Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics in athletics for the first time. Bulgaria, Egypt, Malta, Panama, Rhodesia, and Uruguay were the only six nations not to compete in athletics. Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, 27 athletics events were contested. The competition was held on a 400-meter track and would become the standard for athletics tracks in the future. For the first time, women's events in athletics were included in the Olympic Games program. There was a total of 706 participants from 40 countries competing. During the 1928 Summer Olympic Games 9 new world records were set in the
Participation of women in the Olympics will compete in softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing, and skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The International Ski Federation has stated that they are aiming to include women's Nordic combined in the Olympic programme for the first time at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Women have competed in the following sports at the Olympic Games. In combined events at the Olympics, women compete in the seven-event heptathlon but men compete in three more events in the decathlon. A women's pentathlon was held from 1964 to 1980, before being expanded to the heptathlon. In sprint hurdles at the