How much do you know about Track and Field? | Quiz

Answer: 10

The standard hurdles races are (for men) 110m and 400m. For women, they are 100m and 400m. 50m, 60m, 80m, 200m, and 300m hurdles are not standard races.

Answer: 42 inches

Men's sprint hurdles are 42 inches high. If you're under 19 you probably hurdle shorter hurdles.

Answer: 200m

The standard outdoor track is 400 meters and an indoor track is 200m (some indoor tracks are 300m).

Answer: 800m

The 400 is one lap, and is the longest distance that is always run in lanes. The next race up is the 800. At high levels of competition, it may be started with one runner per lane, but usually after the first 100m, they all cut to the inside.

Answer: Triple Jump

Long jump, high jump, and the 1500m are all events of the decathlon, along with 100m, 110mH, 400m, shotput, discus, javelin, and pole vault.

Answer: 1500m

The 1500m is a race in the decathlon, but not the heptathlon.
The heptathlon events are: 100mH, shotput, high jump, 200m, long jump, javelin, 800m.

Answer: Jesse Owens

On May 25, 1935, Jesse Owens tied the world record in the 100-yard dash, and broke the world records for the long jump, 220-yard, and 220-yard low hurdles. The 100-yard and 220-yard are now 100m and 200m, and there is no longer a 220-yard (or even 200m) hurdles race.

Answer: Carl Lewis

Carl Lewis once ran 100m in under 9.8 seconds, and jumped nearly 8.9 metres. On both occasions, the wind assistance was over the legal limit, so although he won the gold for the 100, and silver for the long jump (Someone else beat his jump just a few minutes later. The wind had subsided and the jump of 8.95m counted as a new record), his records didn't count.

Answer: Spanish

Answer: 100m Olympic Champion

The 100m Olympic Champion is usually considered to be the fastest man, although the winner of any of the events, or shorter events could also be very fast.

Answer: +2.0 m/s

+2.0 metres per second is the maximum windspeed allowed. The + simply means that it is in the direction of the runner, therefore it is helping him. +3.0 mph is equal to +1.341 m/s and is therefore within the maximum. +5.0 ft/s is equal to +1.524 m/s and is therefore also within the maximum. -2.0 m/s is wind resistance, not assistance.

Answer: 0.100 second

0.100 second (or exactly one tenth of a second) is considered to be the fastest reaction time out of the blocks. It takes about 0.029 second for the sound of the gun to reach the athlete, and about 0.021 second for the athlete's brain to send the message through his nerves to his muscles to start moving.

The processing in the brain takes at least 0.050 second. This totals 0.100 second, the calculated fastest humanly possible reaction time, and is actually quite a generous assumption.

Answer: On your mark...*bang*

In an official race longer than 400m, there is one command to step up to the line, then the gun shot to start the race.

Answer: 20m

This is the distance area in which the baton is passed. The exchange zone in all relay races is 20m long. In the 4x100m relay, there's a further 10m acceleration zone to get up to speed when you receive the baton in the exchange zone. This allows the runner to begin running before the exchange zone, but he cannot receive the baton in this zone.

In longer (therefore slower) races, there is no acceleration zone.

Answer: 200m

An indoor track must be 200m around one lap in order to be an official indoor track. Some indoor tracks are longer, but any records set on them cannot be counted.

Answer: False

Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson, on June 1, 1997, ran a race of 150m to determine who really was the world's fastest man. Bailey, specializing in the 50m and 100m races, had a fair lead on Johnson after 50m. Around the 100m mark, Johnson pulled his hamstring and didn't finish the race, and never got to show whether or not he could make up the difference in the last 50m. Bailey won with a time of 14.99 seconds.

Some believe that Johnson faked the injury because he feared losing the race. But unfortunately, Johnson had pulled his hamstring many times before and it was quite likely that he did in fact injure himself.

Answer: International Association of Athletics Federations

Answer: EPO

EPO stimulates red blood cell production. Red blood cells carry oxygen to every part of the body. Therefore, more red blood cells would increase one's endurance.

Answer: shot put

Shot put is also the only throwing event without the word "throw" in it, because of the manner in which the "shot" must be thrown. It is called a shot because the weight resembles the lead balls fired from muskets or cannons.

Answer: 400m Hurdles