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2004 IAAF World Race Walking Cup; 2006 IAAF World Race Walking Cup; 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup; 2010 IAAF World Race Walking Cup; 2012 IAAF World Race Walking Cup; 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup; 2016 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships; 2018 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships; 2020 World Athletics Race Walking Team ...
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 .
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
Race walking is an Olympic athletics (track and field) event with distances of 20 kilometres for both men and women and 50 kilometres for men only. Race walking first appeared in the modern Olympics in 1904 in the form of a half-mile (804.672m) walk in the all-round competition, the precursor to the 10-event decathlon. In 1908, stand-alone 1 ...
The World Athletics Race Walking Tour (formerly IAAF Race Walking Challenge and World Athletics Challenge - Race Walking) is a racewalking series organised by World Athletics. Athletes accumulate points in specific race walk meetings during the season.
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.