Updated athletics schedule published

In the last couple of days, a new revised schedule for the athletics events has been published on the official website. There aren’t too many changes from the previous one, but predictably the race walking and pole vault events have been removed due to lack of entries. There are a few minor changes to some of the other event times but nothing drastic.

I notice that the women’s 3000m steeplechase event is still included, although I would be quite surprised if this went ahead to be honest. I’m pretty sure this event has never actually happened in the Island Games to date, even though it has been provisionally scheduled in recent Games. I do know that the Isle of Wight have a good female steeplechaser, but they will need more than one entrant to run the event!

The new schedule can be viewed at http://www.natwestislandgames2011.co.uk/athleticsarticle.aspx?page=S633637266403893750&ArchiveID=2&CategoryID=26&ItemID=81&src=

It would be advisable for all competitors to have a good look at the scheduling of their potential events and feed back any concerns to the team manager. For ease of reference I have put the list into a format that is easy to view at a glance, with men’s and women’s events colour coded. This is reproduced below:

Day		Time	Event	M:W	Round
Sun	26-Jun	9.30	Half Marathon	M	Final
Sun	26-Jun	9.30	Half Marathon	W	Final
Sun	26-Jun	18.00	Hammer	M	Final
Sun	26-Jun	18.00	100m	W	Heats
Sun	26-Jun	18.00	High Jump	M	Final
Sun	26-Jun	18.40	200m	M	Heats
Sun	26-Jun	19.00	800m	M	Heats
Sun	26-Jun	19.20	Triple  Jump	W	Final
Sun	26-Jun	19.20	1500m	W	Heats
Mon	27-Jun	11.00	400m Hurdles	M	Heats
Mon	27-Jun	12.05	200m	M	Semi Final
Mon	27-Jun	12.30	800m	M	Semi Final
Mon	27-Jun	18.00	Shot Putt	M	Final
Mon	27-Jun	18.00	400m Hurdles	M	Final
Mon	27-Jun	18.10	100m	W	Semi Final
Mon	27-Jun	18.40	200m	M	Final
Mon	27-Jun	19.00	1500m	W	Final
Mon	27-Jun	19.20	100m	W	Final
Mon	27-Jun	19.40	Javelin	W	Final
Mon	27-Jun	19.50	5000m	M	Final
Mon	27-Jun	20.10	400m	W	Semi Final
Tue	28-Jun	11.00	110m Hurdles	M	Heats
Tue	28-Jun	11.35	100m Hurdles	W	Heats
Tue	28-Jun	11.55	800m	W	Heats
Tue	28-Jun	12.15	4 x 100m	M	Heats
Tue	28-Jun	12.40	4 x 100m	W	Heats
Tue	28-Jun	18.00	Shot Putt	W	Final
Tue	28-Jun	18.30	3,000m S'chase	W	Final
Tue	28-Jun	18.50	Long Jump	M	Qual
Tue	28-Jun	19.10	100m Hurdles	W	Final
Tue	28-Jun	19.15	Discus Throw	M	Final
Tue	28-Jun	19.30	110m Hurdles	M	Final
Tue	28-Jun	19.50	400m	W	Final
Tue	28-Jun	20.30	800m	M	Final
Wed	29-Jun	11.00	100m	M	Heats
Wed	29-Jun	11.25	800m	W	Semi Final
Wed	29-Jun	11.45	200m	W	Heats
Wed	29-Jun	12.30	400m	M	Heats
Wed	29-Jun	18.00	Hammer	W	Final
Wed	29-Jun	18.00	Long Jump	M	Final
Wed	29-Jun	18.00	High Jump	W	Final
Wed	29-Jun	18.00	4 x 400m	W	Heats
Wed	29-Jun	18.30	4 x 400m	M	Heats
Wed	29-Jun	19.10	10,000m	W	Final
Wed	29-Jun	19.15	Javelin	M	Final
Wed	29-Jun	20.10	3,000m S'chase	M	Final
Thu	30-Jun	11.00	400m Hurdles	W	Heats
Thu	30-Jun	11.30	1500m	M	Heats
Thu	30-Jun	12.00	400m	M	Semi Final
Thu	30-Jun	12.30	200m	W	Semi Final
Thu	30-Jun	18.00	Discus	W	Final
Thu	30-Jun	18.00	400m Hurdles	W	Final
Thu	30-Jun	18.35	100m	M	Semi Final
Thu	30-Jun	18.50	Long Jump	W	Final
Thu	30-Jun	19.10	800m	W	Final
Thu	30-Jun	19.40	100m	M	Final
Thu	30-Jun	20.20	400m	M	Final
Thu	30-Jun	20.40	200m	W	Final
Fri	01-Jul	11.00	Triple Jump	M	Final
Fri	01-Jul	11.25	5,000m	W	Final
Fri	01-Jul	12.15	1500m	M	Final
Fri	01-Jul	12.30	4 x 100m	W	Final
Fri	01-Jul	12.40	4 x 100m	M	Final
Fri	01-Jul	12.55	10,000m	M	Final
Fri	01-Jul	13.45	4 x 400m	W	Final
Fri	01-Jul	14.00	4 x 400m	M	Final