List of eligibility transfers in athletics explained

This is a list of track and field athletes who have moved to compete for another national association or federation. Such moves are called transfers of allegiance by the World Athletics.[1]

width=200Name of athletewidth=200From nationwidth=200To nationYearSource
2011 R11
2012 R12
2023 R23
2003 R11
2012 R12
2010 R11
2005 R11
1986
2022 R22
2015 R15
2011 R11
2011 R11
2011 R11
2016 R16
2016 R16
2016 R16
2024 R24
2006 R11
2016 R16
2011 R11
2012 R12
2007 R11
2007 R11
2016 R16
2021 R21
2010 R11
2022 R22
2007 R11
2014 R14
2009
2011 R11
2011 R11
2012 R12
2014
2014 R14
2014 R14
2014 R14
2014 R14
2014 R14
2014 R14
2014 R16
2016 R16
2016 R16
2019 R19
2003 R11
2003 R11
2003 R11
1991
2004 R11
2003 R11
2015 R15
2001
2005
2022 R22
2017 R17
2011 R11
2009 R11
width=200Name of athletewidth=200From nationwidth=200To nationYearSource
2014 R14
2008
2004 R11
1998 R11
2008 R11
1999
1999
1983
2019 R19
2002 R11
1973
1998 R11
2002 R11
2006 R11
2019 R19
1986
2000 R11
2011 R12
2015 R15
2015 R15
2015 R15
1999 R11
2023 R23 [2]
2022 R22
2011 R12
2008 R11
2008
2009 R11 [3]
2019 R19
2015 R15
2012 R13
2014 R14
2016 R16
2000 R11
2014
1999 R11
2016 R16--->
1999
2022 R22
2016 R16
2016 R16
1993
2022 R22
2012 R12
2016 R16
2016 R16
2019 R19
2022 R22
1998 R11
2011 R11
2003
2016 R16
2006 R11
2000 R11
2005 R11
2011 R11
2016 R16
2016 R16
2016 R16
2023
2005 R11
1997
2005 R11
2006 R11
2011 R11 [4]
2018 R18
2018 R18
/ 2015 R16
2000 R11
2020 R20
2000 R11
2000
2019 R19
2015 R15
2002 R11
2021 R21
2012 R12
2013 R16
2015 R15
Nadia Prasad2000 R11
2010 R11
2006 R11
2014 R14
1989
2011 R11
2004 R11
2005 R11
2010 R12
2012 R12
2013 R13
2013 R16
2014 R15
2014 R15
2015 R15
2015 R16
2016 R16
2016 R16
2018 R18
2019 R19
2021 R21
2021 R21
2011 R11
1994
2011 R14
2000 R11
2020 R20
2010 R11
1998 R11
2012 R12
2019 R19
2022 R22
1947
2008 R11
2011 R11
2011 R12
2000 R11
2001
1984
2002 R11
2019 R19
2014 R16
2007 R11
2019 R19
2020 R20
2000 R11
1999 R11
2023 R23
2002 R11
1999 R11
2013 R13

Transfers to countries that are members of the Asian Athletics Association.

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2004
2009
2009
2009
2009
2013 R15
2013 R13
2013 R13
2013 R14
2013 R15
2014 R15
2014 R15
2015 R15
2008 R11
2006 R11
Yusuf Saad Kamel
(Gregory Konchella)
2003 R11
Mushir Salem Jawher
(Leonard Mucheru)
2003 R11
Abel Yagout Jawher
(Abel Cheruiyot)
2003 R11
2005 ?
2005 ?
Aadam Ismaeel Khamis
(Hosea Kosgei)
2005 ?
2005
2005
2006
2008
2013 R15
2013 R13
2013 R14
2013 R14
2013 R14
2013 R14
Isaac Korir (Isaac Kedikou) 2013 R13
2013 R14
2013 R14
2013 R13
2013 R13 --->
2001 ?
2002
2002
2003
2013 R14
2015 R15
2015
2013 R14
2021
2007
2013
2001
2003
2004
2005
2007
Edrees Kamal Eisa
Faisal Bader Shebto
2004
2007
2007
2010
Du Xianhui 2003
2003
Saeed Besweidan 2000
2010
2010
1997
1999

Transfers to countries that are members of the European Athletic Association.

width=200Name of athletewidth=200From nationwidth=200To nationYear
Ljudmila Ninova-Rudoll
1994
1999
2003
2008
2015[5]
2016[6]
1998
Aleksandr Furso 1999
Takhir Mamashayev 2001
2004
1997
Yelena Golesheva-Scheers 1998
Stefanija Statkuviené 1998
Olivier Sekanyambo 1999
2000
2003
Irina Sustelo 2005
2008
2008
2002
2003
2003
2004
Tanja Glicic 2006
Maja Jancic 2006
2006
2007
1998
2008
Marianna Zachariadi 2008
2013[7]
2004
2005
1997
2005
1998
2005
2007
2006
1999
Abdellah Béhar
Saïd Berioui2009
Abdessemad Bouhattach 2003
2002
2002
2002
Hanan Farhoun 2006
2009
2005
2004
1996
2010
Numidia Kafri
2004
2003
2010
2001
2002
2000
1998
2002
2010
Simon Munyutu 2006
Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida
2009
1999
2003
1998
2002
Yvon Sialo-Ngboda 2007
2005
2006
1999
Nouredine Smain 2005
James Theuri 2006
2000
Dauphin Tumatai 2007
2000
1999
2015
1965
1967
1974
1975
1984
1987
1994
1995
1995
1996
1998
2000
Alexsey Bogdasin 2006
2007
2014
2016
1984
1992
1992
1998
Bobby Farren 1998
2000
2000
Irie Hill 2000
Kassa Tadesse 2001
2003
2004
Nathalie Harvey 2004
Simon Shirley
Nicholas Stuart 2005
Gerenshi Tamirat 2005
2006
Tomas Abyu 2006
Taneisha Robinson-Scanlon 2006
2008
2009
2010
2010
2011
2011
Stefanie Reid2010
2004
2011
2015
2015
1997
Simona Staicu2000
Éva Miklós 2003
Attila Farkas 2004
2007
1998
1998
1999
Adrienne McIvor 2000
Stephan Hayward 2001
2002
Alkin Westley 2003
2004
Jerome Krahenbuhl 2004
Samuel Okantey 2002
1999
2000
2006
Mark Crowley 2008
Kevin Brown 2008
2008
2010
Ben Reynolds 2012
2014
2014
2014
2015
Katie Kirk 2015
1984
1990
1991
2010
1991
1991
1996
Mukat Derba
Niels Kruller 1998
Alex Rosen 1998
1999
1999
1999
Dan Middleman 2000
2003
2005
2009
2010
[8]
[9]
[10] -[11]
[12] -->
2016[13]
1994
2003[14]
2001
2001
2008
2009
2011
2011
2011[15]
2012[16]
2012[17]
2013[18]
2013[19]
2016
2016[20]
2016[21]
2015
2001
Mirjam Hess 2006
Stojan Manolev 1998
Ilijan Manolev 1998
2002
2011[22]
2015
1998
1998
1998
1999
2002
2011
2011
2003
2007
2013[23]
2015[24]
2016[25]
Fernando Ramírez
Katarina Sederholm 1998
2007
2015[26]
2004
Christophe Fernandes 2003
2002
2002
2002
2007
Roman Guliy 2009
2009[27]
2010[28]
2016[29]
2003
1994
1996
1996
1998
1998
1998
2000
2002
2000
2000
2001
2007
2008
Olga Chernogorova 2008
Rashida Khayrudinova 2008
2014
2014
2014
2005
1992
Uros Zver 1998
2002
Fabio Ruzzier 2002
Milos Sakic 2002
2006
1987
1998
1998
1998
1999
Virginia Martínez 1999
2000
2000
2001
2002
2003
2003
2004
Olga Koungorova 2005
Juliet Itoya
2006
2006
2007[30]
2008
2008
2008
2010
2010[31]
2014[32]
2014
2014
2014
2015[33]
2015[34]
1996
1999
Alfred Shemweta 1998
2010
2013
2014
2014
2018[35]
1991
Nelly Sébastien 1998
Chantal Dallenbach 2000
2006
2007/2010
2010[36]
2012[37]
2014[38]
1998[39]
1998
1998
1998
1998
1998
Nora Ivanova-Güner 1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
Mirela Dulgheru-Renda 1999
2000
2004
2008[40]
2008[41]
2008
2009
2011[42]
2013[43]
2013
2013[44]
2013
2013
Yasmani Copello Escobar 2014
2015
2015[45]
2016[46]
2017
width=200Name of athletewidth=200From nationwidth=200To nationYearSource
2000 R11
2013 R13
2000 R11
1999 R11
1990
2006 R11
2020 R20
1998 R11
1997
1982
1999 R11
1999 R11
1991
1987
2002 ?
2019 R19
2019 R19
Benjamin Ashkettle 2014 R14
1999 R11
1992 R11
1998 R11
1998 R11
2014 R15
2009 R11
2011 R11
2023 R23
2023 R23

See also

References

Sources

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: TRANSFER OF ALLEGIANCE. iaaf.org. 3 July 2018.
  2. Web site: Quién es Santiago Ford, el cubano que compite por Chile en Panamericanos 2023 . www.24horas.cl . . 31 October 2023 . es . 30 October 2023.
  3. Web site: Alvin Harrison sprinting for Dominican Republic . . 2009-08-18 . Graham . Pat.
  4. Web site: Davis now a T&T; athlete Trinidad Express Newspaper Sports. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120121053515/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Davis_now_a_T_T_athlete-137735183.html. 2012-01-21.
  5. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=s/athlete=123910-skydan-hanna/index.html EA profile
  6. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=k/athlete=131032-kiplagat-evans/index.html EA profile
  7. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=h/athlete=139361-hondrokoukis-dimitrios/index.html EA profile
  8. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=a/athlete=142063-amare-girmaw/index.html EA profile
  9. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=a/athlete=142069-almeya-aimeru/index.html EA profile
  10. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=w/athlete=155317-wuve-berihun/index.html EA profile
  11. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=t/athlete=150835-teferi-maru/index.html EA profile
  12. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=g/athlete=148537-getahun-yimer/index.html EA profile
  13. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=c/athlete=128115-chemtai-korlima/index.html EA profile
  14. Web site: Maraoui: "E' un onore esordire in azzurro". fidal.it. “Ho preso la cittadinanza per matrimonio, ma l’atletica non c’entra niente: ho conosciuto mio marito quando non gareggiavo più, mentre lavoravo a un campo estivo. Ci siamo sposati cinque anni fa ma ho aspettato un po’ prima di prendere la naturalizzazione”. it. 8 December 2006. 5 July 2018.
  15. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=f/athlete=154194-fofana-hassane/index.html EA profile
  16. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=d/athlete=151002-desalu-eseosa/index.html EA profile
  17. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=j/athlete=142452-jacobs-lamont-marcell/index.html EA profile
  18. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=c/athlete=97494-chatbi-jamel/index.html EA profile
  19. http://www.european-athletics.org/competitions/premium-permit-meetings/news/article=barriers-seem-too-much-for-quick-fire-borsi/ No barriers seem too much for quick-fire Borsi
  20. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=i/athlete=155393-infantino-antonio/index.html EA profile
  21. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=s/athlete=110895-santiusti-yusneysi/index.html EA profile
  22. http://g2014results.thecgf.com/athlete/athletics/1027340/kevin_moore.html 2014 CWG bio
  23. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=h/athlete=94442-hassan-sifan/index.html EA profile
  24. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=b/athlete=112448-bockarie-solomon/index.html EA profile
  25. http://losseveter.nl/2016/02/01/elizeba-cherono%E2%80%8F-heeft-nederlands-paspoort-gekregen-de-halve-marathon-bij-het-ek-mijn-doel/ Elizeba Cherono heeft Nederlands paspoort gekregen: ‘De halve marathon bij het EK is mijn doel’
  26. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=i/athlete=97340-iuel-amalie-hammild/index.html EA profile
  27. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=b/athlete=129281-barbosa-vera/index.html EA profile
  28. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=a/athlete=149067-arnaudov-tsanko/index.html EA profile
  29. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=b/athlete=110925-bazolo-lorene-dorcas/index.html EA profile
  30. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=l/athlete=140548-lamdassem-ayad/index.html EA profile
  31. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=m/athlete=153396-merzoughi-abdelaziz/index.html EA profile
  32. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=g/athlete=107588-gebre-trihas/index.html EA profile
  33. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=c/athlete=112447-contreras-yidiel/index.html EA profile
  34. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=j/athlete=131479-jacob-nana/index.html EA profile
  35. Web site: Startsida.
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  37. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=p/athlete=148954-pena-brahian/index.html EA profile
  38. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=a/athlete=102575-abraham-tadesse/index.html EA profile
  39. Web site: Transfer of Allegiance - 1998 to 2011 - as officially announced in the IAAF Newsletter . . 2013-01-30 . 2013-10-07 .
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  41. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=h/athlete=131647-haydar-sultan/index.html EA profile
  42. http://www.european-athletics.org/athletes/group=%C3%B6/athlete=152004-ozbilen-ilham-tanui/index.html EA profile
  43. Web site: Transfer of Allegiance - 2012 - as officially announced in the IAAF Newsletter. . 2013-01-30 . 2013-10-07 .
  44. Web site: Transfer of Allegiance - 2013 - as officially announced in the IAAF Newsletter . . 2013-08-22 . 2013-10-07 .
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