Book Title:

Anthropometrical Measurements : A comparative study of athletes

Authors

Devender
P.hD in Physical Education

Keywords:

Athletic, Olympiad, jumping and throwing , ancient times, Olympic Games at Amsterdam

Synopsis

Athletic also know as track and field. Athletic is a collection of sport event that involve running, throwing, and jumping. The name is derived from the Greek word “Althon” Meaning “Contest “Track and field or athletic, consider as the mother discipline of all sport and games. The Olympic Games are held in four year intervals, and later the Greek method of counting the year even referred to these games. Using the term Olympic for the period between two games. The historian Ephorus Who lived in the 4th century BC is believed to have invented the use of Olympiads to count years much as we today use AD and BC. Previously every Greek state used its own dating system, some thing that continued for local event, which led to confusion when trying to determine dates. “(Diodorus) states that there was solar eclipse in third year of the 117th Olympiad. Which must be the eclipse of 310BC? This given us a date of (mid-summer) 776 BC for the first year of the first Olympiad” Nevertheless. . Romans were found of Athletic. They aimed at military proficiency through games and sports. 

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Published

25 February 2021

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License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Details about the available publication format: Paperback

Paperback

ISBN-13 (15)

978-81-951780-0-1

How to Cite

Devender (Ed.). (2021). Anthropometrical Measurements : A comparative study of athletes. Shodh Sagar International Publications. https://doi.org/10.36676/