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

94 rule 6 / FIELD EVENTS
Completion of Preliminaries
ARTICLE 5. Each flight in the preliminaries is completed when the last
competitor to be called in the flight has either taken the final trial or the time
limit for the trial has expired.
All performances made in field event preliminary rounds shall be counted
with performances in the final rounds to determine final place winners.
Competitors shall be credited with the best of all their efforts.
SECTION 3. Alternate Procedures
Four-Attempt Competition
ARTICLE 1. The games committee may decide to conduct the horizontal
jumps and throws as a four-attempt final competition.
Time Limit
ARTICLE 2. The games committee may establish a time by which all
preliminaries in a field event (especially the long jump and triple jump) must
be completed. Preliminaries not taken before this time shall be forfeited.
Guaranteed Measurement
ARTICLE 3. The games committee may establish a minimum distance that
must be reached to guarantee a measurement of a trial. All trials that meet or
exceed the minimum distance must be measured.
SECTION 4. Order of Competition
Grouping Competitors
ARTICLE 1. Competitors shall be arranged in flights not larger than 16 and
not smaller than five.
The games committee shall determine whether flight assignment is random
or based on entry performance, and the order in which flights are contested.
If weather or facility conditions render this method unfair to some
competitors, the referee may require that all trials be taken one at a time in
the order drawn.
Determining Order of Competition
ARTICLE 2. In the throwing events, long jump and triple jump, the order of
competition within a flight shall be drawn by lot. Each competitor in a flight
shall complete three attempts in the order drawn. In the finals of these events,
competition shall be in reverse order of performance in the preliminaries. For
the final three attempts, the finalists shall compete in one flight.