Birth of Race Walk and Olympic Athletic Race Walk

Olympic Race walking developed as one of the original track and field events of the first meeting of the English Amateur Athletics Association in 1880. The first Olympic Race walking codes came from an attempt to regularize rules for popular 19th century long distance competitive walking events, called Pedestrianism.

Pedestrianism had developed, like footraces and horse racing, as a popular working class British and American pastime, and a venue for wagering. Walkers organized the first English amateur walking championship in 1866, which was won by John Chambers, and judged by the "fair heel and toe" rule. This rather vague code was the basis for the rules codified at the first Championships Meeting in 1880 of the Amateur Athletics Association in England, the birth of modern Athletics. With Football (soccer), Cricket and other sports codified in the 19th century, the transition from professional Pedestrianism to amateur Olympic Race walking was, while relatively late, part of a process of regularization occurring in most modern sports at this time.

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