Historical development of track and field in national and international level 1. Meaning of track and field 2. History of track and field in international level 3. Timeline 4. Famous track athlete 5. History of Indian athletics 6. India Athletes Made by :- Mahek Panchal , Abhay bhuva

1. RASHTRIYA RAKSHA UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS
Subject : Officiating and Coaching
Submitted To : Utsav Chaware
Submitted by: Abhay Bhuva
Mahek Panchal

2. History of track and field

3. TRACK AND FIELD
Track and field is composite sport.
-Has many event of man and women in olympic.(25 for men, 17
for women)
-Is the oldest competitive sport known in history.
Track and Field is a competitive sport that is a combination of
events based of running, jumping and throwing skills, divided by
track events or field events.

4. History
In 776 BC the Ancient Olympic Games began, with only one event; a foot
race 600 feet long.
- Only event for the next 13 Olympic Festivals.
-The Olympic games were held every 4 years.
-During the Fifth Century, other events were added in:
Discus, Javelin, Long jump, wrestling, and 3 foot races
The marathon was not added until 1896, which was 42.

5. Timeline
1844- Montreal staged a 2 day event called "Olympics"
1867-highly competitive races
1884- Montreal Amateur Athletic Association
1920-Women involvement

6. Famous track athletes
Robert Kerr (1908) , 200m sprinter
Calvin Bricker(1908) , long jumper
Percy Williams (1928) , 100m sprinter

7. History of indian Athletics
During the 20th century, when the country was still under the rule of the
British Empire, India participated in the 1900 Summer Olympics and Norman
Pritchard, an Anglo Indian won silver medals in the 200 meters hurdles.
This was an awe inspiring moment and following this in the 1920 Antwerp
Olympics, sprinter Purma Banerjee, and distance runners Phadeppa Chaugule
and Sadashir Datar were the first indigenous Indians to compete at the games.
At the 1952 Helsinki Games, history was made when Nilima Ghose and Mary
D'Souza Sequeira became India’s first female Olympians. Henceforth, the
nation has continued to send athletes at the Olympics athletics competition
every four years.

8. In the 1930s Far Eastern Championship Games, India took part in a
regional level but failed to win any medals. The nation hosted the
Western Asiatic Games and won all but three of the athletics events
and in 1951, India also hosted the Asian Games. Here, India managed
to finish second to Japan and won the men's sprint double by Lavy
Pinto and two silvers in women's sprints by Roshan Mistry and in the
1954 Asian Games, Mary D'Souza Sequeira gave India its first women
athletics gold medal, taking the 4 X 100 metres relay title.

10. The decade of 1940s and 1950s are most notable in the history of Indian
athletics, as a number of athletics associations started their journey in
India, during that period. In 1946, the Amateur Athletics Federation of India
(AAFI) was established for the management of Indian athletics. It worked
in collaboration with other athletics associations for improving the entire
scenario of Indian athletics.
The history of Indian athletics is incomplete without mentioning ‘The Flying
Sikh’ or Milkha Singh, who at the 1958 Asian Games won the 200 m/ 400 m
double. He even took on the 440 yards title at the British Empire and
Commonwealth Games and became the first Indian winner at the competition.

11. The history of Indian
athletics is incomplete
without mentioning ‘The
Flying Sikh’ or Milkha Singh,
who at the 1958 Asian
Games won the 200 m/ 400
m double. He even took on
the 440 yards title at the
British Empire and
Commonwealth Games and
became the first Indian
winner at the competition.

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Dutee Chand

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