dinsdag 29 mei 2012

Athletics

Athletics is one of the oldest sports from the Olympics in Greece. In total there are 24 components to win medals.  It's an old sport where the athletes individual or in groups have to perform. Athletics is called on the road and on athletes track practiced. Athletic is called 'the mother of sports', because it includes the most basic human movements. (walk, jump, trhow)
Athletic tracks are oval shaped and are 400 m long. In the middle area are the throwing and jumping sports. There are tracks of grass, plastic and gravel.
The subdivision from the juniors is international recorded and varies from country to country.

In The Netherlands and Belgium is the subdivision as follows: 
The Netherlands    |    Belgium     |    Age
Junior-A                         Juniors              19 and 18
Junior-B                         Pupils                17 and 16
Junior-C                         Cadets              15 and 14
Junior-D                         Minims              13,12 and 11
Pupil-A                           Pupils                11 and 10
Pupil-B                           Benjamins         9
Pupil-C                           Benjamins         8
Pupil-D                           Benjamins         7 or younger

In total there are 15 related sports, 14 disciplines and 1 related sport:
- Discus Throw                    - Shot- put                 - Javelin Throwing
- Run                                    - Swinging Ball          - Field Walking
- Hop - skip and jump        - All- around               - Skip
- High jump                         - Pole- vault                - Road- athletics
- Running Horde                - Race Walking          - Related sport: Triathlon





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