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 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 , becoming the international governing body for track and field.
Indian History of Athletics In the history of Indian Athletics, the decade of ’s to ’s is important as a number of Athletics associations were started in this decade. In , the Amateur Athletics Federation of India (AAFI) was established for the management of Indian Athletics. The entire scenario of Indian Athletics was changed by AAFI as it worked in collaboration with Activity . Athletics at the Summer Paralympics consisted of events, for men and for women.
Prepare the list of these events both for men and women. the other Athletics associations for improving sports and athletics. Indian Athletics went through many phases. Many track and field games were played in the grass.
At present synthetic track is used which has made things easier as there was no need for manual marking of tracks and associated definitions for throws and jumps in those tracks. Application of technology has helped the athletes and improved the status of the sport. India has so far produced a number of successful athletes in the international level who have a rich tradition of winning performances in the international tournaments. Some of the most successful athletes in the early history of Indian Athletics are Milkha Singh, T.C.
Yohannan, Gurbachan Singh, Sriram Singh, etc. Some of the notable Indian