Track & Field News

Track & Field News
Editor E. Garry Hill
Categories Sports magazine
Frequency Monthly
Founder Bert Nelson & Cordner Nelson
First issue  1948 (1948-month)
Country USA
Based in Mountain View, California
Language English
Website www.trackandfieldnews.com
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.[5]

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.

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.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Porter, David L. (1995-01-01). Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: 1992-1995 supplement for baseball, football, basketball, and other sports. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313284311.
  2. ↑ http://www.usatf.org/usatf/files/69/695a8112-b7a0-4b9d-9dbb-8b4bca22677c.pdf
  3. ↑ Gisondi, Joe (2007-04-10). "On Sports: Track & Field – covering meets". On Sports. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  4. ↑ "Contacting Us".
  5. ↑ "Contacting Us". www.trackandfieldnews.com. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
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