In the
sport of athletics
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing sports, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and racewalking ...
, international competitions between national teams can be distinguished into four main types:
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Multi-sport events, commonly referred to as games, where athletics events form part of a wider sporting programme
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World championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
s, the primary competitions where all nations may compete
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Continental or regional championships, between nations of a specific geographical area
* Competitions where the invited nations or athletes are from a shared community, typically based on language, religion, ethnicity, occupation or political allegiance
Competitions between athletes of different nations which do not feature team selection at national or continental level, such as the
Diamond League
The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fourteen of the best invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics (formerly known as the IAAF) one-day mee ...
, are excluded.
Single-sport competitions
Athletics at multi-sport events
See also
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List of multi-sport events
References
International Athletics Championships, Games and Cups GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
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Athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...