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Welcome to THEATHLETICS PORTAL

Introduction

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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...)

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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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Zoltán Kővágó at Barcelona Meeting in 2009

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  • 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
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  • ... 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 BlakeofJamaica.

    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 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?
  • World records

    World records as of 9 April 2024
    Event Men Record Women Record
    100 m Jamaica Usain Bolt 9.58 United States Florence Griffith Joyner 10.49
    200 m Jamaica Usain Bolt 19.19 United States Florence Griffith Joyner 21.34
    400 m South Africa Wayde van Niekerk 43.03 East Germany Marita Koch 47.60
    800 m Kenya David Rudisha 1:40.91 Czechoslovakia Jarmila Kratochvílová 1:53.28
    1500 m Morocco Hicham El Guerrouj 3:26.00 Kenya Faith Kipyegon 3:49.11
    5000 m Uganda Joshua Cheptegei 12:35.36 Ethiopia Gudaf Tsegay 14:00.21
    10,000 m Uganda Joshua Cheptegei 26:11.00 Ethiopia Letesenbet Gidey 29:01.03
    Marathon Kenya Kelvin Kiptum 2:00:35 Kenya Brigid Kosgei 2:14:04
    3000 m steeplechase Ethiopia Lamecha Girma 7:52.11 Kenya Beatrice Chepkoech 8:44.32
    110 / 100 m hurdles United States Aries Merritt 12.80 Nigeria Tobi Amusan 12.12
    400 m hurdles Norway Karsten Warholm 45.94 United States Sydney McLaughlin 50.68
    High jump Cuba Javier Sotomayor 2.45 m Bulgaria Stefka Kostadinova 2.09 m
    Pole vault Sweden Armand Duplantis 6.23 m Russia Yelena Isinbayeva 5.06 m
    Long jump United States Mike Powell 8.95 m Soviet Union Galina Chistyakova 7.52 m
    Triple jump United Kingdom Jonathan Edwards 18.29 m Venezuela Yulimar Rojas 15.74 m
    Shot put United States Ryan Crouser 23.56 m Soviet Union Natalya Lisovskaya 22.63 m
    Discus throw East Germany Jürgen Schult 74.08 m East Germany Gabriele Reinsch 76.80 m
    Hammer throw Soviet Union Yuriy Sedykh 86.74 m Poland Anita Włodarczyk 82.98 m
    Javelin throw Czech Republic Jan Železný 98.48 m Czech Republic Barbora Špotáková 72.28 m
    Decathlon/Heptathlon France Kevin Mayer 9126 pts. United States Jackie Joyner-Kersee 7291 pts.
    20 km racewalk Japan Yusuke Suzuki 1:16:36 China Yang Jiayu 1:23:49
    4×100 m relay  Jamaica 36.84  United States 40.82
    4×400 m relay  United States 2:54.29  Soviet Union 3:15.17
    See also: List of world records in athletics

    Topics

    Athletics events

    Events in the sport of athletics

    Athletics competitions

    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 GamesorPan 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
    Olympic Games 1896 World games Worldwide
    World Championships 1983 World championships
    World Indoor Championships 1985
    European Championships 1934 Continental championships Europe
    European Indoor Championships 1966
    South American Championships 1919 South America
    Asian Championships 1973 Asia
    African Championships 1979 Africa
    Ocenian Championships 1990 Oceania
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