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Athletics 2003: The International Track and Field Year Book
Athletics 2003 The International Track and Field Year Book The first ATFS annual was published in 1951 in a pocket sized format. It switched to its present size 19 years ago, being edited throughout that time by Peter Matthews, the eminent TV commentator and co-publisher of Athletics International. It is known within Track & Field as the "Bible" of the sport, much as Wisden is in cricket and Rothmans is... more » in football. This year's annual looks back at 2002, the year in which the men's 100 metres world record was broken and British athletes were hugely successful in the Commonwealth Games, held in Manchester, and the European Championships. There are biographies of 700 athletes and exhaustive lists of performances both in 2002 and all-time. The annual also contains results from this year's World Indoor Championships, staged in Birmingham in March, and the World Cross Country Championships.« less