Is swimming an athletic sport?

The so-called track and field sports are some more traditional sports carried out in a very wide space, such as long jump, throwing and relay races. Track and field sports require athletes to have excellent comprehensive physical fitness and the ability to withstand stress. Although swimming is a very traditional sport with a long history, it is not an athletics event. The following is a detailed introduction to track and field sports.

Swimming is not an athletics sport. Track and field sports include: short-distance running, middle-distance running, hurdles, relay running, obstacle running, marathon, race walking, high jump, pole vault, long jump, triple jump, discus throw, hammer throw, javelin throw, shot put, and all-around sports.

In ancient times, in order to obtain the necessities of life, people had to run considerable distances, jump over various obstacles, throw stones and use various hunting tools in their struggle with nature and beasts. By constantly repeating these actions during labor, various skills such as walking, running, jumping and throwing are formed. With the development of society. People consciously use walking, running, jumping and throwing as forms of practice and competition.

Track and field sports are individual and also have broad mass appeal. Except for relay races, all other track and field events are sports in which participants compete as individuals. Team results and rankings are mostly determined by adding together the scores of individual results and rankings as well as the relay results and rankings. Track and field is the largest sport, which includes many individual events in five categories. It has the most events and the most athletes in any major sporting event, and it also has the largest number of people who regularly participate in track and field sports.

Although track and field sports require athletes to have very high comprehensive physical fitness, this sport does not exclude ordinary people. The requirements for venue selection for amateur track and field sports are not high. For example, ordinary fields, green grass, river beaches, and even roads can be used as venues for track and field sports. This sport can be participated by healthy people and disabled people as well.