Sports discipline
A sports discipline is a single type of competition within a sport . The supreme discipline , on the other hand, is a particularly demanding discipline. The concept of the supreme discipline is not limited to sports disciplines.
In athletics, the decathlon is the supreme discipline, i.e. a collection of several sub-disciplines that demand robustness in their sum. In boxing, on the other hand, the highest weight class counts as the supreme discipline or simply the premier class.
While certain types of physical activity are summarized under a sport, competitions in this sport are usually held in different disciplines. The most common distinction is the division of the competitions into different route lengths. In athletics there are z. B. Competitions in running over 100, 200, 400, 800, 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 m. Sometimes different styles of exercise (e.g. individual layers in swimming ), sports equipment (e.g. different weapons in shooting sports ), different team sizes (e.g. single, two-person and four-person teams in bobsledding or canoeing ) held as individual disciplines.
The program of the Olympic Games currently consists of 28 sports , in which medals are awarded in 301 disciplines .
The terms sport and sport discipline are not always differentiated systematically in common usage. Sometimes different branches of a sport, e.g. B. the variants road cycling , track cycling , mountain biking and artificial cycling of cycling are viewed as independent sports, but sometimes also as disciplines of the sport of cycling. The individual pursuit would therefore be either a discipline of sport track cycling, or a part of discipline of discipline track cycling.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Supreme discipline in the Duden