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A small number of events, such as the 60 metres, are exclusive to the World Athletics Indoor Championships. Two further, separate World Championship events are held for their specific events: the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships and the World Athletics Cross Country Championships. Cross country is one of many events which have ...
Today, there are several other athletics championships organized at global and continental levels. Athletics also serves as the main focus of many multi-sport events such as the World University Games, Mediterranean Games, and Pan American Games. The following is a list of prominent athletics competitions.
The annual Wenlock Olympian Games, first held in 1850 in Wenlock, England, incorporated athletics events into its sports programme. [11] The first modern-style indoor athletics meetings were recorded shortly after in the 1860s, including a meet at Ashburnham Hall in London which featured four running events and a triple jump competition. [12] [13]
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The Athletics will play their 2025 MLB home opener on March 31, when they start a three-game homestand against the Chicago Cubs at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento. The opener is scheduled to ...
The World Athletics Combined Events Tour (formerly IAAF Combined Events Challenge and World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events) is an annual series of combined track and field events meetings, organised since 1998 by World Athletics, with heptathlon for women and decathlon for men. The winners are decided by totalling the number of points ...
Academic events at the high school level are held in the spring. Schools compete within the same conference as in athletics and marching band. There is no division of competition by grade level in high school academic events; all students in grades 9–12 that compete in a particular event compete against each other.
The 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships, also known colloquially by its former official title, the World Junior Championships, is an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 2005). The event is being staged in Lima, Peru from 27 to 31 August 2024. On 5 April 2023 it was announced ...