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Octathlon, combined track and field event featured at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics; Throws pentathlon, a championship combined track and field event at the World Masters Athletics Championships; Fierljeppen, Frisian sport of pole vaulting for distance; Softball throw, athletics event throwing for distance using a softball
Throwing sports have a long history. Modern track and field comes from a lineage of activities that dates to the Ancient Olympic Games. Artwork from Ancient Greece, in the form of friezes, pottery and statues, attests to the prominence of such sports in the society's physical culture. [1] Bowling games have similarly ancient roots.
This is a list of arcade games that have used a trackball to interact with the game. World Cup (Sega, March 1978) [1] [2] Atari Football (Atari, October 1978) [3] Shuffleboard (Midway Manufacturing, October 1978) [4] Atari Soccer (1979) Atari Baseball (1979) BullsEye (1980) Centipede (1980) Extra Bases (1980) Missile Command (1980) Kick (a.k.a ...
The action of jumping is central to several sports and activities. Some sports are based almost exclusively on the ability to jump, such as high jump in track and field, whereas in other sports the act of jumping is one of multiple athletic abilities used in the sport, such as basketball.
In 1923 track and field featured at the inaugural World Student Games. [17] The first continental track and field competition was the 1919 South American Championships, followed by the European Athletics Championships in 1934. [18] Until the early 1920s, track and field was almost an exclusively male pursuit.
In the Olympic Games, there are several types of relay races that are part of track and field, each consisting of a set number of stages (legs) (usually four), each leg run by different members of a team. The runner finishing one leg is usually required to pass the next runner a stick-like object known as a "baton" while both are running in a ...
The pole vault competition at the 2007 Pan American Games (from Track and field) Image 8 An early model of hurdling at the Detroit Athletic Club in 1888 (from Track and field ) Image 9 A child taking part in a local schools meeting in Cambodia (from Track and field )
With the breakup of the AAU, as a result of the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, track and field came under separate leadership. The Athletics Congress (TAC) (now USA Track & Field ), chose to drop the pentathlon, as well as several other multi-event contests, as national championship events at the senior level, although it is recognised at the 11 ...