The following
athletics events featured as standard on the main AAA Championships programme: •
Sprint: 60 m, 200 m, 400 m • Distance track events: 800 m, 1500 m, 3000 m •
Hurdles: 60 m hurdles • Jumps: long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault • Throws: shot put Events were initially raced and measured in imperial distances, with the transition to metric occurring in 1968 for men and 1969 for women. A men's
2000 metres steeplechase was contested from 1967 to 1985.
Combined track and field events were introduced in 1987 in the form of a men's
octathlon and a
women's pentathlon; the octathlon was amended to the international standard
men's heptathlon in 1991.
Racewalking briefly featured on the programme, with a men's and women's
3000 metres track walk happening from 1997 to 2002. A women's 1.5 mile walk was also held in 1966 and 1967. and a men's 1-mile walk in 1936. The non-standard
600-yard run was held for both men and women from 1962 to 1964. In line with the international expansion of women's
athletics programmes to match the men's, the
3000 metres for women was added in 1973, the
triple jump was added in 1991 and the
pole vault in 1994. ==Editions==