[[File:Athletics_competitions.jpg/800px-Athletics_competitions.png|thumb|]]'''AthleticsAthlete''' is a group the professional of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, sports (preferably athletic) and walkingphysical activities. The term began with those who practiced athletics.[1] The most common types Later it was extended to practitioners of athletics competitions are track struggle (in solemn games) in Ancient Greece and field, road running, cross country running, and racewalkingRome. It can also mean a man or woman of solid build.
The results According to Krieger, (2007) “anyone who practices any form of racing events are decided by finishing position (or timesport, where measured)whether educational, while the jumps and throws are won by the athlete that achieves the highest participation or furthest measurement from a series of attempts. The simplicity of the competitionsperformance, and can be classified as to the lack form of a need for expensive equipmentits practice, makes athletics one of as amateur, non-professional and professional.” Even those who just run around the most common types of sports city streets in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sportorder to improve their physical shape and health are still, with in the exception broadest sense of relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross countrythe word.
Organized athletics are traced back to The amateur is the occasional practitioner, who does it just for pleasure, health or vanity, it is the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of runner or the modern events weekend or afternoon cyclist who runs to keep in athletics were defined in Western Europe and North America shape, or even the one who participates in marathons or other tournaments, without the 19th and early 20th centuryintention of making a profit, and were then spread to other parts but it can have the sporting spirit of the worldpure competition. Most modern top level meetings are held under the auspices of World AthleticsAmateur is someone who takes Pierre de Coubertin's ideal seriously, where the global governing body for the sport of athletics“important thing is not to win, or its member continental and national federationsbut to participate”.
The athletics meeting forms the backbone of the Summer Olympics. The foremost international athletics meeting is the World Athletics ChampionshipsNon-professionals are those who practice some sport without receiving remuneration, which incorporates track and field, marathon running and race walking. Other top level competitions in athletics include the World Athletics Cross Country Championships and the World Half Marathon Championships. Athletes with a physical disability compete at the Summer Paralympics and the World Para Athletics Championshipsbut may receive material incentives or sponsorships.
The word athletics professional is derived from the Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētēsone who makes sport his means of livelihood, earning, "combatant in public games") from ἆθλον (athlon, "prize") or ἆθλος (athlos, "competition").[2] Initially, addition to the term described athletic contests in general – i.e. laurels of sporting competition based primarily on human physical featsglory, financial profit through his activity. In the 19th centurymost popular modalities, the term athletics acquired a more narrow definition in Europe they make large amounts of money and came to describe sports involving competitive running, walking, jumping and throwing. This definition continues to be prominent in the United Kingdom and the former British Empire. Related words in Germanic and Romance languages also have a similar meaningend up becoming public figures.
In much of North America, athletics is synonymous with sports in general, maintaining the historical usage of the term. The word "athletics" is rarely used to refer to the sport of athletics in this region. Track and field is preferred, and is used in the United States and Canada to refer to athletics events, including race-walking and marathon running (although cross country running is typically considered a separate sport). [[Category:Active]][[Category:Sport of athletics| ]][[Category:Summer Olympic sports]][[Category:Individual sports]][[Category:Athletic sports]][[Category:Athletic culture based on Greek antiquity]][[Category:Books about sports]][[Category:Track and Field booksAthlete]]