Czechoslovak Athletics Championships

The Czechoslovak Athletics Championships (Czech: Mistrovství Československé v atletice) was an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Czechoslovakia Athletics Association, which served as the national championship for the sport in Czechoslovakia.

Czechoslovak Athletics Championships
SportTrack and field
Founded1919
Ceased1992
CountryCzechoslovakia

Typically organised in July or August, the event was first held in 1919 (the first summer after the country's formation) until 1992. The competition was not held in the years from 1938 to 1944 due to World War II and ran for 66 editions in total. It was superseded by the Czech Athletics Championships and Slovak Athletics Championships following the country's dissolution in 1993. Czechoslovakia had sometimes hosted separate Czech and Slovak sub-national championships before then.[1][2]

The Czechoslovak Indoor Athletics Championships was later introduced in 1969 to complement the summer outdoor event with a spring one.[3]

Events

By its final year, the competition programme featured a total of 35 individual Czechoslovak Championship athletics events, 19 for men and 16 for women. For men, there were seven track running events, three obstacle events, four jumps, four throws, and the decathlon. Women did not have pole vault, hammer throw or 3000 metres steeplechase championship contests.[2]

Track running
Obstacle events
Jumping events
Throwing events
Combined events

Men competed in a 200 metres hurdles until 1967, by which point the event had fallen out of favour in international competitions. The women's programme was gradually expanded from the 1960s onwards, with the 1500 m appearing in 1969, the 3000 m in 1972, the 10,000 m in 1984, and the triple jump in 1990. The women's hurdles events gradually changed too: the 80 metres hurdles became the 100 m version in 1968, a 200 m version was held from 1970 to 1972, then the women's 400 m hurdles began in 1975. The women's combined event was the athletics pentathlon up to 1980.[2]

Separate championship events were held for road running and walks, and cross country running.

Editions

# Year Date Venue
1st1919JunePrague
2nd1920JulyPrague
3rd1921JulyPrague
4th1922JulyPrague
5th1923JunePrague
6th1924JunePrague
7th1925JulyPrague
8th1926JuneBrno
9th1927JuneBrno
10th1928JulyPrague
11th1929JunePrague
12th1930JuneBrno
13th1931JunePrague
14th1932JuneBrno
15th1933JulyPardubice
16th1934JunePrague
17th1935JunePrague
18th1936JulyPrague
19th1937JulyPrague
20th1945AugustPrague
21st1946AugustPrague
22nd1947AugustPrague
23rd1948JunePrague
24th1949JulyPrague
25th1950AugustBratislava
26th1951JulyBrno
27th1952JunePrague
28th1953JulyPrague
29th1954AugustOstrava
30th1955SeptemberBrno
31st1956SeptemberBratislava
32nd1957AugustPrague
33rd1958JulyOstrava
34th1959JulyPrague
35th1960JulyBrno
36th1961SeptemberPrague
36th1962JulyOstrava
37th1963JulyHradec Králové
38th1964JulyPrague
39th1965JulyZábřeh
40th1966AugustTřinec
41st1967JulySokolov
42nd1968JulyJablonec nad Nisou
43rd1969JulyPovažská Bystrica
44th1970SeptemberOstrava
45th1971SeptemberPrague
46th1972JulyPrague
47th1973SeptemberBanská Bystrica
48th1974JulyPrague
49th1975AugustBratislava
50th1976AugustTřinec
51st1977AugustOstrava
52nd1978AugustPrague
53rd1979JulyPrague
54th1980JulyPrague
55th1981AugustOstrava
56th1982JulyPrague
57th1983JulyPrague
58th1984JulyPrague
59th1985AugustPrague
60th1986JulyBratislava
61st1987AugustTřinec
62nd1988JulyPrague
63rd1989JulyBanská Bystrica
64th1990JulyPrague
65th1991JulyOstrava
66th1992JulyNitra

References

  1. National 5000m Outdoor Champions for Czechoslovakia. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2009-04-23). Retrieved on 2016-08-28.
  2. Czechoslovakian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-08-28.
  3. Czechoslovakian Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-08-28.
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