Athletics
Below are our 7 articles in the 'athletics' category:
Unlike other sports, athletics serves as an umbrella for a wide range of disciplines. While there is no mistaking what constitutes cycling, swimming, or football, an athlete can be a runner, a ...
The combination of speed and spring in the long and high jumps makes these track and field sports among the most fun. It has been said that to attain the greatest jumping distance or height, ...
Track and field events, including shot put and discus, originated in Greece over 2,000 years ago. As track and field events evolved, the hammer and javelin have been added to the list of throwing ...
Hurdlers must be able to combine the speed of a sprinter with the technical demanding technique of a hurdler. They must be powerful and strong, have the correct physique-tall or have proportionally ...
Middle distance events are longer than sprints but not endurance, or long distance events like 5000-10000m. The usual competitive middle-distance races are the 800m, 1500m. Other distances like the 1 ...
The sprint events in track and field cover the 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 4 x 100 metre relay and the 4 x 400 metre relay. Sprinting, as well as being an event in itself is a useful weapon ...
Competing in a triathlon is not for the faint-hearted and, as it combines running, cycling and swimming, you’ll have different training regimes for each particular discipline, all of which will ...
