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How Well Do You Know About Athletics Sports
Athletics is all about competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. Test your knowledge about athletics with this quiz.
Sameer Shinde
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Did you know?
Athletics comes in both indoor and outdoor categories based on where they are played.
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A standard outdoor athletics track is 400 meters in length with eight lanes, each lane is about 1.22 meters wide.
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Explanation
Being 200 meters in length, indoor athletic tracks are exactly half the size of a standard outdoor track (400 meters).
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Interesting Info
The marathon is a long-distance race that covers 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 km).
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The first celebration of the modern Olympic Games took place in its ancient birthplace - Greece, in 1896.
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For Your Information
A track and field event that consists of ten separate competitions is called a decathlon.
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The shot put is an athletic contest in which a spherical ball is put, or rather thrown as far as possible.
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The field events are of two types – jumping and throwing competitions, which take place on a large field, as opposed to the running track.
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For Your Information
In pole vaulting, a person uses a long flexible pole as an aid to jump over a bar which makes it the hardest event.
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Paavo Nurmi was born on June 13, 1897, in Turku, a port town on the southwest coast of Finland.
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Carl Lewis is an American former track and field athlete who has won nine Olympic gold medals.
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The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics were held in Berlin, Germany from 15th to 23rd August 2009.
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