Table 3

Number of competing athletes, injuries and injury risk in competition of different events

	No. of registered athletes per discipline^*		No of competing athletes per discipline^*		No. of time-loss injuries during competition^{^†}		Time-loss injuries in competition per 1000 competing athletes^*
Discipline	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women
100 m	100	72	92	63	4	2	43.5	31.7
200 m	78	54	67	44	7	1	104.5	22.7
400 m	61	47	53	42	1	1	18.9	23.8
800 m	54	45	51	43	0	2	0.0	46.5
4 × 100 m Relay	102	95	73	69	2	1	27.5	14.5
4 × 400 m relay	80	90	58	71	1	2	17.2	28.2
110 m/100 m hurdles	51	42	47	40	3	0	63.8	0.0
400 m Hurdles	35	43	32	38	1	1	31.3	26.3
1500 m	57	46	54	42	2	3	37.0	71.4
3000 m steeplechase	43	42	39	41	1	2	26.5	48.8
5000 m	43	27	39	23	4	1	102.6	43.5
10 000 m	34	26	31	22	1	2	32.3	90.9
Marathon	102	80	98	73	3	0	30.6	0.0
20 km walk	50	49	50	48	0	2	0.0	41.7
50 km walk	48	–	47	–	3	0	63.8	–
Discus throw	33	41	30	40	1	0	33.3	0.0
Hammer throw	35	43	34	41	0	2	0.0	48.8
Javelin throw	51	33	48	31	2	0	41.7	0.0
Shot put	39	29	36	28	1	0	27.8	0.0
High jump	33	34	31	33	2	0	64.5	0.0
Pole vault	39	34	35	31	0	1	0.0	28.6
Long jump	46	40	46	37	3	0	65.2	0.0
Triple jump	46	36	46	35	0	1	0.0	28.6
Decathlon	41	–	38	–	5	0	131.6	–
Heptathlon	–	29	–	29	0	4	–	137.9
Total^*, ^†	1301	1077	1175	964	47	28	40.0	29.6

↵* Since some athletes competed in more than one discipline, this is not the sum of individual athletes (if an athlete started in different disciplines he/she was counted in each discipline)
↵† Information on circumstance is missing for four injuries.