TRADITIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETES OF THE CHUVASH REPUBLIC
The first competitions in track and field athletics held in the far 20s of the twentieth century launched a huge mechanism, which still exists and is functioning perfectly. The history of competitions in track and field athletics includes regional Olympiads, All-Chuvash Olympics, Spartakiads, Republican track and field relay races of the newspaper "Soviet Chuvashiya" as well as major competitions held in the Republic (the Championship of Russia in track and field athletics). A general analysis of competitions held during many years shows that in general the best results in track and field athletics are shown in long-distance running. The Chuvash Republic and track and field athletics, in some way, become associated with each other. This phenomenon is formed due to the fact that outstanding Chuvash athletes such as A. Ignatiev, A. Deverinsky, E. Nikolaeva, O. Ivanova, V. Egorova, V. Andreev, A. Grigoriev and many others, as well as famous trainers of the Chuvash Republic, G. Semenov, V. Semenov, M. Kuznetsov, A. Ulangin, A. Semenova, G. Grachev during their many years of painstaking work glorified the Republic not only in the country but in the whole world as well. An important place among the achievements of sportsmen of the Republic is taken, of course, by records. Many of the records set by the athletes of the Chuvash Republic on the territory of the Republic over 60 years ago are still "unbroken". This fact proves that current performance level of modern athletes of the Republic is insufficiently high, although it should be noted that at present time Chuvash track and field athlets decently show themselves in the arenas of the country and many track and field athletes of the Republic were granted with high athletic titles and are listed as "Best athletes of Russia".