{"id":18183,"date":"2020-07-27T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conica.com\/types-of-certifications\/"},"modified":"2021-07-06T13:47:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T11:47:17","slug":"types-of-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conica.com\/it\/types-of-certifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Types of certifications<\/h1>\r\n

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As we mentioned in the previous article, there are various different certifications. We are going to focus on the certificates that you will have heard the most about in the market. Although they used to be referred to as IAAF certificates and many people still call them by that name today, the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) changed its name to World Athletics (WA) in November 2019. In doing so they also changed the names of their certifications. That is why you will often see both expressions referring to the same organisation.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n\n

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World Athletics (WA) distinguishes between three types<\/u><\/strong> of certifications:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Certified products<\/li>
  2. Certified facilities, broken down into the following three categories
    1. Class 1<\/li>
    2. Class 2<\/li>
    3. Indoor<\/li><\/ol><\/li>
    4. Accredited laboratories<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      The certified products are made up of many different elements, such as those that can be part of the athletes\u2019 sports equipment, or starting blocks, hurdles, scoreboards etc, and of course, synthetic sports surfaces<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The different systems for athletics surfaces are thus one of the World Athletics (WA) organisation\u2019s \u201cCertified products\u201d<\/strong>. A company that manufactures surfaces for synthetic tracks may therefore have several systems (products) certified with different construction systems, provided that they meet the technical conditions required by World Athletics (WA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      So what are the Class 1 and Class 2 athletics track systems?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Don\u2019t trust companies or salespersons offering you a Class 1 or Class 2 athletics track system. They will be trying to confuse you<\/strong>. This nomenclature is intended for facilities on which competitions are held and not solely for the surface of the athletics track. Of course, to obtain a \u201cCertified facility\u201d<\/strong> by World Athletics (WA) as Class 1 or Class 2, the facility must have a synthetic surface certified by World Athletics (WA), but this is just one of the many requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Three basic concepts from this chapter:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n