Gateshead Stadium
Friday 11th & Saturday 12th July 2008
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Preliminary information
This page will be updated regularly in the run up to the Championships - depending on how your
browser is set up you may need to click your refresh button to get the latest additions.
Live Sky TV
Following the success of last year's live broadcast on Sky TV, this year Saturday's events
will be broadcast live for 4 hours in the afternoon - twice as long as last year.
This year we're also planning on having a big screen TV display on site so you can see what
is being broadcast live.
How to get there
You can find all things to do with Gateshead from the
Gateshead Council website.
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Click on the map for a detailed road map of the area and directions. Enter postcode NE10 0EF as the destination to
find detailed directions from your own home.
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Event Locations
Because of the size of the event, it is impossible to hold all field events within the arena. Some
of the long throws will be held in the lower field adjacent to the Stadium.
Some events on Friday will be run concurrently - the back straight will be used to run
some of the sprint and hurdles heats at the same time as other events on the front straight.
Timetable of Events
The timetable is available here in PDF format. The full programme
listing is not published online.
All competitors will be issued with the full printed programme which will be on sale at the
Championships. It is the ESAA policy not to publish the full programme on the website - sales of programmes
with the sponsors' advertising they contain are a major source of income without which the Championships could not be held.
Please see the FAQs page
for further details and answers to many other Frequently Asked Questions about the Championships.
Official Accreditation
Everyone at the event must carry either an accreditation pass, or a ticket. Anyone else will be refused admission
to any area. Only officially accredited persons are allowed in restricted areas. Restricted areas include the following:
- Competition areas - restricted to accredited athletes taking part in events, officials, and photographers
- Warm-up area - restricted to accredited athletes with an event within 30 minutes, and accredited team stewards
- Marshalling area - restricted to accredited athletes with an event within 20 minutes
- Athlete's stand - restricted to accredited athletes, and accredited team stewards
Athletes are not allowed in the public stand areas
unless they also have paid for a ticket for that area. Parents / friends wishing to meet
athletes may do so in the open ground areas.
Accreditation is limited to ESAA staff and assistants, County team managers and their stewards, competing athletes,
reporters from recognised press organisations, and officially appointed photographers. All others are required to buy
a ticket.
Tickets
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Tickets are required for entrance to the main arena. 'Covered' tickets give access to
the Tyne & Wear main stand (overlooking the finish straight) and the lower field. 'Uncovered' tickets give access to the
North, South, and East terraces, and the lower field. There are no concessionary tickets: parents, teachers,
club coaches, personal coaches etc. require a valid ticket for admission. Wheelchair users and carers are free.
Tickets are available from the credit card hotline 0191 433 6900
during office hours 9am-5pm. They
will also be on sale on the day.
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Covered | Friday
Uncovered | Saturday
Covered | Saturday
Uncovered |
| Adult | £8 | £6 | £10 | £8 |
| Child | £1 | FREE | £2 | £1 |
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Competition Rules
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Please read the Competition Rules for information about weights, distances, heat and lane draws and
all other things to do with the way events are run. You can find the rules from the reference section of the main menu.
There are two sets of rules: General Rules for all competitions, and Rules for Track & Field Competitions,
you need to read both sets.
Please see the FAQs page
for further details and answers to many other Frequently Asked Questions about the Championships.
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Permissible Clothing
The ESAA Competition Rule 7 [i.e. that applies to ALL ESAA competitions] on page 62 of the ESAA Handbook states:
- In all Championships competitors must wear at least vest and shorts (or equivalent clothing) in registered County Colours
which are clean and so designed and worn, as not to be objectionable even if wet. All visible clothing must conform with registered
County colours.
To deal with some specific queries therefore:
- Cropped bra tops are not vests by definition and therefore not permitted. Vests by definition must reach the waist at least.
- Shorts or briefs (in county colours) are the norm for girls. Similarly cycle type lycra shorts, as long as they are
shorts and not leggings, are permitted, but only if they are in the registered County colours (not just an approximation of the
colours).
- Leggings by definition covering the leg below the knee, and body suits, are not vests or shorts and are therefore not permitted.
The main problems in the past have been the wearing of cycle type shorts that are not in County colours, and worn under the correct
coloured shorts but clearly visible. This especially applies to the boys where the cycle type shorts are longer that the
County shorts. However, if the shorts are the lycra type and do not cover the knees then these are allowed, as long as they are
in the registered County colours (ie. the same colour as the County colours, not an approximation to them).
The pictures here indicate the sort of clothing that will result in athletes not being allowed to compete.
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With the meeting being televised this year, County team managers have been warned that ESAA will 'pull' athletes from an event if incorrectly attired.
Results
Results from the Championships appear on the website during the course of the competition. Links
to them will appear in the menu on the left. Result pages will be updated approximately every two hours
or so, but since this can only be done use mobile phone internet connections this cannot be guaranteed. AOL
users won't be able to see updated results pages due to the way AOL operates their own page cacheing system
- see the further info for AOL users.
PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO CONTACT US during the competition days.
This is for a number of reasons:
- We won't have time to read or respond to mails during the days and evenings of the competition - we
will be 150% occupied in running the event results systems and ensuring that the live TV is maintained with
up to the second information.
- We are running from relatively slow mobile phone internet connections - any messages sent to us will simply
clog up our ability to update results.
- The sort of queries we get are usually in the form
- when will the results be published?
- did our bart/lisa/kyle/wendy get into the final?
- Which semi-final is our bart/lisa/kyle/wendy in?
Any and all queries like that will be deleted without replying.
Entry List of Athletes
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Every effort is made to be accurate when typing athletes' names but inevitably some mistakes
occur from time to time as names are passed on via many different people before they reach us.
Names of all athletes nominated by their County will be published here from Saturday June 22nd.
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Please check that the spelling of names is correct as this information appears in the programme, on TV,
on the scoreboard, on tee-shirts, and in the results.
If you find any error, please contact us and give the
correct spelling together with your County, age group, and event - corrections will be
noted and our live event files will be modified accordingly, but because of the high volume of other mail we get in the run up to
the Championships we don't have time to acknowledge each mail individually.
Any errors reported before midnight Friday 27th June will be in time to be incorporated into the
printed programme and on the teeshirts. Errors reported after that date will be corrected and will appear in the results,
on the scoreboard, and on TV.
Click your County to view your team.
Avon,
Bedfordshire,
Berkshire,
Buckinghamshire,
Cambridgeshire,
Cheshire,
Channel Islands,
Cleveland,
Cornwall,
Cumbria,
Derbyshire,
Devon,
Dorset,
Durham,
Essex,
Gloucestershire,
Gtr Manchester,
Hampshire,
Hereford & Worcestershire,
Hertfordshire,
Humberside,
Kent,
Lancashire,
Leicestershire,
Lincolnshire,
London,
Merseyside,
Middlesex,
Northamptonshire,
Northumberland,
Norfolk,
Nottinghamshire,
North Yorkshire,
Oxfordshire,
Shropshire,
Somerset,
Staffordshire,
Suffolk,
South Yorkshire,
Surrey,
Sussex,
Warwickshire,
West Midlands,
West Yorkshire,
Wiltshire,
Not Selected for your County team?
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Over 1700 athletes are entered in the National Championships each year,
but at least 2 or 3 times that number will probably be disappointed not to have been selected.
PLEASE don't contact us to complain that you, your Bart, Lisa, Kyle, or Wendy, didn't make your County team. Team selection is entirely in the hands
of each County Team Manager and the ESAA has no say in how or why teams are selected as they are. Sorry...but we simply cannot
respond to hundreds of e-mails - please read the FAQs page which answers
all the frequently asked questions.
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In particular, please note that teams are strictly limited in the
number of athletes they can select, and that ESAA entry standards are for guidance to team selectors - they are not trigger points for automatic selection.
A full explanation of selection procedures and limitations is given in the FAQs page.
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Team Travel Arrangements
The Championships are a team event, not an event for individuals. Athletes must travel with
and remain with their team for the entire duration of the Championships. It is not permitted
for them to travel with parents or others, nor to leave the team accommodation facilities.
Athletes are under the care and control of teachers throughout the Championships. Further details
relating to competing in ESAA events can be found
in the
Notes for Parents document.
Accommodation
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Athlete accommodation is normally in hotels or University Halls of Residence, supervised by
their team managers - the exact location will be contained in the the letter which will be sent
to each team member by the County Team Manager.
These facilities are not open to the general public /
friends / family. Athletes must remain with their team at all times - failure to comply with this rule
will lead to disqualification from this event, and possibly future events too.
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Official Merchandise
www.inprints.co.uk
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ESAA event tee-shirts, sweatshirts, and other items will be available at the event from our
official suppliers Inprints/Sportserve.
After the event you can contact them via their websites.
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www.sportserve.co.uk
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Photographs
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on live TV.
All ESAA photographs are taken in accordance with the
guidelines relating to photos in schools published by the Information Commissioner with regard to the Data Protection Act 1998.
Photographs and videos can be taken by the public from public areas for
personal use only. They may not be published in any form
(including personal or club websites) without written permission from the ESAA.
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Photographers at ESAA events wishing to publish photos in the media or in any other form (eg. internet websites),
or wishing to use them for anything other than personal use
must be officially registered and accredited by the ESAA.
A list of officially accredited photographers will be published on this website shortly after the event
along with their contact details.
Access to competition areas for the purpose of taking photographs is restricted to ESAA accredited photographers only.
This rule will be strictly enforced.
It is not possible to prevent photographs of any particular individual from appearing in the media, nor
on TV since the event is to be televised live.
If this is a problem for you, you are advised not to take part in the event.
If any parent wishes a particular picture of their child appearing on this website to be removed
please contact us and we will do our best to resolve any problem.
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