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Field Events

Entering and correcting field event results in track and field meets: the Field Input grid, typing marks, fouls, and passes, high jump and pole vault heights, wind readings, ties and jump-offs. Field events need the event’s discipline set right (horizontal jump, vertical jump, or throw) and entries in the event.

Enter field event results (Field Input)

  1. On Entries, select the field event.
  2. Press Field Input.
  3. Pick the flight, if the event has more than one.
  4. Type each attempt, or each height’s result, into the grid.
  5. Check each athlete’s best mark before closing.

The grid has one row per athlete. Horizontal jumps and throws have a column per attempt; vertical jumps have a column per bar height. Move with Tab, Shift+Tab, Enter, Shift+Enter, and the arrow keys. Escape puts a cell back to its last saved value, and Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on a Mac) undoes the last saved change. Each athlete’s best mark updates as you save.

The single-entry form still works for one-off corrections, but Field Input is the faster way on meet day.

Type a foul or a pass in the long jump, triple jump, or a throw

In a horizontal jump or throw attempt cell, type:

  • the mark, such as 6.42 or 18-6.25;
  • F for a foul;
  • P for a pass.

Leave a cell empty for an attempt not taken yet. Results record fouls and passes as attempts; “no mark” isn’t something you type, it’s what an athlete with no valid mark ends up with.

To change how many attempts the grid shows, set Attempts at the top of Field Input.

Prelims and finals in the long jump, triple jump, and throws

At most meets everyone takes three attempts, then the best 8 or 9 take three more, in reverse order so the leader goes last. 2Timer works out who made it and in what order; you check it against the head judge’s card and press Create finals.

How many go on is Number of finalists on Setup: the seeding profile’s number (9 for NFHS, NCAA, and NAIA; 8 for USATF), another number, or None, where everyone takes the same number of attempts. One event can use its own number under Round Setup. Meets created before this update keep their attempt counts; set Number of finalists to use finals.

  1. Type attempts 1–3 in each flight as usual. Each flight’s header reads Flight 1 · Prelims · attempts 1–3.
  2. Pick Finals flight in the flight picker. It lists the finalists 2Timer proposes, in the order they take attempts 4–6, with the flight they came from and their best mark, then everyone who didn’t make it, greyed.
  3. If athletes are tied for the last spot, a box names them. The rules take them all to the finals; untick one if the referee rules otherwise. Whether the second-best mark breaks the tie first is Jump and throw ties at the cut on Setup.
  4. Press Create finals. If someone is missing an attempt, 2Timer names them and still lets you create the finals.
  5. Type attempts 4–6 on the Finals flight, in its order.

Only marks from attempts 1–3 decide who makes the finals and the order. Athletes still tied keep the order they competed in: the earlier flight goes first.

  • Change who is in the finals: use Add to the finals or Take out of the finals (a protest or a referee’s ruling). 2Timer says “Changed by hand” until you press Use the prelim standings again.
  • A prelim mark corrected after the finals are created: 2Timer says what would change (“Maya Ortiz’s attempt 2 is now 5.21 m: 5th after the prelims, not 7th, going 6th in the finals, not 4th”) and changes nothing until you press Update finals or Keep finals as they are.
  • Athletes who didn’t make the finals keep their best mark and their place. Their attempts 4–6 read Not in finals.
  • An athlete who stops (hurt, or leaving for another event): press Mark Retired on their row. The attempts they didn’t take print r; they keep their best mark, place, and spot in the finals order, and nobody moves up to replace them. Undo Retired takes it back.
  • Clear finals removes the finals and keeps every attempt. Once a finals attempt is typed, it asks first. Undo takes back the last finals change.

Once the finals are created, the Field Event Sheets report prints a Finals flight card beside the flight cards, in the same order.

Typing marks: metric and English

The meet’s Field marks setting on Setup decides metric or English. A division can use a different one with Field event marks on the division.

  • Metric: type meters with a decimal point, such as 6.42, or digits only, where the last two digits are centimeters: 642 is 6.42 m.
  • English: the safest form is feet, a hyphen, and inches, such as 18-6.25. Digits also work: 66 is 6-6, and 1810 is 18-10. Careful: a decimal means decimal feet, so 6.5 is 6 ft 6 in, not 6 ft 5 in.

High jump and pole vault: heights and results

For vertical jumps, each column is a bar height and each athlete’s cell holds their result at that height:

  • O cleared on the first attempt, XO on the second, XXO on the third;
  • XXX out at that height;
  • P passed. Typing - gives P, and 0 gives O.

Press Add Height in Field Input to add the next bar. To set the planned heights before the meet, use Bar progression on the event’s Round Setup.

Wind for long jump and triple jump

At outdoor meets, long jump and triple jump attempts can carry a wind reading. In the attempt cell, type the mark, a slash, and the wind: 6.45/1.8, or 6.45/-0.4. A space works instead of the slash: 6.45 1.8.

If results come from FieldLynx (LFF files), each attempt’s wind comes with them.

Indoor meets record no wind.

Wind for sprints and hurdles (heat wind)

At outdoor meets, races shorter than 400 m (dashes, hurdles, steeplechase, and race walks) take one wind reading per heat. Relays never do.

  1. On Entries, select the race and filter to one heat.
  2. Type the reading in the heat’s wind field.

At the Basic level the wind field isn’t shown on Entries.

Typing a wind reading, and what blank means (NWI)

  • Type the reading in meters per second with its decimal point: 1.8, +1.8, or -0.4. Two digits without a point also work: 12 is +1.2.
  • Leave it blank when there’s no reading. Blank means NWI (no wind instrument).
  • Type 0 only when the gauge actually read zero. 0 is a real reading, not the same as blank.

For example, if the wind gauge died during the long jump, leave those attempts’ wind blank, not 0. After saving, wind shows with its sign, such as +1.80 m/s. 2Timer records wind; it doesn’t mark marks as wind-aided.

How ties are broken in high jump and pole vault

2Timer breaks vertical jump ties from the saved height results:

  1. Best cleared height.
  2. If tied, fewer attempts at the best cleared height.
  3. If still tied, fewer misses through the best cleared height.
  4. If still tied, the tie stands unless officials run a jump-off.

Record a high jump or pole vault jump-off

When two athletes tie for first and the officials run a jump-off:

  1. In Field Input, press Resolve tie.
  2. In Resolve 1st-Place Tie, record who won the jump-off, and save.

2Timer places the athletes by that result, and the entries can show short notes such as JO or JO 2nd in results and reports. Don’t add extra heights to fake the jump-off.

If you later change one of the tied athletes’ heights or best mark, the jump-off result is cleared, and Field Input says Tie resolution needs review. Edit tie resolution changes a saved one. Jump-off flights in FieldLynx files are brought in the same way.

How ties are broken in the long jump, triple jump, and throws

Athletes with the same best mark are separated by their next-best mark, then the one after that. For the last finals spot, or the last spot in a Qualifying round, Jump and throw ties at the cut on Setup decides whether that next-best mark counts first: NFHS, NCAA, and NAIA don’t count back, so everyone tied on best mark goes through; USATF does.

Field events: common mistakes

  • Wrong discipline: wind, the Field Input layout, and how marks are typed all depend on the event’s discipline being right.
  • Wrong units: check Field marks on Setup, and Field event marks on the division if it differs, before entering marks.
  • Attempts left out: with only some attempts entered, the best mark may not be the athlete’s real best.
  • Blank wind typed as 0: blank means NWI; 0 means the gauge read zero.

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  • Last Updated: 2026-10-21
  • Document Version: 0.4
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