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One-Day Meeting System
Overview
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One-Day Meeting System

• The following documents are the basis for the
  update
• Conditions for a One-Day Meeting system
• Decisions of the European Athletics Council
• Research documents and requirements of
  stakeholders
• Previous documents as a basic element for a
  One-Day Meeting
• system including a more efficient calendar
  structure
• Diamond League document
• Documents worked out by the One-Day Meeting
  Working Group
• Decisions of the EA Competition Committee

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Conditions for the One-Day Meeting System

• The new system has to respect the credibility of
  the values of sport,
• the expectations of the changing society and the
  economical aspects. The system must be consistent
  and has to cover the different levels of
  performance. A strong link between the meetings
  is a condition to make our sport understandable
  for the public. The achieved results and
  positions must have a meaningful consequence.
• The following aspects have to be taken in
  consideration
• Meaningful consequences based on the achieved
  results or position
• Different levels of performance and categories
  of meetings
• Logical link between the meetings
• Integration of the public (spectators and TV
  viewers)

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Conditions for the One-Day Meeting System

• Qualification conditions for each level of
  meeting
• Equal competition possibilities for each
  discipline
• Protection conditions for each category of
  meeting
• Transparent price money structure
• Contractual conditions to obtain the permit
• Special entry conditions for the athletes of the
  home country
• Special entry conditions for European athletes
• Limited number of wild cards for foreign
  athletes for PR reasons
• Economically balanced system
• Financial support or contributions
• Conditions for event presentation
• Management and supervision of the system
• Limitation of athletes by country

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Conditions for the One-Day Meeting System

• Efficient evaluation, control and punishment
  system
• Integration of the anti-doping system
• Conditions and benefice for the meet organiser,
  the athletes and
• the managers
• Calendar structure with protection windows to
  avoid conflicts
• Conditions on infrastructure for each level of
  meeting
• Quality requirements for the different services
• Athletes, Media, TV, Medical, Doping, Payment,
  Hotel, Meals
• Promotion requirements
• TV requirements
• Qualification standards for European and World
  Championships
• based on the position of the athletes in the
  meeting
• Coordination with the IAAF and integration of
  all concerned
• stakeholders

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1 League global wide
1 League global wide
1 League Continental wide
Continental Level European Athletics
Categories of meetings
div. geographical Leagues in Europe
International Meetings
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Categorize the meetings

• Different levels of meetings, organized in
  Leagues
• Clear conditions and contractual quality
  requirements
• Up and downgrade procedure
• Credible and objective evaluation system
• Improved orientation for the organisers
• Procedure of event allocation solutions
• fixed events at each meeting with a limited
  flexibility
• Solution for special events like hammer, discus,
  some jumps (specified
• events)
• Different prize money structures per category

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Fixed events at each meeting
Group of events will be chosen by each meeting
following fixed priorities set by European
Athletics Premium League Same event distribution
system as in the Diamond League with 2 groups of
events. Challenge League Distribution of events
in 3 groups of events. Additional conditions
will be fixed to integrate some flexibility in
favour of the PR and economical aspects without
creating conflicting situations in the calendar.
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Fixed events at Premium League meetings
Fixed programme of events per meeting according
to the following system Group A Group
B Men Women Men Women 100 (H F)
200 200 100 (H F) 800 400
400 800 5000 1500 1500 5000 400 H
100 H 110 H 400 H PV 3000 St
3000 St PV TJ HJ HJ
TJ SP LJ LJ SP
JT DT DT JT EA will ensure
that at a minimum of 7 European Premium meetings
Hammer will be part of the programme
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Fixed events at Challenge League meetings
Fixed programme of events per meeting according
to the following system Group A Group
B Group C Men Women Men
Women Men Women 100
200 200 400 400 100 800 1.500 1.500 3.000/5.000
3.000 800 3.000 st 100 h 110
h 400 h 400 h 3.000 st HJ LJ
LJ PV PV HJ TJ SP SP DT DT TJ JT
HT HT JT
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Categorize the athletes and qualification criteria

• Athletes should be categorized depending on their
  position in the world and/or European ranking and
  based on the performances and position in the
  competitions of the current year
• Each athlete can only participate in his/her
  respective category of meetings with some
  exceptions
• National athletes of the meeting country
• Athletes who dont have a competition 7 days
  before
• or after the meeting
• Wild card for a defined number of athletes for PR
  reasons but with restrictions to avoid calendar
  conflicts

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Categorize the athletes and qualification criteria

• Each athlete has to be qualified for a level of
  competitions based on a qualification system
• Qualification system for the participation in a
  superior
• level of meetings as well as for the down
  grading procedure
• Each European Meeting must enter 50 of European
  athletes in each event coming at least from 3
  different countries in lane events or 4 in the
  other events
• Each European Meeting should organize 2 events
  (MW)
• for U 23 Europeans

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Categorize athletes
IAAF
European Athletics
MF
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Qualification criteria

• The following qualification criteria should be
  further
• developed to create a more appealing consequence
  of the
• results and increase the link between the
  meetings and the
• awareness towards the public.
• Qualification to the next higher League is
  achieved by
• 2 victories or more than 8 points
• The winner of the League is qualified for the
  next League
• Place 1 3 in each Diamond League and Premium
  Meeting is considered as a fulfilled standard for
  the ECH
• Negotiations with the IAAF should lead to a
  similar procedure for the WCH and OG as well as
  for the whole
• One-Day Meeting system.
• The first group of qualified athletes for the
  following year will be
• published at the European Athletics Convention.
  An update is
• requested 1st of June, July and August.

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Prize money and athletes engagement

• Conditions for the prize/PR appearance money are
• Prize and appearance money will be in Euro
• Minimum total prize money for each League
• Minimum prize money for each discipline.
• Equal prize money for each discipline is not
  required but
• highest and lowest prize money should not
  differ more than
• 40
• PR/appearance money should not be more than 40
  of the
• total athletes budget and a max of 20 of
  this budget can be
• paid to one foreign athlete
• Prize money structure has to be published well
  in advance
• A minimum promotion fee shall be guaranteed
  against the
• prize money to athletes with merits (WR,WCH,
  OG, ECH )

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Calendar and protection

• The allocated date for any competition is a
  consequence of the conditions set to obtain a
  permit.
• The following conditions are therefore important
• Protection windows between meetings of the same
  level
• and the same events
• Recommended dates for the National
  Championships
• Recommended dates for international matches
• Clear qualification criteria under which an
  athlete can enter
• in a higher category of a meeting and dates
  for reviewing
• the qualification status must be set

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Scoring of the League
Each event takes place at least 6 times. Each
discipline will be awarded with the same amount
of points at each meeting. The 5 best results of
each athlete will be considered for the
classification. The athlete with most of the
points will be the winner of the concerned
League. In case there is a tie, the higher number
of first places etc will be considered.
Place Points 1 4 points 2 2 points
3 1 point In addition the athletes with the
highest number of victories in the League should
be awarded in order to give more value.
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PR and integration of the public

• Series of meetings with the effect of a League
  system
• PR activities inclusive wild card system for top
  athletes under
• defined conditions
• Event presentation
• Limited number of athletes by country
• Special conditions for host country athletes
• Special conditions for European athletes
• Increased identification of the athletes
• Right for 1 2 highlight disciplines in the
  Continental League
• system with higher ranked athletes under the
  condition that
• calendar conflicts are avoided

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Management system and cooperation with the IAAF

• The implementation of a One-Day Meeting system
  needs a close cooperation with the IAAF and a
  proper management system on the Areas? side. It
  includes the following aspects
• Selection of the meetings
• Supervising, evaluation and punishment system
• Financial aspects
• Regulations and contractual conditions
• Technical requirements
• Quality guidelines for the different fields of
  activities
• Permit conditions, up and downgrade regulations
• Presentation, PR and Television requirements
• Branding and advertisement rights

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Cooperation IAAF and the other Areas

• The implementation of a One-Day Meeting system
  needs a close cooperation with the IAAF and other
  Areas.
• The other Areas should follow the pattern of the
  League
• system. In case they are not able to create a
  credible
• Continental League they should start in a
  first step with
• the help of the IAAF with individual meetings.
• Exchange of experience between the Areas
• Financial aspects and support by the IAAF
• Common presentation of the whole system to the
  media
• as an additional step of the implementation
  of the
• Diamond League
• IAAF agreed with the qualification criteria
• Integration of the previous Grand Prix Meetings
  in the
• Top Continental League