In the wilderness Olympic Games We can find different types of sports. Some of them are common in our daily life, such as football, basketball, tennis or handball.
Others, however, only appear on the covers, at best, every four years, coinciding exactly with an Olympic event.
Undoubtedly, where we can see a large number of sports in this second category is in athletics. And in addition to the ‘media’ 100, 200 or 400 meter dash, the long jump or the triple jump, The Olympic Games are the perfect setting for some ‘classic’ events, such as the decathlon and heptathlon.
The decathlon is a The combined athletics test which includes ten events (four races, three throws and three jumps), will be held on two consecutive days, following an established order.
On the first day the following tests will be held and in this order: 100 meter dash, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400 meter dash. On the second day: 110 meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw and 1500 meter dash.
The men’s decathlon has been part of the athletics program at the Olympic Games since Stockholm 1912.
He Frenchman Kevin Mayer, current world champion and silver medalist at Tokyo 2020, established the world record on September 16, 2018, with 9,126 points.
The Canadian Damian Warner is the reigning Olympic champion, having won the gold medal in Tokyo with an Olympic record of: 9,018 points.
The female equivalent test is the heptathlonwith several different tests.
The heptathlon is one of the combined events of athletics, the competition cIt consists of seven different disciplines performed on two consecutive days by the same athlete.
The women’s heptathlon discipline was created in 1980, although its origins date back to the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, when the pentathlon event was established.
There are two different types of heptathlon, depending on whether it is held indoors or outdoors.
The latter is the modality that will be held at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games On the first day, the following events will be held and in this order. 100 m hurdles, high jump, shot put and 200 meter dash. On the second day, they debated the long jump, javelin throw and the 800 meter dash.
The Belgian Nafissatou Thiam is the current two-time Olympic champion (Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020), two-time world champion and three-time European champion in her specialty.
He world record (and also the Olympic) was founded by the mythical Jackie Joyner-Kersee at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, with a score of 7,291 points.
Source: La Verdad
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