Czechoslovak Indoor Athletics Championships

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Czechoslovak Indoor Athletics Championships
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SportIndoor track and field
Founded1969
Ceased1992
CountryCzechoslovakia

The Czechoslovak Indoor Athletics Championships (Czech: Halové mistrovství Československa v atletice) was an annual indoor track and field competition organised by the , which served as the national championship for the sport in Czechoslovakia. Held over two days in February during the Czechoslovak winter, it was added to the national calendar in 1969 following the creation of a suitable indoor athletics venue in Jablonec nad Nisou. A Czech-only championship was held at the venue a year earlier.[1][2]

The competition served as the winter, indoor counterpart to the main Czechoslovak Athletics Championships, held outdoors in the summer since 1919.[3] The last edition was held in 1992 and after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia it was succeeded by the separate Czech Indoor and .[4][5]

Events[]

The following athletics events feature as standard on the Czechoslovak Indoor Championships programme:

  • Sprints: 60 m, 200 m, 400 m
  • Distance track events: 800 m, 1500 m, 3000 m
  • Hurdles: 60 m hurdles
  • Jumps: long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault (men only)
  • Throws: shot put
  • Racewalking: 5000 m (men), 3000 m (women)
  • Combined events: heptathlon (men), pentathlon (women)

The 60 metres sprint and 60 metres hurdles events were replaced by a 50 metres and a 50 metres hurdles in 1969, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1990, 1991, and 1992. A women's 80 metres hurdles was held at the first edition, but dropped thereafter. Other non-standard indoor events included a 100 metres in 1969, 1970, and 1989, and a 300 metres from 1971 to 1975.[4]

The event programme gradually expanded over the years, with the 400 metres first appearing in 1976 and the 200 metres in 1982. The combined events first appeared in 1983 as unofficial championships before taking on national title status in 1987. The men's event was held as an octathlon for the first three years and no men's combined event appeared at the 1991 edition. The racewalking events were first contested in 1987.[4]

Women were initially limited in events early in the competition's history. The first distance event for women, the 1500 metres was held in 1973 and the 3000 metres followed in 1982 (having had a one-off appearance in 1974). Women did not contest the 3000 m at the 1989 edition. The addition of a women's triple jump in 1991 brought the women to parity in the horizontal jumps. A Czechoslovak champion in women's pole vault was never elected, as the event was held only once as an exhibition in 1992.[4]

Editions[]

Ed. Year Location Dates Venue Events Athletes Ref.
— Jablonec nad Nisou 9–10 March 1968
1st Jablonec nad Nisou 22–23 February 1969
2nd Jablonec nad Nisou 21–22 February 1970
3rd Jablonec nad Nisou 13–14 February 1971
4th Jablonec nad Nisou 12–13 February 1972
5th Jablonec nad Nisou 10–11 February 1973
6th Jablonec nad Nisou 23–24 February 1974
7th Jablonec nad Nisou 15–16 February 1975
8th Košice 7–8 February 1976
9th Ostrava 26–27 February 1977
10th Jablonec nad Nisou 25–26 February 1978
11th Jablonec nad Nisou 10–11 February 1979
12th Jablonec nad Nisou 16–17 February 1980
13th Jablonec nad Nisou 7–8 February 1981
14th Jablonec nad Nisou 20–21 February 1982
15th Jablonec nad Nisou 19–20 February 1983
16th Jablonec nad Nisou 18–19 February 1984
17th Jablonec nad Nisou 9–10 February 1985
18th Jablonec nad Nisou 8–9 February 1986
19th Jablonec nad Nisou 7–8 February 1987
20th Jablonec nad Nisou 20–21 February 1988
21st Jablonec nad Nisou 4–5 February 1989
22nd Prague 17–18 February 1990
23rd Prague 23–24 February 1991
24th Prague 15–16 February 1992

References[]

  1. ^ Měsičník Atletika, April 1968.
  2. ^ MISTROVSTVÍ A PŘEBORY VATLETICEII. DÍLMUŽI A ŽENY ČECHY 1969 –1971 MORAVA 1969 –1971 ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA 1970 –2014 (in Czech). Czech Athletics Federation. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  3. ^ Czechoslovak Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  4. ^ a b c d Czechoslovak Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  5. ^ Hladik, Pavel (2015). MISTROVSTVÍ A PŘEBORYVATLETICE I. DÍLMUŽI A ŽENYKRÁLOVSTVÍ ČESKÉ 1907 1918 ČESKOSLOVENSKO 1919 –1938, 1945 –1992 ČECHY A MORAVA 1939 –1944 (in Czech). Czech Athletics Federation. Retrieved 2020-06-29.

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