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If your time was 1:39:59.5, is it considered 1:39:59 or 1:40?
I believe IAAF rules state that it gets rounded up. See paragraph 10 of rule 165 on page 150 of the rules.
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I believe IAAF rules state that it gets rounded up.
Yup. They can't round down...and make you faster than you were.
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I believe, though, that if the timing mechanism only reads seconds, not tenths, then it is 1:39:59.
It is recorded as 59.5. I have never had a time that included tenths of a second before.