2. Introduction
Types of competitions
World records
Most important competitions
Some questions
3. the oldest competition in the world
consisted of 200 feet of Heracles and this
name was ``stadion´´.
the first Olympic Games held in Greece in
1896 and it held every four years, it have
been suspended only three times in the
history because of the world wars.
4. athletics has four disciplines:
Running races
Releases
Jumps
Combined
5. There are two disciplines:
Only run: it can be speed races and
resistence races. Also there are
Racewalking
100m,200m,400m,800m,1500m,5000m,
1000m, 21km, 42km and 20km , 50km for
raceralking.
Obstacles races: the athlete has to jump
hurdles .
110m,200m,400m and 3000m obstacles.
6. There are 4 diferent releases:
shot put: the ball weighs 7,260 kg for mens
and 4kg for woman.
hammer throw: the ball has a string. the
athlete catches the ball on the string.
Javelin throw: the javelin measure 260-
270cm for mens and 220-230cm in womes.
Discus throw: the discus are 221cm of
diametre and 2kg for mens and 180cm of
diametre and1kg for womens.
7. There are two disciplines:
high jump and pole vault
Long jump and triple jump
8. That is a competition of two days where the
ahtlete has to do that test:
Day one: 100m, long jump, shot put, hight
jump and 400m
Day two: 110m hurdles, discus throw, pole
vault, javelin throw and 1500m
9. 100m 9,58 usain bolt in berlin
200m 19,19 usain bolt in berlin
400m 43,18 michael johnson in sevilla
800m 1:41,01 David Rudisha in reiti
(ITA)
1.500m 3:26,00 Hicham El Guerrouj in
roma
5000m 12:37,35 Kenenisa Bekele in
hengelo
10000m 26:17,53 Kenenisa Bekele in
Brussels
10. 42km 2h 3:59 Haile Gebrselassie in
berlin
110m hurdles 12,87 Dayron Robles in
ostrava.
400m hurdles 46,78 Kevin Young in
barcelona.
3000m obstacles 7:53,63 Saif Saaeed
Shaheen in brussels
11. Olimpics games
European and American championships
Diamond League
Latin American championship
Spain Championship
12. Who has the world record of 100 meters?
a) taison gay
b) usain bolt
c) asafa Powel
who throws 4kg in the shot put?
a) men
b) woman
13. Who has the world record of 110 meters
hurdles?
a) Xiang Liu
b) dayron robles
c) jackson quiñónes