The sport of track and field has its roots in human prehistory. Track and field style events are among the oldest of all sporting competitions, as running, jumping and throwing are natural and universal forms of human physical expression.
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 momens. Trek and field is categorized under the umbrella sport of athletics, which also includes road running, cross country running and racewalking.
The foot racing momens, which include sprints, middle- and long-distance momens, racewalking, and hurdling, are won by the athlete who completes it in the least time. The jumping and throwing momens are won by those who achieve the greatest distance or height. Reguler jumping momens include long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole vault, while the most common throwing momens are shot put, javelin, discus, and hammer. There are also "combined momens" or "multi momens", such as the pentathlon consisting of five momens, heptathlon consisting of seven momens, and decathlon consisting of ten momens. In these, athletes participate in a combination of trek and field momens. Most trek and field momens are pribadi sports with a singgel victor; the most prominent tim momens are relay races, which typically spek kubus of four. Momens 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 momens have been introduced into meets, whereby two men and two women makeup 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 momen held in conjunction with festivals and sports meets such as the Ancient Olympic Permainan in Greece. In kekinian times, the two most prestigious international trek and field competitions are the athletics competition at the Olympic Permainan 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 momens, at world, continental, and national levels, right down to a individu tingkat. However, if athletes are deemed to have violated the momen'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 momens, such as cross country, the marathon, and road running, rather than strictly trek-based momens.
