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It has a restriction of 1,000 quota in the event, in the Time-trail swimmers has to finish the 1500 m within 45 minutes.
Some comparison of the data between the final entry list that published on Monday and Time-trail list:
Female team category:
Originally allocated quota: 300 (i.e. 100 teams, 50% for accepted proven record teams, 50% for Time trial teams)
There were only 13 teams were accepted with proven record and not needed water Time-trail. It has another 10 teams qualified in the water Time trial and the slowest team was 40:44”49.
Thus the 300 quota, only 69 used and still have 231 reminded.
Male team category:
Originally allocated quota: 300 (i.e. 100 teams, 50% for accepted proven record teams, 50% for Time trial teams)
There were only 19 teams were accepted with proven record and not needed water Time-trail.
So it could allow another 53 teams water Time-trail to qualify and the slowest team was 44:44”78. Thus, the 300 quota of this category, only 216 were used and still have 84 reminded.
Female individual category:
Originally allocated quota: 200 (i.e. 200 individuals, 50% for accepted proven recordswimmers, 50% for Time trial swimmers)
There were only 28 individuals were accepted with proven record and not needed water Time-trial. So it could allow another 139 individuals water Time-trail to qualify and the slowest individual was 44:43”34. Thus, the 200 quota of this category, only 167 were used and still have 33 reminded.
Male individual category:
Originally allocated quota: 200 (i.e. 200 individuals, 50% for accepted proven record swimmers, 50% for Time trial swimmers)
There were 88 individuals were accepted with proven record and not needed water Time-trial. Originally this category has 100 quota, but only 88 were used and still have 12 reminded.
Originally there should have only 100 quota for the Male individual water test-trail swimmers, but due to the fact that there were un-used reminding quotas of 360. Thus, there were overall 460 quotas for those Male individual water time-trail swimmers.
Even though the time limit for water time-trial was set at 45 minutes, but among these 460 swimmer, the slowest individual was 36:47”8. If there was no reminding quota from the other categories, the 100th time is: 28:40"48.
It was also observed that among all the time-trial swimmers, only one male swimmer and no female swimmer meet the Priority 1 conditions of “qualifying time of 19:10.36 for Men & 20:09.73 for Women”
By combining the two lists, it was also observed that there were 1294 time-trail swimmers, 788 swimmers could get a place to swim on 16 th Oct, 2011 and 506 swimmers could not earn the place due to various reasons. Due to the time-trail applicants list did not indicate neither gender nor categories. It could not calculate the failure rate for each gender or categories.
Totally there were 1506 applicants and 212 were accepted with proven record. If it would have been over 1506 quota for the race, then all the applicants could get a place. As a matter of safety, I believe the water time-trail is necessary to ensure the participants can finish the distance in open water. We often hear the complaint here that some tourists were blocking the SCM race course of serious runners to beat their PB. So the time trail definitely helps to screen out most of the non-serious swimmers. The amount of time-trail fee would be another subject to be discussed; I personally think it is acceptable. The totally fee for cross harbour race is still cheaper than the SCM
[ 本帖最後由 ingenieur 於 2011-10-6 22:35 編輯 ] |
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發表於 2011-10-6 22:28:39
