An all out sprint while traversing 10 hurdles placed between the start and the finish. The men's event is 10 meters longer and the hurdles are higher.
The men's event is sometimes called the high hurdles. Also known as the intermediate hurdles, this event requires the speed of a sprinter, the strength of an meter runner and the technical skill of a or meter hurdler. This race also involves ten hurdles, but unlike the short hurdle race where runners will use the same lead leg and trail leg over each hurdle, in the intermediate hurdles they must be able to use either leg as their lead leg. Four athletes each run approximately m or one quarter of the track.
It is not just the speed of the runners, but the precision of their baton passes that determines how well the team does. Each baton exchange must be made within a marked zone on the track. Failure to exchange the baton in the zone results in disqualification. For the 4 x m, the baton pass is usually "blind" meaning that the outgoing runner does not look at the baton but extends her hand back to receive it while running close to maximum speed and facing forward.
Relay Traditionally, this is the last event contested at most track meets. Each athlete runs one full lap and exchanges the baton in a zone near the finish line.
For this relay the outgoing athlete generally turns his face and watches the baton exchange. The incoming athlete, who is finishing the final meters of a tough m, is usually quite tired so the outgoing athlete has to accelerate to racing speed while being cautious not to go too fast before getting the baton.
Both race walking events are endurance events and usually contested on a road course. Race walk requires a complex physical motion involving the feet, legs, hips, back and arms. A primary rule of race walking is that at no time can both feet be in the air at the same time. Judges watch for this running motion and disqualify athletes who accidentally allow one foot to leave the ground before the other has landed.
This event requires exceptional endurance and cardiovascular ability, not only for the competitions, but also for the training involved to be successful in this event. Long Jump. Who can jump the farthest? That is what the Long Jump boils down to. Jumpers start at one end of the runway and take a flying leap in to a pit of sand. A board, 20 cm wide, near the end of the runway, marks the take off point and the distance jumped is measured from the end of the board to the spot where the athlete first breaks the sand.
If any part of the jumper's feet goes beyond the board during takeoff, the jump is ruled a foul and will not be measured or counted. This event requires exceptional abdominal strength as the jumper must use the momentum from her run-up to make three separate jumps before landing in the sand pit.
The jumper first takes off and lands with the same foot the hop phase , takes off again from that same foot and lands on the opposite foot skip phase , and then takes off from that landing foot to leap into the sand.
Maintaining correct body position and alignment in the air during the three phases is a crucial component to completing a lengthy jump. Who can jump the highest? Well, the highest, without a pole. That is the point of the high jump. High jumpers run a curved approach, then, at a precise spot, translate that forward motion in to vertical motion as they drive their arms, shoulders, hips and opposite leg in to the air to get as much height as possible.
They lay first their head, then shoulders, back, hips and legs over the bar. Having impeccable technique to put all of these steps together is crucial, but being naturally long and lean is a big plus as well. Athletes have three misses at each height before being eliminated from the competition.
Whoever clears the highest bar wins, although ties are frequent in the HJ. Athletes sprint down the runway carrying a long pole.
At the end of the runway they plant the pole in to a box, bend the pole down and catapult themselves over the bar. An event not suited to those with a fear of flying, but those with a background in gymnastics have done well transitioning to the vault. The same rules as the high jump apply: each athlete has three attempts to successfully clear a height in order to remain in the competition. It's literally training your body, it's training to get better.
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Jumps acquitted himself well, finishing seventh and fifth, respectively, while cementing that moniker with four days of leaps. On Monday, the pace continued unabated. She became the first athlete from Puerto Rico to medal in these Olympics and won the first track and field gold in the history of her country and just the second overall. American Keni Harrison won that silver.
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So it went, and so it will go. Heads must remain on swivels to keep up. Another American contender, sprinter Noah Lyles, will begin his heats; the prodigious Armand Duplantis, a pole vaulter who lives in Louisiana but competes for Sweden, will seek to continue his unmatched dominance; seven-time long jump world champion Brittney Reese —nickname B-Reese Da Beast—will try and add one final medal in her final Olympics.
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