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Monuments to the Pharaohs found at Beni Hasan dating to around 2000 BC [18] indicate that a number of sports, including wrestling, weightlifting, long jump, swimming, rowing, archery, fishing [17] and athletics, as well as various kinds of ball games, were well-developed and regulated in Ancient Egypt.
Athletics of the Ancient World (1930). Green, Harvey. Fit for America : Health, Fitness, Sport, and American Society, 1830-1940 (1988) Hargreaves, Jennifer. Sporting Females: Critical issues in the history and sociology of women’s sports (1994)
Athletics competitions can be broadly divided into three types: international championships, national championships, and annual meetings and races. Athletics at international championships, or Games, represent the pinnacle of competition within the sport, and they are contested between athletes representing their country or region.
An ancient Greece vase from 600 BC depicting a running contest An early model of hurdling at the Detroit Athletic Club in 1888 Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, one of the first modern track and field stadiums American athlete Jim Thorpe lost his Olympic medals after taking expense money prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics for playing baseball, a violation of Olympic amateurism rules.
The International Association of Athletics Federations, the international governing body for the sport of athletics, however, recognizes Violet Piercy from England as having set the first women's world best in the marathon on October 3, 1926, with a time of 3:40:22. [56] 1918 - The bottom of the basket was removed in women's basketball. [57]
The oldest sport invented in what is now known as the USA is lacrosse. Originating among the Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands and the Great Lakes region, lacrosse was played by various tribes and had spiritual and social significance. The game was often played in large teams and could involve hundreds of players.
The lengths and types of foot races are widely written. Also discussed in a variety of sources is the use of music in athletic training and the diet of athletes. Professional runners known as "hēmerodromoi", the messengers who were informational lifeline of an empire. They were running across rugged terrains and paths to convey vital ...
Some modern sports such as archery, athletics, boxing, football, horse racing and wrestling can directly trace their origins back to this period while later sports like cricket and golf trace their evolution from basic activities such as hitting a stone with a stick.