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50 Health and Physical Education - XI Track and field events were also present at the Pan- Activity 4.1 Athletics at the 1960 Summerellenic Games in Greece around 200 B.C. period and spread Paralympics consisted of 25to Rome in Italy. Track and field events began developing events, 13 for men and 12 for parts of Northern Europe in the middle ages. The stone women. Prepare the list of put and weight throw competitions popular among Celtic these events both for men andcieties in Ireland and Scotland were predecessor to the women. modern shot put and hammer throw events. Pole vault is the last track and field events which evolved in the eighteenth century. In the late 19th century, modern track and field competitions were separated from general sporting festivals and were first recorded. These competitions were typically organised by educational institutions, military organisations, and sports clubs. Competitive hurdling first came into being, with the advent of the steeplechase in England around 1850. The first national body for the sport of athletics, The Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) was established in England in 1880. Under this grouping, track and field became the focus of the annual AAA Championships. The United States also began holding an annual national competition. The USA outdoor Track and Field Championship was held in 1868 by the New York Athletic Club. The establishment of the modern Olympic Games at the end of the nineteenth century marked a new height for track and field events. The Olympic athletics programme comprised of track and field events including a marathon race. These also contained many of the foremost sporting competitions of the 1896 Summer Olympics. The Olympics also consolidated the use of metric measurements in international track and field events, both for race distances and for measuring jumps and throws. The athletics programme greatly expanded over the next decades and remained most prominent among the games. The Olympics were the elite competitions for track and field, and only amateur sportsmen at that time could compete. Track and field continues to be largely an amateur sport. The International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) was established in 1912, becoming the international governing body for track and field. Indian History of Athletics In the history of Indian Athletics, the decade of 1940’s to 1950’s is important as a number of Athletics associations were started in this decade. In 1946, the Amateur Athletics FederationofIndia(AAFI)wasestablishedforthemanagement of Indian Athletics. The entire scenario of Indian Athletics was changed by AAFI as it worked in collaboration with Reprint 2026-27