Race Results ... Gun Time vs Chip Time
From BC Athletics
According to IAAF rules, race results and awards should be based on official time or GUN TIME (the time from the start gun to the crossing of the finish line). They should not be based on net times found by subtracting the time of crossing the start mat from the time of crossing the finish mat, if chip timing is used with a start mat.
Chip times can be displayed on the official results as well as the gun times, but should not be used to sort the finishers. Net chip times are for personal interest only.
Timex Series rankings are based on gun times. The only exceptions are the Sun Run and Times Colonist 10k, where the age group points are based on chip times due to the massive size of these events and the complications of wave starts in the Sun Run. Overall top 20 are sorted by gun time for these 2 races.
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