O athletics it is considered the oldest set of sports practices in humanity, also called base sport. This set of practices consists of modalities practiced since ancient times, such as running, jumping, throwing and throwing.
Currently, athletics is considered the. main Olympic sport, and its events are held in various places, such as fields, stadiums, mountains and even on the streets.
The sporting practices known as athletics date back to the first Olympics. promoted in Ancient Greece, in the city of Olympia, in the year 776 BC, nas. which tests were carried out in the modalities of running and putting weights. The Greeks called this event Stadium.
The first. known winner of an Olympic running event, from. approximately 190 meters, was Coroebus.
The shape. how athletics is currently practiced and its diversity originates in the century. XIX, in England, who adopted athletic practices as training in. military schools, which were later adopted by other countries.
In 1912, the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Athletics became popular in Brazil. in the 20th century, and the first athletics gold medal was won by. Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, in 1952 in Finland, in the triple jump modality.
Currently organizing competitions from. athletics is the responsibility of the Brazilian Athletics Confederation.
Modern athletics is made up of more. of twenty official competition modalities, such as:
These competitions are held on. stadiums, fields and tracks, with several events of different modalities. occurring simultaneously. Each modality needs equipment, spaces and. specific demarcations for its execution.
The main modalities of athletics are running, relay, march. athletic, jumping, throwing, throwing, decathlon and heptathlon.
Races can be classified into several. modalities such as short-distance (rapid shooting), shallow and with barriers. O. The size of your courses varies according to each category and gender. participants. Race events start with a kick-off; if one. participant advances the shot and leaves before, he is disqualified from the competition.
Track racing is. divided into several categories:
Races on oval tracks are the most traditional races and disputed with each athlete in one track, with courses of 100 meters dash, 200 meters or 400 meters.
Half-distance races are disputed with athletes outside the lane, with courses of 800 meters and 1,500 meters.
Long-distance races are also called medium distance races, and are held inside tracks, with courses of 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters.
Street races are also called marathons, with official courses of 42.19 km.
Obstacle races present obstacles to be overcome by athletes and have their events played in stadiums and can be divided into the following modalities: 100 meters (which are women's events), 110 meters (which are men's events), 400 meters (which are men's and women's events) and 3,000 meters (which are men's and women).
Relay races are. played in teams of four athletes, each of which has a. responsibility to cover part of the path with a stick, handing it over. for the next athlete to walk the path.
Marathons are a long-distance running modality, held in public places, such as streets and roads. Its path is officially 42 kilometers long.
In evidence. of relay, the path can measure 100 or 400 meters, being carried out by. teams formed by four athletes each. So each athlete runs a quarter. of the race, handing over, after the end of its course, the baton to the next one. athlete.
Race walking is a modality in which the. athletes have to run without completely taking their feet off the track. For athletes of. male gender, the course can be 20000 or 50000 meters, while. for females the path is only 20000 meters.
Long jump tests are held on at least one track. 40 meters long, and the athlete jumps on a 20cm board. width, seeking to jump at a greater distance than your opponents.
High jump events are held on a track of at least twenty meters, and the athlete jumps with a pole over a horizontal bar. The winner of the competition is the athlete who can jump the highest without dropping the pole. In this modality, the length of the poles varies from 2.80 to 3.40 meters, for men and for women.
Throwing and throwing events can be. classified as shot throws, hammer throws and throws from. disc and dart. The objectives of these tests is to throw, with just one hand, the. object of the modality and as far as possible, overcoming the distance of. opponents.
The weight of the objects to be launched varies accordingly. with male and female genders.
In the shot put, for example, the ball to be. thrown weighs seven kilograms in the men's modality and four kilograms. in the female modality.
In discus pitches, the discs weigh two. kilograms in the male sport and one kilogram in the male sport. You. darts, similarly, weigh 800 grams in the men's modality and 600 grams. in the male modality.
Decathlon is a sport only practiced by men, and ten athletics are practiced in a single event. The modalities practiced in the decathlon are: 100 meter run, long jumps, high jumps, weight throwing, 400 meter run, 110 meter run with barrier, discus throwing, javelin throwing, pole vaulting and 1500 meter run, in which each event the athlete accumulates points, which are added at the end of the proof.
Heptathlon is a sport practiced only by women, and in a single event seven athletics modalities are practiced: 100 meters with hurdle, weight throws, javelin throws, high jumps, long jumps, 200 meter runs and 800 meter runs meters. The athlete who gets the highest amount of points in general wins, and in each race the athlete accumulates points, which are added at the end of the race.
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