The document outlines specifications and regulations for various track and field events including hurdle races, steeplechase, and relay races, detailing distances, heights, and number of hurdles for different age groups and genders. It also includes rules on disqualification for athletes who fail to comply with event specifications. Furthermore, it describes the structural requirements for hurdles and batons used in relay races, alongside guidelines for race conduct.

1. ATHLETICS REFRESHER COURSE
FOR SCHOOL SPORTS
TECHNICAL OFFICIATING
OFFICIAL
ARNEL R. ROBLES
Resource Speaker

2. HURDLE RACES (TR 22)

3. Distance of
Race
Age Group
Numbe
r of
Hurdle
s
Height of
Hurdles
Distance to
Hurdle 1
Distanc
e
between
hurdles
Distance
from last
hurdle to
finish
110m Hurdles Senior 10 1.067m 13.72m 9.14m 14.02m
110m Hurdles Under 20 10 0.991m 13.72m 9.14m 14.02m
110m Hurdles Under 18 10 0.914m 13.72m 9.14m 14.02m
400m Hurdles Senior 10 0.914m 45m 35m 40m
400m Hurdles Under 20 10 0.914m 45m 35m 40m
400m Hurdles Under 18 10 0.838m 45m 35m 40m
DISTANCES and SPECIFICATIONS for MEN

4. Distance of
Race
Age Group
Number of
Hurdles
Height of
Hurdles
Distance to
Hurdle 1
Distance
between
hurdles
Distance from
last hurdle to
finish
100m Hurdles Senior 10 0.838m 13.00m 8.50m 10.50m
100m Hurdles Under 20 10 0.838m 13.00m 8.50m 10.50m
100m Hurdles Under 18 10 0.762m 13.00m 8.50m 10.50m
400m Hurdles Senior 10 0.762m 45m 35m 40m
400m Hurdles Under 20 10 0.762m 45m 35m 40m
400m Hurdles Under 18 10 0.762m 45m 35m 40m
DISTANCES and SPECIFICATIONS for WOMEN

5. Specifications for Hurdles
 The hurdles shall be
made of metal or some
other suitable material
with the top bar of wood
or other non-metallic
suitable material
 The hurdle may be
adjustable in height
for each event.
 The top bar should be
painted with white and
black stripes, or with
other strong distinctive
contrasting colours (and
also in contrast with the
surrounding
environment)

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7.  All races shall be run in lanes and
each athlete shall go over each
hurdle and keep to their own lane
throughout. Failure to do so will
result in a DISQUALIFICATION

8. DISQUALIFICATION
 Trails foot or leg below the horizontal plane
 They knockdown or displace any hurdle by hand, body or the upper
side of the lead leg
 They directly or indirectly knockdown or displace a hurdle in their or
in another lane (effect or obstruction upon any other athlete(s) in the
race)

9. STEEPLECHASE RACES (TR 23)

10. Distance of Race Age Group Gender
Number of Hurdles
+Water Jumps
Height of
Hurdles
3000m Steeple Senior Men 28+7 0.914m
3000m Steeple Under 20 Men 28+7 0.914m
2000m Steeple Under 18 Men 18+5 0.838m
3000m Steeple Senior Women 28+7 0.762m
3000m Steeple Under 20 Women 28+7 0.762m
2000m Steeple Under 18 Women 18+5 0.762m
DISTANCES and SPECIFICATIONS

12.  The standard distances shall be: 2000m and 3000m
 For the 3000m event, there shall be 28 hurdle jumps and 7
water jumps. The distance from the start to the beginning of the
first lap shall not include any jumps, the hurdles being removed
until the athletes have entered the first lap

13.  For the 2000m event, there shall be 18 hurdle jumps and 5
water jumps. The first jump is at the third hurdle of a lap. The
previous hurdles shall be removed until the athletes have
passed them for the first time.

14.  Each athlete shall go over or through the
water and shall go over each hurdle. Failure
to do so will result in a
DISQUALIFICATION
 In addition, an athlete shall be disqualified, if
 they step to one side or other of the water jump, or
 their foot or legis, at the instant of
clearance, beside the hurdle (on either side),
below the horizontal plane of the top of any hurdle

15. RELAY RACES (TR 24)
The standard distances shall be: 4 × 100m, 4 × 200m, 100m-
200m-300m-400m Medley Relay (medley Relay), 4 × 400m, 4
× 800m, 1200m-400m-800m-1600m distance medley Relay
(distance medley Relay), 4 × 1500m.
4 × 100m & 4 × 400m (World Championships & Olympic)

16.  International Competition definition, each baton shall be numbered
and of a different colour and may include a timing transponder
 Coloured, smooth, hollow, circular section
 Made of wood, metal or any other rigid material in
one piece
 Length: 0.28m –0.30m
 Weight: => 50g
 The outside diameter shall be 40mm ±2mm

17. Take over ZONE: 30m
 An athlete may place
one check-mark on the
track within their own
lane, by using adhesive
tape, maximum 0.05m
×0.40m

18.  Athletes are not permitted to wear gloves or to
place or substances on their hands in order to
obtain a better grip of the baton
 If dropped, the baton shall be recovered by
the athlete who dropped it
 In relation to the takeover zone, it is only the
position of the baton which is decisive
 The athlete who dropped it, after retrieving it,
must return at least to the point where it was last in
their hand, before continuing in the race
 If anathlete does not follow this Rule, their
team shall be DISQUALIFIED

19.  The baton shall be passed within the takeover zone
 BEGIN: first touched by the receiving runner
 END: only in the hand of the receiving runner
Position of baton is in
the take over zone
Position of baton is
outside the take over zone

20. COMPOSITION of THE TEAM
 Each member of a relay team may run one leg only. Any four athletes
from among those entered for the competition
 However, once a relay team has started in a competition, up to a total of
four additional athletes may be used as substitutes in the composition of
the team.
 The composition of a team and the order of running for a relay shall be
officially declared no later than one hour before the published first call
time

22. The 4 × 400m race may be run in either of the following ways:
 In lanes for the first runner (using Start Block), until the baton is
handed over to the second runner
 as well as that part of the second runner
up to the nearer edge of the breakline
 Third and fourth runners wait at
the 10m line before the finish
line, according to the order of
the arrival of the second runner
at the last bend and Running to
inside lanes

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