Skip to content
RichseenAtlas← AtlasSign in

The international federation is founded

node

Twenty-seven representatives of 17 national federations meet in Stockholm on 18 July 1912, immediately after the Olympic Games there, and agree to convene a congress in Berlin the following year. The 1913 Berlin congress formally founds the International Amateur Athletic Federation under Sigfrid Edstrom. Until this body exists there is no institution with standing to declare what a marathon is, which is why the 1908 distance is not a standard for thirteen years.

A node is not a place. Drawing it on a map would assert something about the world that no stored fact supports.

Read in · 1

Evidence · 1
Timeline

No dated observations are stored for this object. Atlas shows what was observed and when — it does not infer a history.

Connections · 1
Assembled narrative · 1

Assembled from 15 blocks · 1 evidence · 15 related

  1. Story
  2. Twenty-seven representatives of 17 national federations meet in Stockholm on 18 July 1912, immediately after the Olympic Games there, and agree to convene a congress in Berlin the following year. The 1913 Berlin congress formally founds the International Amateur Athletic Federation under Sigfrid Edstrom. Until this body exists there is no institution with standing to declare what a marathon is, which is why the 1908 distance is not a standard for thirteen years.
  3. Knowledge
  4. World Athletics
  5. The international federation is founded
  6. Connections
  7. World Athletics
  8. Record-eligible road course criteria
  9. Carbon-plated road racing shoe
  10. The marathon distance (42.195 km / 26 miles 385 yards)
  11. The international federation is founded
  12. The 1908 distance becomes the world standard
  13. World Athletics regulates the racing shoe
  14. Evidence
  15. The marathon distance is 42.195 km / 26 miles 385 yards, taken from the 1908 London Olympic course and set as the standard by the IAAF in 1921. V55 verification basis: worldathletics.org was refused by this session's network egress proxy, so the page was read only through attributed search summaries; the 1921 congress minute was not seen.
Close the narrative
Observed changes · 0

No public Signals are attached to this object. Signals show what changed and when it was observed — never a direction or a rank.

Actions

Read the assembled narrativeContinue in StudioOpen TwinTwin does not start a decision from this kind of object.ShareSaveSaved objects are part of the authenticated projection, which is declared and not yet built.

/atlas?object=EVT_IAAF_FOUNDED_1912_1913&experience=EVT_IAAF_FOUNDED_1912_1913