High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! IAAF Road Race Label Events are annual running competitions which have been granted recognition by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) as being among the foremost competitions of their type. The introduction of the awards was announced by IAAF General Secretary Pierre Weiss and Sean Wallace-Jones, the Senior Manager Road Running, coordinator of the IAAF’s Road Running Committee in 2007 following discussion at the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS) Marathon Symposium, and they were given out for the first time prior to the 2008 season.