For the primary time in Olympic historical past, an extra repechage spherical will happen for all particular person monitor occasions from 200m to 1,500m. The repechage spherical (a French time period that can also be utilized in wrestling and rowing–from the verb repecher, which suggests to fish out or rescue), provides athletes who had been eradicated within the heats a second likelihood to qualify for the semi-finals. This implies most Canadian monitor athletes will race at the very least twice in Paris, whether or not they narrowly miss out on qualification or end final of their warmth.
The repechage spherical will debut within the ladies’s 800m occasion on Saturday, Aug. 3. Athletes who don’t advance in these 800m heats will transfer to the repechage for one more shot at progressing. The variety of automated qualifiers from the heats to the semi-finals varies from occasion to occasion. This new repechage spherical supplies a second likelihood for athletes to maintain their Olympic podium desires alive, changing the earlier methodology, the place the athletes with the quickest non-automatic qualifying occasions superior.
As an alternative of the earlier three rounds, occasions from 200m to 1,500m will now function 4: the primary spherical, the repechage spherical, the semi-finals and the ultimate. This new spherical may gain advantage many Canadian monitor athletes by giving them an additional likelihood to shake off their Spherical 1 nerves. In middle-distance occasions, navigating the repechage rounds might be more difficult, including an additional race to an already demanding schedule that requires all athletes to race thrice.
The brand new rounds had been introduced by World Athletics in July 2022, making Paris 2024 the primary main championship to implement them. There will likely be no repechage for the 100m, which already has preliminary heats earlier than the primary spherical. Equally, occasions from 3000m onwards won’t have repechage rounds as a result of restricted restoration time between races.
Athletics at Paris 2024 repechage schedule:
(all occasions listed in Japanese Customary Time)
Saturday, Aug. 3
- Morning session: Girls’s 800m repechage (5:10 a.m. ET)
- Night session: Males’s 1,500m repechage (1:15 p.m. ET)
Monday, Aug. 5
- Morning session: Girls’s 400m hurdles repechage (4:50 a.m. ET)
- Morning session: Males’s 400m repechage (5:20 a.m. ET)
- Morning session: Girls’s 200m repechage (6:50 a.m. ET)
Tuesday, Aug. 6
- Morning session: Males’s 110m hurdles repechage (4:50 a.m. ET)
- Morning session: Girls’s 400m repechage (5:20 a.m. ET)
- Morning session: Males’s 400m hurdles repechage (6:00 a.m. ET)
- Morning session: Males’s 200m repechage (6:30 a.m. ET)
Wednesday, Aug. 7
- Morning session: Girls’s 1,500m repechage (6:35 a.m. ET)
Thursday, Aug. 8
- Morning session: Girls’s 100m hurdles repechage (4:35 a.m. ET)
- Morning session: Males’s 800m repechage (6:00 a.m. ET)
