Portal:Sport of athletics
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross-country running, and racewalking.
The results of racing events are decided by finishing position (or time, where measured), while the jumps and throws are won by the athlete that achieves the highest or furthest measurement from a series of attempts. The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country.
Organized athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of the modern events in athletics were defined in Western Europe and North America in the 19th and early 20th century, and were then spread to other parts of the world. Most modern top level meetings are held under the auspices of World Athletics, the global governing body for the sport of athletics, or its member continental and national federations. (Full article...)
The European 10,000m Cup is an annual 10,000 metres race for European athletes which was first held in 1997. The competition is organised by the European Athletics Association and first began as the European 10000 Metres Challenge (European 10,000m Challenge till 2005 edition), after the event was removed from the European Cup programme. The competition has roots in the Iberian 10,000 metres Championships – a competition between Spanish and Portuguese athletes that was held between 1991 and 1996 – and the first five editions of the European 10000 Metres Challenge were held in the Iberian Peninsula. The event was first held under its current title in 2005. From 2018, the event has been held as the climax of the Night of 10k PB's event at Parliament Hill, London. (Full article...)
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1 July:
- Ödön Földessy, Hungarian long jumper
- Ed Gordon, American long jumper
- Glenn Hardin, American hurdler
- Lynn Jennings, American distance runner
- Carl Lewis, American sprinter and long jumper
- Steffi Nerius, German javelin thrower
- Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker
- Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper
- Tatyana Tomashova, Russian middle-distance runner
- Szymon Ziółkowski, Polish hammer thrower
2 July:
- Derrick Adkins, American hurdler
- Ricky Bruch, Swedish discus thrower
- Walter Davis, American triple jumper
- Daphne Hasenjager, South African sprinter
- Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner
- Wendell Mottley, Trinidadian sprinter
3 July:
- Johnny Gibson, American hurdler
- Remigius Machura, Czechoslovakian shot putter
- Churandy Martina, Dutch sprinter
- Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese distance runner
- Daniel Plaza, Spanish race walker
4 July:
- John Anderson, American discus thrower
- Wude Ayalew, Ethiopian distance runner
- Amantle Montsho, Botswanan sprinter
- Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian distance runner
5 July:
- Abeba Aregawi, Ethiopian-Swedish middle-distance runner
- Matthew Birir, Kenyan steeplechase runner
- Valentí Massana, Spanish race walker
- Wim Peters, Dutch triple jumper
- Carlo Thränhardt, German high jumper
- John Woodruff, American middle-distance runner
6 July:
- Valerie Brisco-Hooks, American sprinter
- Rex Cawley, American hurdler
- Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, American hurdler
- Gunhild Hoffmeister, German middle-distance runner
- Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand coach
- Mary Peters, British pentathlete
- Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, Ukrainian sprinter
- Jozef Pribilinec, Czechoslovakian race walker
- László Tábori, Hungarian middle-distance runner
7 July:
- Murray Halberg, New Zealand distance runner
- Kerstin Knabe, German hurdler
- Adam Nelson, American shot putter
- Tina Paulino, Mozambican middle-distance runner
- ... that Ethiopian long-distance runner Atsede Habtamu set a new course record at the Eindhoven Marathon with her first marathon victory earlier this month?
- ... that 2006 National Capital Marathon winner Amos Tirop Matui was disqualified and received financial compensation due to a misplaced barrier on the course?
- ... that Australian runner Michael Shelley lost his scholarship funding and suffered a broken leg in 2009, but went on to win a silver medal in the marathon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
- ... that Irene Kosgei, despite injuring her knee at a drinks station early in the women's marathon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, edged compatriot Irene Mogaka to become the first Kenyan woman to win a Commonwealth marathon title?
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Tyson Gay (born August 9, 1982) is a retired American track and field sprinter who competed in the 100 and 200 meters. His 100 m personal best of 9.69 seconds is the American record and makes him tied for the second fastest athlete over 100 m ever, along with Yohan Blake of Jamaica.
Gay has won medals in many major international competitions, which includes 3 gold medals in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay at the 2007 Osaka World Championships. This made him the second man to win all three events at the same World Championships, after Maurice Greene (Usain Bolt duplicated the feat two years later). Gay is a four-time U.S. champion in the 100 m.
At the 2008 Olympic Trials, he ran a wind assisted 9.68 seconds in the 100 m. Days later, he suffered a severe hamstring injury in the 200 m trials and did not win any medals at the Beijing Olympics. He clocked 9.71 seconds to win the 100 m silver medal in the 2009 World Championships — it is the fastest non-winning time in the history of the 100 m.
In July 2013, it was announced that Gay had tested positive for a banned substance; he subsequently withdrew from consideration for the World Championships in Moscow. The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) suspended him until June 23, 2014, and stripped him of his silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Gay is a two-time winner of the Jesse Owens Award, was the 2007 IAAF World Athlete of the Year, won Best Track and Field Athlete for Track & Field News in 2007 and for ESPY Award in 2008 and 2011. He has also achieved multiple Men's season's best performances in the 100 m and 200 m. (Full article...)
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- ... that at the 2022 British Indoor Athletics Championships, Lorraine Ugen equalled the championship long jump record?
- ... that at the 2022 British Athletics Championships, Daryll Neita became the first woman since 2010 to win both the 100- and 200-metre events?
- ... that in the 1932 baseball game in which pitcher Eddie Rommel won his last game, he pitched 17 innings in relief, an American League record?
- ... that the men's 100 metres event at the 2023 British Athletics Championships was run in heavy rain?
- ... that Marthe Yankurije, who dropped out of school during her fourth year of secondary school, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
- ... that the women's race at today's New York City Marathon will feature two of the medalists from this year's Olympic marathon?
- ... that when the Oakland Athletics promoted Bill McNulty to the major leagues, they needed forest rangers to find him?
- ... that German runner Alica Schmidt, who is running in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics, has won multiple European junior relay medals?
Event | Men | Record | Women | Record |
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100 m | 9.58 | 10.49 | ||
200 m | 19.19 | 21.34 | ||
400 m | 43.03 | 47.60 | ||
800 m | 1:40.91 | 1:53.28 | ||
1500 m | 3:26.00 | 3:49.11 | ||
5000 m | 12:35.36 | 14:00.21 | ||
10,000 m | 26:11.00 | 29:01.03 | ||
Marathon | 2:00:35 | 2:14:04 | ||
3000 m steeplechase | 7:52.11 | 8:44.32 | ||
110 / 100 m hurdles | 12.80 | 12.12 | ||
400 m hurdles | 45.94 | 50.68 | ||
High jump | 2.45 m | 2.09 m | ||
Pole vault | 6.23 m | 5.06 m | ||
Long jump | 8.95 m | 7.52 m | ||
Triple jump | 18.29 m | 15.74 m | ||
Shot put | 23.56 m | 22.63 m | ||
Discus throw | 74.08 m | 76.80 m | ||
Hammer throw | 86.74 m | 82.98 m | ||
Javelin throw | 98.48 m | 72.28 m | ||
Decathlon/Heptathlon | 9126 pts. | 7291 pts. | ||
20 km racewalk | 1:16:36 | 1:23:49 | ||
4×100 m relay | 36.84 | 40.82 | ||
4×400 m relay | 2:54.29 | 3:15.17 |
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It's from the first edition (1896 Summer Olympics), that Athletics has been considered the "Queen" of the Olympics. Since then there have been a series of competitions organized at world level, than at the continental level. Furthermore, the Athletics is the main sport of nearly all multi-sport events such as Universiade, Mediterranean Games or Pan American Games. The following list refers to the main Athletics competitions that take place in the world.
Event | 1st edition | Kind of competition | Can participate |
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Olympic Games | 1896 | World games | |
World Championships | 1983 | World championships | |
World Indoor Championships | 1985 | ||
European Championships | 1934 | Continental championships | |
European Indoor Championships | 1966 | ||
South American Championships | 1919 | ||
Asian Championships | 1973 | ||
African Championships | 1979 | ||
Ocenian Championships | 1990 |
- Internationals
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
European Athletics Association (EAA)
Confederation of African Athletics (CAA)
Asian Athletics Association (AAA)
North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association
CONSUDATLE
Oceania Athletics Association (OAA)
- Nationals
Australia: Athletics Australia (AA)
Brazil: Brazilian Athletics Confederation (CBAt)
Canada: Athletics Canada (AC)
Czech: Czech Athletics Federation (ČAS)
France: Fédération française d'athlétisme (FFA)
Germany: German Athletics Association (DLV)
Italy: Italian Athletics Federation (FIDAL)
Jamaica: Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA)
Japan: Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF)
Kenya: Athletics Kenya (AK)
China: Chinese Athletic Association
Norway: Norwegian Athletics Association
Romania: Romanian Athletics Federation
Spain: Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA)
Great Britain: UK Athletics (UKA)
United States: USA Track & Field (USATF)
- Others
Wales: Welsh Athletics (WA)
England: Amateur Athletic Association of England (AAA)
Scotland: Scottishathletics
Athletic Association of Small States of Europe (AASSE)
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