The event previously enjoyed wide competition, featuring on the Olympics athletics programme from 1900 to 1912,[1] as well as at the 1922 and 1926 Women's World Games.[2] The event was contested at the Amateur Athletic Union championships in the United States as an indoor event around the turn of the 20th century.[3] Its popularity waned in the 20th century, although it maintained championship status for a longer period of time in Scandinavian countries.[4][5]