Known already in ancient Greece, one of the oldest and largest multi-sport fields gathering many disciplines. The joining elements are common basis, which are the natural human movements, such as run, jump, throw or walk.
These were the innate reflexes trained by humans while hunting, where he had to run, jump over natural obstacles, throw the javelin or stone. With the development of civilization those movements began to be used for entertainment as forms of competing and this way the first disciplines of the Light Athletics arose.
It is called the queen of sports, as opposed, for example to football participation of the judge is limited to the minimum. In such competitions like run for a certain distance or the hammer throw the question of winning a clear, wins faster or stronger, and the one who shots further.