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Men's & Women's Track & Field Rules - NAIA

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RULE 6 / FIELD EVENTS93<br />

An official should be present at all field events to monitor all warm-ups.<br />

SECTION 2. Competition Procedures<br />

Purpose of Qualifying/Preliminaries<br />

ARTICLE 1. The games committee should reduce the number of competitors<br />

in the final round to a workable size through the use of a separate qualifying<br />

competition and/or preliminary rounds.<br />

When a competitor who has earned advancement to a subsequent round is<br />

unable to compete, another competitor shall not advance.<br />

<strong>Field</strong> event competitors who first report after the first competitive attempt<br />

has been made shall not be allowed to compete in the event.<br />

Qualifying Competition<br />

ARTICLE 2. If a qualifying competition is deemed necessary, it shall precede<br />

the preliminaries and finals to determine which competitors entered in the<br />

event shall compete in the competition proper. The games committee shall<br />

determine group size, automatic qualification performance and the number<br />

who qualify. A competitor who has achieved the qualifying mark shall not be<br />

allowed to continue in the qualifying competition. <strong>Field</strong> event tie-breaking<br />

procedures shall be used in determining the qualifiers. Performances made<br />

in the qualifying competition shall not be considered part of the competition<br />

proper and shall not count in deciding the final placing in the event.<br />

Preliminary Competition and Advancement<br />

ARTICLE 3. In the throwing events and the horizontal jumps, each<br />

competitor shall be allowed three trials. One competitor more than the<br />

number of scoring places, but not fewer than eight, shall advance by best<br />

mark in the preliminary rounds to the final rounds, provided each has a valid<br />

mark in the preliminary rounds. Competitors tying for the last advancement<br />

position, by mark, shall advance to the final rounds, unless otherwise ruled<br />

by the games committee before the competition.<br />

Automatic Advancement<br />

ARTICLE 4. The games committee, before the competition begins, may<br />

allow automatic advancement of each competitor to the final rounds in the<br />

throwing events and the horizontal jumps. The number of competitors at the<br />

start of the preliminaries must be nine or fewer. Each advancing competitor<br />

must actually attempt one trial in the preliminary rounds.

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