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To speak about athletics, you need the appropriate vocabulary.
  
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Bar - a long, thin piece of metal or wood;

Baton - a stick that a runner passes to the next person in a race;

Cross country race - a race across fields and countryside;

Discus - a round, flat, heavy object that people throw as a sport;

Heat - a competition, especially a race, which decides who will be in the final event;

High jump - a sports event in which people try to jump over a bar which gets higher and higher during the competition;

Javelin - a sport in which you throw a javelin as far as you can;

Lap - one journey around a circular race track;

Long jump - a sports event where people try to jump as far as possible;

Pole vault - a sport in which you use a very long stick to jump over a high bar;

Race - a competition in which people run, ride, drive, etc against each other in order to see who is the fastest;
  
Relay - to broadcast radio or television signals;

Route - the roads or paths you follow to get from one place to another place;

Sprint - to run very fast for a short distance;

Track and field athletics - the sports which include running, jumping, and throwing.
 
Examples:

He's two laps behind the leaders.

Crowds gathered all along the route to watch the race.

She sprinted along the road to the bus stop.