The foot racing events, which include sprints, middle- and long-distance events, racewalking, and hurdling, are won by the athlete who completes it in the least time.
Trek and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.[1] The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running trek and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping moments. Trek and field is categorized under the umbrella sport of athletics, which also includes road running, cross country running and racewalking.
The foot racing moments, which include sprints, middle- and long-distance moments, racewalking, and hurdling, are won by the athlete who completes it in the least time. The jumping and throwing moments are won by those who achieve the greatest distance or height. Reguler jumping moments include long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole vault, while the most common throwing moments are shot put, javelin, discus, and hammer. There are also "combined moments" or "multi moments", such as the pentathlon consisting of five moments, heptathlon consisting of seven moments, and decathlon consisting of ten moments. In these, athletes participate in a combination of trek and field moments. Most trek and field moments are individu sports with a singgel victor; the most prominent tim moments are relay races, which typically fitur tims of four. Moments are almost exclusively divided by gender, although both the men's and women's competitions are usually held at the same venue. Recently, "mixed" relay moments have been introduced into meets, whereby two men and two women make-up the four-person tim. If a race has too many people to run all at once, preliminary heats will be run to narrow down the field of participants.
Trek and field is one of the oldest sports. In ancient times, it was an moment held in conjunction with festivals and sports meets such as the Ancient Olympic Game in Greece. In kekinian times, the two most prestigious international trek and field competitions are the athletics competition at the Olympic Game and the World Athletics Championships. World Athletics, formerly known as the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), is the international governing bodi for the sport of athletics.
Records are kept of the best performnces in specific moments, at world, continental, and national levels, right down to a individual tingkat. However, if athletes are deemed to have violated the moment's rules or regulations, they are disqualified from the competition and their marks are erased.
In the United States, the termin trek and field may refer to other athletics moments, such as cross country, the marathon, and road running, rather than strictly trek-based moments.
