[Sportsandrec] FW: 2010 IBSA World Championships Trials to be Held Dec. 5 for 57kg and 81kg Divisions

Thu Oct 29 23:43:09 UTC 2009

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Subject: 2010 IBSA World Championships Trials to be Held Dec. 5 for 57kg and
81kg Divisions

At the conclusion of the Trials for the 2010 International Blind Sports
Association World Championships, which were held on Sept. 26 in conjunction
with the U.S. Open in San Jose, Calif., the women's 57kg and men's 81kg
divisions were uncontested and remain unfilled.  

USA Judo has recently been notified that the 2010 World Championships, which
will be held March 25-29 in Antalya, Turkey, are expected to be a qualifying
event for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.

Therefore, a World Trials will be held on Dec. 5 at the Brian Olson Winter
Classic in Boulder, Colo.

All athletes participating in the World Team Trials must be U.S. citizens
and be eligible to represent the United States in Paralympic competition.

The Trials will ONLY be held in the 57kg and 81kg divisions as the remainder
of the Team was named on Sept. 26.  

The Trials will be open to any player who has been classified as visually
impaired at an IBSA or International Paralympic Committee event as a B1, B2
or B3 athlete in the past 10 years or provide a letter from an optometrist
or ophthalmologist verifying visual acuity.

A description of classification is as follows:

Class B1: No light perception in either eye up to light perception, but
inability to recognize the shape of a hand at any distance or in any
direction.

Class B2: From ability to recognize the shape of a hand up to visual acuity
of 20/600 and/or a visual field of less than 5 degrees in the best eye with
the best practical eye correction.

Class B3: From visual acuity above 20/600 and up to visual acuity of 20/200
and/or a visual field of less than 20 degrees and more than 5 degrees in the
best eye with the best practical eye correction.

*Visual groups B1, B2 and B3 will compete together.

The Trials will be held as a round robin event.  If the #1 seed in the
division, based on the USA Judo Visually Impaired Elite National Roster
dated Dec. 4, wins the round robin, he or she will be named to the Team.

If the #1 seed does not win the round robin, a best-of-three match fight-off
will be held between the #1 seed and the winner of the round robin.  

If no ranked players are in attendance, the winner of the round robin will
be named to the Team. 

All World Team Trials participants must contact USA Judo Director of Athlete
Performance Eddie Liddie at Eddie.Liddie at usajudo.us by Nov. 13 to confirm
participation in the Trials.

In the event that an athlete is uncontested, he or she will be named to the
Team; however, please note, an uncontested athlete MUST still attend the
Trials and MUST make weight.  

An athlete named to the World Team may be removed from the nomination for
any of the following reasons, as determined by the Athlete Performance
Committee:

* Voluntary withdrawal.  Athlete must submit a written letter to Eddie
Liddie, Director of Athlete Performance.

* Injury or illness as certified by a USA Judo approved physician (or
medical staff).  If an athlete refuse verification of their illness or
injury by a USA Judo approved care giver, their injury will be assumed to be
disabling and they may be removed.

* Violation of the USA Judo Code of Conduct. 

Scott Moore
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1996 US Paralympic Team - Bronze
2000 US Paralympic Team - Gold
2004 US Paralympic Team - Bronze
2008 US Paralympic Team - Assistant Coach
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