The IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018 gets under way on Saturday 8 September as teams representing Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe coverge in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava for the IAAF’s quadrennial team competition. Here are some of the ways you can follow all the action from this weekend’s two-day event.
Live Coverage
The IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018 will be broadcast around the world in THESE territories. There will also be a live stream on the IAAF’s YouTube channel and Facebook page in THESE countries and territories.
Live action
We’re providing several ways to get up to speed and stay up to speed. IAAF Radio will broadcast live during each session. We’ll also have a live blog throughout the six days.
- Live blog
- IAAF Radio
- Timetable and results
- Team rosters: Africa | Americas | Asia-Pacific | Europe
- IAAF app: App Store, Google Play, Amazon appstore
If you already have the app, be sure to download the latest update to benefit from all the features.
Social media
- Twitter: @iaaforg
- Facebook: IAAF World Athletics Club
- Instagram: iaaf_athletics
Website coverage
Stats
- Top three finishers at past editions of the IAAF World/Continental Cup
- World records
- World leads – men | women
- Past results
What’s new?
A summary of changes to the event format for the IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018.
Track events
• Except for the 3000m and 3000m steeplechase, track events are conducted according to IAAF rules.
• In the 3000m and 3000m steeplechase, the athlete reaching the finish line in the last position after the third (with four laps to go), fourth (with three laps to go), fifth (with two laps to go) and sixth (with one lap to go) full lap, respectively, is eliminated and shall not complete the race, with only the remaining four athletes competing on the last lap.
• If the number of athletes at any elimination point is less than the required (that is, 8, 7, 6, 5), no elimination will take place at that point. Officials will indicate the elimination to the athlete.
Field events
• High jump and pole vault are conducted according to IAAF rules.
• Long jump, triple jump, shot put, discus, hammer and javelin (‘horizontal field events’) will have two phases.
• In the first phase (qualification), all athletes have three trials, after which they are ranked. The highest ranked athlete from each team (i.e. a total of four athletes) proceed to round four. All other athletes are eliminated and ranked from fifth to eighth according to their best performance after three rounds of trials.
• Round four (semi-final) and round five (final) is the second phase of the competition. At the end of round four, the two lowest ranked athletes are ranked third and fourth according to their performance in this round and are eliminated.
• The two best ranked athletes in round four proceed to round five, which is the final round. In round five, the better ranked athlete in this round wins the competition, the other is second.
• If all the four athletes fail in round four, the two best ranked athletes after the first three rounds will go to round five. If in round four only one athlete has a valid performance, the second athlete to progress to round five will be the athlete (from a different team) with the best valid performance after the first three rounds.
• If in round five both athletes fail, the winner is the athlete with the better performance in round four. If in round four those athletes failed, the winner is the athlete with the better performance after the first three rounds and the other is second.
Scoring
General
• Athletes are ranked according to their finishing positions in the event and are given individual points (8 to 1) accordingly. A team ranking is then determined by adding the individual points of each athlete in each team. Team points are awarded according to the team ranking. The first team scores 8 points, the second scores 6 points, the third scores 4 points and the fourth scores 2 points.
3000m and 3000m steeplechase
• In the 3000m and 3000m steeplechase, all athletes are awarded points regardless if they are eliminated or not.
• Eliminated athletes who do not stop after receiving the indication will be disqualified from the event.
Relay events
• In the relay events, the scoring is as follows:
1st – 8 points, 2nd – 6 points, 3rd – 4 points, 4th – 2 points
