National Track and Field Hall of Fame

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The National Track and Field Hall of Fame ( USA Athletics Hall of Fame ) was founded in 1974 and currently includes more than 250 US athletics personalities. The operator is z. Currently the The Armory Foundation , New York . The new building cost 8 million US dollars. This Hall of Fame existed from 1974 to 1985 in Charleston , then moved to Indianapolis (1985–1996), then to Los Angeles (1996–2002) and has been in New York since 2003 at 216 Fort Washington Avenue, Washington Heights . Successful athletes, coaches, officials and organizers of large sports festivals as well as journalists are accepted. The role models were other sports halls of honor that already existed in the USA, which were supposed to cultivate their own culture of remembrance and give the cultural component of performance a place alongside the training science component.

Admission criteria

It is only accepted according to performance, not character traits. The criteria are different for the different categories.

Athletes

One or more of the criteria must be met at the earliest three years after the end of your career (or at the age of 40):

  • World record
  • american record
  • World Champion
  • Olympic champion
  • World number one in three or more years
  • Winner of four or more American championships
  • other outstanding national or international achievements.

Trainer

The following criteria must be met at the earliest one year after the end of your career or after 35 years as a full-time athletics trainer:

  • Producing nationally and internationally outstanding teams or individual athletes and
  • to have produced consistently victorious teams over many years or to have provided other unusual achievements and
  • to have been a full-time trainer for at least 20 years.

Contributor (functionary, journalist, organizer, etc.)

To be listed as a contributor you have to have achieved something unusual in athletics and have been associated with athletics for at least 20 years.

Recorded

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.iaaf.org/news/news/usas-track-and-field-hall-of-fame-opens-in-ne auf. 2009.2016
  2. ↑ http://www.wvculture.org/history/sports/trackhof02.html on . 20th September 2016
  3. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The seven ways to fall into oblivion. In: Arnd Krüger, Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (Ed.): Forgetting, Displaced, Rejected. On the history of exclusion in sport. (= Series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History Hoya. Volume 21). LIT-Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10338-3 , pp. 4-16.

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