Panhellenic games

Panhellenic games:

Annually, from 1796-1798 Olympiad de la republic was held in revolutionary France, and is an early forerunner to the modern summer Olympic games. The premier event of this competition was a footrace, but various ancient Greek disciplines were also on display. The 1796 Olympiad also marks the introduction of the metric system into sport.

In the 19 Th century the formal organization of the modern events accelerated in France, Germany, and great Britain in particular. This included the incorporation of regular sports and exercise into school regimes. The royal military college, sand Hurst has claimed to be the first to adopt this in 1812 and 1825, but without any supporting evidence. The earliest recorded meeting was organised at Shrewsbury, Shropshire in 1840 by the royal Shrewsbury school hunt. There are details of the  meeting in a series of letters written 60 years later by c.t. Robinson,  who was a pupil there form 1838 to 1841. The royal military academy  at woolwich held an organised competition in 1849, but the first regular series of meetings was held by Exeter college, Oxford from 1850.

Modern athletic events are usually organized around a 400 metre running track on which most of the running events take place. Field events(vaulting, jumping, and throwing) often take place  on the infield, inside the track.

Athletics was included in the first modern Olympic games in 1896 and has formed their backbone ever since. women were first allowed to participate in track and field events in the 1928 Olympics.

An international governing body, the international amateur athletics federation (iaaf), was founded in 1912; it adopted its current name, the international association of athletics federations, in 2001. The iaaf established separated outdoor world championships in 1983. there are a number of regional games as well, such as the European championships, the pan-american games, and the commonwealth games. In addition there is a professional golden league circuit, cumulating in the IAAF world athletics final, and indoor championships the sport has a very high profile during major championships, especially the Olympics , but otherwise is less popular.