This is an easy-to-follow, fact-packed guide to all the major athletics events - track races, jumping and throwing field events, and the heptathlon and decathlon. It features simple explanations of the rules and objectives for each event. It contains useful information about equipment and where events take place. It includes up-to-date records, and lots of interesting facts. Clear illustrations show the techniques used by athletes.

 

This book is part of a book series called Usborne Spectator Guides .

There are 50 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Galia Bernstein was born and raised in Israel until she moved to New York to study design. She worked as a textile print artist and later as a senior designer and then art director. Based in Brooklyn, she is now a freelance illustrator. Emily Bone is a published author of children's books. She has published Cowboy Things to Make and Do and 50 Secret Codes.