Thailand Veterans Athletics Champs, Korat, March 7-8

[Alfie]

The Thailand Veterans Athletics Association will be holding its annual athletics championships on the weekend of 7-8 March 2009. The location of these annual meets is rotated around different regions of the country. This year Korat has the honour of hosting the championships. The meeting will be held at the stadium that was built for the 2007 SEA Games - His Majesty The King’s 80th Anniversary Stadium.

For those not familiar with the term ‘veterans’ in the sporting context, it means people aged 35 years and over. I believe in the U.S. the term used is Masters. Although it is the Thailand Annual championships, athletes from other Asian countries regularly compete. India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia regulalry send teams of athletes.

Following is the schedule for the meeting:


Saturday March 7, 2009

Event Start Event Age Group(s)
No. Time

101 06.30 5000m WALK M 50 +
102 08.30 5000m WALK F 50 +
103 08.00 Shot Put F 50 +
104 08.00 Discus M 50 +
105 08.00 Long Jump F 50 +
106 09.30 1500m F All
107 09.30 Shot Put M 50 +
108 09.30 Discus F 50 +
109 09.30 Long Jump M 35 – 50
110 09.30 High Jump F All
111 10.30 1500m M All
112 11.30 Javelin F 50 +
113 11.30 100m F All
114 12.30 100m M All
115 12.30 Shot Put M 35 – 45
116 12.30 Discus F 35 – 45
117 12.30 Long Jump M 55 +
118 13.30 400m F All
119 14.30 400m M All
120 14.30 Triple Jump F 60 +
121 14.30 Discus M 35 – 45
122 14.30 Shot Put M 35 – 45
123 15.30 5000m WALK M 35 – 45
124 16.00 5000m WALK F 35 – 45
125 16.30 4 X 100 M All
126 17.00 4 X 100 F All

Sunday March 8, 2009

Event Start Event Age Group(s)
No. Time

201 07.00 5 Km Road Race M/F All
202 08.00 Triple Jump F 35 – 55
203 08.00 Triple Jump M 55+
204 08.00 Long Jump F 35 – 45
205 08.00 High Jump M 55 +
206 08.00 200m F All
207 09.00 200m M All
208 09.30 Javelin F 35 – 45
209 09.30 Triple Jump M 35 – 50
210 09.30 High Jump M 35 – 50
211 09.30 800m M All
212 10.30 800m F All
213 11.30 Javelin M 55 +
214 12.30 Javelin M 35 – 50
215 12.30 Hammer M 45 +
216 12.30 80m Hurdles F Only 35–55 (5 age groups)
217 13.00 100m Hurdles M Only 50-55 (2 age groups)
218 13.30 110m Hurdles M Only 35–55 (5 age groups)
219 14.00 4 X 400 F All
220 15.00 4 X 400 M All

Taken from: http://sites.google.com/site/tvaa14/faqenglish

Information in Thai can be found here: http://www.sat.or.th/amagames/TVAA/index.htm