International Association of Athletics Federations
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Formation	1912
Type	Sports federation
Headquarters	Monaco
Membership	212 member federations
President	Lamine Diack
Website	www.IAAF.org

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics. It was founded in 1912 at its first congress in Stockholm, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation. Since October 1993 it has been headquartered in Monaco.

Beginning in 1982, the IAAF has passed several amendments to its rules allowing athletes to receive compensation for participation in international athletics competitions. However, the IAAF retained the word "amateur" in its name until its 2001 Congress at which the IAAF's title was changed to its current form.

The IAAF's current president is Lamine Diack of Senegal. He became Acting President shortly after the death of the previous president, Primo Nebiolo of Italy in November 1999, and was elected IAAF President at the IAAF's 2001 Congress.

Presidents[link]

Since the establishment of the IAAF, it has had five presidents:

Name	Country	Presidency
Sigfrid Edström	Sweden	1912–1946
Lord Burghley	United Kingdom	1946–1976
Adriaan Paulen	Netherlands	1976–1981
Primo Nebiolo	Italy	1981–1999
Lamine Diack	Senegal	1999–

Area associations[link]

See Category:National Members of the International Association of Athletics Federations

Map of world with six area associations

The IAAF has a total of 212 member federations (it had been 213 but at the November 2010 meeting of the IAAF Council it was announced that the Netherlands Antilles would cease to exist independently) divided into 6 area associations.^[1][2]

     AAA – Asian Athletics Association in Asia

     CAA – Confédération africaine d'athlétisme in Africa

     CONSUDATLE – Confederación Sudamericana de Atletismo in South America

     EAA – European Athletic Association in Europe

     NACACAA – North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association in North America

     OAA – Oceania Athletics Association in Australia and Oceania (Australasia)

v t e National Members of the International Association of Athletics Federations IAAF Asia / AAA AFG BHR BAN BHU BRU CAM CHN TPE HKG IND INA IRI IRQ JPN JOR KAZ KUW KGZ LAO LIB MAC MAS MDV MGL MYA NEP PRK OMA PAK PLE PHI QAT KSA SIN KOR SRI SYR TJK THA TLS TKM UAE UZB VIE YEM Africa / CAA Northern ALG LBA MAR TUN Western BEN BUR CPV CIV GAM GHA GUI GBS LBR MLI MTN NIG NGA SEN SLE TOG Eastern DJI EGY ERI ETH KEN SOM SUD TAN UGA Central BDI CAF CGO CHA CMR COD GAB GEQ RWA STP Southern ANG BOT COM LES MAD Europe / EAA ALB AND ARM AUT AZE BLR BEL BIH BUL CRO CYP CZE DEN EST ESP FIN FRA GEO GER GIB GBR GRE HUN ISL IRL ISR ITA LAT LIE LTU LUX MKD MLT MDA MON MNE NED NOR POL POR ROU RUS SMR SRB SVK SLO SWE SUI TUR UKR North America / NACAC AIA ATG ARU BAH BAR BIZ BER IVB CAN CAY CRC CUB DMA DOM GRN GUA HAI HON JAM MEX MSR NIC PUR SKN LCA VIN ESA TRI TCA USA ISV Oceania / OAA American Samoa AUS Cook Islands Fiji French Polynesia Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia NZL Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Papua New Guinea Nauru Palau Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu South America / CONSUDATLE ARG BOL BRA CHL COL ECU GUY PAN PAR PER SUR URU VEN Associate member Niue New Caledonia

Competitions[link]

Included in its charge are the standardization of timekeeping methods and world records. The IAAF also organizes many major athletics competitions worldwide, including:

World Athletics Series[link]

The World Championships in Athletics is the foremost athletics competition held by the IAAF.

† = Formerly IAAF World Cup

One-day events[link]

v t e IAAF World Challenge Melbourne Track Classic Jamaica International Invitational Golden Grand Prix Kawasaki Colorful Daegu Pre-Championships Meeting Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar Fanny Blankers-Koen Games Golden Spike Ostrava Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat Znamensky Memorial Meeting de Atletismo Madrid Internationales Stadionfest Rieti Meeting Hanžeković Memorial

v t e IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings U.S. Open Track and Field Millrose Games Sparkassen Cup Russian Winter Meeting Meeting Pas de Calais BW-Bank Meeting Indoor Flanders Meeting Aviva Indoor Grand Prix XL Galan See also: IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics Former meetings: Valencia Athens

v t e IAAF cross country permit meetings Cross de Atapuerca Oeiras International Cross Country Lotto Cross Cup Brussels Great Edinburgh International Cross Country Cross Internacional de Itálica Antrim International Cross Country Cinque Mulini KCB Nairobi Cross Chiba International Cross Country Fukuoka International Cross Country Eurocross Almond Blossom Cross Country See also: IAAF World Cross Country Championships Former meetings: Cross de Soria (2007-10) Cross Valle de Llodio (2004–06) Auchan Roncq Lille Metropole (2005)

IAAF Road Race Label Events[link]

v t e IAAF Gold Label Road Races Xiamen International Marathon Mumbai Marathon Tokyo Marathon World's Best 10K Race Lake Biwa Marathon Lisbon Half Marathon Maratona di Roma Seoul International Marathon Prague Half Marathon Paris International Marathon London Marathon Boston Marathon Prague International Marathon Great Manchester Run World 10K Bangalore Bogota International Half Marathon Great North Run Berlin Marathon Portugal Half Marathon Chicago Marathon Beijing International Marathon Delhi Half Marathon Frankfurt Marathon Great South Run New York City Marathon Fukuoka Marathon

v t e IAAF Silver Label Road Races Osaka International Ladies Marathon Beppu-Ōita Marathon Kagawa Marugame Half Marathon RAK Half Marathon Nagoya International Women's Marathon Rotterdam Marathon Madrid Marathon Yangzhou Half Marathon Ottawa 10K Road Race Ottawa Marathon Freihofer's Run for Women Metro Men's Race 10km Amsterdam Marathon Gyeongju International Marathon Intercontinental Istanbul Eurasia Marathon Toronto Waterfront Marathon Chuncheon Men's Marathon Venice Marathon Marseille-Cassis Classique Internationale JoongAng Seoul Marathon Turin Marathon Yokohama Women's Marathon Singapore Marathon San Silvestre Vallecana

v t e IAAF Bronze Label Road Races International Marathon Alexander the Great Mangyongdae Prize Marathon Great Ireland Run Düsseldorf Marathon Hannover Marathon Corrida de Langueux Auray-Vannes Half Marathon Singelloop Utrecht Riga Marathon 20 Kilomètres de Paris Reims Half Marathon Zevenheuvelenloop Boulogne-Billancourt Half Marathon Beirut Marathon Florence Marathon Marathon de La Rochelle

Defunct[link]

See also[link]

• European Athletic Association
• List of eligibility transfers in athletics

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official IAAF website

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Christine Ohuruogu

Ohuruogu at the parade in London to celebrate the achievements of British competitors at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Personal information
Born	(1984-05-17) 17 May 1984 (age 28) London, England
Sport
Country	Great Britain
Club	Newham and Essex Beagles
Turned pro	2004
Achievements and titles
World finals	2007 - 1st
Olympic finals	2008 - 1st, 400m
Highest world ranking	200 m: 11 (2008) 400 m: 2 (2007/2008)
Personal best(s)	100 m 11.35 200 m 22.85 400 m 49.61
Medal record Competitor for  Great Britain and  England Olympic Games Gold 2008 Beijing 400 m World Championships Gold 2007 Osaka 400 m Bronze 2005 Helsinki 4x400 m relay Bronze 2007 Osaka 4x400 m relay World Indoors Championships Gold 2012 Istanbul 4x400 m relay Commonwealth Games Gold 2006 Melbourne 400 m European U23 Championships Silver 2005 Erfurt 400 m Silver 2005 Erfurt 4 x 400 m relay
Updated on 11 October 2008.

Christine Ijeoma Ohuruogu MBE (born 17 May 1984) is a British athlete, who specialises in the 400 metres; the event for which she is the current Olympic and former World and Commonwealth Champion. Her victory in the Beijing Games was the 50th gold medal for Great Britain in Athletics at the Olympics.

Ohuruogu's Personal Best of 49.61 ranks her third amongst British women 400 m runners, behind fellow Olympic medallists Kathy Cook and Katharine Merry.

Biography[link]

Born to Igbo Nigerian parents^[1][2] in Newham, east London,^[3] she was raised less than one mile from the 2012 Summer Olympics stadium in Stratford.^[4] Ohuruogu studied at University College London, where she graduated in Linguistics in 2005.^[5] She also played netball during her undergraduate studies. Christine has 8 siblings, one of whom is Victoria Ohuruogu, a top sprints competitor in her age group. She also went to St. Edwards Church of England School, Romford, Essex and Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford Green, Essex.

Ohuruogu is a member of Newham and Essex Beagles Athletics Club.

She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours,^[6][7] and conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by the University of East London.^[8]

Athletics career[link]

In 2003 Ohuruogu was a bronze medallist at 400 m at the European Junior Championships. She became the AAA champion in the 400 m in 2004, was a semi-finalist in the 400 m at the Athens Olympics of 2004, also taking part in the 4 x 400 m relay team that finished 4th. In the 2005 European Under 23 Championships she took the silver medal, losing individual gold by a hundredth of a second. She also won silver in the 4 x 400 m relay.

After reaching the semi-final at the 400 m at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics she won a bronze medal in the women's 4 x 400 m relay together with Lee McConnell, Donna Fraser and Nicola Sanders.

Ohuruogu won a gold medal for England in the 400 m at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in a personal best time of 50.28 seconds, beating favourite Tonique Williams-Darling in both her semi-final and the final.^[9]

Within 24 days of the end of her year-long competition suspension she returned to surprise the field and win the gold medal at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. Fellow British athlete, Nicola Sanders took the silver with Novlene Williams of Jamaica in third. Ohuruogu had won all three of her individual races at the world championships - her heat, her semi-final, plus the final. The fastest woman in the world, Sanya Richards, did not qualify for the World Championships, after failing to make the United States team.

2006 Commonwealth Games Relay controversy[link]

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At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Ohuruogu ran the final leg in the 4 x 400 m relay for England. On the second leg with 200 m to go until the third change-over, Jamaica were leading with Australia second and England in third. The rules are that the change over athletes are to line up in order of the position at 200 m. This would have meant that Jamaica would have the inside lane, then Australia with England third from the inside. However, between 200 m and 300 m of the second leg, Nicola Sanders of England overtook Caitlin Willis meaning coming up to the third change, the English team were second, with Australia in third place. Tasha Danvers, the English athlete changed places with the Australian, Tamsyn Lewis. On the home straight, however, Willis and Sanders ran in the 2nd and 3rd lane respectively, and had to change over to pass the baton, as they were obviously aware of the rules. The English team went on to win the race, with Ohuruogu pulling away at the end.

However after the race the Australians were awarded the gold medal, as the English team had breached IAAF Rule 170 when Danvers-Smith changed position with Lewis.

(RULE 170 Relay Races9. The athletes in the third and fourth legs of the 4 x 400 m relay race shall, under the direction of a designated official, place themselves in their waiting position in the same order (inside to out) as the order of their respective team members as they complete 200 m of their legs. Once the incoming athletes have passed this point, the waiting athletes shall maintain their order, and shall not exchange positions at the beginning of the take-over zone. If an athlete does not follow this Rule, his team shall be disqualified.)

Ohuruogu (in dark blue, centre) winning the 400 m at the world championship in Osaka

Competition suspension[link]

Christine Ohuruogu was suspended from competing in the 2006 European Athletics Championships. The reason for this was that she missed three out-of-competition drug tests, known as the "whereabouts" system, of the World Anti-Doping Code; one in October 2005 and two in June 2006.^[10] According to IAAF and British Olympic Association rules, she received a one-year ban for missing these tests, which expired on 5 August 2007.^[11]

The British Olympic Association also imposed a lifetime ban excluding Ohuruogu from competing at future Olympic Games for Great Britain.^[12] She appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but the original decision was upheld.^[13] Ohuruogu submitted a further appeal, and stated that she would probably leave Britain and compete in the Olympics for another country if it was unsuccessful.^[14][15] Her Olympic ban was finally overturned on 27 November 2007.

2007 Athletics World Championships[link]

A day after her ban was finished, Ohuruogu was selected for the British team at the 2007 Athletics World Championships.^[11] She had only run five competitive races before the final since her suspension; however, she managed to take the individual 400 m and secure the only gold medal for Great Britain at the Championships, while her compatriot Nicola Sanders won silver. She also took bronze in the 400 m relay.

2008 Olympics[link]

In Beijing, Ohuruogu won her heat against Yulia Guschina who finished 0.18 seconds behind and semi-final for the 400 m women's race against Shericka Williams by 0.14 seconds, before taking the gold with a finish down the home straight, beating pre-race favourite Sanya Richards of the USA into bronze and Shericka Williams of Jamaica into silver, with a time of 49.62s. This time, over 2 seconds slower than the world record, would have achieved no higher than Bronze at each of the Olympics since 1976 (and was slower than 5th place in 1996). It was Great Britain's first - and only - track and field Olympic gold of the 2008 Games, and Ohuruogu was the first British female Olympic champion of the 400 m.^[16]

2009[link]

In preparation for the European Indoor Championships in Turin, Ohuruogu set personal bests in the 60 metres and 200 m at the Birmingham Grand Prix.^[17] She competed at the 2009 Manchester City Games, finishing second in the 150 metres final in 17.10 seconds.^[18] She ran a personal best 22.85 seconds to take second place in the 200 m at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games.^[19] While she won the 400 m national title at the UKA Championships in Birmingham that July, her times and finishes over the distance at IAAF Golden League meets were unimpressive.^[20] She had failed to break 51 seconds in the 2009 season; some distance behind world-leader Richards' best of 49.23 seconds.^[21] A hamstring problem caused her to withdraw from the London Grand Prix, raising doubts that she would be unable to defend her World title.^[20]

2011 Athletics World Championships[link]

Ohuruogu was selected for the British team at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. She was disqualified in her individual 400 m after a false start.

Personal bests[link]

See also[link]

• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

References[link]

External links[link]

• IAAF profile for Christine Ohuruogu