Olympic athletics (track and field) athlete-event participations, 1896-2026

The subset of olympic_athletes with sport == "Athletics". A convenience dataset so examples can focus on a single sport without first filtering. Columns are identical to olympic_athletes.

Usage

athletics_athletes

Format

A data frame with 43,062 rows and 16 variables; see olympic_athletes for the full column descriptions.

Source

See olympic_athletes.

Examples

data(athletics_athletes)
head(athletics_athletes)
#>      id                       name sex age height weight          team noc
#> 1 12068       Arthur Charles Blake   M  24     NA     NA United States USA
#> 2 35094             Angelos Fetsis   M  NA     NA     NA        Greece GRE
#> 3 35698 Edwin Harold "Teddy" Flack   M  22     NA     NA     Australia AUS
#> 4 38123                 Carl Galle   M  23    154     45       Germany GER
#> 5 41160       Dimitrios P. Golemis   M  21     NA     NA        Greece GRE
#> 6 57441  Konstantinos Karakatsanis   M  NA     NA     NA        Greece GRE
#>         games year season city_local_latin city_english     sport
#> 1 1896 Summer 1896 Summer           Athína       Athens Athletics
#> 2 1896 Summer 1896 Summer           Athína       Athens Athletics
#> 3 1896 Summer 1896 Summer           Athína       Athens Athletics
#> 4 1896 Summer 1896 Summer           Athína       Athens Athletics
#> 5 1896 Summer 1896 Summer           Athína       Athens Athletics
#> 6 1896 Summer 1896 Summer           Athína       Athens Athletics
#>                          event  medal
#> 1 Athletics Men's 1,500 metres Silver
#> 2 Athletics Men's 1,500 metres   <NA>
#> 3 Athletics Men's 1,500 metres   Gold
#> 4 Athletics Men's 1,500 metres   <NA>
#> 5 Athletics Men's 1,500 metres   <NA>
#> 6 Athletics Men's 1,500 metres   <NA>