Athletics
Know your facts:
- Unified Sports? Yes
- Estimated number of athletes participating: 668 athletes + 32 Unified partners
In athletics, there are several disciplines including, running/walking, jumping, and throwing/pushing. In each discipline, athletes have the opportunity to demonstrate their speed, strength, and fitness.
We have a big number of disciplines at National Games:
Versatile competitions take place, ranging from 50m to 10,000m, in running and are held as team or individual competitions. In addition, there are the various competitions of the four disciplines of shot put, mini javelin throw, standing long jump, and long jump.
There is also the pentathlon consisting of the following individual events:
- 100m run
- Long jump
- Shot put
- High jump (starting height: 0.80 m)
- 800m run
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Olympiapark
Athletics takes place at Hanns-Braun-Stadion on the grounds of Olympiapark.