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It provides a consistent surface for competitors to test their athletic ability unencumbered by adverse weather conditions. Historically, various forms of dirt, rocks, sand, and crushed cinders were used. Many examples of these varieties of track still exist worldwide. Aerial view of a standard 400-metre running track.
The shape is based on a stadium, a place used for athletics and horse racing tracks. A stadium may be constructed as the Minkowski sum of a disk and a line segment. [6] Alternatively, it is the neighborhood of points within a given distance from a line segment. A stadium is a type of oval.
This observation means that an athletics track has the same offset between starting lines on each lane, equal to 2 π times the width of the lane, whether the circumference of the inside lane is the standard 400 m (1,300 ft) or the size of a galaxy.
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Unlike most track relays, each member of the team runs a different distance. A distance medley relay is made up of a 1200-meter leg (three laps on a standard 400 meter track), a 400-meter leg (one lap), an 800-meter leg (two laps), and a 1600-meter leg (four laps) in that order. The total distance run is 4000 meters, or nearly 2.5 miles.
The Roger Bannister running track, also known as the Oxford University track, is a 400-metres athletics running track and stadium in Oxford, England. It was where Sir Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile on 6 May 1954, when it was known as the Iffley Road track. The track is owned and operated by the University of Oxford.
It is graded as a Class 1A Athletics Facility certified by the International Association of Athletics Federations, [11] the first athletics facility in the Philippines to be so. The stadium also hosts a 400 m (1,300 ft) nine-lane standard athletics oval [14] The rubberized track was provided by Polytan. [5]
An ancient Greece vase from 600 BC depicting a running contest An early model of hurdling at the Detroit Athletic Club in 1888 Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, one of the first modern track and field stadiums American athlete Jim Thorpe lost his Olympic medals after taking expense money prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics for playing baseball, a violation of Olympic amateurism rules.