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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.
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.
Pages in category "Athletics (track and field) officials" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 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.
Pages in category "Track and field in the United States" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Though the sense of "athletics" as a broader sport isn't used in American English, outside of the United States the term athletics can either be used to mean just its track and field component or the entirety of the sport (adding road racing and cross country) based on context. Track and field is one of the oldest sports.
This is a category for organised meetings and championships in athletics (including track and field, cross country running, racewalking and road races). For the specific disciplines of the sport (e.g. shot put), see Category:Events in track and field .