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Defining CharacteristicTrack and field is a sport that includes many different kinds of athletic contests that are based on running, jumping, and throwing. 1 Origin Year
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1. Wikipedia: Track and field
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Track and field is a sport that includes many different kinds of athletic contests that are based on running, jumping, and throwing.
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Why is this category called Track and Field Disciplines rather than Athletics?
It was renamed from Athletics so the subcategory and its single sport member are not the same entity under two records.
This subcategory covers Athletics, the running, jumping and throwing discipline governed globally by World Athletics. It was renamed from the sport's own name, Athletics, specifically so the subcategory record and its single live sport member are not presented as the same entity under two separate records. It is kept as its own category rather than folded into a neighboring one because it anchors dozens of distinct Olympic events, including sprints, distance running, hurdles, jumps, throws, combined events and race walking, and is expected to accumulate far more competition and athlete depth than the other single-sport categories in this tree.