Athletics competition management software

Athletics is not one competition but many. A typical championship programme covers sprints, middle and long distance races, hurdles, the steeplechase and relays on the track, the high jump, pole vault, long jump and triple jump, and the shot put, discus, hammer and javelin. Road races and race walks may be added, and combined events bring several disciplines together over one or two days.

Zeetius Tournaments lets an organiser build the programme event by event. Each event has its own category, age group, gender, entry limit and round structure, so a schools meeting with a handful of sprints and a national championship with a full programme are set up in the same way, and only the events the meeting actually holds appear on the listing.

Combined events need particular care. The decathlon and the heptathlon are scored with points tables, and an athlete's total builds up across the disciplines. Combined events entries, start lists and results by discipline are handled alongside the rest of the programme, and the points tables and scoring rules your federation uses can be discussed with our team.

• Track. Sprints, hurdles, middle and long distance races, the steeplechase and relays, each with its own rounds.
• Field. Vertical jumps, horizontal jumps and throws, with attempts and flights set per event.
• Road and combined. Road races, race walks and multi-discipline events such as the decathlon and the heptathlon.

Track events with large entries are run in rounds. Athletes are seeded into heats, usually by their best recent performance, and progress to the semi-finals and the final by finishing position and by fastest losers. The number of rounds, the number of heats and the qualification rule are set per event on Zeetius, so a meeting can run straight finals for small fields and full rounds for large ones.

Lane draws matter in track events up to 400 metres, where athletes stay in their lanes. Start lists for every heat and final show each athlete's lane or position, and they are published once the draw is confirmed, so athletes, coaches and officials know where to report and when.

Field events follow their own rules. In the horizontal jumps and the throws, athletes usually have a set number of attempts, and the best performers often receive further attempts. In the high jump and pole vault, athletes are eliminated after three consecutive failures. The attempt structure, flights and progression of heights for your meeting are configurable, and our team can discuss how you record them.

• Seeded heats. Athletes placed into heats from their entry performances, with lanes or positions on every start list.
• Qualification rules. Progression by place and by fastest losers, set by the organiser for each round.
• Field event flights. Large field event entries split into groups, with the number of attempts set per event.

Results are published event by event as soon as the officials confirm them, so athletes, coaches and parents can see times, distances and heights without waiting for a printed sheet. Every participant can receive a certificate generated in bulk from the results, and medal winners are read straight from the same confirmed results. Live scoring for your meeting can be discussed with our team.

Across a season, performances become rankings. Zeetius Federation prepares rank lists from real results by event, age group and gender, which is how a federation builds season lists, selection lists for state and national teams and junior development squads. Each ranking can be traced back to the meetings that produced it.

Records give athletics much of its meaning. Meet records, championship records and age-group records can be kept on Zeetius alongside the results that set them, so when a record falls it is recorded once, with the athlete, the meeting and the date, instead of being updated by hand in a spreadsheet that nobody trusts.