Athletics EAA European Championships 2018

[OlympicIRL 6,308]

10th place for Alex Wright, happy with that

[Monzanator 5,126]

Lithuanians in 4th & 5th

[AlFHg 330]

Am I wrong or, up to 10 years ago, also 5km walking was an event at European/world championships?

[heywoodu 16,465]

9 minutes ago, AlFHg said:

Am I wrong or, up to 10 years ago, also 5km walking was an event at European/world championships?

Not in the senior level, no  

[phelps 8,727]

26 minuti fa, AlFHg ha scritto:

Am I wrong or, up to 10 years ago, also 5km walking was an event at European/world championships?

 

only indoor (and it was more than 10 years ago)...

 

at the outdoor global champs, the 1st race walking event for the women happened in Stuttgart, at the 1986 Europeans...and it was over 10kms...

then there was the 1st appearance at the world championships in Rome (1987, a really dramatic race, with most of the race walkers destriyed by the super hot and humid climate of Rome in that early september of 1987)...

meanwhile the 1st Olympic Race Walking event for the women came in 1992 (Barcelona), always over the 10kms...

the women finally start to compete over 20kms in Sevilla (1999 world champs), then Sydney 2000 (1st Olympic Games over that distance) and Munich 2002 (1st Europeans over the 20k)...

[Monzanator 5,126]

I still remember when they had the 10km walk for women in the stadiums. And men used to walk the 20km in the stadiums as well.

 

I miss the times when they had a loop in the city and the finish at the stadium. Hopefully that comes back one day.

 

[intoronto 6,907]

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1068629/iaaf-president-coe-welcomes-dynamic-new-athletics-format-developed-for-2019-european-games-in-minsk

[heywoodu 16,465]

9 minutes ago, intoronto said:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1068629/iaaf-president-coe-welcomes-dynamic-new-athletics-format-developed-for-2019-european-games-in-minsk

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"We will incorporate new technologies and try to communicate about it using storytelling and narrative. All the research showed us there is huge potential so it is now upon us to be brave and take the chance."

The opening event is the Track’athlon, 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.

"These components were included as they are often part of athletes’ training regimes, giving fans a rare opportunity to see them performed in a competitive environment,” the release explained.

"DNA has rewired traditional field events. 

"Athletes will go head-to-head in individual battles in high jump, long jump and javelin where every attempt counts.

"Whoever throws or jumps further progresses.

"Super-charged team races follow.

"Sprints, hurdles, and a mixed 4x400 relay power the middle of the match.

"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 only goal is to cross the line first and claim overall victory."

 

Not the Trackathlon, no, the Track'athlon. Because adding a ' in the middle of a world is super ur'ban. 

[heywoodu 16,465]

Shot put toss, is that something like a javelin throw pitch? Or a hammer throw thrust?

[De_Gambassi 1,369]

il y a 12 minutes, intoronto a déclaré:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1068629/iaaf-president-coe-welcomes-dynamic-new-athletics-format-developed-for-2019-european-games-in-minsk

 

The European Games are dead anyway...