VI begins medal hunt at IAAF World C/Ships on Saturday
The eagerly-awaited IAAF World Championships are set to open in Moscow’s historic Luzhniki Stadium on Saturday and will continue until August 18, with the huge global event attracting almost 2000 athletes from more than 200 nations.
Malone kicks of the BVI’s hunt for Medals with the qualification round of the Women’ s Long Jump, which is scheduled to start at 11:20 P.M. Eastern Caribbean time on Saturday.
On Sunday at 3.55 A.M. (EC time) Harrigan- Scott will look to improve on her already impressive performances in World Championships when the 100m Heats start and she will be followed by King, who runs the 200m on Thursday August 15.
The sprinter was the last of the three to qualify having had a few near misses and illegal times due to wind. She finally made it with a run at the Trinidad and Tobago National Championships. There she ran a personal best of 23.24 seconds into a -0.5 wind to place second with teammate Ashley Kelly running 23.95 in third. King was also second in the B final, 0.1 off the winner in 23.44 with Kelly, who ran 55.48 in the 400m and advanced to the final, which she did not contest, third in 24.30.
Ahead of the Championships, the first day of the 49th IAAF Congress played host to the 1st IAAF World Athletics Forum, providing an environment for lively and open debate among Congress delegates about the future of athletics.
This new IAAF initiative, held at the Crowne Plaza at Moscow’s World Trade Center, was chaired by IAAF President Lamine Diack and welcomed seven speakers and 17 panellists, each from a different country, as they provided expert and diverse perspectives and insights from both inside and outside the athletics family.
The first keynote address was delivered by Soichi Takahashi, general manager of international sports at Dentsu. He spoke about the current environment for sports in general, looking at where athletics stands in relation to other sports in terms of audience and viewership. Takahashi also touched upon the most popular platforms in sport as well as the major marketing and consumer trends.
Following that, IAAF General Secretary Essar Gabriel outlined the vision, missions and objectives of the 2013-2016 IAAF Strategic Plan, which picks up the baton from the IAAF Athletics’ World Plan – a ten-year strategy to propel the sport forward, which concluded in December last year.
The IAAF Strategic Plan comprises three phases – strategic and organisational review, strategic plan, and action plan – and it begins with the six IAAF core values: universality, leadership, unity, excellence, integrity and solidarity.
The next two years will be the kick-off phase of the IAAF Strategic Plan. There are 33 sub-objectives, of which 15 are new and 18 are on-going, with 79 milestones to chart the progress of the plan.
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