British starters recall lessons from Charlotte nationals
Two of the starters at masters nationals last August had a slightly different accent from what you’d expect in North Carolina. No wonder. They were from Britain. In fact, they were taking part in a USATF/UK Athletics Starters Exchange Program. We sent Raymond Pierre and Tiffany Freddie-Banks across the pond. They sent Denis Murphy and Dr. Margaret Werrett, who shot some of the the guns at Charlotte. The report is online at the USATF Officials site. It includes recommendations for both U.S. and UK starters. An interesting note in the report: “The U.K. starters’ hold times were approximately 1.5 seconds. They rarely, if ever reached 2.0 seconds. Some starts were only 1 second.”
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Regarding the report on
starting(page-30) “the report is on-line” . . . the reports states that the delay for the person furthest from the starter . . . is a delay over 0.1 seconds before the athlete hears the gun . . . Is this correct ?
If this is correct, this can become a very large disadvantage.
– Jeff Davison
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