Running Records
Running history belong to ancient Greeks where running events were held as a part of training of their soldiers. Running is also played in Olympics and Greeks played such event in order to honor their GOD Zeus. Many running events were played in annual Olympics games including marathon, triathlon and steeple chase etc. These all running events were managed by the local King and it was open championships in which not only soldiers can participate but other people can also participate. From the beginning of modern Olympics in 1896 many revolutions and modifications were made in running events and many new running events are included in Olympics and individual championships are also introduced now. International governing bodies have worked a lot for the development and progress of runners and running events also. Such governing bodies include IAAF, USTAF, and international Olympic federation.
In Olympics the running events include track events of 200 m run, 400m run, 800 m run, steeple chase, hurdle etc. These events are played in athletics and other athletics games are pole vault, hammer throw, discus throw, long jump, high jump etc. In Olympics and other running events, runners and sportsmen made many running records which are the proof of their devotion and argue for the game. World running records are generally considered in Olympics because Olympics is the world’s largest platforms for many players and it combine many games in a single event and it provide a player to show his maximum potential because the level of competition is huge as well. There are many records made in 50 m run world record and so on. International Olympics association has a separate department for athletics and especially for Olympic running records. These running record details are available form their headquarters located in different cities and in their official libraries.
Olympics records are divided in three sections, gold medal records, silver medal records and bronze medal records. In 2004 Athens Olympics gold medalist of 100 m run is Justin Gatlin from United States, silver medalist is Francis Obikwelu of Portugal and silver medalist of 100 m run is Maurice Greene of United States. In 400 m race of Athens Olympics the gold medalist is Jeremy Wariner form United States, the silver and bronze medalist are Otis Harris and Derrick Brew both are from United State. Besides this, the official website of Olympics can also help a person to browse the records. Their site includes the records related to all Olympics games, but mostly people browse about athletics records because athletics is a symbol of Olympics. Official site has many categorized records and the running categories are based on distance such as:
1. 100m Running World Record
2. 50 M Running Record
3. 400m Running Records
4. World Record 200 Meter Run
5. 800m Running Records
6. World Record For 1km Run
Separate catalogue for men and women records are there so it is quite easy to browse running world record catalogue as they are also available according to the years and name of the host city as well.
Official website also gives rules and regulations about their running events and other games also. Their rules and standards catalogues are free to browse and to download also. The site also contain many articles, their official publication, event details, their calendar, sponsors details, reservations, hall of fame form different sports, registration for athlete and Olympic qualifying round details, results of previous rounds, board of governors, elections and polls and many other interests for its browsers. It also give many useful links to the other international and domestic governing bodies that are working under its supervision like United states track and field association, AAF, armature athletic association, IAAF etc.
