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    The history of physical training and athletics dates back to prehistoric times. Athletics events such as running, jumping, and throwing have been depicted in ancient Egyptian tombs from as early as 2250 BC. The ancient Greeks held athletic competitions at the Olympic Games starting in 776 BC. In modern times, organized athletics competitions emerged in the 17th century in England and spread throughout Europe and North America in the 19th century. The establishment of governing bodies such as the IAAF helped standardize rules and promote international competition in athletics.

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    The history of physical training and athletics dates back to prehistoric times. Athletics events such as running, jumping, and throwing have been depicted in ancient Egyptian tombs from as early as 2250 BC. The ancient Greeks held athletic competitions at the Olympic Games starting in 776 BC. In modern times, organized athletics competitions emerged in the 17th century in England and spread throughout Europe and North America in the 19th century. The establishment of governing bodies such as the IAAF helped standardize rules and promote international competition in athletics.

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    ● History
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    ● History of physical training and fitness


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    ● Ancient
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    ● A copy of the Ancient Greek statue Discobolus, portraying

    a discus thrower

    ● Athletic contests in running, walking, jumping and

    throwing are among the oldest of all sports and their roots

    are prehistoric.[3] Athletics events were depicted in the

    Ancient Egyptian tombs in Saqqara, with illustrations of

    running at the Heb Sed festival and high jumping

    appearing in tombs from as early as of 2250 BC.[4] The

    Tailteann Games were an ancient Celtic festival in

    Ireland, founded circa 1800 BC, and the thirty-day

    meeting included running and stone-throwing among its

    sporting events.[5] The original and only event at the first

    Olympics in 776 BC was a stadium-length running event

    known as the stadion. This later expanded to include

    throwing and jumping events within the ancient

    pentathlon. Athletics competitions also took place at other

    Panhellenic Games, which were founded later around

    500 BC.[6]
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    ● Modern era
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    ● The Cotswold Olympic Games, a sports


    festival which emerged in 17th century
    England, featured athletics in the form of
    sledgehammer throwing contests.[7] Annually,
    from 1796 to 1798, L'Olympiade de la
    République was held in revolutionary France,
    and is an early forerunner to the modern
    Olympic Games. The premier event of this
    competition was a running event, but various
    ancient Greek disciplines were also on display.
    The 1796 Olympiade marked the introduction
    of the metric system into the sport.[8]
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    ● Athletics competitions were held about 1812 at


    the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,[9] and
    in 1840 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire at the
    Royal Shrewsbury School Hunt. The Royal
    Military Academy at Woolwich held an
    organised competition in 1849, and a regular
    series of closed meetings open only to
    undergraduates, was held by Exeter College,
    Oxford from 1850.[10] The annual Wenlock
    Olympian Games, first held in 1850 in
    Wenlock, England, incorporated athletics
    events into its sports programme.[11]
    ● The first modern-style indoor athletics
    meetings were recorded shortly after in the
    1860s, including a meet at Ashburnham Hall in
    London which featured four running events
    and a triple jump competition.[12][13]
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    ● The Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) was


    established in England in 1880 as the first
    national body for the sport of athletics and
    began holding its own annual athletics
    competition – the AAA Championships. The
    United States also began holding an annual
    national competition – the USA Outdoor Track
    and Field Championships – first held in 1876
    by the New York Athletic Club.[14] Athletics
    became codified and standardized via the
    English AAA and other general sports
    organisations in the late 19th century, such as
    the Amateur Athletic Union (founded in the US
    in 1888) and the Union des sociétés
    françaises de sports athlétiques (founded in
    France in 1889).
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    ● An international governing body, the


    International Amateur Athletics Federation
    (IAAF), was founded in 1912. It enforced
    amateur sport status on competitions during
    much of the 20th century. Professional
    competition continued at a low level, becoming
    increasingly more common as the century
    progressed. The International Track
    Association briefly formed a professional track
    and field circuit in the United States in the
    1970s. Athletes used their increasing status to
    push for remuneration and the IAAF
    responded with the IAAF Golden Events series
    and the establishment an outdoor World
    Championships in 1983, including track and
    field, racewalking and a marathon event. In
    modern times, athletes can receive money for
    racing, putting an end to the so-called
    "amateurism" that existed before. The global
    body updated the name to the International
    Association of Athletics Federations in 2001,
    moving away from its amateur origins,[15]
    before taking on its current name World
    Athletics in 2019.[16]
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    ● The Comité International Sports des Sourds


    had been formed by 1922, to govern
    international deaf sports, including
    athletics.[17]

    ● The first organized international competitions


    for athletes with a physical disability (not deaf)
    began in 1952, when the first international
    Stoke Mandeville Games were organized for
    World War II veterans.[17][18] This only
    included athletes in a wheelchair. This inspired
    the first Paralympic Games, held in 1960.
    Competitions would over time be expanded to
    include mainly athletes with amputation
    cerebral palsy and visual impairments in
    addition to wheelchair events.
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