Whats the Purpose of Age-Graded Tables?
The purpose of age-graded tables is twofold: • To correct a person’s performance, no matter what his/her age, to what it would have been (or will be) in their prime years. By so doing, all kinds of interesting comparisons can be made. You can compare back to your best performances. You can compare your performances to other people of any age, such as open-class athletes, etc. • To provide each individual with a percentage value which enables them to judge their performance in any event without bias to age or sex. No matter how old one gets, this performance percentage will always be judged against the standard for one’s age. As your performances decline with age, so do the world standards that the tables use to calculate your percentage, giving a true measure of your performance. The standards correspond approximately to world-record marks for a person of that age and sex in that event. Achievement Levels 100% = Approximate World-Record Level Over 90% = World Class Over 80% = National
