during this period the first national athletics association have bern established, and shortly after first national competition took place

in order to find the origins of athletics, we would have to go every far back in history because athletics is one of the world’s oldest sporting events.

is a sport comprisinf various competitive athletic contest based around the activities of funning, jumping and throwing.

short distance races in which athlets try to run their maximum speed through the natyre distance of the race.

100m, 200m and 400m

800m and 1,500m

endurance running means running a distance of atleast 5kilometres and up to a marathon of 42kl.

sport in athletics in which a runner races over a series of obstacles called hurdles, which are set a fixed distance apart.

a footrace over an obstacle as water ditches, open ditches and fences.

are provided at the starting points in most sprints races.

once the starting signal is given, players usually take more than 0.1 second to respond to it and start running.

are 50mm wide lines white that indicate the starting point in a race.

is a 50mm wide line marked across the track.

are 50mm wide arced lines and indicate the enfd of a bend.

is a track and field competition in which athletes attempt to complete the longest forward jump with a running start and a single leap.

sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jimp, is a track and field event similar to long jump.

is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unauded over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights w/o dislodging it.

also know as pole jump, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon.

athletic sport of throwing a spear for distance, included in the ancient greek olympic games as one of five events of the pentathlon competition.

is an event in which the participant throw a heavy disc, into a throwing sector for distance.

is an event which the participant stands inside a circle and attempts to “put” a weighted ball as far as they possibly can.

is an event in which the participant throws a weighted ball on a steel wire for distance

born august 7 1932 month ethiopia died october 25 1974, ethiopian marathon runner who won a gold medal and set a world record while running barefoot at the 1960 olympic games un rome, then bested his own record at the 1964 olymipics in tokyo

brazilian triple jumper, he won two olympic gold medals and set four world record, the last being 16.56 matres in 1955 Pan American Games.

american ling jumper eho set a world record of 8.90 metres (29.2 feet) at the 1968 olympic games in mexico city.

is a former tract and flied star who won the gold medal and broke the world record in the men’s decathlon at the olympic games montreal 1976. after placing 10th ar the olympic games march 1972

US long jump and 100m specialist from the 80s and 90s, he won a nine olympic medals in the long jump and sprint.

american hurdler who dinated the 400 metres hurdles evert for a decade.

american athletes. ge is best remembered for his performance at tge 1936 berlin olympics, where won gold medals in the long jump the 100- and 200- metre dadhes. he was the first american track and field to win four medal golrd at a singke olympuc games.

USA sprinter held world record in 200m for 12yrs from 1996 to 2008 and is still tge current world-record holder in 400m.

won six consecutive IAAF world champiaonships an olympic gold medal and broke the world record for mens pole vault 35 time.

was a finish long distance runner. known as one of the flying finns” he won 5 olympic medal