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MonteCarloWith the IAAF World Athletics Tour 2009 now in the midst of a four week break surrounding the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany (15-23 August), how does the qualification process currently stand in the season long battle to obtain entry to the IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final?
Significantly, 58 individual medallists from last year’s Olympic Games are currently in qualifying positions for the IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final which will be celebrated on the weekend of the 12-13 September 2009 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
With 20 World Athletics Tour meetings, and 27 Area Permit meetings (where points could also be scored for qualification) already completed in 2009, athletes who claimed a total of 58 medals - 19 gold, 22 silver and 17 bronze - in individual events in Beijing are currently in qualifying positions to compete in Thessaloniki.
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Beijing medallists currently qualified for Thessaloniki 2009
MEN
(10 gold, 13 silver, 10 bronze = 33 medals)
Beijing medallists currently qualified as @ 31 July 2009:
100m: Usain Bolt (g)
400m: Jeremy Wariner (s), David Neville (b)
800m: Ismail Ahmed Ismail (s)
1500m: Asbel Kiprop (s)
5000m: Kenenisa Bekele (g), Eliud Kipchoge (s), Edwin Soi (b), Micah Kogo (b, 10,000m)
3000m SC: Brimin Kiprop Kipruto (g), Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad (s)
110mH: Dayron Robles (g), David Oliver (b)
400mH: Kerron Clement (s), Bershawn Jackson (b)
HJ: Germaine Mason (s), Yaroslav Rybakov (b)
PV: Steven Hooker (g)
LJ: Irving Saladino (g), Godfrey Mokoena (s)
TJ: Phillips Idowu (s), Leevan Sands (b)
SP: Tomasz Majewski (g), Christian Cantwell (s), Andrei Mikhnevich (b)
DT: Gerd Kanter (g), Piotr Malachowski (s), Virgilijus Alekna (b)
HT: Primož Kozmus (g), Krisztián Pars (s)
JT: Andreas Thorkildsen (g), Ainars Kovals (s), Tero Pitkämäki (b)
WOMEN
(10 gold, 8 silver, 7 bronze = 25 medals)
Beijing medallists currently qualified as @ 31 July 2009:
100: Shelly-Ann Fraser (g), Kerron Stewart (s)
200m: Allyson Felix (s), Kerron Stewart (b)
400: Shericka Williams (s), Sanya Richards (b)
5000: Tirunesh Dibaba (g) Meseret Defar (b),
3000m S/C: Gulnara Galkina-Samitova (g), Yekaterina Volkova (b)
100mH: Dawn Harper (g), Sally McLellan (s), Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (b)
400mH: Melaine Walker (g), Sheena Tosta (s)
HJ: Blanka Vlašic (s)
PV: Yelena Isinbayeva (g), Svetlana Feofanova (b)
LJ: Maurren Higa Maggi (g)
TJ: Tatyana Lebedeva (s)
SP: Valerie Vili (g), Natallia Mikhnevich (s)
DT: Stephanie Brown Trafton (g)
JT: Barbora Špotáková (g), Christina Obergföll (b)
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