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Track and field athletics officials or track and field athletics technical officials are referees responsible for judging the various events within track and field.They can be sub-divided into four main groups: field judges, track judges, timekeepers, and starters.
• On 1 November, World Athletics introduces a new "short track" concept, essentially renaming the "indoor" category to "short track" and thus allowing "indoor" records and competitions to be performed on any 200 metres track, regardless of whether or not it is "indoors".
A track-side judge monitoring technique at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Racewalking is a form of competitive walking that usually takes place on open-air roads, although running tracks are also occasionally used. Racewalking is the only sport in athletics in which judges monitor athletes on their technique.
An ancient Greece vase from 600 BC depicting a running contest An early model of hurdling at the Detroit Athletic Club in 1888 Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, one of the first modern track and field stadiums American athlete Jim Thorpe lost his Olympic medals after taking expense money prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics for playing baseball, a violation of Olympic amateurism rules.
World records in athletics are ratified by World Athletics. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking. Records are kept for all events contested at the Olympic Games and some others. Unofficial records for some other events are kept by track and field statisticians.
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World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations and formerly abbreviated as the IAAF, is the international governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, race walking, mountain running, and ultra running.
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