{"id":2239,"date":"2019-01-10T18:52:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2021-12-07T14:16:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:16:57","slug":"maximum-performance-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/maximum-performance-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximum Performance Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maximum Performance Rule<\/strong><\/span>
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The Maximum Performance Rule can be found in it’s entirety in policy 7000-208.
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Individual Sports
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Divisioning heats (preliminary rounds) are conducted to ensure that athletes compete against athletes of like ability levels in final rounds of competition. To ensure that athletes compete at the best of their ability during the divisioning round, the maximum performance rule (MPR) is implemented at Major Games. At all other levels of competition MPR should be tracked and athletes and teams should be warned of any violations. <\/span>
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The Maximum Performance Rule ensures that there is no more than a 15% difference in performance between an athlete’s seeding time\/score and final performance. If an athlete exceeds their divisioning performance by more than 15%, and as a result should have been placed in a different final division, the athlete would be disqualified.
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If a coach is of the opinion that their athlete has not competed to the best of their ability in the divisioning round, and may be in danger of violating the MPR, they have the options of:
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