where was the first track meet held?
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Ancient Greece.  At least, those are the earliest ones we have records of.
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http://www.ourbrowncounty.com/0701s1.htm\n\nHere is the link to the first Brown County races.Racing is big here in Indy.
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Starting in two days!\n\nCNGB Championships 11-19 February 2006 both at Camp Ripley, Little Falls, Minnesota\n\nLast year it was held at EAFR, Jericho, Vermont on January 30 - February 5, 2005
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1964, Tokyo\nThe first Asian country to host the Olympics, Tokyo spent $3bn rebuilding the city to show off its post-war success. The Yoshinori Sakai was chosen as the final torchbearer, who was born on the day that Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb.
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From 776 BC, the Games were held in Olympia every four years for almost 12 centuries.\n... The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. ...
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Accurate times for the mile run (1.609 km) weren't recorded until after 1850, when the first precisely measured running tracks were built.\n\nHowever, here's my list.\n\nProfessionals\n4:23 Thomas Horspool 1858 Manchester \n4:22 1/4 Siah Albison 27 October, 1860 Manchester \n4:20 1/2 Edward Mills 23 April, 1863 . \n4:20 Edward Mills 25 June, 1864 Manchester \n4:17 1/4 William Lang 19 August, 1865 Manchester \n4:17 1/4 William Richards 19 August, 1865 Manchester \n4:12 3/4 Walter George 23 August, 1886 London \n\nAmateurs\n4:55 J. Heaviside (IRL) 1 April, 1861 Dublin \n4:49 J. Heaviside (IRL) 27 May, 1861 Dublin \n4:46 N.S. Greene (IRL) May 1861 Dublin \n4:33 George Farran (IRL) 23 May, 1862 Dublin \n4:29 3/5 Walter Chinnery (GBR) 10 March, 1868 Cambridge \n4:28 4/5 William Gibbs (GBR) 3 April, 1868 London \n4:28 3/6 Charles Gunton (GBR) 31 March, 1873 London \n4:26 0/5 Walter Slade (GBR) 30 May, 1874 London \n4:24 1/2 Walter Slade (GBR) 1 June, 1875 London \n4:23 1/5 Walter George (GBR) 16 August, 1880 London \n4:19 2/5 Walter George (GBR) 3 June, 1882 London \n4:18 2/5 Walter George (GBR) 21 June, 1884 Birmingham \n4:17 4/5 Tom Conneff (USA) 26 August, 1893 Cambridge, Mass. \n4:17 0/5 Fred Bacon (GBR) 6 July, 1895 London \n4:15 3/5 Thomas Conneff (USA) 28 August, 1895 New York \n4:14 2/5 John Paul Jones (USA) 27 May, 1911 Cambridge, Mass. \n\nIAFF ERA (most recent records)\n4:14 2/5 John Paul Jones (USA) 31 May, 1913 Cambridge, Mass. \n4:12 3/5 Norman Taber (USA) 16 July, 1915 Cambridge, Mass. \n4:10 2/5 Paavo Nurmi (FIN) 23 August 1923 Stockholm \n4:09 1/5 Jules Ladoumègue (FRA) 4 October 1931 Paris \n4:07.6 Jack Lovelock (NZL) 15 July 1933 Princeton, N.J. \n4:06.8 Glenn Cunningham (USA) 16 June 1934 Princeton, N.J \n4:06.4 Sydney Wooderson (GBR) 28 August 1937 Motspur Park \n4:06.2 Gunder Hägg (SWE) 1 July 1942 Göteborg \n4:06.2 Arne Andersson (SWE) 10 July 1942 Stockholm \n4:04.6 Gunder Hägg (SWE) 4 September 1942 Stockholm \n4:02.6 Arne Andersson (SWE) 1 July 1943 Göteborg \n4:01.6 Arne Andersson (SWE) 18 July 1944 Malmö \n4:01.4 Gunder Hägg (SWE) 17 July 1945 Malmö \n3:59.4 Roger Bannister (GBR) 6 May 1954 Oxford \n3:58.0 John Landy (AUS) 21 June 1954 Turku \n3:57.2 Derek Ibbotson (GBR) 19 July 1957 London \n3:54.5 Herb Elliott (AUS) 6 August 1958 Dublin \n3:54.4 Peter Snell (NZL) 27 January 1962 Wanganui \n3:54.1 Peter Snell (NZL) 17 November 1964 Auckland \n3:53.6 Michel Jazy (FRA) 9 June 1965 Rennes \n3:51.3 Jim Ryun (USA) 17 July 1966 Berkeley, Cal. \n3:51.1 Jim Ryun (USA) 23 June 1967 Bakersfield, Cal. \n3:51.0 Filbert Bayi (TAN) 17 May 1975 Kingston \n3:49.4 John Walker (NZL) 12 August 1975 Göteborg \n3:48.95 Sebastian Coe (GBR) 17 July 1979 Oslo \n3:48.8 Steve Ovett (GBR) 1 July 1980 Oslo \n3:48.53 Sebastian Coe (GBR) 19 August 1981 Zürich \n3:48.40 Steve Ovett (GBR) 26 August 1981 Koblenz \n3:47.33 Sebastian Coe (GBR) 28 August 1981 Bruxelles \n3:46.32 Steve Cram (GBR) 27 July 1985 Oslo \n3:44.39 Noureddine Morceli (ALG) 5 September 1993 Rieti \n3:43.13 Hicham El Guerrouj (MOR) 7 July 1999 Rome \n\nHope that is enough for you :)
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OK, it breaks down like this:\n\nIn 1904, George Poage became the first "black runner" to win an Olympic medal, a bronze in the 400 metres hurdles, but on the same day Joseph Stadler became the first "black athlete to win an Olympic medal", with a silver in the standing high jump behind the great Ray Ewry. \n\nMany sites still list Poage as being the first...
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The Olean YMCA had a half marathon event in March.  Info is available here:\n\nhttp://www.oleanymca.org/index.php?SpecialEvents
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The first world cup was held in (and won by) Uruguay.  The first match of that tournament was France vs Mexico
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Cross-country skiing was a major event at the first Winter Olympics, held at Chamonix, France, in 1924. Only men were eligible to participate, however, and the only events were 18km and 50km races. In 1936, a 4x10km mixed relay (2 classical and 2 freestyle legs) was added. Women finally appeared on the scene at the 1952 Winter Games in Oslo, in a 10km classical race.
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There are a lot of firsts but 1st gold medal winner ever is James Connolly, other examples are as such\nWyomia Tyus was the first person to win the Olympic gold medal twice in the 100m 1964 Games in Tokyo\n\nEagan, "Eddie" (Edward P. F.)\nBobsledding, Boxing,was also the only athlete ever to win gold medals at both the Summer and the Winter Olympics.in 1920 as a light heavyweight,In 1932 four-man bobsled team \n\nand it goes on. I'm full of useless trivia when it comes to the Olympics, especially track & field.
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1908 - London, England \nThe 1908 Olympic Games were originally scheduled to be hosted by Rome, but the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius caused the Games to be relocated to London. \n\nThese Games were much better organized than the previous regularly scheduled Olympic Games (they were even the first to have an opening ceremony), yet they were marred by politics and nationalism. Britain's recent refusal to give Ireland its independence caused Irish athletes to boycott the Games and caused contestants from the U.S to not dip the American flag to the British royalty during the opening ceremony (a tradition the U.S. continues to this day). \n\nThere was also controversy over the 400-meter final heat. As four runners came into the final stretch, W.C. Robbins (U.S.) was first, followed by J.C. Carpenter (U.S.), with British Wyndham Halswelle coming in third, and followed by a fourth runner from the U.S. As Carpenter and Halswelle (second and third runners) swung out to pass Robbins, someone shouted "Foul!" Though Carpenter (the U.S. runner who had been in second) finished first, with Robbins (U.S.) in second, and Halswelle (U.K.) in third, the British officials accused Carpenter of blocking and elbowing Halswelle and voided the whole race. The race was ordered to be rerun, but since the American runners refused to redo the race, Halswelle ran the race all by himself to win the gold. \n\nIt was in the 1908 Olympic Games that the exact distance of a marathon was established as 26 miles and 365 yards. Diving was added to the events for this year. \n\nApproximately 2,000 athletes participated, representing 22 countries.
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track! its hard but gets u in shape fast, also lacrosse
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No one person invented it, but sprint races date back to the ancient Olympiads, where the only event was a footrace. The "stadion" was a sprint the length of about 192 m or the length of the stadium. The games were eventually abolished by the decree of Emperor Theodosius in A.D. 393.\n\nTrack and field athletics in the United States dates from the 1860s. The Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, the nation's first national athletic group, held the first collegiate races in 1873, and in 1888 the Amateur Athletic Union held its first championships. \n\nAs for how distance were selected. That's anyone's guess, but we may assume that since we are a country that based it's measurements on the Imperial measures, (inches, feet, yards, miles) we would have selected various standards like the mile, half mile (880yds), quarter mile (440yds), one half lap (220yds) and straight sprint. As we're a country that likes round numbers, we chose 100 yards, instead of 110 yds...\n\nAnd far as the 100m goes, virtually all US distances had a direct metric equivalent in meters, which was the measuring system used in Europe. As the Modern Olympics were resurrected under France's Baron De Coubertin, metric distances were chosen.\n\n100yds = 100m (actually is 109 yds, 1 ft)\n220yds = 200m (218 yds, 2 ft)\n440yds = 400m (437 yds, 1 ft)\n880yds = 800m (874 yds, 2 ft)\n1 mile = 1,500m (1640 yrds, 1 ft.) This is about 80 yards short of the mile. As the metric system is base on measurements of 10, they decided to not continue with the multiples, but move to distances like 1,500, 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000 meters, instead of 1600, 3200, 6,400 & 12,800...
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There's no such thing as "track field," per se, but I imagine that you are talking about a standard track which encircles a football field.  Those are usually 1/4 mile per lap, so you would've run 1 1/4 miles.
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In South Africa\n\nJan van Riebeeck landed in Cape town ( that time it was the,Kaap de goeie hoop) in 1652. \n\nI hope this help you
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Track events:\n100m\n100m hurdles\n110m hurdles\n200m\n400m \n800m\n1500m \n3000m steeplechae\n5000m\n10,000m\n\nRELAYS\n4 x 100m\n4 x 400m\n\nField events\nShot put\nJavelin\nDiscus\nHammer\n\nLong jump\nTriple jump\nHigh jump\nPole valut