
2001t 2003 2004 2005	Yiannis Kouros GRE Paul Beckers BEL Ryoichi Sekiya JPN Anatoliy Kruglikov RUS	275.828km 270.087km 269.085km 268.065km	Lubomír Hrmo SVK Ryoichi Sekiya JPN Lubomír Hrmo SVK Ewald Eder AUT	270.337km 267.223km 259.064km 263.810km	Alain Prual FRA Étienne Van Acker BEL Mohamed Magroun FRA Jens Lukas GER	259.778km 264.967km 257.881km 256.368km

Men - Team

	GOLD		SILVER		BRONZE
2003 2004 2005	Belgium France Japan	791.901km 745.725km 734.498km	Russia Japan Russia	739.569km 740.396km 731.299km	Japan Russia Italy	729.956km 704.876km 725.897km

Women

	GOLD		SILVER		BRONZE
2001t 2003 2004 2005	Edit Bérces HUN Irina Reutovich RUS Sumie Inagaki JPN Lyudmila Kalinina RUS	235.029km 237.052km 237.154km 242.228km	Irina Reutovich RUS Galina Yeremina RUS Galina Yeremina RUS Galina Yeremina RUS	226.781km 232.050km 235.012km 239.874km	Irina Koval RUS Joëlle Semur FRA Stephanie Ehret USA Sumie Inagaki JPN	222.445km 227.279km 225.573km 234.803km

Women - Team

	GOLD		SILVER		BRONZE
2003 2004 2005	Russia Russia Russia	684.858km 661.558km 709.573km	France Japan Japan	649.303km 657.610km 654.385km	Japan United States United States	628.440km 635.932km 604.514km