Swahili names to some of the games in Olympics
1.Swimming -uogeleaji
Swimming has featured on the programme of all editions of the Games since 1896. The very first Olympic events were freestyle (crawl) or breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904. … Women’s swimming became Olympic in 1912 at the Stockholm Games.
2.Hurdles-Viunzi
The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women.
On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lanes the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly spaced around the track. The hurdles are positioned and weighted so that they fall forward if bumped into with sufficient force, to prevent injury to the runners. Although there is no longer any penalty for knocking hurdles over, runners prefer to clear them cleanly, as touching them during the race slows runners down.
The best male athletes can run the 400 m hurdles in a time of around 47 seconds, while the best female athletes achieve a time of around 53 seconds. The current men’s and women’s world record holders are Karsten Warholm with 45.94 seconds and Sydney McLaughlin with 51.46 seconds. Compared to the 400 metres run, the hurdles race takes the men about three seconds longer and the women four seconds longer.
The 400 m hurdles was held for both sexes at the inaugural IAAF World Championships in Athletics. The first championship for women came at the 1980 World Championships in Athletics – being held as a one-off due to the lack of a race at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
3. 3000m Steeplechase- Mita elfu tatu Kuruka viunzi na vidimbwi vya maji
According to the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF), the modern 3,000-meter steeplechase track event first originated at Oxford University in the mid-19th century. It made its first Olympic appearance in 1920, however, the women only raced it at the Olympics in 2008 in Beijing.
4.Boxing- Ndondi
Boxing first appeared as a formal Olympic event in the 23rd Olympiad (688 bce), but fist-fighting contests must certainly have had their origin in mankind’s prehistory. The earliest visual evidence for boxing appears in Sumerian relief carvings from the 3rd millennium bce. … 1350 bce) shows both boxers and spectators.
5. 100m -mita mia moja
The Olympic records for the event are 9.63 seconds, set by Usain Bolt in 2012, and 10.60 seconds, set by Elaine Thompson-Herah in 2021. The world records for the event have been equalled or broken during the Olympics on seven occasions in the men’s category and on twelve occasions in the women’s.
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