Nordic Athletics is an international governing body for the sport of athletics in the Nordic countries – Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway , and Sweden . It is responsible for organising Nordic competitions between the nations, as well as collating Nordic records for the best performances by athletes of the nations,[ 1] International Association of Athletics Federations and European Athletics in regards to Nordic issues.[ 2]
The earliest regular Nordic competition to be established was the Nordic Marathon Championships and Nordic Combined Events Championships , which were first held in 1949 as a single-host competition. The first full programme event was the Nordic Junior Athletics Championships , an outdoor track and field competition for under-21 athletes, which began in 1950. Several competitions were created and discontinued in the 1960s–1980s, including a full senior programme event in the Nordic Athletics Championships . The 1990s saw three competitions become regular fixtures: the Nordic 10000m Challenge , the Nordic Cross Country Championships , and the Nordic–Baltic Under-23 Athletics Championships . Alongside these events, the Nordic Race Walking Championships , Nordic Indoor Athletics Match , Nordic Junior Athletics Championships and the Nordic Junior Combined Events Championships comprise the ongoing competitions organised by the body.[ 3] [ 4]
Since 2008, the organisation has encouraged the involvement of athletes from the Baltic countries (Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ) as both guest athletes and formal competitors.[ 2]
In July 2019 it began publishing Nordic Athletics Magazine .[ 5]
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Inter-Nordic competitions
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