Qualification for participation in the Olympics on track Maintaining the principles of the past World Federation of Athletics June 4 16:11

The World Athletics Federation, the World Athletics Association, has announced the qualifications of athletes who will be eligible for the Tokyo Olympics, which has been postponed for one year, and will maintain the principle of being eligible based on the participation standard record and the world ranking. Was shown.

The World Federation of Athletics announced on the 3rd that the athletes will be eligible for the 1-year postponed Tokyo Olympics.

Regarding individual events, we have a policy to maintain the principle that we can qualify for participation based on participation standard records and world rankings, and we have also changed the time and records set such as 10 seconds 05 for 100 meters for men. did not.

In addition, in order to maintain fairness among athletes in order to maintain the qualifications of athletes who have already exceeded the participation standard record and to consider the influence of the spread of virus infection, this year until November 30th Grades include exclusion from selection.

On the other hand, with regard to relays, in addition to last year's selection of the World Championship, the top eight teams of the World Relay Tournament to be held in Poland next May will be given the right to participate.

A total of five relays have been held at the Olympics, and Japan has already won the participation in the Men's 400 Relay, which won the silver medal at the last Rio de Janeiro Games.