Athletics New Zealand – News – New Zealand Official Appointed to Top Role at IAAF Meeting

Trevor Spittle, Athletics New Zealand top athletics official and only International Technical Official (ITO) has been appointed to the position of IAAF Technical Delegate for the Melbourne World Challenge meeting on 6 April. Spittle will oversee the work of the organising committee and will be responsible for all aspects of the event, including over 150 officials.
 
The meeting, featuring many international stars and the best from New Zealand and Australia is the first IAAF meeting for 2013 and a key one in the lead-up to the Moscow World Championships later in the year.
 
Spittle was the Chief ITO at the Delhi Commonwealth Games and will be one of ten ITOs at the Moscow World Championships in August this year.
 
The Christchurch accountant and Athletics New Zealand Board member had no idea when he started helping out at local children’s meetings that he would one day be travelling to major sporting events around the world as a key international athletics official.
 

Trevor Spittle Bio

Trevor’s initial involvement in athletics came through his children and the Papanui Toc H Athletic Club and from this beginning Trevor has had a continual involvement as an administrator and official. He has officiated at meetings in New Zealand and Australia including the Sydney Olympics and the Melbourne Commonwealth Games.

In 2005 was appointed as an International Technical Official (ITO) and was reappointed in 2009. In this role he officiates at various International meetings which in 2010 included the Youth Olympics in Singapore and Delhi Commonwealth Games. He was also on the organising committee for the World IPC Championships held in Christchurch January 2011 where he was Competition Director.

A past president of Athletics New Zealand, Trevor has been on the Athletics NZ Board since 2005. Trevor is also Vice President on the Oceania Athletic Association Council.

Trevor’s background is in finance and he spent 35 years as part of the management of a large multi national manufacturing company. He currently works in management in the transport sector which enables him to spend more time in Athletics.

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