Press Release - World Championships Marathon - 6/29/22

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Qualification period ends for World Athletics Championships Oregon22
 
Some 1900 athletes have qualified to compete at the World Athletics 
Championships Oregon22 from 15-24 July.

The qualification period for individual track and field disciplines closed 
on 26 June following a busy weekend of national championships action, while 
the invitation process for relays ended on 28 June.

About 63 percent of athletes have qualified by entry standard, 33 percent 
by world ranking position and four percent by designated finishes in 
qualifying competitions (such as area championships). 75 countries are 
expected to enter athletes through universality places.

The Road to Oregon tool on the World Athletics website shows which athletes 
- subject to being officially selected by their member federation - have 
qualified to compete at the World Championships, either by entry standard 
or world ranking position within a discipline's quota.

The tool identifies the first three qualifiers per nation (in bold) but any 
athlete who has qualified can be selected within the limit of three per 
nation. As this is a qualification monitoring tool, not an entry monitoring 
tool, it won't highlight which athletes have been officially selected by 
their member federation, but team announcements of many of the leading 
nations will be published on the World Athletics website in the weeks 
leading up to the championships.

Member federations have until the entry deadline of 4 July to submit their 
final selections.

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said: "The end of the qualifying 
period is an important milestone on the way to our World Championships and 
the final qualified list is a good indicator of the unparalleled strength 
of our sport around the world. I'm delighted to see that almost 200 
countries have qualified athletes for the pinnacle event in our sport. As 
we begin the final countdown to the start of the World Championships in 
just 16 days, I wish every qualified athlete the best of fortune and I hope 
to see you all at your best in Oregon."  

Wild card entries are offered to all individual winners from the World 
Athletics Championships Doha 2019, along with the winners of the 2021 Wanda 
Diamond League and Combined Events Challenge. The acceptance of those wild 
card entries, however, rests with member federations. Only one wildcard can 
be used by a member federation in each discipline.

Several places in relay disciplines, meanwhile, were claimed at the World 
Athletics Relays Silesia 21.

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