Duties of Judges:
ARTICLE 1.
a. When fully automatic timing devices are used, there should be a head judge of the finish plus additional judges as deemed necessary by the games committee, head judge, or meet director.
b. When fully automatic timing devices are not used, there should be a head judge of the finish plus two judges, assigned by the head judge, for each scoring place. The judges’ decision as to the order of finish shall be final, except for possible action taken by the head judge or referee.
c. Judges of the finish for each place shall serve from opposite sides on elevated stands at least 3 meters form the edge of the track.
Procedure of Picking Places:
ARTICLE 3. The finish judges will wath the race until the competitors are within 9 meters of the finish line, then should concentrate on the finish line to place finishers in accordance with Rule 5-3.1.
Without consulting other judges, each judge shall write the place selection on a card and hand it to the head judge. The decisions of judges picking higher-scoring places shall overrule those of judges picking lower-scoring places.
The head judge will view the finish as a whole. Should the head judge see a place winner who is overlooked by all finish judges, and whose proper place cannot be decided in the manner described above, the head judge will rule on the finish.
Note: When official images from the fully automatic timing device(s) are not available, those from another system (e.g., videotape) authorized by the games committee before the start of the competition may be used to verify the results reported by the judges of the finish.
Duties of the Manual Timers
ARTICLE 1. a. When two or more fully automatic timing devices are used, there should be a head timer plus additional timers as deemed necessary by the games committee, head timer or meet director.
Duties of the Lap Scorers:
Adequate lap scorers must be provided to accurately count laps by recording the time over each lap of the athletes or teams for whom the lap scorer is responsible. A lap scorer shall be appointed to notify each competitor or team of the number of laps that still needs to be completed. The shall apply for a distance race of more than two laps or each leg within a relay race. The lap scorer shall ring a bell when the event leader begins his or her final lap. The lap scorer(s) shall confirm to the head umpire, through an appropriate reporting method, that all competitors have completed the prescribed number of laps.