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The Race Walking Association (RWA) is the major competition provider for the event of race walking in England, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands answerable to England Athletics. It was founded in 1907 as the Road Walking Association, and permitted to organise National Road Walking Championships.
Study of the history of sport can teach lessons about social changes and about the nature of sport itself, as sport seems involved in the development of basic human skills (compare play). [ citation needed ] As one delves further back in history, dwindling evidence makes theories of the origins and purposes of sport more and more difficult to ...
For most of its history, rowing has been a male dominated sport. Although rowing's roots as a sport in the modern Olympics can be traced back to the original 1896 games in Athens, it was not until the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal that women were allowed to participate – well after their fellow athletes in similar sports such as swimming, athletics, cycling, and canoeing.
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For most of its history, rowing has been a male dominated sport. Although rowing's roots as a sport in the modern Olympics can be traced back to the original 1896 games in Athens, it was not until the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal that women were allowed to participate (at a distance of 1000 metres) – well after their fellow athletes in similar sports such as swimming, athletics, cycling ...
American sports wouldn't be what they are today without the trailblazing black athletes of years past. From household names like Jackie Robinson to more recent history-makers like Vonetta Flowers ...
Race Walking Association, a professional sports body in the UK; Resident welfare association, any self-organised group (particularly in India) which claims to represent the residents of a specified region; Romance Writers of America, a genre-specific writers association; Rot Weiss Ahlen, a football club in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Under the official FIFA Trigramme the team's name is abbreviated as RWA; this acronym is used by FIFA, the CAF and the CECAFA to identify the team in official competitions. [7] However the team was more commonly known as the RR , the acronym for the country's official name, Repubulika y'u Rwanda or République du Rwanda , which the local press ...