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
Finnish Championships in Athletics Finnish Championships in Athletics The Finnish Championships in Athletics, which are known as "Kalevan kisat" in Finnish, were first held in Tampere in 1907. Since then, they have been held in a different location every year. In the beginning, women were not allowed to compete in the Finnish Championships. In 1909, the personnel at the life insurance company "Kaleva" donated a trophy called the "Kalevan malja" or the Kaleva Cup to be awarded to and kept for until the next Championships by the team accumulating the most points during the competition. In 1909, the Finnish Championships started to be informally