About A.T.F.S.

History

Founding members (26 August 1950):

President:                   Roberto Quercetani (Italy)
Secretary:                   Fulvio Regli (Switzerland)
Committee Members:   Harold Abrahams (UK, Honorary President)
                                  Bruno Bonomelli (Italy)
                                  André Greuze (Belgium)
                                  Erich Kamper (Austria)
                                  Norris McWhirter (UK)
                                  Ekkehard zur Megede (Germany)
                                  Donald Potts (USA)
                                  André Senay (France)
                                  Björn-Johan Weckman (Finland)
                                  Wolfgang Wünsche (Germany)

The 11 “track nuts” who on 26 August 1950 in Brussels founded the A.T.F.S. had a double aim in mind: documenting the present and recovering the past, in order to commit to future memory the efforts of thousands of athletes, men and women, who have given luster to the sport all over the World. Our aim was to promote such a work at both national and international levels.

Our main publication, the A.T.F.S. Annual, has developed from modest beginnings (128 pages in the inaugural 1951 edition) to its present bulk (608 pages in the 2010 edition). Working methods have developed similarly, from early “artisan” forms — typewritten material often requiring laborious proof-reading before it could be turned into book style — to the present advantages offered by modern technology. To most of us, the collection and distribution of track and field statistics is not an end in itself. At the international level, for example, it may well serve to “break down the walls” separating men and women of different languages and cultures.

A.T.F.S. Officers (1950 to date)

President:
1950-1968 Roberto Quercetani (Italy)
1968-1972 Rooney Magnusson (Sweden)
1972-1976 Donald H. Potts (USA)
1976-2000 Bob Sparks (Great Britain)
2000-2016 Paul Jenes (Australia)

Vice President:
2000-2016 A. Lennart Julin (Sweden)

Treasurer:
1950-1952 André Greuze (Belgium)
1952-1954 Helmer Broman (Sweden)
1954-1958 Stig-Lennart Nilsson (Sweden)
1958-1966 André Senay (France)
1966-1972 Alain Bouille (France)
1972-1999 Palle Lassen (Denmark)
2000-2008 Rob Whittingham (Great Britain)
2009-2016 Tom Casacky (USA)

Secretary:
1950-1956 Fulvio Regli (Switzerland)
1956-1968 Norris McWhirter (Great Britain)
1968-1972 Bob Phillips (Great Britain)
1972-1980 Fritz Steinmetz (Germany)
1980-1989 Andrew Huxtable (Great Britain)
1989-1994 David Martin (Great Britain)
1994-2010 Scott S. Davis (USA)
2012-2016 Michael McLaughlin (Australia)