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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A children's cross country competition in Čakovec, Croatia (from Cross country running) -
Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, one of the first modern track and field stadiums (from Track and field) -
The Roy Griak Invitational cross country meet at the University of Minnesota in September 2007 (from Cross country running) -
A graph of the world record progression in the men's 100 metres (from Track and field) -
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A child taking part in a local schools meeting in Cambodia (from Track and field) -
Ethiopian runner Kenenisa Bekele leading in a long-distance track event (from Track and field) -
Marion Jones, after admitting to doping, lost her Olympic medals, was banned from the sport, and spent six months in jail. (from Track and field) -
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Men traversing the water jump in a steeplechase competition (from Track and field) -
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A typical layout of an outdoor track and field stadium (from Track and field) -
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Edvin Wide, Ville Ritola, and Paavo Nurmi (on left) competing in the individual cross country race at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris; due to the hot weather, which exceeded 40 °C (104 °F), only 15 out of 38 competitors finished the race. (from Cross country running) -
Men assuming the starting position for a sprint race (from Track and field) -
Arne Andersson (left) and Gunder Hägg (right) broke a number of middle distance world records in the 1940s. (from Track and field) -
Girls handing over the baton in a relay race in Leipzig in 1950 (from Track and field) -
A racewalker "flying" (entirely out of contact with the ground, a rule violation) (from Racewalking) -
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The 100 m final at the 2008 Summer Olympics (from Track and field) -
Runners at the 2010 European Cross Country Championships in Albufeira, Portugal (from Cross country running) -
The start of a typical cross country race, as an official fires a gun to signal the start (from Cross country running) -
Naide Gomes in the jumping phase of the event (from Track and field) -
Oscar Pistorius running in the first round of the 400 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics (from Track and field) -
Shaul Ladany (centre), in 1969 (from Racewalking) -
The Gordon Indoor Track sports an 80-yard sprint straight, and the track is 220 yards in length. (from Track and field) -
An ancient Greece vase from 600 BC depicting a running contest (from Track and field) -
American athlete Jim Thorpe lost his Olympic medals after taking expense money prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics for playing baseball, a violation of Olympic amateurism rules. (from Track and field) -
A javelin throw athlete (from Track and field) -
The finish of a women's 100 m race (from Track and field) -
A women's 400 m hurdles race at the 2007 Dutch Championships (from Track and field) -
The New York State Federation Championship cross country meet in November 2010 (from Cross country running) -
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Carl Lewis, one of the athletes who helped increase track and field's profile (from Track and field)
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Selected article
Tartan Track is a trademarked all-weather synthetic track surfacing made of polyurethane used for track and field competitions, manufactured by 3M. The original production was in 1967, and the product was later reformulated to eliminate the use of mercury. Relative to some[weasel words] other surfaces, it lets athletes compete in bad weather without serious performance loss and improves their results over other surfaces. It also provides a more consistent surface for competition even under optimum weather. Similar tracks have become the standard for most elite competitions.
Because the "Tartan" product was widely successful in its time, the name Tartan has been used as a genericized trademark for description of an all-weather running track.[original research?]
Athletic Polymer Systems, a subsidiary of MCP Industries, Inc., manages the installation of Tartan-branded running track. (Full article...)
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Athlete birthdays
18 September:
- Nezha Bidouane, Moroccan hurdler
- Olena Hovorova, Ukrainian triple jumper
- Mohamed Kedir, Ethiopian distance runner
- Renaud Lavillenie, French pole vaulter
- Billy Sherring, Canadian distance runner
19 September:
- Marianne Adam, German shot putter
- Tasha Danvers, British hurdler
- Aki Järvinen, Finnish decathlete and hurdler
- Al Oerter, American discus thrower
- Sally Pearson, Australian hurdler
- José Pedraza, Mexican race walker
- Shannon Rowbury, American middle-distance runner
- Mike Shine, American hurdler
- Nadezhda Tkachenko, Soviet pentathlete
- Andy Turner, British hurdler
- Emil Zátopek, Czechoslovakian distance runner
- Dana Zátopková, Czechoslovakian javelin thrower
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
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- ... that 1985 NCAA hurdling champion Thomas Wilcher won the Michigan High School Athletic Association team track & field championship three consecutive times, both as an athlete and a coach?
- ... that Charlie Fonville broke a 14-year-old shot put world record by almost twelve inches at the 1948 Kansas Relays but was not allowed to stay with the other athletes because he was African-American?
- ... that the Peachtree Road Race, held annually on July 4 (U.S. Independence Day) in Atlanta, Georgia, is the world's largest 10 kilometer road race with 55,000 runners participating in 2007?
- ... that Patrick Ivuti's photo finish victory in the 2007 Chicago Marathon, one of the five major marathons, was his first marathon victory?
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Selected biography
The Borlée family is a sporting family consisting of Jacques Borlée and six of his seven children. (Full article...)
The patriarch of the Borlée family is Jacques Borlée (born 1957), bronze medalist at the 1983 European Indoor Championships in Budapest in the 200 m, while his first wife, Edith Demaertelaere (born 1964), was a good sprinter with a personal best of 23.89. Six of his seven children are athletes (the first five born from the first marriage with Edith, the last two born from a second marriage).[1]
The eldest daughter Olivia (born 1986) won the silver medal at the Olympics, which was upgraded to gold in 2016 due to the Russian team's disqualification due to doping, and the bronze at the 2007 Osaka World Championships with the 4 × 100 m relay, and the other daughter, Alizia (born 1991), was also a decent sprinter. The four sons are all 400 m specialists: the twins Jonathan and Kevin (born 1988), both Olympic finalists in London 2012, Dylan (born 1992) and the youngest Rayane. In addition, Jacques' older brother Jean-Pierre (born 1947) was also a sprinter.[2]
In 2015 the Belgian men's 4 × 400 metres relay team won the Belgian National Sports Merit Award (Trophée national du Mérite sportif) award assigned to the components Dylan Borlée, Jonathan Borlée, Kevin Borlée, Antoine Gillet et Julien Watrin.[3]
In an interview of 21 August 2013 released to the major Italian sports newspaper, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Jacques Borlée stated that he was inspired in his training methods by Sandro Calvesi, in turn the progenitor of one of the greatest families of Italian athletics, the Ottoz family. Calvesi was in fact the husband of the Berlin 1936 Olympian Gabre Gabric, father-in-law of the Olympic bronze medalist in the 110 metres hurdles in Mexico City 1968, Eddy Ottoz and father of Lyana Calvesi, current president of the Atletica Calvesi club and coach of the sprinter Eleonora Marchiando.[4]
At a press conference in June 2022, Jacques Borlée announced his retirement from coaching after the 2024 Summer Olympics.[5]
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- ... that at the 2022 British Indoor Athletics Championships, Lorraine Ugen equalled the championship long jump record?
- ... that the men's 100 metres event at the 2023 British Athletics Championships was run in heavy rain?
- ... that Femke Bol won the women's 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in an unprecedented double victory?
- ... that the championship record was broken three times in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 World Athletics Relays?
- ... that when the Oakland Athletics promoted Bill McNulty to the major leagues, they needed forest rangers to find him?
- ... 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 at the 2022 British Athletics Championships, Daryll Neita became the first woman since 2010 to win both the 100- and 200-metre events?
- ... that Femke Bol won the women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in a championship record of 52.49 seconds?
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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 Games or Pan American Games. The following list refers to the main Athletics competitions that take place in the world.
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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
- ^ "Mais qui est Rayane, le quatrième frère Borlée ?" (in French). rtbf.be. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
Rayane, leur petit frère de 19 ans. Il n'a pas la même mère que les trois ainés.
- ^ "FRATELLI BORLEE L'ATLETICA IN FAMIGLIA" (in Italian). runtoday.it. 7 August 2012. Archived from the original on 5 May 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ "LE 4X400M MASCULIN REÇOIT LE TROPHÉE NATIONAL DU MÉRITE SPORTIF" (in French). lbfa.be. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ "C'è un pò di Italia nel miracolo Borlée "Noi figli di Calvesi"" (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
- ^ "Jacques Borlée to stop coaching after Paris 2024 Olympic Games". The Brussels Times. 30 June 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
