The Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships ( es, Campeonato de España de Atletismo en pista cubierta) is an annual
indoor track and field
Track and field is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of ...
competition organised by the
Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA), which serves as the Spanish
national championship for the sport.
[Spanish Indoor Championships]
GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-03-22. Typically held over two days in February during the Spanish winter, it was first added to the national calendar in 1965, supplementing the main outdoor
Spanish Athletics Championships
The Spanish Athletics Championships ( es, Campeonato de España de atletismo) is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA), which serves as the Spanish national championship for the spo ...
held in the summer since 1917. It celebrated its 50th edition in 2014.
RFEA Page. 50th anniversary
RFEA. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
Events
The following athletics events feature as standard on the Spanish Indoor Championships programme:
* Sprint
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: 60 m, 200 m, 400 m
* Distance track events: 800 m, 1500 m, 3000 m
* Hurdles: 60 m hurdles
* Jumps: long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault
* Throws: shot put
* Combined events: heptathlon (men), pentathlon (women)
At the first three editions, non-standard distances of 600 metres
The 600 metres is a rarely run middle-distance running event in track and field competitions. It is most often run at high school indoor track and field competitions.
All-time top 25
*i = indoor performance
*A = affected by altitude
*h = ha ...
, 1000 metres
The 1000 metres is an uncommon middle-distance running event in track and field competitions.
The 1000 yards, an imperial alternative, was sometimes also contested.
All-time top 25
*h = hand timed
*i = indoor performance
*A = affected by ...
and 2000 metres
The 2000 metres or 2000-metre run is a track running event where five laps are completed around an outdoor 400 m track, or ten laps around a 200 m indoor track - the distance is 11.68 meters short of 1¼ miles.
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were contested. A 5000 m race walk for men was introduced in 1979, while a women's 3000 m walk was contested from 1984. Racewalking events ceased to be part of the national championships after 1994. The men's combined event was an octathlon An octathlon is a combined event competition consisting of eight different sports or contests.
Track and field
An octathlon in athletics is an event which consists of eight track and field events. The word "octathlon" derives from the Greek words o ...
in 1981, 1982, 1987, 1988 and 1989. Women competed in a sextathlon instead of a pentathlon from 1981 through 1986.[
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Editions
Records
Men
* = No longer contested
Women
* = No longer contested
References
;Records
PISTA CUBIERTA - Mejores marcas del Campeonato de España Absoluto
. RFEA. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
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Recurring sporting events established in 1965
1965 establishments in Spain
February sporting events