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2024 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships; M. Marathon race walk mixed relay This page was last edited on 19 January 2021, at 10:17 (UTC). ...
Men's 10 km walk winner: Andrés Olivas; Women's 20 km walk winner: María Guadalupe González; Women's 10 km walk winner: Valeria Ortuño; March 19: IAAF Race Walking Challenge Permit Meeting Dudinska 50 in Dudince [148] Men's 50 km walk winner: Rafał Augustyn; Men's 20 km walk winner: Tom Bosworth; Women's 20 km walk winner: Eleonora Giorgi
Among the categories of names for sports teams in the United States and Canada, those referring to Indigenous peoples are lesser in popularity only to the names of various animals. In a list of the top 100 team names, "Indians" is 14th, "Braves" is 38th, "Chiefs" is 57th. [1]
The sport of athletics is defined by the many events which make up its competition programmes. All events within the sport are forms of running , walking , jumping or throwing . These events are divided into the sub-sports of track and field , road running , racewalking and cross country running .
It has been held since 1961, and generally on a biennial basis. The first women's edition of the event happened in 1979. It was formerly known as the Lugano Cup after the city that hosted the first event, then became the IAAF World Race Walking Cup until 2016 and then IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships until 2018. In 2004, a junior ...
In the sport of athletics, international competitions between national teams can be distinguished into four main types: . Multi-sport events, commonly referred to as games, where athletics events form part of a wider sporting programme
The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country.
Except in road events (road running and race walking), the performance must be set in a single-sex race, [2] with the sole exception of the mixed-sex 4 × 400 m relay, introduced by World Athletics in 2017. [3] All team members in a relay race must be of the same nationality.