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Pablo Olmedo (athlete)
Pablo Olmedo Castañón (born May 8, 1975 in Mexico City) is a middle-distance runner, middle and long-distance runner from Mexico. He twice won the gold medal in the men's 5.000 metres at the Central American and Caribbean Games, and competed for his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. International competitions References *sports-reference 1975 births Living people Athletes from Mexico City Mexican male long-distance runners Mexican male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Mexico Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Mexico Pan American Games athletes for Mexico Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games Centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics (sport)
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping and throwing. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, cross-country running, and racewalking. The results of racing events are decided by finishing position (or time, where measured), while the jumps and throws are won by the athlete that achieves the highest or furthest measurement from a series of attempts. The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay (athletics), relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country. Organized athletics are traced back to the ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of the modern athletics events, events in athletics were defined in Western Europe an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
