Friday, December 2, 2011

Track & Field olympic history?

My gym teacher gave me work since I was on excused from gym due to medical reasons. I can't find the answers to these questions. Can anyone help and tell me a website or tell me the answers?





1. For each Olympic event, find the most escent gold medal winner for both male and female.





2. Who is the current world record holder for the 100m dash for both male and female?





3, Which olympic gold medalist was stripped of his medal for steroid use?





4. Who was the first person to break the four minute barrier in the 1600m run?





5. What are the heights of hurdles for both men and women in the intermeiate hurdles?





6. How many meters are in a track?





7. What is the difference in weight between the men's and women's shot?





8. What are the four methods of clearing a high jump bar?





9. List all the events that are contested in the heptathlon and decathlon.





10. Name the two grips that can be used in passing the baton in the 400m relay.|||1. http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/athens2鈥?/a>





2. Asafa Powell Jamaica 9.74 Men


Florence Griffith Joyner 10.49 United States Women





3. There are a couple here is one. Jerome Young http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/鈥?/a>





4. Roger Banister http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates鈥?/a>





5. 30 inches for women and 36 for men http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdling





6. 400m





7. 16 pounds for men, 8.8 pounds for women. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_put





8. Scissor Kick, Western Roll, Straddle Technique, Fosbury Flop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_jump





9. Heptathlon


* 100 m hurdles


* high jump


* shot put


* 200 m


* long jump


* javelin throw


* 800 m


Decathlon


Day one:





* 100 m


* long jump


* Shot put


* high jump


* 400 m





Day two:





* 110 m high hurdles


* discus throwing


* pole vault


* javelin throwing


* 1500 m


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decathlon


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptathlon





10. Upsweep and Downsweep methods


http://www.brianmac.co.uk/sprints/relay.鈥?/a>





About 20 minutes of research and a lot of my own knowledge|||How many meters are in a track?400m , Which olmypic gold medalist was stripped of his medal for steroid use?Ben Johnson of Canada.|||If you will go to www.olympics.com you can find almost any answer to a question regarding the Olympics.


Other answers about track and field can be found at www.usatf.org or www.iaaf.org.

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