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History of Athletics

What is Athletics?

• Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking.

Multiple Choice

What was the first event recorded in first Olympic game?

• Foot race

• Athletics

• Running

• Throwing

Footrace

•   The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BC, when Koroibos, a cook from the nearby city of Elis, won the stadium race, a foot race 600 feet long. According to some literary traditions, this was the only athletic event of the games for the first 13 Olympic festivals.

Multiple Choice

This is a long-distance race with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres, usually run as a road race. The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens, who reported the victory.

• Triathlon

• road running

• marathon

• ironman

Marathon

• The marathon is a long-distance race with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres, usually run as a road race. The event was instituted in commemoration of the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens, who reported the victory.

Marathon History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG8Vf6d8yKM

Multiple Choice

What do you call the "messenger" in Athens during the Persian war?

• road runner

• foot runner

• day runner

• feet runner

• The race commemorates the run of Pheidippides, an ancient “day runner” who carried the news of the Persian landing at Marathon of 490 BC to Sparta (a distance of 149 miles) in order to enlist help for the battle. 

• The distance of the modern marathon was standardized as 26 miles and 385 yards or 42.195 kilometers in 1908 when the Olympic Games were held in London. The distance was the exact measurement between Windsor Castle, the start of the race, and the finish line inside White City Stadium.

•   From 776 BC, the games were held in Olympia every four years for almost twelve centuries. Additional athletic events were gradually added until, by the fifth century BC, the religious festival consisted of a five-day program. The athletic events included three foot races (stadion, diaulos, and dolichos) as well as the pentathlon (five contests: discus, javelin, long jump, wrestling, and foot race

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Multiple Select

What are the additional events played during the Ancient Olympics in 776BC?

• pugme (boxing)

• pale (wrestling)

• pankration (kick-boxing-wrestling)

• Hoplitodromos

• Equestrian

• During the next several centuries Athletics developed in slow steps. However, during the Middle Ages the new wave of the track and field development began. During that time track and field developed in the Northern part of Europe. Track and field as we know it today began developing in the 19th century when first competitions in track and field took places. In that time, those track and field competitions primary were organized by educational institutions, sport clubs and some military organizations. The events organized by these institutions were actually the one that included the hurdle races.

• One of the biggest milestones for the development of the Athletics came back in 1896 at the Summer Olympic Games. In those Games in Athens, track and field together with a marathon comprised the majority of the sporting events at that Games. Besides that, those Games are also important because it’s the first time to introduced the metric measurement in the track and field competitions. During the next couple of decades, the development of the track and field, or rather; the athletics in general, put the Athletics on the path of becoming the most important aspect of the Olympic Games for every game in the future.

Multiple Choice

How many colors are there in the Olympic Flag?

• 8

• 5

• 6

• 7

Multiple Choice

What are the colors found in the Olympic Rings?

• The six colours [including the flag's white background] combined in this way reproduce the colours of every country without exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Greece, the tricolour flags of France, United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Hungary, and the yellow and red of Spain are included, as are the innovative flags of Brazil and Australia, and those of ancient Japan and modern China.

What do the Olympic Rings mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_bve53_I3s

•  In 1912, the second milestone in the development of the Athletics occurred when the International Amateur Athletic Federation or IAAF was founded and as such it became the international governing body for track and field. The officials of the IAAF of that time emphasized the importance of the amateurism for the athletics and it became of the basic principle on which IAAF will continue to operate. Up until the early 1920’s, track and field was only a male sport. Women became part of the athletics only after women’s sport movement organized Women’s World Games back in 1921. However, women for the first time participated in track and field competitions at the Olympic Games back in 1928 Summer Olympic Games.

PATAFA

• The Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA), formerly the Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association, is the national governing body for athletics sports such as track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking in the Philippines.