Athletics

Submitted by nicolamira on 25 September, 2009 - 10:02
Usain Bolt of Jamaica

The GSN Global Cup and Global Ranking focus on the major Athletics competitions in the world. Beginning with the ultimate, the Olympic Games, and following with the World Athletics Championships, a biennial event.

For each of these we track performance in every Track and Field event, plus Cross Country and Marathon running, for a total of 23 different disciplines.
 
The Athletics Global Cup ranking for 2008  (Track & Field) was the following:
 
Place
Country
Count
Points
Points %
1
United States
42
1.755
13,3%
2
Kenya
34
1.421
10,7%
3
Russia
41
1.341
10,1%
4
Jamaica
24
1.102
8,3%
5
Ethiopia
21
893
6,8%
6
Great Britain
18
513
3,9%
7
Australia
9
360
2,7%
8
Cuba
12
358
2,7%
9
Belarus
11
321
2,4%
10
Ukraine
11
308
2,3%
11
France
9
284
2,1%
12
Poland
13
274
2,1%
13
China
10
241
1,8%
14
Spain
12
238
1,8%
15
Germany
16
226
1,7%
16
Italy
4
182
1,4%
17
Trinidad and Tobago
4
180
1,4%
18
Bahamas
5
179
1,4%
19
Bahrain
4
167
1,3%
20
Canada
5
161
1,2%
 
And the Marathon ranking for 2008 was:
Place
Country
Count
Points
Points %
1
Kenya
27
828
35,4%
2
Ethiopia
15
402
17,2%
3
Russia
7
300
12,8%
4
Morocco
5
192
8,2%
5
United States
10
162
6,9%
6
Germany
2
120
5,1%
7
Great Britain
1
60
2,6%
8
Brazil
1
60
2,6%
9
Japan
3
54
2,3%
10
Romania
3
48
2,1%
11
Latvia
1
30
1,3%
12
Netherlands
1
24
1,0%
13
Algeria
1
18
0,8%
14
Italy
1
18
0,8%
15
Eritrea
1
12
0,5%
16
Poland
1
12
0,5%
17
Totale complessivo
80
2.340
100,0%
 
The latest (August 2009) Global Cup ranking for Athletics (Track & Field) is the following:
Place
Country
Count
Points
Points %
1
United States
 
2.042
14,1%
2
Kenya
 
1.562
10,8%
3
Jamaica
 
1.269
8,7%
4
Ethiopia
 
1.207
8,3%
5
Russia
 
1.191
8,2%
6
Great Britain
 
677
4,7%
7
Germany
 
651
4,5%
8
Poland
 
449
3,1%
9
China
 
338
2,3%
10
Australia
 
321
2,2%
11
Trinidad and Tobago
 
289
2,0%
12
Cuba
 
288
2,0%
13
Spain
 
268
1,8%
14
France
 
261
1,8%
15
South Africa
 
234
1,6%
16
Bahrain
 
224
1,5%
17
Bahamas
 
213
1,5%
18
Japan
 
201
1,4%
19
Ukraine
 
166
1,1%
20
Morocco
 
157
1,1%
21
Italy
 
156
1,1%
22
Norway
 
140
1,0%
23
Portugal
 
139
1,0%
24
Eritrea
 
132
0,9%
25
Ireland
 
131
0,9%
 
The USA and Kenya maintain their dominant position of 2008, while Russia, Australia and Cuba have slipped somewhat. On the rise, thanks to excellent results in the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, are Jamaica, Ethiopia, Germany and Poland, while Great Britain holds onto its 6th place.
 
Major Athletics Competitions
 
Besides the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, top level outdoor Athletics competition centres around the yearly World Athletics Tour, run by the International Association of Athletics Federations, IAAF.  There is also a rich season of indoor meetings worldwide in late autumn and winter.
The WAT is a series of worldwide meetings where athletes accumulate points according to their placements in each event (eg 100m, high jump, discus etc). The top ranking athletes in each event at the end pf the season then take part in the World Athletics Final, a single meeting which awards the yearly top prizes.
WAT meetings can be of different category, a sort of tiered system as in the Tennis Masters Series, according to their status and entrance requirements: from the Golden League series (6 meetings in Berlin, Oslo, Rome, Paris, Zurich, Bruxelles) which awards its own millionaire prizes, to Super Grand Prix and Grand Prix meetings, to the so-called Area Permit Meetings. For the full calendar see www.iaaf.org/competitions/wat/index.html.
Outside of the WAT, Road Racing and Cross-Country running have their own series.
The former covers 12 months of the year with 55 different events, featuring 10k and 20k runs, half and full marathons (see calendar at http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/roadraces/index.html)
For Cross-Country , there is an annual World Cross Country Championship as well as numerous races throughout the world.
 
 
Forthcoming events
 
The main event for 2009 Athletics competitions  is undoubtedly the 12th edition of the World Championships in Athletics  to be held in Berlin, Germany, from  the 15th to the 23rd of August. The home of the championships will be the Berlin Olympic Stadium, with a seating capacity of over 74.000, in the city district of Charlottenburg.
For the first time in the history of the IAAF World Championship, all events, including the Marathon and Race Walking events, will take place in the city centre.
 
Other notables events in the year will be
  • The 6th IAAF World Youth Championships, from 8th to 12th of July in South Tirol, Italy
  • The IAAF-VTB Bank World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 12th to 13th September.
Countdown to Berlin 2009
ONE RECORD A WEEK.
 
The men’s 100m world record. The current world record stands at 9,69’’ and was run on August 16th, 2008, at the Beijing Olympics 100m gold medal final by Usain Bolt of Jamaica. He beat his own record of 9,72’’, established in New York City on May 31st of the same year.
The record-setting final took place at the National Stadium, the Olympics home ground, at 22.30 of August 16th, a Saturday. The two records to beat were Bolt’s world record and the Canadian Donovan Bailey’s Olympic record, standing at 9,84’’, set in 1996 at the Atlanta (USA) centenary Olympics and still the 6th fastes time ever.
Weather conditions were fine: a little warm (28°) but dry (39% humidity) with negligible tail wind. Bolt was the second slowest off the blocks but staged an astonishing acceleration and progression to win by a 0,20’’ margin over Richard Thompson of Trinidad&Tobago and Walter Dix of the USA.
The full field is set below:
Rank
Name
NOC
Lane
React.
Result
 
 
1
BOLT Usain
Jamaica
4
0.165
9.69
 
WR
2
THOMPSON Richard
Trinidad/Tobago
5
0.133
9.89
 
PB
3
DIX Walter
United States
6
0.133
9.91
 
PB
4
MARTINA Churandy
Neth. Antilles
9
0.169
9.93
 
NR
5
POWELL Asafa
Jamaica
7
0.134
9.95
 
 
6
FRATER Michael
Jamaica
2
0.147
9.97
 
PB
7
BURNS Marc
Trinidad/Tobago
8
0.145
10.01
 
 
8
PATTON Darvis
United States
3
0.142
10.03
 
 

 

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