Indoor Athletics: Victorian Style, the first indoor track meet was 7 November 1863, from SPIKES, powered by IAAF

SPIKES, powered by IAAF, is publishing stories that help us learn more about our sports stores and our sport’s history. This piece, on the first indoor track meet, is a great example of their unique approach to covering our sport. 

The Great Indoors ()

INDOOR ATHLETICS: VICTORIAN STYLE

Indoor arenas are a place where reputations are forged and careers kick-started. Last year, Genzebe Dibaba set pulses racing when she set three world records in a fortnight, while Renaud Lavillenie broke Sergey Bubka’s 21-year-old pole vault record. SPIKES went to find out where all this indoor madness began.

West of the City of Westminster, in central London, is The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

To read this fun feature, please go to: http://spikes.iaaf.org/post/the-history-of-indoor-athletics

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