Footbike World Championship will respect rules published on www.iksaworld.com (rules) web site and the specific rules prepared by GS AVIS commitee that is published on this page and available in PDF.
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VERSION 2.0
GENERAL RULES
Every athlete must have a medical certificate attesting his/her attitude to sport. Every athlete takes part in races at his/her own risk. Every athlete must wear a helmet during all of the races.
The official timing will be made by the electronic system AMB MYLAPS. Every athlete must safely fix the chip to the footbike. The chip must be placed on the front fork; in case an athlete, for a failure of the footbike or for whatever other reason, needs to change his/her footbike, he/she must take care of moving the chip to the new footbike.
Every Nation must designate a representative for questions, clarifications, or complaints.
This regulation, published on the official WC website, will not be questionable during the WC event.
Every athlete has the responsibility to read this regulation, and violations to the rules can lead to disqualification of athletes.
RACE NUMBERS
Race numbers will be assigned according to the World Ranking as updated on IKSA website on 16th July (first day after the deadline for registrations).
WC SPRINT RACE - 400 m (Thursday)
World titles will be assigned for the categories Veterans, Seniors, Juniors, and Cadets, both Men and Women.
The race will take place on a 400 m outdoor FIDAL approved athletics track.
Due to the high number of athletes registered, after the qualification lap there will be distinct heats for each category.
START
Running start is not admitted, nor are athletes allowed to move before the start. One false start is admitted in every heat; at the second false start in the same heat, the athlete(s) responsible for it will be disqualified.
INVASIONS OF LANE
Every athlete must stay in his/her own lane for the whole qualification/heat. Invading the next lane, with the foot/feet or with the wheel(s), is not admitted. The judges placed along the track will control the regular progress of the race. Invasions of lane considered as voluntary by the judges’ unquestionable decision will be punished with the disqualification of the athlete.
RULE FOR THE STARTING LANE
In every heat, with 4 athletes each, the athlete qualified with the best time will race in the second lane; the athlete qualified with the second time will race in the third lane; the athlete qualified with the third time will race in the first lane; the athlete qualified with the fourth time will race in the fourth lane.
RACE PROGRESS
The race will start, for all of the categories, with a qualification lap, done individually with 30 seconds gap between each athlete.
After the qualification lap, 8 Cadets (4 Men and 4 Women), 8 Juniors (4 Men and 4 Women), 8 Senior Women, 4 Veteran Women, and 16 Veteran Men will pass to the next round.
For Senior Men, the following model will be adopted:
Model 3: after the individual qualification lap, 24 athletes will be qualified. The athletes with the best 8 times will pass directly to the quarter finals. The athletes with the times from 9 to 24 will make the eighth finals, where the best two times in each heat will pass to the next round. The 8 athletes passing to the next round will make the quarter finals with the athletes qualified in the individual lap with the best 8 times. From then on, regular heats with 4 athletes each, where the athletes with the best two times in each heat are qualified for the next round, till the final.
For a graphic representation of the model, see below or the PDF document attached.
FINAL CLASSIFICATION
For the final classification, for all of the categories, the first four places (1 to 4) will be determined by the placing of the rider in the final round.
The following four places (5 to 8) will be determined by the placing of the rider in the small final round.
The placing of the riders below the 8th place will be determined by the round reached (quarter final, eighth final, sixteenth final), then their placing in that ride, then by their qualification times.
SCHEME FOR THE MAKEUP OF HEATS WITH LESS THAN 49 PARTICIPANTS
WC CRITERIUM RACE - 14.5 km (Friday)
World titles will be assigned for the categories Overall, Veterans, Juniors, and Cadets, both Men and Women.
The race will take place on asphalt roads.
The starting grid will be made according to the times of the WC Sprint Race qualifications.
Men (Veterans, Seniors, Juniors, and Cadets) will start first; Women (Veterans, Seniors, Juniors, and Cadets) will start one minute later.
Running start is admitted.
WC RELAY RACE - 30 min + 1 lap (Friday)
World titles will be assigned for Men and Women, without distinction of categories.
The race will take place on a city track partly with asphalt and partly with stone pavement (approx. 50%). The length of the track is 550 m.
Women will race first; Men will start after the end of the Women’s race.
Running start is admitted.
Only athletes above 13 years old can take part.
Each team will race with only one footbike with AMB MYLAP chip, that will be passed from a racer to the next after every lap. In case of substitution of the footbike, The team must take care of moving the chip to the new footbike.
Teams must be made up of 3 people.
Teams with more or less than 3 people, and teams mixed in gender and/or nationality are not admitted. In case of incomplete (2 members) or mixed (in gender and/or nationality) teams, the organization will decide, according to the number of teams, whether to make a race for them (20 minutes + 1 lap, not part of the WC), or to accept them in the WC Relay Race without ranking them in the WC Relay Race classification.
WC ENDURANCE RACE - 3.7 km x 10 laps (Saturday)
World titles will be assigned for the categories Overall, Veterans, and Juniors, both Men and Women.
The race will take place on asphalt roads.
The starting grid will be made according to the times of the WC Sprint Race qualifications.
Cadets are free to take part, but they will be ranked in the overall classification; there will not be a special classification for Cadets.
Men (Veterans, Seniors, and Juniors) will start first; Women (Veterans, Seniors, and Juniors) will start one minute later.
Running start is admitted.
When the 1st Man finishes his race, all Men of all categories will be stopped at the end of that lap, and when the 1st Woman finishes her race, all Women of all categories will be stopped at the end of that lap.
Thus, athletes lapped by somebody of the same gender will not complete the 10 laps, but will end their race with one or more laps less.
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