The Athletics Federation of Kazakhstan continues to work on improving the skills of its employees.
Athletics is not only about athletes, but also those who contribute to competitions through their work. In particular, the judicial corps. The chairman of the judging panel, Olga Ustyantseva (pictured in the bottom row, second from the right), recently completed a training course in Kyrgyzstan.
Lectures of the first level of TOECS (the IAAF system, whose task is to train judges of three levels: national, continental and world) for sports judges were delivered from December 4 to 8 in Bishkek, the capital of our southern neighbors. Olga Ustyantseva, who turned out to be a real excellent student, was honored to be invited from Kazakhstan. After the lectures, all participants took an exam in which a specialist from Ust-Kamenogorsk scored 97 points out of 100 possible! No participant of the event showed the best result at all!
– Participation in this course was useful both from a purely practical point of view and from the point of view of improving the quality of refereeing, – Olga explains in an interview with our correspondent. – This course of lectures was of the first level. This means that I have now been recognized at the IAAF level as an arbitrator who has the right to serve national-level competitions and international events taking place in our country. Of course, this does not mean that I could not work for them before, because Kazakhstan has its own training system. But it was important to take this course, because only judges who have passed this level have the right to apply for entry to the second level – continental. Studying on a continental and global level requires serious knowledge of English, which I am currently actively learning.
The exam consisted of three parts – a practical one, where the judges demonstrated their acquired skills directly at the stadium, an oral one with ticket pulling, and a written one, which lasted for two hours.
According to Ustyantseva, she did not learn a lot of new things during the courses, but the depth of knowledge improved due to a more thorough study of some nuances of situations that may arise directly at competitions.
– But the most important thing is that I now have a lecturer’s certificate, which I received in October at a course in Uzbekistan, and now I can conduct similar lecture courses for our arbitrators directly in Kazakhstan. A striking example is in Kyrgyzstan, this course was taught to us by a woman who received a lecturer’s certificate with me in October in Uzbekistan. You can apply to the IAAF, we will be given a permit, I will conduct it, and we will issue certificates. We have already planned that we will absolutely hold lectures for our judges at each championship, with an emphasis on such precise nuances of judicial skill.
Source: vksport.kz
