Presents a history of each track and field event and provides facts on prominent athletes, performance records, and national, international, and Olympic competitions

Spanning the wide world of sports, this volume is packed with every conceivable fact that anyone would possibly want to know about nearly 300 sports, including history and practice worldwide.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the readers into the rich wold of athletics, its impressive history and exciting modernity, to acquiaint them with peculiarities of athletic disciplines and types of competitions, bright sports events, life stories and achievements of outstanding athletes, whose talents and efforts ensured the popularity of track and field athletics. The peculiarity of this book is a variety of forms in material presentation. It includes a broad and multifaceted series of illustrations, numerous facts and brief descriptions of outstanding athletes' biographies, provides many questions, the answers to which require historical knowledge and analytical skills.