The discus throw () is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc — called a discus — in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors.

While each wrestling match is ostensibly a competition of athletics and strategy, the goal of each match from a business standpoint is to excite and entertain the audience.

In Finland, another marathon bearing the name has been held in Nurmi's hometown of Turku since 1992, along with the athletics competition Paavo Nurmi Games that was started in 1957.

The first modern-style indoor athletics meetings were recorded shortly after in the 1860s, including a meet at Ashburnham Hall in London which featured four running events and a triple jump competition.

The Amateur Athletic Association ( AAA ) was established in England in 1880 as the first national body for the sport of athletics and began holding its own annual athletics competition – the AAA Championships.

An athletics competition was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and it has been as one of the foremost competitions at the quadrennial multi-sport event ever since.

The Olympic athletics competition and World Championships in Athletics, and the Paralympic athletics competition and IPC World Championships in Athletics, are the highest and most prestigious levels of competition in track and field.

While cross country competitions are no longer held at the Olympics, having featured in the athletics programme from 1912 – 1924, it has been present as one of the events within the modern pentathlon competition since the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Annual one-day meetings and races form the most basic level of competition and are the most common format of athletics contests.

The modern Summer Olympics was the first event at which a global athletics competition took place.

The Olympic competition is the most prestigious athletics contest and, in addition to this, many athletics events are also among the most prominent competitions at the Summer Olympics as a whole.

The Paralympic competition is the most prestigious athletics contest where athletes with a physical disability compete.

Outdoor track and field is the only sport in athletics that does not have a its own distinct global championship which is separate from other types of athletics, although the IAAF Continental Cup ( a quadrennial competition between continental teams ) is composed entirely of outdoor track and field events.

Interscholastic athletics competition began with baseball in 1902.

The two most prestigious international track and field competitions are held under the banner of athletics: the athletics competition at the Olympic Games and the IAAF World Championships in Athletics.

Fundraising and planning are also underway for a new athletics arena.

The only Connecticut community college with an intercollegiate athletics program, MCC hosts four sports teams – soccer and basketball for women, and soccer and baseball for men, with plans underway for adding men's basketball.

A student who while in attendance at Carleton College participates in an athletic contest during the school year, other than that sponsored by the College, shall be permanently ineligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics at Carleton College and will also face permanent suspension from the institution.

But it may be, also, that he is merely more mindful of athletics than of esthetics at the present time.

* Athletic director, the administrator of the athletics program, usually at an educational institution

It was officially opened on 28 April 1877 and for the first 28 years of its existence it was used almost exclusively by the London Athletics Club as an arena for athletics meetings and not at all for football.

In athletics, Eisenhower later said that " not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices.

At the age of 15, Nurmi rekindled his interest in athletics after being inspired by the performances of Hannes Kolehmainen, who was said to " have run Finland onto the map of the world " at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Laaksonen, who was not interested in athletics, opposed Nurmi raising their newborn son Matti to be a runner and stated to the Associated Press in 1933 that " his concentration on athletics at last forced me to go to the judge for a divorce.

A new Rec Center is being built on campus, which will house the intramural sports offices and provide an outdoor pool, training and exercise facilities for all Rice students, while athletics training will solely be held at Tudor Fieldhouse and the Rice Football Stadium.

It is simply defined in athletics terms as a gait in which at regular points during the running cycle both feet are off the ground.

After he started to focus more on his art and less on athletics, he took courses in art that led to him being a lead cartoonist and art editor for the Eucleian Society's ( a secretive student society at NYU ) monthly journal, The Medley.

In day-to-day athletics, it is proper to say that a teenager can achieve at least 20 km / h ( or 12. 43 mph ) of speed while a best runner can achieve 30 km / h ( or 18. 64 mph ) which is similar to running 100 metres in about 12 seconds.

In his prime, Grace was noted for his outstanding fielding and was a very strong thrower of the ball ; he was once credited with throwing the cricket ball 122 yards during an athletics event at Eastbourne.

In addition to running, he was an excellent thrower as evidenced when he threw a cricket ball 122 yards during an athletics event at Eastbourne.

Wembley stadium was the venue for 22 athletics events at the Games ; 24 for men and nine for women.

The athletics meeting forms the backbone of the modern Summer Olympics, and other leading international meetings include the IAAF World Championships and World Indoor Championships, and athletes with a physical disability compete at the Summer Paralympics and the IPC Athletics World Championships.

The most prestigious track and field contests occur within athletics championships and athletics programmes at multi-sport events.

Because of space limitations, meetings held at indoor facilities do not hold many of athletics events typically contested outdoors.

The sports within athletics do not have their own independent governing bodies at either international or continental level and, instead, all fall under the athletics authorities.

His main interest was in entertainment, though he also took pleasure in athletics and mechanical crafts.

Lerkendal Stadion opened on 10 August 1947 as the main athletics and football venue in Trondheim, owned by the municipality.

Wembley was the main athletics venue for the 1948 Summer Olympics, with Fanny Blankers-Koen and Emil Zátopek among the notable winners.

The main playing area is completely surrounded by an athletics track and there is also a small area which is used for hammer throwing, shot put and discus.

The name was chosen to reflect that the club was open for everyone, and also that athletics, at the time called " allmän idrott " in Swedish, was considered the club's main sport.

The Eppler complex is the oldest building on campus for athletics and is the main practice area for cheerleading, gymnastics, dancing and fencing.

The sports facility in the new town of Ravenscraig will be one of the main venues for the 2011 International Children's Games in Lanarkshire, and is currently hosting the athletics events.

However both the athletics stadium and the aquatics centre have been superseded as London's main facilities for their sports by the Olympic Stadium and the London Aquatics Centre which were constructed in Stratford in east London for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The Estádio Cidade de Coimbra ( 30, 000 seats ), which was a site of 2004 European Football Championship and includes olympic swimming pools ( Piscinas Municipais ), as well as a multiuse sports facility ( Pavilhão Multiusos de Coimbra ), located both near the stadium ; the Estádio Municipal Sérgio Conceição ; and the Estádio Universitário de Coimbra, an extensive sports complex of the university on Mondego's left bank, are the main athletics and sports venues in Coimbra.

The South Campus, which is home to many of the school's athletics facilities, is located approximately south of the main campus on South 7th Street.

Many of SJSU's athletics facilities, including Spartan Stadium and Blethen Field ( baseball ), along with the athletics department administrative offices and multiple training and practice facilities, are located on the South Campus approximately south of the main campus near 7th Street.

In some cases, sabbaticals may work for separate bodies within a larger students ' association at their institution ; for example a sabbatical president of an athletics union when there are other officer working for the main students ' union.

Along with the 400 m long-track speed skating oval the Olympic Oval also includes two international-sized ice rinks for short-track speed skating and ice hockey, as well as a 450 m running track surrounding the main oval and an eight-lane 110 m sprint track for year-round athletics training.

The university athletics track is a short run from the main college buildings.

In the Lent ( Spring ) term hockey and football are the main sports, alongside fives, for those not choosing to row, with cricket, tennis and athletics all popular in the Summer term.

The main games are rugby football, cross-country and basketball during the winter months, and cricket, tennis and athletics during the summer term.

In the post-War period, sports other than the main ones of rugby, hockey, cricket, athletics, swimming and shooting began to be introduced including tennis, basketball, badminton, fencing, squash, sailing, soccer and golf.

The main pitch is 105 by 68 metres with athletics facilities.

Although the main interest of the fans lay in football, soon other sections were opened ( hockey, boxing, skiing, tennis, athletics ).

* Valley Fields, used for men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track and field, and club athletics, is located across the Menomonee River in the Menomonee Valley, just south of the main campus.

All athletics events took place within the Melbourne Cricket Ground, while the marathon and racewalking events took place on the streets of Melbourne and finished at the main stadium.

Salminen became one of the best long distance runners in the 1930s when he began his international athletics career in 1934 by winning the 10, 000 m and taking bronze in 5000 m at the first European Championships in Turin, thus becoming a main favorite at the Olympic 10, 000 m run.

The main protagonist in the formation, Carl Larson, who in addition to football also practiced athletics and wrestling.