What's Really the Very First Sport?
Zachary Johns
2025-05-02 00:16:39
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Horse racing is arguably the oldest continuously enjoyed sport worldwide, with its origins stretching as far back as 3000 BC. Competing tribes on the Kazakh Steppe most likely used horse racing as a way to show off their animals and battle for food or other riches. The sport reached an early zenith during the Ancient Egyptian and Roman Empires, where chariot and horse races were common spectacles for people to enjoy.
Horse racing most likely originated on the vast Central Asian steppes as a way for tribes to compete and interact socially. The first recorded instances of horse races are from 1500 BC China and Persia. Arguably the first example of horse racing (albeit with chariots) purely for entertainment can be found in Ancient Greece around 600 BC.
Other global sports, such as football, are more in-demand, but horse racing has proved itself as the oldest sport to endure in history.
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