Track & Field News
| Editor | E. Garry Hill |
|---|---|
| Categories | Sports magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founder | Bert Nelson & Cordner Nelson |
| First issue | 1948 |
| Country |  United States |
| Based in | Mountain View, California |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0041-0284 |
Track & Field News is an American monthly sports magazine founded in 1948 by brothers Bert Nelson and Cordner Nelson, focused on the world of track and field.[1][2]
The magazine provides coverage of athletics in the U.S.A. from the high school to national level as well as covering the sport on an international bases.[3] The magazine has given itself the motto of "The Bible of the Sport".[4]
E. Garry Hill is the magazine's editor and Sieg Lindstrom is the managing editor. Ed Fox is publisher and Janet Vitu is executive publisher.[4]
Each year, the magazine produces world and US rankings of top track & field athletes, selected by the magazine's editors along with an international team of experts.[who?]
Many of the standard abbreviations used throughout the sport, like WR=World Record; WJR=World Junior Record; AR=American Record, started as print saving abbreviations in the magazine.[citation needed]
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References
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=lHJrkIxwhMcC&pg=PR18&lpg=PR18&dq=%22track+and+field+news%22+abbreviations&source=bl&ots=HRza-C34nr&sig=mYQztSOPJyYxmfyEn7kc3I3y-44&hl=en&sa=X&ei=inWrUeLvJYbN0AGGsYGgBw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=%22track%20and%20field%20news%22%20abbreviations&f=false Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: 1992-1995 supplement for Baseball, Football, Basketball and other Sports edited by David L. Porter
- ^ http://www.usatf.org/usatf/files/69/695a8112-b7a0-4b9d-9dbb-8b4bca22677c.pdf
- ^ http://onsportz.blogspot.com/2007/04/track-field-covering-meets.html
- ^ a b http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/contact-us