Sentence examples for field competitor from inspiring English sources

He has been at it for more than 15 years now, a fixture in the national athletics team, standing on podiums and setting world records, the only British track and field competitor to win medals at three different Olympic Games.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Russia's sole track and field competitor at the Rio Olympics, DaryaKlishina, has been suspended from the Games, the international athletics federation (IAAF) said on Saturday, confirming it had withdrawn her special eligibility status.

The other significant field competitor is the Dai, who has a long standing link with local community, and is providing household services to the new mother in post natal period and takes payments in-kind as well.

On Tuesday, however, the IOC said it would delay its decision on athletes until after the court of arbitration for sport rules on Thursday on 68 Russian track and field competitors seeking to be reinstated for Rio.

The agency said that the testing authorities from Britain had been threatened by members of Russia's Federal Security Service and that many athletes — a significant number of them track and field competitors — had evaded drug tests with the help of sports officials as recently as this month.

In addition to the Olympic events, Team GB will also field competitors in the non-Olympic aerobic and acrobatic gymnastics competitions.

With 300 days to go before the Games open in Glasgow, 23 track and field competitors were named, along with four squash players.

Recently, Mikami et al. [5] examined a large cohort of elite Japanese athletes (n = 299) and found that the ACTN3 R577X genotype was associated with sprint/power performance among track and field competitors, especially running 100- to 200-m sprints, and that R allele was associated with relative peak power in male collegiate athletes [6].

The country was represented by eight track and field athletes and one boxer; of the eight track and field competitors, five were women, and three were men.

Sure to be another fan favorite is Bernard Lagat who, at age 41, will be the oldest U.S. athlete to compete in a running event at Rio and the second-oldest U.S. track-and-field competitor in history.

The high elevation of Mexico City (2,300 metres [7,500 feet]) was both a benefit and a hindrance to track-and-field competitors.