Track and Field Vocabulary
I am very interested in the sport of track and field, and I was wondering about the Spanish equivalents for these seemly impossible to translate terms from this sport (also known as athletics). I have tried many resources and been unable to come up with a satisfactory answer.
- Track and field (the sport)- is the term really "atletismo"?
- Spikes/Cleats (the kind with metal nail-like things you screw in the bottoms, used for the running events)
- Time (as in your "time" for a race–tiempo or something else?)
- Indoor Track (the sport, track in the winter)
- How do you refer to a running race of a certain number of meters, for example in English we say the 800 meter run (or just the "800") or the 400 meter run (or just "400"). How do you refer to these events in Spanish?
2 Answers
Yes it's called el atletismo but I've also heard 'el track y field'
Here's some vocab:
cronometrar is the verb used for timing a race (eg on a stop watch)
Los 100 m - is how you'd say 'the 100 meters'
Los 400 metros vallas - is how you'd say 'the 400 meters hurdles'
time is 'tiempo'
En 2009, durante la final de 100 metros del Campeonato del Mundo de Berlín, el jamaicano Usain Bolt tocó con la mano esta barrera, estableciendo un nuevo récord mundial, con un tiempo de 9 s 58, con un viento favorable pequeño
el relevo relay
la pista race track
la pista cubierta indoor track
salto de longitud long jump
salto de altura high jump
triple salto triple jump
esprint sprint
lanzamiento de bala shot put
salto de vallas hurdles
la pistola gun
cronómetro stopwatch
el bloque block
los clavos spikes (on shoes)
Anybody remember the great Cuban 400m man Alberto "El Caballo" Juantorena? Virtually unbeatable in his day.
