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Committing the Time

A Tamper-Evident Ledger for Certifying Amateur Athletics Records

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities describes the Split Ledger, a commit-and-reveal timekeeping protocol deployed across nineteen amateur athletics clubs for a full season, reporting a fall in the disputed-claim rate from a season average of 4.4% to 0.6% alongside the district association's decision to require a ledger-certified time behind every personal-best or age-grade claim and to bar a certified result from ever being reopened.

Authors Marek Solheim , Verity Marris , Anouk Mensah
School School of Emergent Priorities
Output type Research paper
Published
DOI 10.5555/slop.l1p7xy
Pages 6
Version 1.0
Licence CC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_l1p7xy,
  author       = {Marek Solheim and Verity Marris and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Committing the Time: A Tamper-Evident Ledger for Certifying Amateur Athletics Records},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.l1p7xy},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-establish-a-tamper-evident-l1p7xy/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}