A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance was the Olympic Games, first held in modern times in 1896 in Athens, Greece and inspired by the Ancient Olympic Games, one of a number of such events
Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles—backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle—into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley (IM) or by four swimmers as a medley relay. Contents 1Individual medley 1.1Stroke order 1.2Competitions 1.3Technique 2Medley relay 2.1Stroke order 2.2Competitions 2.3Technique 3History 4Rules 5World records 6Olympic or long course world champions in individual medley 6.1Men 6.2Women
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge Incident (Chinese: 盧溝橋事變) or the Double-Seven Incident (Chinese: 七七事變), was a July 1937 battle between China’s National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army. Since the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, there had been many small incidents along the rail line connecting Beijing with the port of Tianjin, but all had subsided. On this
Mandatory Palestine (Arabic: فلسطين Filasṭīn; Hebrew: פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א”י) Pālēśtīnā (E.Y.), where “E.Y.” indicates Eretz Yīśrā’ēl, the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. During the First World War (1914–1918), an Arab uprising against Ottoman rule and the British Empire’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force under General Edmund Allenby drove the Turks out of the Levant during the Sinai and Palestine
Mahmoud Namjoo (Persian: محمود نامجو, September 22, 1918 – January 21, 1989) was an Iranian bantamweight weightlifter. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics and placed fifth, second and third, respectively. At the world championships he won three gold, one silver and two bronze medals between 1949 and 1957, becoming the first Iranian weightlifter to win a
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) uses three-letter abbreviation country codes to refer to each group of athletes that participate in the Olympic Games. Each geocode usually identifies a National Olympic Committee (NOC), but there are several codes that have been used for other instances in past Games, such as teams composed of athletes from multiple nations, or groups of athletes not formally representing any nation.
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is the body responsible for selecting athletes to represent India at the Olympic Games, Asian Games and other international athletic meets and for managing the Indian teams at these events. It also acts as the Indian Commonwealth Games Association, responsible for selecting athletes to represent India at the Commonwealth Games. Contents 1Early history 2IOA Presidents 3IOA
Guru Dutt Sondhi (10 December 1890 – 20 November 1966) was a sports administrator in India, manager of the Indian Olympic team at three Olympics, founder of the Western Asiatic Games and the founder of the Asian Games Federation, which held the first Asiad. At the time of the inaugural Asian Games in New Delhi, he was the secretary of the Indian Olympic Association.
Freestyle is a category of swimming competition, defined by the rules of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), in which competitors are subject to few limited restrictions on their swimming stroke. Freestyle races are the most common of all swimming competitions, with distances beginning with 50 meters (50 yards) and reaching 1500 meters (1650 yards), also known as the mile. The term ‘freestyle
Football at the 1951 Asian Games was held in New Delhi, India from 5 to 11 March 1951. In this tournament, six teams played in the men’s competition. The pitch dimensions were 110 by 65 yards slightly narrower than permitted by international regulations but FIFA had been notified this in advance and sanctioned the tournament. Contents 1Medalists 2Draw 3Squads