COMPETITION INFO

THURSDAY 13.6.2024

Ratina stadium
address: Ratinan rantatie 1, 33100 Tampere

Please read these instructions carefully. Please ensure that you have enough time to get to the games venue.

Final confirmation is necessary in runnings and walking events

The final confirmation must be done 90 minutes before each race event starts. Confirmation can be done the day before the event.

We use online confirmation. See the insctruction below. You can also confirm other field events but it is not necessary. If there are any problems with confirmation, you can do it in TIC 90 minutes before the race. Confirmation can be done by athlete or any other person, representing him/her.

Following running finals do not need confirmation: (60 meters, 100 meters, 60 meters hurdles, 80 meters hurdles, 100 meters hurdles and 110 meters hurdles).

Follow the introduction in confirming. To get the competition number or event material in TIC is not the same thing as confirming the race!

Introduction:

Open webpage:

www.tuloslista.com/varmistus/

• The confirmation can be done by athlete or any other person, representing him/her.
• You can confirm one or several athletes at once.
• Use code for confirming: YAG 2023. You can also find the code in event materials. Ask for help in TIC if needed.
• Pick up the right competition in list: Youth Athletics Games / YAG Junior GP
• Choose your club in the list.
• Fill in the the code.
• Find the right athlete and confirm the race/s
• Write down the contact information. Check that you spell right the email address.
• Check changes that you have made.
• Save the confirmation!
• Check immediately that you got the confirmation mail in your inbox (check also trash folder if you don´t find it)
• In case if you have any problems with confirmation, turn immediately to TIC.

You can cancel the confirmation online or in TIC. If you cancel, remember to do it on time, at least 90 minutes before the race.

Introduction for relay teams

• Relay teams will be confirmed on paper forms that must be given to TIC 90 minutes before the race.
• You find forms in TIC.
• You must confirm all four runners and their final running order.
• You can pick up runners that were not signed up in earlier lists.
• Running order can not be changed after confirmation.

Withdraw

You don´t have to cancel the participation.

The Technical Information Center (TIC) is located within the Stadium.

Opening hours
Thursday June 15th: 14.00 – 21.30
Friday June 16th: 9.00 – 21.00
Saturday June 17th: 7.00 – 21.00
Sunday June 18th: 7.00 – 20.30

Services in TIC

• competition materials
• materials for team responsible persons
• help for confirmation if you have problems with online connection
• confirmation for relay teams
• protests
• infodesk
• lost and found items

Competitors in series 12-17 are allowed to use own implements. Maxium 2 own implements per athlete.

Competitors in series 9-11 will use organizers implements.

If you use your own implements, you must bring them to the technical room at least 120 mins before your event.  Officials will bring these implements to the warm up and competition. These implements are on the field until the event is over. Athlete receives his/her own implement from the technical room after the event is over.

Technical room is located at the field level at the beginning of the stadium construction. You can enter there outside the stadium – check map “Techical manager for personal implements”

It’s open same hours as TIC (Technical information center).

• Given out with the participant’s envelope in the Technical Information Center (TIC)
• You do not need to return competition numbers after the games.
• The competition number should be worn so that the advertisements are visible, and it should be worn on the front of the body (except for pole vault and hammer throw).
• Bring your own safety pins for the competition number!

Relay teams’ numbers are distributed from the games office when the teams’ participation is confirmed.

• The team leader / supporter should confirm the runners and the running order in writing no later than 90 minutes before the start of each race.
• In relay races, each runner has his or her own race number.
• Check carefully to make sure that your team has the right number.

The YAG Junior GP follows the World Athletics shoe regulation. Athletes do not have to declare the shoes they will use in the competition in advance, but spot tests monitor compliance with the rule.

Check heats and groups from the result service
Results service: live.tuloslista.com

Heats and groups are shown early on the results service. You should check heats and groups again before your warm up incase of updates (just to make sure).

Groups and heats are allocated on the basis of statistics.

• In running events, the athletes’ record (PB) results are downloaded from the athlete register and upated during the competition week. Foreign athletes have informed the PB results at the registration form.
• We notice the results made before the 12th of June.
• Unfortunately, we are unable to accept results from the indoor sport season or the last season submitted by email.
• All heats will be made on basis of statistics (PB)
• In the 15-17 series in races of 300 m or longer, we try to divide athletes into heats on the basis of their record times in an athlete-friendly way.
• In sprints, winning heats does not make a difference to qualifying, as the times decide whether you end up in finals or not.
• Heats will be announced in advance in the Live result service.

Field sports qualification groups

• Jump events that are carried out in two or more groups will be divided on basis of prior results (PB).
• The qualification groups will be published in the Live result service.
• Final three rounds will be organized in one jumping place.
• In lenghtwise jumps three final rounds are for 8 best athletes.

Warm up area is located behind the games square.

The call room is place where all athletes go before their events begin.

In all events, you must go to the competition area together through the call room. If the athlete has two events on top of each other or the previous event does not finish before the start time, he/she can move to another event location by announcing this at the previous calling and going directly to the venue of the next event. A team leader can also visit the call room to inform about the matter.

The call room is located at the end of the field towards the back curve. There are several entrances to the call room, so when you arrive, check which entrance leads to the calling of your event. The passage from the call room to the running and jumping events is guided along a Mondo-paved route, so competitors can put on their spikes already at the meeting.

Call room schedule has been published in the competion timetable, which the athletes must follow.

Calling = you may come to the call room to register

To court = calling is closed, and the group is going to the field. By this time, you must be present, or you will not be able to participate (unless you have simultaneous events, in which case see above).

High jump

Pole vault

In sprints, the fastest eight (8) athletes go forward to the A-final which decides the positions from 1st to 8th. Next eight (8) athletes go forward to the B-final which decides the positions from 9th to 16th. We will inform if there are only A-final or both A- and B-finals.

In the running and walking sports in which there is a direct final, times decide the ranking.

In field sports with separate qualifiers the best 12 athletes go forward to the final competition. The qualifer has three rounds. In separate final competitions, all finalists first have three rounds, of which the eight (8) best continue to the last three rounds in reverse performance order.

If the field sport is done played directly as a final, every athlete does three rounds, on the basis of the results of which the eight (8) best continue to the three last rounds. In this case, group results are decided on the basis of the first three rounds.

See winners in the “Victory Ceremonies” section.

In field events, in the 9-13-year-olds, there are team competitions. A team does not need to register in advance. Team consists of two same club’s athletes. The event of the best two in a group decides the ranking. The best three groups will get prizes. A team competition is calculated on the basis of the three qualifying rounds.

Oral objections must be made directly at the competition venue and they are handled by the event’s leader/referee in a separate venue while the race is in progress. Written objections must be submitted to the games office (TIC) within 30 minutes of the race completing or the official results being announced. The processing fee for a written objection is €50 and it is not returned if the objection is not processed further.

Victory ceremony info is announced later here. 

• Medal ceremonies will take place at the Games Square (Kisatori)

RELAYS:  In relay races, the best three teams on each run get prizes.

Boys/girls 9-13 years, individual events: The best six in each individual event get prizes.

In boys’/girls’ 9-13-year-old group events, the three best teams get medals.

Boys/girls 14-17 years, individual events: The three best in each individual event get prizes.

– Also honorary and product prizes will be given.

Parents’, guardians’ and trainers’ access to the competition area is limited. To ensure safe, flexible conduct of the games, access to the competition area and inner field is forbidden. We aim to reserve an area near the event competition area for communication with the athlete.

NB! In the heats for sprints, we are unfortunately unable to allow parents or trainers onto the field with the runners. During the starts of the 9-11-year-olds’ races, in particular, we are going to organize enough assistants to help the children with the starting blocks (using them is not mandatory).

In 9-11-year-olds’ events, parent or guardian may guide the athlete to the calling room and to the field if necessary. However, this will be done in such a way that no parents or guardians are on the competition field when the event begins.

The participants who have registered will be listed on the page linked below in the week of the event. If you find that something is missing, let us know immediately via email.

Participant lists