Athletics

=ATHLETICS=

Athletics is a complex of competitive sports which are mostly individual, except for the relay. Athletics derives from the games which were done in the past and represents today one of the most important Olympic disciplines. it is divided into track-and-field sports and weigh-lifting and wrestling. The track-and-field sports includes the walk, the throw (discus throwing, jawelin throwing, putting the shot, hammer throw), jump (pole vault, high jump, long jump, triple jump) and race events. race can be flat or hurdle. There can be individual or relay team race. A particular event is the Marathon, which is the most ancient race of athletic and also one of the longest: the Marathon runners have to go along 42,195 kilometres. It has this name in memory of the walk made by Fidippide after the battle of Marathon. Since 1984 it is also a female discipline. The Italian Stefano Baldini wore the gold medal in the Marathon of the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens.

Athletics: Olympic events
Race 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, 3000, 5000, 10.000 metres

Hurdle race 100, 110, 400, 3000 metres hundle

Relay 4 x 100, 4 x 400

Walk 10, 20, 50 kilometres, Marathon

Jump high jump, pole vault, long jump, triple jump

Throw discus throw, putting the shot, hammer throw, jawelin throw

Heptathlon Decathlon

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