Portal:Sport of athletics
Introduction
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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USA Track & Field (USATF) is a United States national governing body for the sports of track and field, cross country running, road running, and racewalking (known as the sport of athletics outside the US). The USATF was known between 1979 and 1992 as The Athletics Congress (TAC) after its spin-off from the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), which governed the sport in the US through most of the 20th century until the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 dissolved its responsibility. Based in Indianapolis, USATF is a non-profit organization with a membership of more than 130,000. The organization has three key leadership positions: CEO Max Siegel, Board of Directors Chair Steve Miller, and elected president Vin Lananna. U.S. citizens and permanent residents can be USATF members (annual individual membership fee: $30 for 18-year-old members and younger, $55 for the rest), but permanent residents can only participate in masters events in the country, and they cannot win USATF medals, prize money, or score points for a team, per World Athletics regulations.
USA Track & Field is involved in many aspects of the sport at the local, national, and international level, providing the rules, officials, coaching education, sports science and athlete development, youth programs, masters (age 25+) competition, the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, and an annual meeting. It also organizes the annual USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships, the USA Track & Field Indoor Championships, the USA Cross Country Championships, the USATF National Club Cross Country Championships, and the USATF National Club Track & Field Championships. Through its sanctioning program, the national body provides the insurance coverage necessary for members to rent facilities, thus allowing for competitive opportunities for all athletes to happen. USA Track and Field has held National conventions since the 1870s or 1880s. NAAA Track and Field Championship and Convention locations Dec 3–6, 2020, virtually; earlier announced the 2020 USat thATF Annual Meeting to be held virtually instead of face-to-face. (Full article...)
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Athlete birthdays
20 September:
- Alice Brown, American sprinter
- Silvio Leonard, Cuban sprinter
- Grazyna Rabsztyn, Polish hurdler
- Charles Reidpath, American sprinter
- Willy Schärer, Swiss middle-distance runner
21 September:
- Harry Liversedge, American shot putter
- Katharine Merry, British sprinter
- Gary Oakes, British hurdler
- Sergei Popov, Soviet distance runner
- Ilmari Salminen, Finnish distance runner
- George Simpson, American sprinter
22 September:
- Junko Asari, Japanese distance runner
- Amadou Dia Bâ, Senegalese hurdler
- Buddy Edelen, American distance runner
- Tibor Gécsek, Hungarian hammer thrower
- Masao Harada, Japanese triple jumper
- Ragnar Lundberg, Swedish pole vaulter
- Aliecer Urrutia, Cuban triple jumper
23 September:
- Rink Babka, American discus thrower
- Frank Cuhel, American hurdler
- Phil Edwards, Canadian middle-distance runner
- Gerhard Hennige, German hurdler
- Gösta Holmér, Swedish decathlete and coach
- Paul Jessup, American discus thrower
- Imre Németh, Hungarian hammer thrower
- Vera Nikolić, Yugoslavian middle-distance runner
- Jack Pierce, American hurdler
- Dwight Thomas, Jamaican sprinter and hurdler
24 September:
- Karen Forkel, German javelin thrower
- Lawson Robertson, American jumper and coach
- Ilona Slupianek, German shot putter
- Lyudmyla Yosypenko, Ukrainian heptathlete
25 September:
- Nery Brenes, Costa Rican sprinter
- Jim Duncan, American discus thrower
- Jeff Hartwig, American pole vaulter
- Ron Hill, British distance runner
- Bud Houser, American shot putter and discus thrower
- Natalya Shubenkova, Soviet heptathlete
26 September:
- Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, Kenyan distance runner
- John Collier, American hurdler
- Marius Corbett, South African javelin thrower
- Meredith Gourdine, American long jumper
- Darnell Hall, American sprinter
- Chuck Hornbostel, American middle-distance runner
- Steve Moneghetti, Australian distance runner
- Forrest Smithson, American hurdler
- Douglas Wakiihuri, Kenyan distance runner
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Volodymyr Stepanovych Holubnychy (Ukrainian: Володимир Степанович Голубничий; also spelt Vladimir Golubnichy, 2 June 1936 – 16 August 2021) was a Ukrainian race walker, who competed for the Soviet Union. He dominated the 20 kilometre race walk in the 1960s and 1970s, winning four Olympic medals from 1960 to 1972 and finishing seventh in 1976. He became Olympic champion in 1960 and 1968. He is regarded as one of the greatest race walkers of all time and competed at the Olympics on five occasions in 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976. (Full article...)
Apart from his outstanding performance at the Olympics, he was the 1974 European Champion and the Soviet champion in 1960, 1964–65, 1968, 1972 and 1974.[1] He was past his prime when he competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics, which was his fifth and final Olympic appearance. He completed the race walk with a duration of 1:29:24 and was placed at seventh position in the final.[2] After his retirement, he competed at international masters events during the 1990s after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[3]
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Athletics competitions
From the first edition at the 1896 Summer Games, athletics has been considered the "queen" of the Olympics. Today, there are several other athletics championships organized at global and continental levels. Athletics also serves as the main focus of many multi-sport events such as the World University Games, Mediterranean Games, and Pan American Games. The following is a list of prominent athletics competitions.
Event | 1st edition | Kind of competition | Can participate |
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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 |
Federations
- 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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Sources
- ^ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 386.
- ^ "Athletics at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games: Men's 20 kilometres Walk | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". 17 April 2020. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
- ^ "Race walking great Golubnichiy dies | World Athletics". www.worldathletics.org. Retrieved 19 August 2021.