Relay race
The relay ( the relay race in Switzerland) is a discipline of athletics.
In a season in succession through several runners in a relay team called and present thereby a staff.
Olympic disciplines of men and women are the 4 by 100 meters and the 4 x 400 meters. The 4-by- 100 - meter relay is run in lanes. In the 4 x 400 - meter relay, the first about 510 meters to be completed in sheets, so that the first change is still taking place in the web. Then change all the runners on the inside lane.
In the relay race, each athlete must once the distance to cover, and then the next runner passed in a 20 m long Wechselraum the baton without leaving the change room. Decisive for the rule conformity is the position of the bar, not the body. If an error occurs, the relay will be disqualified. A loss of the baton, however, does not lead to disqualification unless the athlete picks up even the bar again. Only for this purpose he may leave its orbit, if it does not hinder rivals and not abbreviate its running track.
Be out in the world record and leaderboards also scales over 4 × 200 m, 3 × 800 m (women only, female youth and students ), 3 × 1000 m (men only, male youth and students), 4 × 800 m (only men ) and 4 × 1500 m ( men only) as well as in the student area of 4 × 50 m and 4 × 75 m. Regardless of other competitions are conducted, such as ISTAF Berlin, a 16 × 50 m pupils season.
Generally understood as short scales are those in which the legs are a Sprint distance ( 400 m). Long seasons are based on the medium-range 800 m to 1500 m.
In Sweden Season four runner (or runners ) run a total of 1000 meters. This total distance is divided into four different distances (400 m, 300 m, 200 m, 100 m), which are run in the order named. Another form of relay race having different lengths is the Olympic relay.
Outside discharged from arenas relay races in the long distance area is called Ekiden. Here, no bar is passed, but a cloth ( Tasuki ) or since the electronic recording of times a transponder. The best known form and are only conducted on the official world records, the marathon relay over a distance of 42.195 km run at the six runners sections 5 km, 10 km, 5 km, 10 km, 5 km and 7.195 km. In addition, there are a number of such relay races in the broad field of sports, such as the SOLA relay race, the Batavierrennen or virtually organized Germany Season.
The longest relay race in Germany is the run - KulTour, a project of the same association from Chemnitz. This 12 runners run (primarily students of the Technical University of Chemnitz) within 16 days non-stop about 4000 km around Germany and thus help since the first tour in 2007 every year to charity.
Relay events also exist in swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon and orienteering as well as fire department performance competition.