Athletics: Track and Field

What this quiz asks

• How long is one lap of a standard outdoor athletics track, measured in the inside lane?
• In 1954, Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under how many minutes?
• What do runners hand to each other in a relay race?
• In the hammer throw, what do athletes actually throw?
• The triple jump is made up of which three phases?
• For a javelin throw to count, the tip of the javelin must hit the ground first.
• Which high jumper made going over the bar backwards famous by winning Olympic gold with it in 1968?
• Since 2010, can a single false start get a sprinter disqualified?
• In which city did Usain Bolt run the 100 m in 9.58 seconds, in 2009?
• Select ALL of these races in which athletes start from starting blocks.
• In the steeplechase, runners are allowed to step on top of the barriers.
• How far did Bob Beamon leap in his famous 1968 Olympic long jump, in metres?
• Portuguese runner Rosa Mota won Olympic gold in which event in 1988?
• Select ALL of these events that are part of the women's heptathlon.
• Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila won the 1960 Olympic marathon in Rome in what remarkable way?
• Which Dutch athlete, a mother of two nicknamed "the Flying Housewife", won four golds at London 1948?
• Order these cities by the year they first hosted the World Athletics Championships, earliest first.
• At the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Emil Zátopek won the 5,000 m, the 10,000 m and which other race?
• Which Finnish runner won nine Olympic gold medals between 1920 and 1928?
• Which Greek runner won the marathon at the first modern Olympics in 1896?