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Athletics

Athletics is derived from the Greek word "athlos" meaning "contest and may refer to Track and field athletics.

It is not a singular sport and the term is used comprising a group of athletic events which normally involve running, walking, jumping or throwing.

The Asian Track and Field Championships were originally planned at the 1962 Asian Games through the initiative of Major General Aziz Salleh the Chief of the Indonesian Federation (PASI), but went a-begging by the "emergence" of the ill conceived first and last Games of the Emerging Forces (GANEFO).

The idea to hold the Championships was revived by the Malaysian A.A.U. President, Tan Sri Mohamed Ghazali Shafie, at the 1966 Asian Games at Bangkok, which again met no better fate as circumstances outside the control of athletics idealist intervened.

At the 1970 Asian Games, the Punjab State Sports Minister, Sardar Umrao Singh, took up the Challenge and plans for the First Asian Championships at Delhi were finalized with Mr. R.L. Anand appointed Director of the Organisation when political developments in the sub-Continent thrust the plans not only out of gear but out of sight for another two years.

However, they kept up the tempo and though unable to hold the Championships, they called for a meeting of the Asian Athletic Team officials at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. It was there that Governor Jose C. Sering, President of the Philippines Track and Field Association (PATAFA) took up the challenge and history was made when the First Asian Track and Field Championships got off the launching pad and was held at the Marikina Stadium near Manila in November 1973.

Athletics was incorporated into the Asian Games in 1951 and is a compulsory sport.

List of disciplines

Athletics

Athletics includes many different events, but all are based on the principle of simple physical competition. The sport is the perfect expression of the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius – Faster, Higher, Stronger.

It requires athletes to run faster, throw further, jump higher and longer than everyone else. And people have taken part in such contests since the start of recorded history.

The first official Athletics competitions took place at the ancient Olympic Games, and the sport developed through public fairs and festivals around the world.

List of events

men
1. 100M
2. HURDLES 110M
3. 400M
4. HURDLES 400M
5. 800M
6. 1500M
7. STEEPLECHASE 3000M
8. 5000M
9. 10000M
10. MARATHON
11. RACE WALKING 20KM
12. RACE WALKING 50KM
13. RELAY 4X100M
14. RELAY 4X400M
15. SHOT PUT
16. DISCUS THROW
17. HAMMER THROW
18. JAVELIN THROW
19. LONG JUMP
20. TRIPLE JUMP
21. HIGH JUMP
22. POLE VAULT
23. DECATHLON
24. 200M
women
1. 100M
2. HURDLES 100M
3. 200M
4. 400M
5. HURDLES 400M
6. 800M
7. 1500M
8. STEEPLECHASE 3000M
9. 5000M
10. 10000M
11. MARATHON
12. RACE WALKING 20KM
13. RELAY 4X100M
14. RELAY 4X400M
15. SHOT PUT
16. DISCUS THROW
17. HAMMER THROW
18. JAVELIN THROW
19. LONG JUMP
20. TRIPLE JUMP
21. HIGH JUMP
22. POLE VAULT
23. HEPTATHLON
mixed
1. MIXED RELAY 4X400M

Hangzhou 2023

Athletics

Athletics

List of disciplines

List of events

men

women

mixed

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Sports Federations

Asian Federation

International Federation