User:Habst/Non-medal athletics events at the Olympics

Various non-medal events were contested as part of athletics at the Summer Olympics, first during the 1900 and 1904 editions. As a part of the athletics programme, these events were not official demonstration sports.

These events generally fell into three categories: handicap events where certain competitors were assigned pre-competition advantages, professional events due to the mandate of amateurism at the Olympic Games at the time, and wheelchair racing, contested from 1984 to 2004 to promote the separate Summer Paralympic Games.

Outside of these categories, there were also two scratch competitions held in the men's pole vault in 1900, and just before the 1904 Olympics there were "Anthropology Days" events held in conjunction with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition youth athletics competitions, as well as AAU and YMCA competitions.