Multi-athletic events include competitions in several athletics disciplines, and the winner is determined by the sum of points awarded for the result in each discipline. The modern Olympic program includes the decathlon for men and the heptathlon for women. Until 1980, women’s competitions were held in five events, forming the pentathlon. The men’s decathlon includes four running events, three jumping events, and three throwing events.
Indoor competitions are usually held with a shortened program, as some of the disciplines, such as javelin throwing, for example, require space.
In accordance with the Charter, the International Athletics Federation develops cooperation between national federations for the development of athletics in the world, draws up rules and regulations for athletics competitions for men and women, resolves disputes between members of the federation, cooperates with the International Olympic Committee, approves world records, and resolves technical issues in athletics. In order to guide the development of athletics in Europe and regulate the calendar of European competitions and their conduct, the European Athletics Association was established in 1967 to unite athletics federations of European countries. And since 2002, it has been called the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Age features of the educational and training process in all-around.
The construction of the educational and training process of young all-around athletes on the basis of the use of standard training tasks allows to provide:
a) uniformity of methods of all-around training;
b) differentiated and purposeful influence on a young organism for better education of basic physical qualities;
c) application of tasks by the method of variable exercises, reducing monotony;
d) increasing the range of purposeful variations of the main motor action;
e) creating conditions for the optimal ratio of repetition and variability;
f) considerable streamlining of the training process at all stages of long-term sports activities.
Training tasks are divided into three groups: aerobic, mixed aerobic-anaerobic and anaerobic influence.
This takes into account the assessment of various aspects of the individual physical fitness of young athletes, where three levels can be distinguished: average, above average, below average. This promotes differentiated selection and application of training tasks taking into account the necessity of selective influence on specific links of individual physical fitness.