User:Jnestorius/Metrication in sport

<Metrication

IFAB trawl Archives of the IFAB
International Rugby Football Board 1974 for 1975 25yd --> 22m^[1] (though 23m closer)
Gaelic Athletic Association
- proposed 1917 (presumably as anti-British gesture)
- accepted 1975 (starting 1976?) 50y --> 45m and 70y --> 65m
  - "profile reporters and commentators still simply refuse to use the official metric terms adopted by the Association in 1975"^[2]
IAAF^[3]
- 1976 for 1977 abolished all non-metric distances except mile (marathon non-round in both)^[4]
- for 1963 field events official metric with imperial to nearest quarter-inch and rounded up ^[4]
- hurdle heights and field event length and weights mix of metric and non (presume all now defined in metric; when did rounding-down of imperial measurements take effect?)
- GB went metric in 1969^[5]
- USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships: men's used metric in Olympic years from 1928, and all years 1932–1952; once-off 1959, and all years from 1974.^[6] Women's from 1975.
- The Athletics Congress abolished metric except mile in 1978.^[7]
Boxing at the Olympics#Events: pre-WW2 used pounds even in metric countries. Who organised? Check official reports. Weight class (boxing)#Amateur boxing: "When the AIBA was founded in 1946 to govern amateur boxing, it metricated the weight class limits by rounding the pounds values to the nearest kilogram."
Commonwealth Games
- Athletics went metric in 1970.^[8]
- Swimming went metric in 1970 too.
- Track cycling events is weird:
  - "10 mile scratch race" all the way to 1994, though might latterly have been 16 km.
    - UCI distance is 15 km, World Championships scratch date from 2002
  - "4000 m individual pursuit" since 1950, though early might have been 2.5 mile.
Swimming: "FINA ruled in 1956 that starting 1 Jan 1957 they would only recognize metric marks made in 50 metre pool."^[9] — does that mean wouldn't recognise yard marks, or wouldn't recognise metric marks set in non-50 metre pools?

References

^ "A UK metric time line". UK Metric Association. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
^ Lennon, Joe (1999). Towards a philosophy for legislation in Gaelic games: a study of a philosophy for legislation in the Gaelic games of football and hurling, an how this philosophy should improve the playing rules of these two national games (PDF). Vol. 1. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
^ Hymans, Richard; Matrahazi, Imre (2015). IAAF World Records Progression (PDF) (8th ed.). IAAF.
^ ^a ^b IAAF 2015 p. vii
^ Matthews, Peter (22 March 2012). "Reader's Note". Historical Dictionary of Track and Field. Scarecrow Press. p. ix. ISBN 978-0-8108-7985-0.
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- Lindstrom, Sieg. "History of US Nationals Results: 100 Meters - Men". Track & Field News. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
- Lindstrom, Sieg. "History of US Nationals Results: 1500 Meters - Men". Track & Field News. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
^ NCAA Track and Field (61st annual ed.). National Collegiate Athletic Association. 1982. p. 69. ISSN 0277-6677.
^ Matthews, Peter (2012). Historical Dictionary of Track and Field. Scarecrow Press. p. 54. ISBN 9780810867819. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
^ trackandfieldnews forum post1681143

[1] "A UK metric time line". UK Metric Association. Retrieved 14 December 2016.

[2] Lennon, Joe (1999). Towards a philosophy for legislation in Gaelic games: a study of a philosophy for legislation in the Gaelic games of football and hurling, an how this philosophy should improve the playing rules of these two national games (PDF). Vol. 1. Retrieved 14 December 2016.

[3] Hymans, Richard; Matrahazi, Imre (2015). IAAF World Records Progression (PDF) (8th ed.). IAAF.

[iaaf2015pvii-4] IAAF 2015 p. vii

[5] Matthews, Peter (22 March 2012). "Reader's Note". Historical Dictionary of Track and Field. Scarecrow Press. p. ix. ISBN 978-0-8108-7985-0.

[6] 
Lindstrom, Sieg. "History of US Nationals Results: 100 Meters - Men". Track & Field News. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
Lindstrom, Sieg. "History of US Nationals Results: 1500 Meters - Men". Track & Field News. Retrieved 12 July 2022.

[7] Lindstrom, Sieg. "History of US Nationals Results: 100 Meters - Men". Track & Field News. Retrieved 12 July 2022.

[8] Lindstrom, Sieg. "History of US Nationals Results: 1500 Meters - Men". Track & Field News. Retrieved 12 July 2022.

[7] NCAA Track and Field (61st annual ed.). National Collegiate Athletic Association. 1982. p. 69. ISSN 0277-6677.

[Matthews2012-8] Matthews, Peter (2012). Historical Dictionary of Track and Field. Scarecrow Press. p. 54. ISBN 9780810867819. Retrieved 14 December 2016.

[9] trackandfieldnews forum post1681143

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