Athletic events has been an integral part of life in sports competitions classics of the day. Some competitions these days, the Pythian Games, the Nemean Games and the Isthmian Games, the Pan-Hellenic Games. They are also the Roman games. In athletics has been the most important event in the first Olympics.

However, in the Roman games, sports such as chariot racing, rings, and the latest on the fight against gladiators commanded greater fan following compared to athletics. Athletics was, of course, part of the combat training. In Europe, a number of popular sports events has been signed by the first few days. The sport is popular in Britain during the period between the thirteenth and sixteenth century. Well, there are many international events, including athletics is one of the main attractions. The field of international athletics for the International Association of Athletics Federations or athletics.

And the track in the events Athletics: Athletics Championships is a collection of three sports. These disciplines of racing, and start jumping. The origin of the name "athletics" is the Greek word athlon. " In the Greek language on the importance of "athlon", "competition". In some languages, athletics, hereinafter referred to as "athletics" in the form of differentiation "Schwerathletik." The sporting events in "Schwerathletik" Are weightlifting and wrestling. Athletics is a direct manifestation of the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius", which means "faster, higher, stronger".

At present, modern athletics, as a rule, on a runway of 400 metres in length. The path of current events or demonstrations occur on the road. The area inside the line is closed for the staging of events such as the field of diving, launch and aerobatics. The athletics competitions for men and women separately. The withdrawal of sprint events are, in general, for men and women equal. However, the barriers and obstacles in the race barriers for women manifestations reduced. The weight of the projectile, javelin, hammer and drive, the number of women in the competition. The athletics events in two seasons.

Land of the season The indoor sports events take place in winter. The runway length ranges from 145 metres to 300 metres. However, the standard length of a field course is 200 meters, consisting of six lanes. The interior and athletics are demonstrations, as a general rule, the same as the outdoor events on the track, with the exception of some minor variations. The length of certain events and sprint races are reduced obstacle in the runway. In Area Events, javelin, hammer and the disc are the launch events of the Interior. The events in the indoor season, the long jump, high jump, triple jump, high jump and Staff ball knock. The 300 meters, 600 meters, 1000 meters sprint, shot-35 pounds, pentathlon, heptathlon, long jump and standing high jump standing are some of the other events in the field of competition.

The outdoor season, the outdoor season in spring and summer. The oval is, as a general rule, outside section 400 metres in length. The number of lanes in the range of outdoor varies between six and ten. Bigger tracks also an obstacle course with water pit lane. The area within the track is often regarded as the Infield. The events takes place in the field of Infield. In a few lines of the infield is Field Turf or Astro Turf. The sector includes major events jump, the long jump, triple jump, high jump of Staff, Javelin, the hammer throw, recording and jet ball knock and raised. However, in stages, with the piece in the area of the track, javelin, disc, hammer, and has directed throwing events outside the stadium.

And Field athletics track and the Summer Olympics: athletics has been the most important event in the first Olympics were held in 776 BC, the only event in the calendar of 776 BC Olympic Games was "stage," a race, the feet, the length of the stage. Athletics events were part of the modern Olympic program since the summer of 1896 Athens Olympic Games, the first modern Olympic games. In fact, women are not allowed to compete in the athletics events of athletics, until the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. The Olympics athletics events are divided into four categories. The categories --

Events on the road to track sprint events are in the centre of the distance and television interviews with different lengths. There is also an obstacle events, including the obstacle of the race, relays and obstacle course.

Field events-Field Athletic events include long jump, triple jump, high jump, high jump of Staff, ball hitting, javelin, disk, and hammer throw for men and women.

-- Demonstrations combined events are responsible for the heptathlon, decathlon for men and for women.

Road-The marathon events and long-distance calls Walking demonstrations in the streets.

There are also some tracks and sports events in the field of athletics, either obsolete or non-competitive basis. These events are --

Owners and Athletic Tracks and Field Record: A number of athletes from around the world in the Olympic Games have created records in the sports of athletics.

Some athletes, who hold Olympic track records in different events are Donovan Bailey, Michael Johnson, Vebjorn Rodal, Noah Ngeny, Said Aouita, Kenenisa Bekele, Liu Xiang, Kevin Young, Julius Kariuki, Florence Griffith Joyner, Marie-Jose Perec, Nadezhda Olizarenko, Paula Ivan, Gabriela Szabo, Derartu Tulu, Joanna Hayes, Fani Halkia, Asafa Powell, Wilson Kipketer, Hicham El Guerrouj, Daniel Komen, Carl Lewis, Marita Koch, Jarmila Kratpchvilova, Svetlana Masterkova, Qu Yunxia, Wang Junxia, Tegla Loroupe, Yordanka Donkova And Yuliya Pechonkina.

In the field events, the Olympic Games record holder Charles Austin, Bob Beamon, Tim Mack, Kenny Harrison, Ulf Timmermann, Virgilijus Alekna, Sergey Litvinov, Jan Zelezny, Roman Sebrle, Yelana Slesarenko, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Yelena Isinbayeva, Inessa Kravets, Ilona Slupianek, Martina Hellmann, Olga Kuzenkova, Osleidys Menendez, Javier Sotomayor, Sergei Bubka, Mike Powell, Jonathan Edwards, Randy Barnes, Jürgen Schult, Galina Chistyakova, Stefka Kostadinova, Inessa Kravets, Natalya Lisovskaya, Gabriele Reinsch and Heike Drechsler.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Austra Skujyte, Irina Belova, Roman Sebrle, Dan O'Brien, holders of the Olympic record of combined events.

Carlos Lopes, Naoko Takahashi, Haile Gebrselassie, Robert Korzeniowski, Vyacheslav Ivanenko, Wang Liping, Jefferson Perez, Maurizio Damilano, Thierry Toutain, Robert Korzeniowski, Tegla Loroupe, Paula Radcliffe, Olimpiada Ivanova and Tatyana Lebedeva are the owners Olympic record in the street, These events, among others, the marathon and long-distance calls Walking Events.