Relay Career In Athletics

Relay career in athletics

Introduction

Formerly the races were trend in the field of funeral celebrations. What characterized him was that a person had. As all things change this also did it over time, it became a race that consisted of running from one altar to another.

Developing

In Athens the torch was turned on at the eros altar, which was founded in the Plato Academy, this torch was taken to a space of 1600 m, because the distance was too long the people who carried this one passedto another and so on until the end of the meters destined

What does it consist of

It is a career which is that, the members of a given team have to be relieved to do the same as the previous member thus carrying out the same activity. For example, in races which are terrestrial it is typical that the people of the group aims to deliver a witness

Sports which have the relay integrated are: running, swimming, biathlon, ice skating, etc. which have a cycle to do each activity

In the sense of the Olympic Games, the types of relief career which are integrated into the athletics zone varies

Athletics

In athletics, the races of this style are on foot, each team must have at least 4 members or more who compete complementing their speed and the delivery of a testimony or post to each competitor for what they must do in a certain distance and deliver it in theirSector destined for the team that finishes its circuit or reaches the goal is the winner

In the Olympic Games this type of system, the distances are 4 × 100 m and 4x400m

In some non -superior categories the Swedish relay is carried out, in which there is a relay of 100, 200, 300, and 400 m, thus being a km of race. Testimony, witness or post

Delivery techniques

There are 3 types of delivery:

Ascendant: The competitor who delivers the witness, makes an ascending technique of the arm to give the testimony to the receiver, this, moves the arm to where he is delivering it, with his hand in the lower direction in an inverted V -shaped.

Descending: The player passes the witness by doing a descending technique from the hand to deliver the witness. The player who receives, has to have a v -shaped hand.

Shock: The athlete passes the testimony by doing a technique in front in the direction of the other member to deliver the witness. The receiver must have, the hand in the direction of the witness’s giver, the arm must be aligned with the shoulder and the elbow flexed with the hand down. 

conclusion

Currently they presented themselves first at the Olympic Games which took place in 1912 in Stockholm, where the United Kingdom won the gold medal in the 4 × 100 category, and on the other hand the United States took it in 4 × 400. On the other hand, this mode was incorporated in Munich 1972, in the Olympic Games to the female relays