The Olympic games

1. The Olympic games By Sian England

2. Olympic field events High jump Triple jump Long jump Shot put Discus Javelin Hammer throw

3. Field performances Discus (men) Top men athletes for discus throw in the Olympics are YuriyDumchev, GerdKanter, VirgilijusAlekna, JurgenSchult, QuiikMusta, ImrichBugar, Ricky Bruch, John Powell, Ben Plucknett, Lars Riedel, Robert Fazekas, VirgilijusAlekna, RomasUbartas, Rolf Danneberg, John Anderson, Clarence Houser, Elmer Niklander, ArmasTaipale, Martin Sheridan, Rudolf Bauer, Viktor Rashchupkin, Mac Wilkins, LudvikDanek, Al Oerter, SimIness, Adolfo Consolini and Ken Carpenter. Discus (women) Women athletes who have done well in the discus throw at the Olympics are Daniela Costian, Diana Sachse-Gansky, IlkeWyludda, ZdenkaSilhava, Martina Hellmann, Gisela Beyer, TsvetankaKhristova, Nina Romashkova, Olga Fikotova, MichelineOstermeyer, Gisela Mauermayer, Lillian Copeland Galina Savinkova, Irina Meszynski, Gabriele Reinsch, Natalya Sadova, EllinaZvereva, Maritza Marten, RiaStalman, EvelinSchlaak, FainaMelnik, LiaManoliu, and Tamara Press.

4. Field Performances Javelin (men) Men athletes who have excelled in javelin throw events at the Olympics are Andreas Thorkildsen, SeppoRaty, Tapio Rautavaara, UweHohn, Breaux Greer, EgilDanielsen, Steve Backley, Boris Henry, KonstadinosGatsioudis, TeroPitkamaki, Jan Zelezny, Eric Lemming, VadimsVasilevskis, Andrus Varnik, Tom Petranoff, Aki Parviainen, Miklos Nemeth, JonniMyyra, Sergey Makarov, Janis Lusis, GergelyKulcsar, Dainis Kula, TapioKorjus, MattiJarvinen and ArtoHarkonen. Javelin (women) • Women athletes who have performed well at the Olympics are TiinaLillak, Trine Hattestad, Ruth Fuchs, Petra Felke, HeliRantanen, SilkeRenk, Angela Nemeth, MihaelaPenes, Elvira Ozolina, IneseJaunzeme, Tilly Fleischer, HermaBauma, Dana Zatopkova, Fatima Whitbread, Tessa Sanderson, Osleidys Menendez and Maria Colon.

5. Field Performances Hammer throw (men) • Men athletes who have performed well in the Olympics are AndreyAbduvaliyev, Sergey Litvinov, JuhaTiainen, YuriySedykh, Koji Murofushi, SzymonZiolkowski, Balazs Kiss, Harold Vincent Connolly, JozsefCsermak, ImreNemethKarl Hein, Pat O'Callaghan, Fred Tootell, Patrick Ryan, Matt McGrath, Anatoly Bondarchuck, GyulaZsivotzky, RomualdKlim, and VasilyRudenkov. hammer throw (women) Athletes who have done well in the Olympics in the domain of hammer throw are Yipsi Moreno, Yunaika Crawford, Tatyana Lysenko, Kirsten Klose, Olga Kuzenkova, and KamilaSkolimowska.

6. Field Performances Shot put (men) Athletes who have excelled at shot put for men in the Olympics are WladyslawKomar, Randy Matson, Dallas Long, Bill Nieder, Parry O'Brien, Wilbur Thompson, Hans Woellke, Brian Oldfield, YuriyBilonoh, Leo Sexton, John Kuck, Clarence Houser, Ville Porhola, Patrick McDonald, Ralph Rose, Martin Sheridan, Richard Sheldon, Kevin Toth, Christian Cantwell, ArsiHarju, Adam Nelson, John Brenner, Randy Barnes, Mike Stulce, Werner Gunthor, Ulf Timmermann, Alessandro Andrei, Vladimir Kiselyov, and Udo Beyer. Shot put (women) Women athletes who have performed well at shot put in Olympics are Claudia Losch, Helena Fibingerova, IlonaBriesenick, Natalya Lisovskaya, YumileidiCumba, YaninaKorolchik, Sui Xinmei, Tamara Press, Tamara Tyshkevich, Galina Zybina, Vita Pavlysh, Natalya Akhrimenko, Li Meisu, Marianne Adam, IvankaHristova, Astrid Kumbernuss, Svetlana Krivelyova, IlonaSlupianek, NadezhdaChizhova, and MargittaGummel

7. Field Performances High jump (men) Athletes who have excelled in the high jump event for men in Olympics are ArturPartyka, Troy Kemp, Dragutin Topic, Sergey Malchenko, GennadiyAvdeyenko, Hollis Conway, Zhu Jianhua, VyacheslavVoronin, Javier Sotomayor, AndriySokolovskyy, Jacques Freitag, Charles Austin, SorinMatei, Rudolf Povarnitsyn, Igor Paklin, PatrikSjoberg, YaroslavRybakov, Matt Hemingway, Sergey Klyugin, Dick Fosbury, ValeriyBrumel, Charles Dumas, John Winter, Harry Porter, Irving Baxter, Steve Smith, Wolf-Hendrik Beyer, Ralf Sonn, DietmarMogenburg, Stefan Holm, and Carlo Thranhardt. High jump (women) Some top performers at the event of high jump in Olympics are Heike Henkel, Tamara Bykova, Yelena Slesarenko, HestrieCloete, KajsaBergqvist, Esther Brand, Alice Coachman, IbolyaCsak, Jean Shiley, Lyudmila Andonova, StefkaKostadinova, VenelinaVeneva, Silvia Costa, InhaBabakova, Ulrike Meyfarth, Sara Simeoni, Rosemarie Ackermann, MiloslavaRezkova, IolandaBalas, Mildred McDaniel, Marina Kuptsova, Monica Iagar, Anna Chicherova, AlinaAstafei, Blanka Vlasic, Yelena Yelesina, and Louise Ritter.

8. Field Performances Long JUMP (MEN) Top performers in the event of long jump are Lutz Dombrowski, Arnie Robinson, Randy Williams, Lynn Davies, Ralph Boston, Greg Bell, Dwight Phillips, James Beckford, Kareem Streete-Thompson, Ivan Pedroso, Jerome Biffle, Willie Steele, Jesse Owens, Ed Gordon, Ed Hamm, William DeHart Hubbard, William Pettersson, Albert Gutterson, Frank Irons, Erick Walder, Larry Myricks, Robert Emmiyan, Carl Lewis, Bob Beamon and Mike Powell.. Long Jump (women) • Marion Jones, Yelena Khlopotnova, Tatyana Lebedeva, InessaKravets, Yelena Belevskaya, Tatyana Kotova, AnisoaraStanciu, Heike Drechsler, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Galina Chistyakova, Tatyana Kolpakova, Angela Voigt, HeideRosendahl, VioricaViscopoleanu, Mary Rand, Vera Krepkina, ElzbietaKrzesinska,

9. Field Performances Triple jump (men) Joao Carlos de Oliveira, Vladimir Inozemtsev, James Beckford, Yoelbi Quesada, Charles Simpkins, Mike Conley, Hristo Markov, James Connoly, Tim Ahearne, Peter O'Connor,ViktorSaneyev, JózefSzmidt, Adhemarda Silva, Arne Ahman, Naoto Tajima, ChuheiNambu, Willie Banks, Kenny Harrison, Jonathan Edwards, Christian Olsson, Al Joyner, JaakUudmae, MikioOda, Nick Winter, VilhoTuulos and GustafLindblom. Triple jump (women) Top performers among the athletes participating in the Olympics triple jump event are Inna Lasovskaya, Tatyana Lebedeva, OlenaHovorova, YamileAldama, Trecia Smith, RodicaMateescu, Iva Prandzheva, HrysopiyiDevetzi, Francoise MbangoEtone, TerezaMarinova, InessaKravets, and SarkaKasparkova.