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    This document provides an overview of athletics (track and field) events. It is divided into sections on running and racewalking events, throwing events, jumping events, and multiple events competitions. The key events covered for each category include sprints, middle and long distance runs, relays, racewalking, shot put, discus, hammer and javelin throws, high jump, long jump, triple jump, and pole vault. It also describes the heptathlon and decathlon multiple event competitions. Videos are provided to illustrate some of the events.

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    This document provides an overview of athletics (track and field) events. It is divided into sections on running and racewalking events, throwing events, jumping events, and multiple events competitions. The key events covered for each category include sprints, middle and long distance runs, relays, racewalking, shot put, discus, hammer and javelin throws, high jump, long jump, triple jump, and pole vault. It also describes the heptathlon and decathlon multiple event competitions. Videos are provided to illustrate some of the events.

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    ATHLETICS

    1. THE BASICS

    Vocabulary in this lesson:

    toe board: bordillo to release: soltar, liberar


    to be held: ser celebrados an attempt: un intento
    to take place: tener lugar to involve: implicar
    attached: unido a runway: una calle o pista para correr
    baton: testigo the sand pit: el foso de arena
    wire: cable an aid: una ayuda.
    handle: manilla a concrete surface: una superficie de hormigón

    Athletics is a traditional olympic sport. It is also called “Track and field athletics” and it has many different
    events.

    They are divided in:

     Running and racewalking events: These include all races from sprints to the Marathon. (Steeplechase
    and hurdle races too).
     Throwing Events: Javelin, Shotput, Hammer and Discus are the four throwing events.
     Jumping Events: Long Jump. Triple Jump, High Jump and Pole Vault are the four types of jumps.
     Multipe Event Competitions: These include the heptatlon for women and the decathlon for men.

    Where can you practise athletics?

    That´s the good thing about athletics: Anywhere!

    You can find:

    a) Urban races: they are also called “carreras populares” in Spanish. In Spain, the most popular ones are the
    “San Silvestre” races, held the 31st of December in many cities.

    b) Cross country races: usually middle or long distance races. They are held in fields, parks or the countryside.
    Cross country courses include hills and mud. The cross country season takes place in winter, from November
    to February.

    c) Mountain races: these take place in the mountain, and are very tough. You can find half marathons and
    alpine marathons!!
    d) Indoor track competitions: for the winter season. It is only 200m long, so not all the events are held.

    Take a look at the following video:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=GosFq_Pqilg&feature=emb_logo

    e) Outdoor track competitions: For the summer season, this is the Olympic Track. It is 400m long. In this lesson
    we are going to study the events that take place in this track.

    1. START/FINISH LINE 5. POLE VAULT


    2. LONG JUMP AND TRIPLE JUMP 6. DISCUS AND HAMMER THROW
    3. JAVELIN THROW 7. HIGH JUMP
    4. HOTPUT THROW

    2. EVENTS: RUNNING AND RACE WALKING


    What are the events?

    A) Running and racewalking events:

    1) Sprint Events:
    -100 metres
    -110m hurdles (men) and 100m hurdles (women)
    -200 metres
    -400 metres
    -400m hurdles (men and women)

    Here you can see a 100m hurdles race:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTFtI58MtY&feature=emb_title

    2) Middle Distance Events: are events longer than sprints and up to 3000 metres.
    -800 metres
    -1500 metres
    -3000 metres steeplechase
    3) Long Distance Events: are events over 3000 metres.
    -5000 metres
    -10000 metres
    -Marathon (outside the stadium but finishing in it: 42km and 195m)

    4) Relay races: are events in which four athletes participate as a team, passing a metal baton in between.
    Events commonly contested are:
    -4x100m relay
    -4x400m relay

    Here you have the 4x100m world record established in Beijing Olympics:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KIlkrVZb-g

    5) Racewalking:
    -10km
    -20km
    -50km

    3. EVENTS: THROWING EVENTS

    B) Throwing events

    All competitors take three throws. After that, the top eight take another three. Their best valid throw is
    recorded and the winner is the athlete with the longest valid throw .

    The Athletics Throwings are:

    1) Javelin Throw: The men´s javelin weighs 800g, while women´s weighs 600g.

    Here you have a video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5wdaSwVeTo&feature=emb_logo

    2) Shotput Throw: Competitors take their throw from inside a concrete surfaced circle, with a toe board
    10 cm high at the front of the circle. The shot weighs 7.26kg for men, 4kg for women.

    Here you have a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ5gL8avcOo&feature=emb_logo

    3) Hammer Throw: The hammer is a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and a handle. It weighs 7,257kg
    for men, 4kg for women. Competitors swing the hammer above their head before releasing it.

    Here you have a video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwmSOUKSFLc&feature=emb_logo

    4) Discus Throw: The discus has a weight of 2kg for men and 1kg for women. To complete a throw, the
    competitor starts in a circle. The thrower spins around three times in the circle to gain speed, and then,
    then releases his discus.

    Here you have a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLRCZo6i8bk


    4. JUMPING EVENTS
    C) Jumping events: The athletic jumping events are:

    1) High Jump: competitors must jump over a horizontal bar without the aid of any devices. Here you have a
    video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzmPtZyuo4s&feature=emb_logo

    2) Long Jump: in it, competitors sprint down a runway and jump as far as they can from behind a foul line into
    a sand pit (a pit filled with sand.) Here you have a video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XSdgNcI49A&feature=emb_logo

    3) Triple Jump: The triple jump (also called hop, step and jump) is similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop,
    step and jump” routine. The competitor runs along the track and must do a hop, a step and then a jump into
    the sand pit. Here you have a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9TuUTNpKwg

    4) Pole Vault: event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to jump over a bar. Here you have a
    video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_RfK2rp2To

    5. MULTIPLE EVENTS.

    D) Multiple events competitions:

    Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in
    all events.

    Women do the Heptathlon, which includes the following seven events:


    -100 metre high hurdles
    -200 metres
    -800 metres
    -Long Jump
    -High Jump
    -Shot Put
    -Javelin Throw

    Men do the Decathlon, which includes the following ten events:


    -100 metres
    -110 metres hurdles
    -400 metres
    -1500 metres
    -Long Jump
    -High Jump
    -Pole Vault
    -Shot Put
    -Javelin
    -Discus

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