CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -World Athletics Day is celebrated globally in May each year to raise awareness among children and young people about the importance of fitness and encourage them to play sports, especially athletics. In 2021, World Athletics Day was celebrated on May 7.

Detailed explanation-2: -World Athletics Day is celebrated every year globally on the 7th of May to raise awareness about the importance of fitness and encourage them to play sports, especially athletics.

Detailed explanation-3: -Every year on May 7, World Athletics Day is commemorated. On this day, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), formerly the International Amateur Athletic Federation, was created as a social responsibility project called ‘Athletics for a Better World’.

Detailed explanation-4: -International Association of Athletics Federations.

Detailed explanation-5: -Even the IAAF’s name has changed, in 2001 becoming the ‘International Association of Athletics Federations’ to reflect the growth of a professional sporting world which did not exist in 1912, and then again in 2019 to ‘World Athletics’.