ATFS BULLETIN Association of Track and Field Statisticians 1/2020 March/April 2020

Special Quadrennial Elections Edition

PRESIDENT’S REPORT Dear All,

I hope you are all well as this COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the world. Unfortunately like all other sports track and field athletics is almost non-existent. No one really knows when athletics will resume whilst some people hope there maybe something later in 2020 if we recover well from this pandemic.

Even though whilst most of us are isolating we will still be conducting our elections which are due this year. Our secretary Michael will have details in this Bulletin.

Michael also has further news on the ATFS Website which he has updated. The up- dated site now has the work done so far by Richard Hymans and Pino Mappa in their re-working of annual men’s rankings. They are currently working on the 1930’s. Please have a look at the website and send any comments you may have to Michael.

I have also put on the website the almost full results of the Asian Games since 1951. I say almost as some of the early editions and some later one’s don’t have all the de- tails. If any member has anything to add or has corrections please let me know. The next lot will be the Pan-American Games. I have tried to acknowledge where I have got the results from and those who have been contributors in various ways. If I have missed anyone please let me know so I can add you. I have been working on these since the late 1950’s.

I would like to thank Tomas Magnusson who went through all these results and made corrections and additions. Tomas continues to edit the work of 1900-1910 which continues to progress and I also thank the members of the team for their great work.

I would also like to bring to your attention of the great work done by John Brant and Janusz Waśko whose latest edition of World Women’s Athletics 1911-1962 is now available.

On a sad note I wish to pass on our condolences to our Treasurer Tom Casacky on the sudden passing of his wife Julie early April. We wish Tom and his family our deepest sympathies.

Please stay safe and look after yourselves.

Kind regards,

Paul

Paul Jenes President ATFS

QUADRENNIAL ELECTIONS In accordance with Article 8 of the A.T.F.S. Constitution, detailed below, nominations are now open for the Executive Committee for the period 2020 to 2024 inclusive. Nominations, and individual financial members my nominate themselves, should be sent to the Secretary via email at [email protected] . Nominations shall received up to an including midnight (USA CT) on Sunday, 31st May 2020. Advice of Nominations shall be emailed to all financial members by no later than Wednesday, 1st July 2020. Voting shall take place from receipt of the Advice of Nominations to financial mem- bers until midnight (USA CT) on Sunday, 9th August 2020. Notes: A.T.F.S. Constitution. Article 8 (Elections) Elections for the Executive Committee shall be held in the year of the Olympic Games, and the elected Committee shall remain in office for the subsequent four years. Nominations shall be called for by the Secretary. Any member in good standing is eligible for election. In the event of one or more vacancies occurring between elections, either through death or res- ignation, the Executive Committee shall have the option to recruit replacements. Article 7 (Executive Committee) The management of the affairs of the ATFS shall be entrusted to an Executive Committee, con- sisting of a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer and five other members. If among this number any IAAF-recognized area – Africa, Asia, Europe, North & Central America & Caribbean, South America, and Oceania – is not represented, the Executive Com- mittee may add one member from each such area. This member shall be the person from that area receiving the greatest number of votes in the Executive Committee election. Pre-Nomination Indications. President, Paul Jenes, Treasurer Tom Casacky and Secretary Michael McLaughlin have all indicated that they will be nominating for their current positions. As a result of these indications, should there be more than one nomination for the po- sition of Secretary, the Treasurer will conduct the election. Should there be more than one nomination for the positions of Treasurer and Secre- tary the President will conduct the election. The Vice President shall conduct the election should the President, Treasurer and Sec- retary positions each have more than one nomination. Should all four Executive positions, President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary each have more than one nomination, the President shall appoint a non-nominated fi- nancial member to conduct the elections.

MEMBERSHIP DUES Have you paid your 2020 Membership yet ? If not, please send $US30 / 25Euros to Treasurer Tom Casacky as soon as possible. His address is: PO Box 4288, Napa, California 94558, USA. His email is: [email protected] Payment is also available via PayPal: Contact Tom for details Only financial members as at 15th May 2020 will be eligible to receive this years Athletics 2020 publication A.T.F.S. Website Have you checked out the A.T.F.S. website recently ?

The website has recently been relaunched with a more streamlined design using the latest website applications, which includes a more simplified security arrangement for members to access the protected content.

With this relaunch, new content has been added, and this included:

• Results of all Asian Games compiled and researched by Paul Jenes • Commonwealth Ranking Lists for 2019 by Stan Greenberg

• Trinidad & Tobago Ranking Lists for 2019 by Bernard Linley • Portuguese Indoor Lists for 2019-2020 by Fernando Martins

• Eastern Caribbean States All-Time Lists by Reynold O’Neal The above items can be found under the Historical menu, which is only viewable to members who access the website. As well, a number of member publications are promoted on the Publications section. As with all websites, it is always a work in progress.

Note: If you try to logon to the website and your Password (or Email) isn’t accepted you can request that it be reset. But! The link to change your Password will be sent to the email address that is associated with your account. So, if you have changed email ac- counts then you won’t get that link. In this case please shoot Michel an email with your current email address and that will be changed and you will then be able to ac- cess the website. If any member has information, ranking lists, historical research, etc., that they would like share with members and have included on the members-only area of the website, please don’t hesitate in sending the content to the Secretary for inclusion. Comments on and suggestions for the website are always welcome. Pete CAVA

Obituary By: ATFS Member Rich Perelman

Pete Cava , 73, the longtime information director for the Amateur Athletic Union and then The Athletics Congress, and noted A.T.F.S. member, passed away suddenly on Wednesday evening, December 18th, 2019.

His daughter, Nancy , wrote to friends that “Dad was enjoying dinner with friends last night, when he felt ill and had serious chest pains. He was taken to Methodist Hospital via ambu- lance. Fortunately, my mom made it to the hospital in time to be with him before he passed.”

Cava’s impact on Olympic sports cannot be minimized. He joined the AAU in 1974 to work on the association’s Junior Olympics program and then became the Media Information Direc- tor a couple of years later. He immediately began updating the AAU’s press information oper- ations, starting with a series of media guides for most of the AAU’s sports, at a time when Olympic sports received far more coverage than today.

Suddenly, the AAU championship events began providing the same level of services that were common at the baseball World Series, NFL Super Bowl and at major NCAA championships: pre-event media guides and daily notes, pre-event athlete availabilities and news conferences and post-event record recaps, statistics and quotes.

This was quite an undertaking as the AAU functioned as the national governing body for eight Olympic sports, including aquatics, bobsled, boxing, judo, luge, track & field, weightlift- ing and wrestling. Pete led the press operations program for the 1978 World Weightlifting Championships and 1979 World Wrestling Championships. In 1979, he left the AAU to become the Media Information Director of The Athletics Congress, devoted specifically to track & field. He greatly expanded the media information and opera- tions efforts, becoming a publisher of statistical guidebooks on cross country, the decathlon and heptathlon, race walking, indoor track & field, junior track & field, the U.S. National Championships and a seasonal track & field guide, the American Athletics Annual . Under his direction, the first-ever comprehensive calendar of U.S. meets was produced in 1983.

Pete was also the face of U.S. track & field press services on the road, serving as the U.S. team press officer for numerous international meets, as well as five editions of the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials. He created a mobile but ever-changing team of sports information pro- fessionals, statisticians and track nuts to help serve the media at national and international events, known as the “TAC Press Box Crew.”

Beyond all of this publicly-seen activity, Cava was also a gifted advisor and counselor to TAC Executive Director Ollan Cassell , to the AAU and TAC officers, on communications matters large and small. While he had detractors, Cava was widely appreciated – especially in the days before electronic mail was commonly available – for being accessible, friendly and well in- formed, among not only U.S. news media, but track & field reporters around the world, as well as many U.S. officials, promoters, agents, and, of course, athletes.

He was a large man, but gentle, easygoing and fun. He and the AAU and TAC reaped the benefit of his upbeat personality and sunny outlook, but he was not someone to be crossed, and certainly not a second time.

Pete left what had been re-named as USA Track & Field in 1999 and continued to work as a contract press officer for many events, including two editions of the World Baseball Classic, where his language skills made him an excellent choice to support teams such as Italy and Venezuela. He also wrote for the Indianapolis Star , was a U.S. correspondent for Agence France Presse and contributed to the National Scholastic Sports Foundation Web site.

But he also indulged his love for baseball writing and statistics and had encyclopedic knowledge about major-league players born in Indiana, as well as almost everything to do with his beloved Chicago Cubs. And he was known to enjoy, on occasion, handmade cigars, especially when his travels took him to Cuba.

Born in Staten Island, New York on 26 July 1946, Pete graduated from Fordham University, where he worked in the sports information department, and during his stint in the U.S. Army, served in the Public Affairs Office of the First Infantry Division at Ft. Riley, Kansas. He joined the AAU after working as a sports reporter and a radio program director. THE BOOKSHELF

ISRAEL ATHLETICS ANNUAL 2019-2020 David Eiger and Aril Cooks The latest edition of David Eiger and Arik Cook’s Israel Athletics Annual compiled for the Israeli Athetic Asso- ciation covering the 2019 season is now available. The publication contains ranking list for all events, pro- files of leading Israeli athletes, National Records and results of major competitions. Contact David at [email protected] for your copy. Copies of past seasons are also still available.

WORLD WOMEN’S ATHLETICS 100 Best Performers 1911-1962 sixth edition John Brant, Janusz Waśko and Stepanos Msiunas.

It really is magnificent as a very important part of the documentation of our sport. John and Janusz have done such incredible work in digging out the performances of women's athletes year by period in this period, so that 100 deep lists can be included, and they have been joined for this edition by Steponas Misiunas of Lithuania who has found many new marks from the Soviet Union.

Peter Matthews. Editor Athletics International & International Athletics Annual

The publication is available from John Brant, at email: [email protected].

STATISTICS PUBLICATIONS 2019 COMBINED EVENTS The following statistical publications are available in (electronical) PDF-format, as fol- lows: 2019 Annual Combined Events EUR 15,- Statistics Handbook Götzis 2019 EUR 10,- Statistics Handbook ECCE 1973 – 2019 EUR 15,- 100 years Olympic Decathlon 1912 – 2012 EUR 15,- All time best performers above 7.500 Decathlon EUR 5,- [1.634 athletes] All time best performances above 8.000 Decathlon EUR 5,- [2.596 results] All time best performers above 5.500 Heptathlon EUR 5,- [1.488 athletes] All time best performances above 6.000 Heptathlon EUR 5,- [3.211 results] All necessary information for coaches, athletes, journalists and other interested per- sons in combined events of all world top athletes and history in combined events is reported in these files. Order from Hans van Kuijen at e-mail: [email protected] Payments can be done to: BIC-code: ABNANL2A IBAN-code: NL79ABNA0523127898 Printed copies from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 are still available. Incl. PDF file 2018 Let’s Hear About Your Publication ! Got a publication you want to appear in the next Bulletin, then either send a copy to the Secretary or email with the text you wish to have printed along with a graphic of the front of the publication.

ATFS EXECUTIVE 2016 - 2020 President Paul JENES (Aust) Vice President A. Lennart JULIN (Swe) Treasurer Tom CASACKY (USA) Secretary Michael J. McLAUGHLIN (Aust/USA) Executive Committee Rooney MAGNUSSON (Swe), Giuseppe MAPPA (Ita), Peter MATTHEWS (GB), Yoshimasa NOGUCHI (Jap), Yves PINAUD (Fra), Vacancy

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