3/ HISTOIRE
The first traces of athletic contests date back to ancient civilizations.
The first official race was run over a distance of (one hundred ninety two )192 meters
The word "Athletics" comes from the Greek word "Athlos" and meaning fight.
This is the art of overtaking the performance of opponents on speed or endurance,
distance or height.
It is a universal sport: it is practiced on every continent.
By competitors of all levels and also by amateurs. The simplicity and the few means for
his practical partially explain this success.
5/ EVENTS
The peculiarity of athletics holds of is diversity.if we consider the event which takes
place indoors and other events outside stadium there are more than sixty events .
But there are FOURTY SEVEN official championship events , in 5 category
TWENTY FOUR men's events and TWENTY THREE women's events
Racing (short or long, with or without hurdles, individual or team runs)
-The jumps
- Throws
-The walk
-The Combined events (decathlon and heptathlon)
7/ THE BEST IN 100M
Usain Leo Bolt is a Jamaican sprinter. Regarded as the fastest person ever, he is the first
man to hold both the 100 metres and 200 metres world records , the first man to win six
Olympic gold medals in sprinting, and an eleven-time World champion.
9.58 and 19.19
Florence Griffith Joyner, was an American track and field athlete. She died in
NINETINE - NINETY EIGH .
She is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records
she set in NINETY EIGHTY EIGHT for both the 100 m and 200 m still stand and have
yet to be seriously challenged. 10.49 and 21.34
Frederick Carlton Lewis also know as "Carl Lewis" is an American athlete, who won
10 Olympic medals, including nine gold, and 10 World Championships medals, including
eight gold . He was a dominant sprinter and long jumper who topped the world
rankings in the 100 m, 200 m and long jump events regularly during the 80s
Ancient holder of the 100m world record .
Actual holder of the world indoor record on long jump.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, is a Jamaican athlete, specialist in sprint events.
she's the fastest woman sprinter of the moment
she is the only woman who was world champion on 100m three times (2009, 2013,
2015)
9/High jump
There are several different jumping technique , like chisel , the ventral roller, the rib-
roller, and Fosbury . But at the high level everyone uses Fosbury flop technique .
High jumping Competitions are often narrow, because at the end of contest, bars take up
3 centimetres to 3 centimetres .
You can see this year, there are more than 30 athletes who jumped at least 2 metres 30.
The european record is shared by three athletes.
11/ Marathon
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The event was previously run over a distance of about 40 km, but the 42.195m is official
since 1921
The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195
kilometres usually run as a road race. The event was instituted in commemoration of the
Greek soldier Phildippides, which would have run the town of Marathon to Athens
The marathon is an event that, over the years, is increasingly very popular among
amateur runners
Annually, more than 500 marathons are organized worldwide
African runners athletes monopolize the first places of the world top in this field for
many years
13/ CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS .Here are the main big championship in athletics
Olympics games every 4 year .This is on the athletics stadium where we have the opening and
closing ceremony of the Olympics.
World championships every odd year
Continental championships every even year
Diamond league
This competition takes place every year around the world with 16 stages between may and
september . the winner of the league diamond obtains a qualification for the next World
Championship.
17/ 800M
After a start in a stand position , every athlete run in his own lane for the first bend , finally in the
first straightaway they're allowed to fall back at the first lane
This race, has a particularly specific position, which is the main difficulty of its preparation
Lot of people says , 800m isn't a middle distance but long sprint, because the start are aggresive
and runs are not every time “tactical” as others race of its category .
