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Relay race

Team sport in athletics, swimming, etc

—country of origin
—first recorded
2000first Olympic record
1disciplines & variants
—international bodies

Relay race is a team sport and individual sport, part of orienteering. Olympic events in it are recorded separately for 2000. Wikidata lists 1 discipline or variant under it.

At the Olympicsrecorded in 2000
Image: Citius Altius Fortius · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Relay race
Image: Arch-Angel Raphael the Artist · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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Disciplines and variants

1
Track relay raceSport of a relay race run on a track
Olympic Games

Olympic history

Editions where Relay race or one of its disciplines was on the programme. Filled boxes mark the sport itself, outlined ones its disciplines; the small number is the count of medal events where recorded.

Summer Games1 edition · since 2000
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