As far back as ancient times, people had to walk or run a long distance, jump over various obstacles, throw stones and use various hunting tools in order to obtain the means of subsistence. Repeated these actions in labor, forming various skills of walking, running, jumping and throwing. With the development of society, people consciously take walking, running, jumping and throwing as the forms of practice and competition. Track and field sports are developed in the long-term social practice of human beings, and are modern sports gradually formed and perfected from the basic skills of human survival and production such as walking, running, jumping and throwing. Track and field includes more than 40 individual events such as men's and women's walking, running, jumping and throwing, as well as all-around sports composed of some events such as running, jumping and throwing.

For more than 100 years, countries around the world have different names for track and field, but the definitions of track and field are similar, and the contents of track and field are basically the same. With the rapid development of track and field and the continuous improvement of sports level, global competitions are increasing day by day, international academic exchanges are frequent, and people's understanding of track and field is deepening. According to Article 1 of Chapter 2 of IAAF's IAAF Handbook (2002-2003), track and field sports are defined as "track and field sports, road running, race walking and cross-country running". It can be seen that track and field sports include both track and field sports inside and outside the track and field.

In 776 BC, the first ancient Olympic Games was held in the Olympic Village of ancient Greece. Since then, track and field has become one of the official events. 1894, the modern Olympic Games organization was established in Paris, France. The first modern Olympic Games was held in Greece from 65438 to 0896. In this Olympic Games, some walking, running, jumping and throwing events in track and field are listed as the main events of the conference. In the Olympic Games held so far, track and field is one of the main events.

"Track and field is the foundation." The popularization and improvement of track and field sports is very important to enhance the physique of the Chinese nation and improve the level of track and field sports. Track and field is one of the most popular sports in the world, and it is also the oldest sport. Track and field, swimming and shooting are regarded as the three Olympic gold medals, and 46 gold medals are also the most Olympic gold medals, from which "those who win track and field win the world" comes.