This is when all athletes begin on a curved line that moves farther out at the outer edge of the track. High jumpers typically cleared the bar feet first in the late 19th century, using either the In terms of sport, the use of poles for vaulting distances was recorded in The modern event sees athletes run down a strip of track, plant the pole in the metal box, and vault over the horizontal bar before letting go of the pole and falling backwards onto the landing mattress.Track and field contains some of the foremost kinds of The genesis of the shot put can be traced to pre-historic competitions with rocks:The shot put has been an Olympic sport for men since 1896 and a women's competition using a 4 kg (8.82 lb) shot was added in 1948. For the jumps, that is a sand filled pit, for throws it is a defined sector. A pass could be used to save energy and avoid taking a jump that would not improve their position in the standings. Track events involve running on a track over a specified distances and—in the case of the There are two types of field events: jumps and throws. Team competitions allocate points to events and athletes gain points to their team's total by finishing high in individual events. Track and Field is a sport that consists of a number of events. Steel tapes are easily bent and damaged, so are not used to measure everyday competitions. Hang gliding; Kite buggy; Kite fighting; Kite landboarding; Kitesurfing; Parasailing; Snow kiting ; Sport kite (Stunt kite) Mixed discipline. If, in the judgment of the starter or recallers, he does so any earlier, it is considered a In International elite competition, electronically tethered starting blocks sense the reaction time of the athletes. The IAAF first published a world records list in 1914, initially for men's events only. In the case of horizontal jumps, that line is a straight line perpendicular to the runway. Track and field contests make up the majority of events on the The other two major international competition for track and field are organised by the IAAF. In jumping competitions, athletes are judged on either the length or height of their jumps. Further throwing techniques have arisen since the post-war era: in the 1950s In the discus throw, athletes compete to throw a heavy The first Olympic men's javelin throw contest was held in 1908 and a women's competition was introduced in 1932.The earliest recorded precursors to the modern hammer throw stem from the The men's hammer throw became an Olympic event in 1900 but the women's event – using a 4 kg (8.82 lb) weight – was not widely competed until much later, finally featuring on the women's Olympic programme in 2000.Combined (or multi-discipline) events are competitions in which athletes participate in a number of track and field events, earning points for their performance in each event, which adds to a total points score. The officials at the landing end of the tape have the zero, while the officials at the point of initiation measure and record the length. At that level of competition, the order of competitors for those final three attempts are set—so the competitor in first place at the end of the third round is last, while the last competitor to qualify goes first. The majority of athletes tend to specialise in just one event (or event type) with the aim of perfecting their performances, although the aim of combined events athletes is to become proficient in a number of disciplines. Ties between different athletes are resolved as follows: In determining whether there has been a tie in any round for a qualifying position for the next round based on time, a judge (called the chief photo finish judge) must consider the actual time recorded by the athletes to one thousandth of a second.