Events of track and field are divided into three: track events, field events, and combined events. Track events consist of Sprints, middle-distance, long-distance, hurdles and relays; Field events consist of jumps and throws; while combined events consist of pentathlon, heptathlon, and decathlon. Track and field is usually played outdoors in stadiums. The usual features of a track and field stadium are the outer running track, and the field within the track.
Olympic Athletics Events
- Sprint (Athletics) — running events over short distances, such as 100 m, 200 m, 400 m.
- Relay Running — a track and field running race in which athletes compete as a team, passing a baton from one runner to the next.
- Hurdles — involves running and jumping over regularly spaced obstacles at speed.
- Middle Distance — a set of track and field running events over distances such as 800 m, 1500 m, not a sprint and not an endurance race.
- Long-Distance — events over distances of 3 km and greater
- Steeplechase — a distance track running event with barriers and water jumps.
- Marathon — a distance running athletics event over 42.2 km.
- Long Jump — a track and field event where the participant attempts to jump the longest into a sandpit.
- Triple jump — a track and field event where the participant attempts to hop, skip and jump the longest distance.
- High Jump — an Olympic Track and Field event in which the participants attempt to jump over the highest bar.
- Pole Vault — an athletics event in which a competitor leaps over a bar using a flexible pole.
- Javelin — track and field event involving throwing a spear-like implement as far as possible.
- Shot put — the track and field event where the participants throw a heavy metal ball for maximum distance.
- Hammer throw — an Olympic track and field event in which a heavy weight at the end of a wire is thrown for distance.
- Discus — athletes attempt to throw a heavy disc object far as they can.
- Race Walking — competitors attempt to outrace one another without running.
- Decathlon — track and field event comprising 10 events.
- Heptathlon — a women's track and field multi-event comprising 7 events.
Other Athletics Events
- Track — the opening event in 'Dynamic New Athletics' (DNA), a mixed-team, two-hour model of athletics that will debut at the 2019 European Games. It is an athletics assault course that features a sled run, shot put toss, standing long jump, water jump and a medicine ball run for men in lap one and the same minus the medicine ball run - but including a parachute run - for women in lap two. The DNA concludes with another new event called 'The Hunt', a distance-medley race where the teams that perform best in the first nine events get a proportionate head start, the winner being the first across the line.
- Race running — a racing sport for disabled athletes, in which they use a specially designed tricycle.
- Soft ball Throw — a track and field discipline in which you throw the ball as far as possible, mostly used in competitions for disadvantaged groups as a substitute for other technical throwing events.
- Decathlon — a double decathlon consisting of 20 events, including the 10 traditional decathlon events with 10 additional track and field events.
- Tetra decathlon — a double heptathlon consisting of 14 events, including the 7 traditional heptathlon events with 7 additional track and field events.
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