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This year's meet was hosted by the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. [1] [2] USC finished first in the team standings, capturing their record twenty-sixth national title. [3] [4] [5] High jumper Dwight Stones of Long Beach State raised his three-year-old world record a half-inch (1 cm) to 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m). [3] [4] [5]
The 1976 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships were contested March 12−13, 1976 at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan at the 12th annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate indoor track and field events in the United States. [1]
The decathlon consists of ten track and field events, with a points system that awards higher scores for better results in each of the ten components. The athletes all compete in one competition with no elimination rounds.
The men's 50 kilometres walk competition was dropped from the Olympic athletics programme, despite its constant presence at the games since 1932. The IAAF chose to host its own world championship event instead, a month and a half after the Olympics. This foreshadowed the creation of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in the following years.
The Los Angeles Invitational was an elite level indoor track meet, held in the Los Angeles Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California.For 25 years (1970 to 1995) the event was sponsored by the hometown Sunkist Growers, Incorporated who assumed title sponsorship and the event was known as the Sunkist Invitational.
The International Olympic Committee had decided to drop the men's 50 km walk from the Olympic athletics programme for the 1976 Montreal Olympics, despite its constant presence at the games since 1932. The IAAF chose to host its own world championship event instead, a month and a half after the Olympics. [2] [3]
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.
The 1928 games were also the first games to use a 400-meter track, which became the standard for track and field. The modern sprinting events have their roots in races of imperial measurements which were later altered to metric: the 100 m evolved from the 100-yard dash , [ 7 ] the 200 m distance came from the furlong (or 1 ⁄ 8 mile ), [ 8 ...