Unofficially official ;o)......but just in.......The Irish womens 4x400 relay team of Clare Bergin (Dundrum South Dublin AC), Joanne Cuddihy (Kilkenny City Harriers AC), Marian Heffernan (Togher AC) and Michelle Carey (Dublin Striders AC) have officially qualified for London 2012.
(Updated 3rd July)...The qualification period for the men’s and women’s 4×100m and 4×400m Relays at the Games of the XXX Olympiad, London 2012 ended on Monday 2 July. The IAAF has officially named the Irish Women’s 4×400m team as one of the 16 teams, with the team placing 13th overall behind Italy.
Official...The nominations by Athletics Ireland to the OCI for the team members is as follows: Joanne Cuddihy (KCH AC), Michelle Carey (Dublin Striders AC), Claire Bergin (DSD AC), Marian Heffernan (Togher AC), Jessie Barr (Ferrybank AC), Catriona Cuddihy (KCH AC)
Yay, great news! Congrats to the girls!
ReplyDeleteCould anyone explain the criteria for relay qualification for the Olympics, up to last Sunday this team had not qualified, they competed and were disqualified in Helsinke and now they are offically qualified anyway congrats to the team
ReplyDeleteThis is my understanding of it...and I hope I'm right! ;o)
ReplyDeleteThe top 16 teams in the world qualify for the Olympics. The Irish team had qualified provisionally but there was the chance that another team could have passed them out.
The hope was that they would get a better time in Helsinki which would have pushed them further up the rankings but in the end, they were disqualified in the race.
They were waiting for the results of other competitions like the African Championships? but in the end, no-one passed them out and they qualified when the qualification date expired.
"Ireland went to Helsinki ranked 12th on their aggregate time from two races in the last two years (6:58.09). But with only the world's top 16 qualifying, and May 2 the deadline, there were fears they might be overtaken by other results from the Europeans and also last weekend's African Championships. But they have held on to 13th place, one behind Italy and ahead of Brazil, Poland and Turkey."
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