Measuring for the gold

作者：莫妮卡·米勒·罗杰斯（Monica Miller Rodgers），October2016

The athlete paces, eyeing the track before him. He sees each step he’ll take in his mind. He imagines reaching the white line and leaping, stretching his long legs out in front of him as far as possible. He can already feel the grainy sand spraying up around him as he lands. He takes the starting position and waits for the sound of the gun.

在400米轨道的另一端，一名技术人员准备捕获确定运动员的位置的结果。他会跳足够远的距离以取得胜利吗？或者，他只是错过了仅仅毫米的标记吗？这种获胜或失败在田径中是使用Leica Geosystems测量技术确定的。

A global competition

For the past 42 years, world-class athletes from around the globe have gathered at the premiere European track and field event in the Voralberg region of Austria at Götzis to compete in more than 40 events. Athletes compete in the decathlon or heptathlon and collect points here to go toward their yearly total for the parent competition.

“哥特斯是国际田联（国际田径联合会）的合并活动挑战中最好的个人，最传统的会议。在所有挑战会议的排名中，它可以与奥运会和世界锦标赛相提并论。”“在本次会议的最后42年中，创下了三项世界纪录和不可数数的国家记录。”

Leica Geosystems total stations have historically been used at the meet to measure the distance in the long jump and the throwing events of the shot put, javelin and discus. Critical to the competition, the high accuracy of these total stations is depended upon to provide the results correctly and quickly.

“Before we started using the total stations, we had to hand measure each event with tape. This slowed down the events and always left too much room for error,” said Hans Aberer, Hypomeeting technical director. “With Leica Geosystems total stations, we have been able to speed up results reporting to mere minutes, and we trust the good quality we are able to provide in those results.”

Explore next chapter:Judging sports events worldwide

故事：衡量黄金
Chapter 1: A global competition
Chapter 2:Judging sports events worldwide