A record of 160 coun­tries have con­firmed their in­ten­tion of send­ing a team to the 2012 IAAF World In­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships to be held at the Atakoya Ath­let­ics Are­na, In­stan­bul, Turkey from March 9–11. This year 160 coun­tries would be tak­ing part in the chamion­ships. It was an in­crease from the 147 coun­tries which took part in the 2008 edi­tion in Va­len­cia, Spain. The World In­door Cham­pi­onships were first con­test­ed as the World In­door Games in Paris, France in 1985 when 319 from 69 coun­tries took part. Trinidad and To­ba­go has won two sil­ver medals and par­tic­i­pat­ed in all pre­vi­ous games on­ly miss­ing the 1995 edi­tion in Barcelona, Spain in 1995. Ian Mor­ris raced to gold in the men's 400m in 46.09 in Bu­dapest, Hun­gary in 1989 then the men's 4 x 400 team of Mor­ris, Dazel Jules, Alvin Daniell and Neil De Sil­va fin­ished sec­ond in the mile re­lay fi­nals clock­ing 3:07:02 in Toron­to, Cana­da in 1993. Ath­letes may al­so qual­i­fy based on achiev­ing out­door stan­dards, per­for­mances must be achieved dur­ing the qual­i­fy­ing pe­ri­od of Jan­u­ary 1, 2011, and Feb­ru­ary 27, 2011, and must be made dur­ing com­pe­ti­tions or­gan­ised or au­tho­rised by the IAAF. Wind-as­sist­ed per­for­mances and hand-times per­for­mances in the 60m, 100m, 60m hur­dles and 100/110m hur­dles will not be ac­cept­ed. For run­ning events of 400m and over, per­for­mances achieved on over­sized tracks will not be ac­cept­ed. Each mem­ber (coun­try) is en­ti­tled to en­ter up to three ath­letes in each event but on­ly two will be per­mit­ted to com­pete (ex­cept in the com­bined events and re­lays).

T&T ath­letes who have at­tained the World In­door qual­i­fy­ing stan­dards

MEN

60m

Marc Burns 6.55 (19 Feb 2011)

400

Lalonde Gor­don 46.43 (21 Jan 2011)

Jar­rin Solomon 46.55 (4 Feb 2012)/46.79 (5 Feb 2011)

Ren­ny Quow 46.70 (5 Feb 2012)-Out­door 400; 44.82 (28 Aug 2011)

WOMEN

60m

#Se­moy Hack­ett 7.22 (11 Mar 2011), Out­door 10011.17 (14 May 2011)

#Kai Selvon 7.30 (21 Jan 2012)

Michelle Lee Ahye Out­door 100; 11.20 (28 May 2011)

60m hur­dles

Alee­sha Bar­ber 8.17 (27 Jan 2012

Shot Put

Cleopa­tra Borel Out­door 19.42 (8 Ju­ly 2011)

#An­nie Alexan­der 17.70 (21 Jan­u­ary 2012)/Out­door 17.66 (11 June 2011)

# May be un­avail­able as be­cause of school com­mit­ments.

EVENTS

1989 Men's 400m Fi­nals

1 An­to­nio McK­ay USA 45.59

2 Ian Mor­ris T&T 46.09

3 Cayen­tano Cor­net Spain 46.40

4 Slo­bo­dan Brankovic Yu­goslavia 46.48

5 Bri­an Whit­tle Great Britain 46.78

6 Gabriel Tia­coh Ivory Coast 47.35

1993 Men's 4X400m fi­nals

1 USA 3:04:20

2 T&T 3:07:20

3 Japan 3:07:30

4 Cana­da 3:07:77

5 Ja­maica 3:08:47

6 Italy dq

En­try stan­dard for the 2012 World In­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships

Event Men Women

60m 6.67 7.35

(Ath­letes may qual­i­fy if at­tain­ing the fol­low­ing stan­dard in the 100m out­door

10.20 11.25)

400 46.90 53.25 (Out­door 45.20 51.25)

800 1:48:00 2:03:50 (1:45:00 1:59:50)

1500 3:42:00 4:14:00(3:34:35 4:03:50)

3000 7:54:00 9:02:00 (7:44:00 8:38:00 or 5000 13:19:00 15:00:00)

60m hur­dles 7.74 8.18

(110m/100hur­dles 13.55 12.95

4x400 No stan­dard

High Jump 2.29 1.93

Pole Vault 5.72 4.52

Long Jump 8.15 6.65

Triple Jump 17.00 14.10

Shot Put 20.00 17.50