Editing Sprint (running) (section)

===Common contemporary distances===

==== [[60 metres]] ====

* Normally run indoors, on a straight section of an indoor athletic track.
* Some of the fastest humans reach their maximum speed around the 60-metre mark.
* 60-metres is often used as an outdoor distance by younger athletes when starting sprint racing.

Note: Indoor distances are less standardized, as many facilities run shorter or occasionally longer distances depending on available space. 60 m is the championship distance.

==== [[100 metres]]<ref name="liveabout.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.liveabout.com/track-and-field-running-events-3259282|title = 3 Types of Track and Field Running Events}}</ref> ====

* Takes place on the straight of a standard outdoor 400&nbsp;m track.
* Often, the world-record holder in this race is considered "the world's fastest man or woman."
* Primarily an outdoor race.

[[File:Crawford, Dzingai 200 m Berlin 2009.jpg|thumb|A 200&nbsp;m bend]]

==== [[200 metres]]<ref name="liveabout.com"/> ====

* Begins on the curve of a standard track (where the runners are staggered in their starting position, to ensure that they all run the same distance), and ends on the home straight.
* Competed both indoors and outdoors, with only slightly slower times than outdoors.

==== [[400 metres]]<ref name="liveabout.com"/> ====

* Runners are staggered in their starting positions to ensure that everyone runs the same distance.
* Competed both indoors and outdoors, with only slightly slower times than outdoors.

[[File:AllysonFelixRelay4x400London2012.jpg|thumb|[[Allyson Felix]], at [[2012 Summer Olympics|London 2012 Summer Olympics]]]]

==== [[4 × 100 metres relay]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://olympics.com/en/featured-news/athletics-relay-races-rules-history-world-records-olympics|title=All you need to know about relay races: Rules, history, world records}}</ref> ====

* Runners are staggered in their starting positions to ensure that everyone runs the same distance.
* Runners use exchange zones (and, previously, separate acceleration zones which have now been eliminated) to pass a baton

==== [[4 × 400 metres relay]]<ref name=":0"/> ====

* Runners are staggered in their starting positions to ensure that everyone runs the same distance.
* Runners use exchange zones to pass a baton.
* Typically, the final race at track meets.