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    Athletics originated from ancient Greek competitions involving running, jumping, and throwing. In ancient Greece, the Olympics began in 776 BC with a single footrace event. Over time, athletics grew to include additional running, jumping, and throwing competitions. In the modern era, athletics developed further in Europe and came to focus on competitive running, walking, jumping, and throwing events. Today, athletics is known as track and field and includes races, relays, hurdles, walking, jumping, throwing, and combined events.

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    Athletics originated from ancient Greek competitions involving running, jumping, and throwing. In ancient Greece, the Olympics began in 776 BC with a single footrace event. Over time, athletics grew to include additional running, jumping, and throwing competitions. In the modern era, athletics developed further in Europe and came to focus on competitive running, walking, jumping, and throwing events. Today, athletics is known as track and field and includes races, relays, hurdles, walking, jumping, throwing, and combined events.

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    Athletics originated from ancient Greek competitions involving running, jumping, and throwing. In ancient Greece, the Olympics began in 776 BC with a single footrace event. Over time, athletics grew to include additional running, jumping, and throwing competitions. In the modern era, athletics developed further in Europe and came to focus on competitive running, walking, jumping, and throwing events. Today, athletics is known as track and field and includes races, relays, hurdles, walking, jumping, throwing, and combined events.

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    Athletics originated from ancient Greek competitions involving running, jumping, and throwing. In ancient Greece, the Olympics began in 776 BC with a single footrace event. Over time, athletics grew to include additional running, jumping, and throwing competitions. In the modern era, athletics developed further in Europe and came to focus on competitive running, walking, jumping, and throwing events. Today, athletics is known as track and field and includes races, relays, hurdles, walking, jumping, throwing, and combined events.

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    HISTORY OF

    ATHLETICS
    WHAT IS
    ATHLETICS?
    ATHLETICS
    • is derived from the Ancient Greek :
    Athlētēs - "combatant in public games"
    Athlon - "prize"
    Athlos - "competition"
    “ANCIENT”
    HISTORY OF ATHLETICS
    ANCIENT HISTORY OF
    ATHLETICS

    • Athletic contests in running, walking,


    jumping and throwing are among the oldest
    of all sports and their roots are prehistoric.
    • PREHISTORIC - is the period between the use
    of the first stone tools – 3.3 million years ago.
    HOW DID IT START :

    • 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.
    ATHLETICS EVENTS IN
    ANCIENT TIME
    • were depicted in
    the Ancient
    Egyptian tombs
    in Saqqara.
    ILLUSTRATION :
    • with illustrations
    of running at the Heb
    Sed festival and high
    jumping appearing in
    tombs from as early as
    of 2250 BC.
    ATHLETICS EVENTS IN
    ANCIENT TIME
    • 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.
    ATHLETICS EVENTS IN
    ANCIENT TIME

    • The original and only


    event at the first
    Olympics in 776 BC
    • Was a stadium-
    length running event
    known as the stadion.
    ATHLETICS EVENTS IN
    ANCIENT TIME
    • 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.
    “MODERN ERA”
    HISTORY OF
    ATHLETICS
    “MODERN ERA”
    HISTORY OF ATHLETICS

    • The Cotswold
    Olimpick Games, a
    sports festival which
    emerged in 17th
    century England.
    “MODERN ERA”
    HISTORY OF ATHLETICS
    • featured athletics in
    the form
    of sledgehammer thro
    wing contests.
    Annually, from 1796 to
    1798.
    “MODERN ERA”
    HISTORY OF ATHLETICS

    • The 1796 Olympiade


    marked the
    introduction of
    the metric system into
    the sport.
    ATHLETICS
    19 CENTURY IN EUROPE
    TH

    • In the 19th century, the


    Running
    term athletics acquired
    a more narrow Walking
    definition in Europe
    and came to describe Jumping
    sports involving
    competitive :
    Throwing
    ATHLETICS
    • Initially, the term was used to describe
    athletic contests in general.
    • – i.e. sporting competition based
    primarily on human physical feats.
    THE DEFINITION OF ATHLETICS CONTINUES
    IN THE FOLLOWING
    PLACES:

     United
    Kingdom
    - Former British
    Empire
    THE DEFINITION OF ATHLETICS CONTINUES
    IN THE FOLLOWING
    PLACES:

     GERMANY
    THE DEFINITION OF ATHLETICS CONTINUES
    IN THE FOLLOWING
    PLACES:

     ROMANIAN
    - Time of Romance
    Languages
    THE DEFINITION OF ATHLETICS CONTINUES IN
    THE FOLLOWING
    PLACES:

    UNITED STATES
    THE DEFINITION OF ATHLETICS CONTINUES IN
    THE FOLLOWING
    PLACES:

    CANADA
    ATHLETICS

    • Athletics is a collection
    of sporting events that involve
    competitiveness or racing.
    WHAT IS RACING?
    • The results of racing events are decided
    by :
    finishing position
    By time
     Where can be measured by accuracy.
    WHAT DO WE CALL
    THE PERSON’S CAN
    DO THE “RACE”?
    THEY ARE CALLED
    THE “ATHLETE”
    ATHLETE

    • Achieves the highest or furthest


    measurement from a series of
    attempts
    ATHLETICS ALSO CALLED AS
    “TRACK & FIELD SPORT”
    KINDS :

     RUNNING
    ATHLETICS ALSO CALLED AS
    “TRACK & FIELD SPORT”

     HURDLING
    ATHLETICS ALSO CALLED AS
    “TRACK & FIELD SPORT”

    RELAYS
    ATHLETICS ALSO CALLED AS
    “TRACK & FIELD SPORT”

    WALKING
    ATHLETICS ALSO CALLED AS
    “TRACK & FIELD SPORT”

    JUMPING
    ATHLETICS ALSO CALLED AS
    “TRACK & FIELD SPORT

    THROWING
    ATHLETICS ALSO CALLED AS
    “TRACK & FIELD SPORT”

    DECATHLON /
    HEPATHLON
    WHAT ARE THE
    FIVE DISCIPLINES OF ATHLETICS?

    • Shot Put. Discus Throw. Javelin Throw.


    • 4x100 Metres Relay
    • Cross Country
    • Mountain Running
    • Ultra Running
    IMPORTANCE OF ATHLETICS

    • Physical education is a component of


    education that challenges students by
    providing opportunities to attain the skills
    and knowledge to be physically active as
    part of a healthy lifestyle.

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