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A copy of the Ancient Greek statue Discobolus, portraying a discus thrower

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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Holubnychy at the 1964 Olympics

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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World records (current olympic events only) as of 25 August 2024
Bolded, italicized records with two asterisks (**) are pending ratification by World Athletics.
Event Men Record (Year) Women Record (Year)
100 metres Jamaica Usain Bolt 9.58 (2009) United States Florence Griffith Joyner 10.49 (1988)
200 metres Jamaica Usain Bolt 19.19 (2009) United States Florence Griffith Joyner 21.34 (1988)
400 metres South Africa Wayde van Niekerk 43.03 (2016) East Germany Marita Koch 47.60 (1985)
800 metres Kenya David Rudisha 1:40.91 (2012) Czechoslovakia Jarmila Kratochvílová 1:53.28 (1983)
1500 metres Morocco Hicham El Guerrouj 3:26.00 (1998) Kenya Faith Kipyegon 3:49.04 (2024)
5000 metres Uganda Joshua Cheptegei 12:35.36 (2020) Ethiopia Gudaf Tsegay 14:00.21 (2023)
10000 metres Uganda Joshua Cheptegei 26:11.00 (2020) Kenya Beatrice Chebet 28:54.14 (2024)**
Marathon Kenya Kelvin Kiptum 2:00:35 (2023) Ethiopia Tigst Assefa 2:11:53 Mx (2023)
3000 metres steeplechase Ethiopia Lamecha Girma 7:52.11 (2023) Kenya Beatrice Chepkoech 8:44.32 (2018)
110 metres hurdles (men)

100 metres hurdles (women)

United States Aries Merritt 12.80 (2012) Nigeria Tobi Amusan 12.12 (2022)
400 metres hurdles Norway Karsten Warholm 45.94 (2021) United States Sydney McLaughlin 50.37 (2024)**
High jump Cuba Javier Sotomayor 2.45 m (1993) Ukraine Yaroslava Mahuchikh 2.10 m (2024)**
Pole vault Sweden Armand Duplantis 6.26 m (2024)** Russia Yelena Isinbayeva 5.06 m (2009)
Long jump United States Mike Powell 8.95 m (1991) Soviet Union Galina Chistyakova 7.52 m (1988)
Triple jump United Kingdom Jonathan Edwards 18.29 m (1995) Venezuela Yulimar Rojas 15.74 m (2022)
Shot put United States Ryan Crouser 23.56 m (2023) Soviet Union Natalya Lisovskaya 22.63 m (1987)
Discus throw Lithuania Mykolas Alekna 74.35 m (2024)** East Germany Gabriele Reinsch 76.80 m (1988)
Hammer throw Soviet Union Yuriy Sedykh 86.74 m (1986) Poland Anita Włodarczyk 82.98 m (2016)
Javelin throw Czech Republic Jan Železný 98.48 m (1996) Czech Republic Barbora Špotáková 72.28 m (2008)
Decathlon (men)

Heptathlon (women)

France Kevin Mayer 9126 pts (2018) United States Jackie Joyner-Kersee 7291 pts (1988)
20 kilometres racewalk Japan Yusuke Suzuki 1:16:36 (2015) China Yang Jiayu 1:23:49 (2021)
4 × 100 metres relay  Jamaica 36.84 (2012)  United States 40.82 (2012)
4 × 400 metres relay  United States 2:54.29 (1993)  Soviet Union 3:15.17 (1988)
Mixed 4 x 400 metres relay Athletes Record (Year)
 United States 3:07.41 (2024)**

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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
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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  1. ^ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 386.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Race walking great Golubnichiy dies | World Athletics". www.worldathletics.org. Retrieved 19 August 2021.

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