qualifying times
Standards for advancement
Qualifying times are the performance standards athletes must meet to enter a competition.
Marathons, swim meets, and track events often require participants to have previously achieved a certain time: She finally hit the qualifying times for the Olympic trials.
The threshold ensures competitive fields and manageable participant numbers.
- heatsIncreases temperature
- trialsFormal legal proceedings
- Olympic trialsCompetition selecting national representatives
- cutoffPoint of termination
- stopwatchInterval timing device
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