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3IBU EVENT AND COMPETITION RULESThe start must be placed at right angles to the skiing direction andmust be marked with a red line sunken into the snow. The area mustbe well fenced-off and must be suitable to cope with the traffic flow ofcompetitors, team support staff and officials without problems. Theremust be a warm-up area immediately adjacent to the start zone forcompetitors to perform their final, pre-competition warm-up, withenough room to store warm-up clothing, and space for a minimum of20 rifle racks able to hold at least seven rifles each, or as otherwisedirected by the RD /TD.3.2.2 Individual and Sprint Competition Start AreasThe start area for Individual and Sprint competitions must beapproximately 8-10 m long and a minimum of 2 m wide and must beseparated from the warm-up area by a fence with an opening to allowcontrolled access to the area.3.2.3 Pursuit Competition Start AreaThe start area for the Pursuit competition must have a minimum offour start lanes. The actual number of start lanes will be determinedby the number of simultaneous starts in the start list – if there are fivestarts in the same second, there must be five start lanes, etc. The startlanes must be numbered from the competitors’ right to left, 1.5-2 mwide and sufficiently long to hold the required number of competitors. Acommon start line must cross the end of the start lanes. The lanes mustbe parallel to each other and must be clearly separated. There must bea separate passage or lane that allows access across the start line in thecase of late starts. This lane must be supervised by a start official witha stopwatch synchronized to the competition time. A transponder timingpoint must be installed 1.5 m after the start line with a video camerainstalled to capture the relative start time of each competitor in case ofearly start.3.2.3.1 Pursuit Start BoardsSeparate boards, showing the start numbers and start times for eachlane in large print easily readable by competitors and officials, must bepositioned in front of the applicable start lanes and at the start line, onthe competitor’s left.3-32 IBU RULES
IBU EVENT AND COMPETITION RULES 33.2.4 Relay, Group and Mass Start Competition Start AreaThe start area must be laid out in such a way that all the competitors arerequired to ski the same distance until they reach the common course.A minimum of ten straight, parallel sets of tracks, with a minimum of1.2 m between each set of tracks (measured from center to center),must be set for a minimum of 30 m from the start line. The number ofstart tracks will depend on the space available and the number of relayteams entered, with the objective of having the fewest possible startrows. If there is more than one start row, the distance between rowsmust be 5 m. The end of the parallel tracks must be clearly marked.After the first parallel-tracked section there must be a further 50 m ofstraight, level and smoothly groomed, trackless, gradually convergingarea that leads to the competition course.3.2.4.1 Start Position Boards – Relay/Mixed Relay, Group and Mass StartcompetitionThe start positions must be marked with numbers. There must be thesame number of boards as the number of starters in the competition.The size of the board must be 20 x 20 cm. The number boards must beplaced on the left of each position and the number must be readablefrom the front and the rear. The numbers on the boards must be at least10 cm high and must be highly visible to the competitors and TV. Thestart lanes must be numbered from the competitors’ right to left.3.2.5 Super Sprint Start AreaThe distances between the starting rows must be five meters, with threemeters between the starting lanes. The start lanes must extend 20 mforward from the start line and competitors must remain in their laneuntil it ends. The start lanes must be numbered from the competitors’right to left.3.2.6 Course Information BoardsThere must be a board at the entrance to the start area on which thecourse map shows the color sequence for the competition.3.2.7 Start ClocksAt the start area for Individual and Sprint competitions, there must bea start clock placed so that it is easily readable from the start line. Thedisplay of the clock and the sound signal must be synchronized. For thePursuit competitions, there must be a start clock on the left and rightIBU RULES 3-33
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