Athletics

Athletics is an old sport where the athletes (athletes) individually or in groups (Relay) must perform. Athletics is both on the road and on a running track practiced. Athletics is known as "the mother of sports ' named because it is the human basic movements (walking, jumping, throwing) includes.

Running tracks are usually oval shaped and 400 metres long middle section be the subject-matter and on the spring parts practiced. There are courses of grass, embers or plastic.

This article is about the Athletics as a competitive sport, but athletics in the broadest sense also includes recreational forms. The Royal Dutch Athletics Union (abbreviated to Athletics Union) in Netherlands also does a lot for the course sports, sporting hiking and Nordic walking. There are competitions for the course athletes but also the so-called trim walk, ' matches ' with no rash is laid out. Only a small part of those who are running as first sport call it, is actually a member of the Athletics Union.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == Athletics is a sport that was originally closely linked with the Greek ancient Olympic Games, which are held every four years from 776 b.c. were as part of a celebration in honor of the god Zeus. The five-day programme consisted of sportswomen and contests in the fine arts. The best athletes came off against each other in a pentathlon, which consisted of the parts: running, long jump, discus, Javelin and wrestling. The various components had a lot fewer rules than now.
 * 1.1 athletics in Belgium
 * 2 Age format
 * 3 Parts
 * 3.1 Course parts
 * 3.2 Obstacle walk
 * 3.3 km walk
 * 3.4 Relays
 * 3.5 Spring parts
 * 3.6 Object parts
 * 3.7 combined events
 * 3.8 Other
 * 4 Matches
 * 4.1 Recent Athletics Championships
 * 4.2 most important annual competitions (Benelux)
 * 5 see also
 * 6 external links

Athletics is together with the swimming the oldest sport in the world. The Cretans (inhabitants of Crete) first did Athletics around 1500 years BC the modern athletics originated in England at the end of the 17th century. The first professional competitions took place there in the early 19th century. Athletics was part on the first modernOlympic Games in 1896. Now the Athletics still the most important sport in the Olympics, but the band between athletics and the Olympics is loosened. This shows to the fact that besides the Olympics still a lot of other Athletics events are held, such as the annual World Athletics Championshipsand the European Cup, which first took place in 1983. ===Athletics in Belgium[ Edit] === ==Age Format[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Age is not looked at, it is purely for the achievement. Only a few of them is so talented that he or she can do the prizes at a young age and therefore there are also competitions and Championships by age, where more can be fought with matches. International athletes junior/youth up to the year of the nineteenth birthday; the transition to the seniors will take place on 1 January of the year in which one is twenty. A breakdown of the Juniors is not internationally recorded and varies from country to country. In the Netherlands and Flanders is subdivision as follows, that looks at the year in which one is nineteen, and so on. The doorschuiving at the categories takes place in Netherlands conveniently place per 1 november because athletes than the entire winter in the same age group training and competitions do. For records and rankings is 1 January the border. <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">To the step from juniors to seniors what to soften international championships for neo-seniors entered. Talents that came with the juniors took part in the Summit, namely the seniors were found to lose their motivation, sometimes because they were no longer in the spotlight, while they work out again after a few years to the top could include. Neo-senior one is in the years in which the 20th, 21st and 22nd birthday fall. In Netherlands there are no separate Championships, but in Belgium for this category, under the name ' promises '.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The reverse happens when older. There comes a time, that younger athletes will always prove to be stronger. In order to be able to compete with matches, the masters athletics (formerly called veterans, but that had too much a military connotation) imported. Master is from the 35th anniversary and the transition to a next vijfjaarsklasse happens on the anniversary itself. ==Parts<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Many athletic events take place on a special running track; also on indoor courts in the winter Athletics adept. In addition, there are games on the road ( road racesorstreets ) and in the open field (cross-country running or cross (country)). Find the marathon at major championships and the longer snelwandelwedstrijden on the way, but start and finish are usually found on the athletics track.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There are 24 Olympic track and field events. These are divided into walking parts, spring parts, object parts and combined events. At the course components there is the distinction between the ordinary course components, the obstacle run, the relays and the race walk. ===Course Components<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some walking parts are rarely practiced, even though the IAAF recognizes world records at those distances. The current, most run distances, know the strongest records; on obsolescent distances are the records a little or a lot weaker. The current net distances are:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Obsolescent (re) distances are maintained for that purpose by the IAAF records are the following. Indoor: 50 m. Outdoor on the job: 1000 m, English mile (1609,344 m = 1 mile), 2000 m, 20.000 m, uurloop, 25,000 m,30,000 m (the four longest distances are as good as never run). On the road: 10 km, 15 km, 20 km, 25 km and 30 km. ===Hurdle Run<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Race Walk<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Relays<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Spring Parts<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Object Parts<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Combined Rankings<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Other<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to the official parts are there sometimes races held on all sorts of other distances and parts, too many to mention. So sprint the youngest youth about 40 m and older youth about 60 m and 80 m. also the other distances are shortened often something among the youth; at the masters is also sometimes the case that (80 and 300 m hurdles). In countries without the metric system for example, trials are still about 100 yards (91.44 m) or 3218 m (two mile). There are also double combined events, namely the age of camp twenty camp for women and for men or women, containing also the 200 m hurdlesabolished. There is thelightning all-around, a heptathlon or Decathlon that should be finished within the hour, there are exotic relays 10x100 m relay and if the Swedish relay (400 m-300 m-200 m-100 m). At the youth is the softball throw in preparation for the Javelin throw, while pitchers have figured the weight throw to also do a pentathlon object . The ultra runners keep matches over many distances, up to 1000 miles (1609 km). ==Matches<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The offer athletic contests consists largely of one-day matches and multiple day Championships. The one-day matches, or meetings, are often part of national or international circuits, especially concerning at high-level sport. So are the main meetings, including the two main meetings from the Benelux, the Memorial Van Damme and Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, part of the IAAF Diamond League or the IAAF World Challenge, two circuits that are monitored by the IAAF. Comparable circuits are also on continental, national and regional levels. In addition to circuits for course Athletics there are also series matches for combined events, cross-country running, road races and race walk. These circuits are often organized under the auspices of an international or national Athletics Association. At the one-day matches are often becomes smaller width sport who do not belong to a circuit hearing. The performance is usually the most important at a instuif and does the final result there is less far.
 * only 60 m indoor.
 * 100 m
 * 200 m
 * 400 m, forms the transition from sprint to middle distance
 * 800 m
 * 1500 m
 * 3000 m, forms the transition from middle to long distance
 * 5000 m
 * 10,000 m
 * half marathon on the road
 * marathon (42.195 km) on the road
 * 100 km on the road; everything beyond the marathon is called ultra walking.
 * only 60 m hurdles indoor
 * 100 m hurdles (women)
 * 110 m hurdles (male)
 * 200 m hurdles (incourant)
 * 400 m hurdles
 * 3000 m steeplechase
 * 3000 m walk indoor (women)
 * indoor 5000 m walk (male)
 * 10,000 m race walk on the job (female)
 * 20,000 m walk on the job
 * 20 km race walk on the road
 * 30,000 m walk on the job (men)
 * on the road 30 km walk (men)
 * 50,000 m walk on the job (men)
 * 50 km walk on the road (men)
 * 4 x 100 m relay (not indoor)
 * 4 x 200 m relay
 * 4 x 400 m relay
 * 4 x 800 m relay
 * 4 x 1500 metres relay (only for the men; not indoor)
 * Marathon Ekiden road relay in a form.
 * Swedish relay 1st Runner 400 metres, 200 metres, 4th 3rd 2nd 300 metres, 100 metres
 * high jump
 * pole vault
 * long jump
 * triple jump
 * balloon release just for baby and pupils.
 * shot put
 * not indoor discus throw from juniors/minute.
 * Javelin throw not indoor from juniors/minute.
 * hammer throw, also called "hammer throw" called, not indoor from juniors C/cadets
 * weight throw especially by masters, but also for example at the US indoor championships.
 * indoor pentathlon (pentathlon, women)
 * heptathlon indoor (heptatlon, men)
 * heptathlon outdoor (heptatlon, women)
 * Decathlon outdoor (Decathlon, men)
 * fourteen camp outdoor (double heptatlon, women)
 * twenty camp outdoor (double Decathlon, men)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to the meetings where athletes compete individually, there are also games where there are individual performances that contribute to a team ranking. Often be multimedia performance parts added together through the same points system used in the all-around or by means of points based on site ring. Examples of this kind of competitions are the Netherlands-eredivisie Athletics, the IAAF Continental Cup and the European Cup 10000 m. A third type of athletic contests are Championships. This will also be held at different levels ranging from regional to international. Usually this Championships for a particular territory, but it can also Championships for a particular group of people like the World Championships for students, and the Play for French speakers. Some Championships are multi sport events. ===Recent Athletics Championships<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Most important annual competitions (Benelux)<span class="mw-editsection" len="374" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Euro 2012, Helsinki, 27 June-1 July 2012
 * WORLD CUP 2011, Daegu, 27 August-4 september 2011
 * Barcelona 2010 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS, 27 July-1 August 2010
 * Doha world indoor championships 2010, 12-14 March 2010
 * 2009 World Championships, Berlin, 15-23 August 2009
 * Beijing Olympics, 15-24 August 2008
 * 2008 IAAF World indoor championships, Valencia, 7-9 March 2008
 * 2007 World Championships, Osaka, 24 August-2 september 2007
 * 2007 European Indoor Championships, Birmingham, 2-4 March 2007
 * NK Athletics
 * BK Athletics
 * Memorial Van Damme, Brussels
 * Night of the Athletics, Heusden-Zolder
 * Global Athletics Nijmegen, Nijmegen
 * NK Indoor, Apeldoorn
 * Lotto Cross Cup IAAF- Brussels
 * Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, Hengelo
 * Nelli Cooman Games, Stadskanaal
 * Papendal Games, Arnhem
 * Lotto Course circuit
 * Ter Specke Jar, Lisse
 * Matches Flynth Record, Horn
 * Golden Spike, Lead
 * Boulders Meeting, Uden
 * Open Eindhoven, Eindhoven
 * Track Meeting Breda, Breda
 * Arena Games, Hilversum