NCAA Institutes Indexing System for 2012-13 Indoor Track and Field

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While the idea of building an outdoor competition track in any length other than 400 meters is preposterous, no one bats an eye at the variation in indoor track lengths.

While the idea of building an outdoor competition track in any length other than 400 meters is preposterous, no one bats an eye at the variation in indoor track lengths. From the 160-yard track (about 146 meters) at Madison Square Garden all the way up to the 442-meter Utah Olympic Oval, the only thing consistent about indoor track lengths is their inconsistency.

A standard does exist, though - kind of. Both the IAAF and NCAA define a standard indoor track as 200 meters, but the NCAA indoor track and field rules book, in recognizing that holding all institutions to that standard isn't feasible, tempers that specification with, "This distance may be reduced or exceeded."

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