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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.
The West African Athletics Championships is an international athletics competition between West African nations, organised by the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA). The event was first held in 1997, two years after a combined West and North African Athletics Championships , and was contested on four occasions until 2005. [ 1 ]
The Confederation of African Athletics (CAA; French: Confédération Africaine d'Athlétisme) is the continental association for the sport of athletics in Africa. It is headquartered in Dakar , Senegal .
Athletics South Africa is the national governing body for the sport of athletics (including track and field, cross country, road running and racewalking) in South Africa, recognised by the IAAF, [3] and also a member of Confederation of African Athletics. [4]
Athletics is an African Games event ever since the inaugural edition in Brazzaville, Congo, at the 1965 All-Africa Games, and has continued to feature prominently at the competition in each of its subsequent editions.
South Africa 2004: Llewellyn Herbert South Africa 2006: L. J. van Zyl South Africa 2008: L. J. van Zyl South Africa 2010: L. J. van Zyl South Africa 2012: Amaechi Morton Nigeria: 2014: Cornel Fredericks South Africa 2016: Boniface Tumuti Kenya: 2018: Abdelmalik Lahoulou Algeria: 2022: Sokwakhana Zazini South Africa 2024: Victor Ntweng Botswana
The African Championships in Athletics is a continental athletics event organized by the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA), the continental association for the sport in Africa. Since its inaugural edition in 1979 it was at first organised intermittently with nine editions held in fourteen years until 1993.
An open championship was established in 1974, including all races and international athletes. The International Amateur Athletic Association (IAAF) banned South Africa from international athletics in 1976 for its apartheid policy. As a result, the two competitions merged to form a single multi-racial national championship in 1977. [1]