athletics
sports involving running, jumping, throwing and walking
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Summary
athletics is a type of sport[1]. athletics draws 23,919 Wikipedia views per month (type of sport category, ranking #66 of 435).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: Olympic sport[3], athletics[4]
- Commons category: Athletics[5]
- Has part(s): running discipline of track[6], racewalking[7], jumping[8], throwing[9], combined track and field events[10], track and field[11], field sport[12], indoor athletics[13], long-distance running[14]
- Authority: World Athletics[15]
- Official website: http://www.iaaf.org[16]
- Topic's main category: Category:Sport of athletics[17]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Athletics[18]
- OpenStreetMap tag: sport=athletics[19]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[23]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox athletics race[24]
- Has characteristic: sport of athletics award[25]
- Different from: track and field[26], Athletau[27], Athletics[28], Atletiko[29], Atletika[30], Atletiks[31]
- Uses: athletics track[32]
- Record or record progression: list of world records in athletics[33], list of world junior records in athletics[34], list of Olympic records in athletics[35], list of European records in athletics[36], list of Asian records in athletics[37], list of African records in athletics[38], list of South American records in athletics[39], list of North American records in athletics[40]
- Practiced by: athletics competitor[41], track and field coach[42], track and field official[43]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[44], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[45]
Why It Matters
athletics has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] athletics is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]