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2016 IAAF Rule Updates

2016-2017 IAAF Competition Rules have now been released. They came into force November 1st, 2015. A link to the revised IAAF rule book is available below.

Below is a summary of the changes which will affect the conduct of our meets. Note that some of these changes will only apply to higher level meets. Also, there are a considerable number of rule changes relative to the Anti-Doping matter, but they have not been included in this summary.

Sincere thanks to Miriam Stanisavljevic and Estella Rung for their analysis andinput on the rule changes affecting Field Events!

Text in bold represents the added/amended portion of the rule.

IAAF Rule Changes and Updates