旧中国体育十分落后,而地处西北的甘肃省体育较华北、东南各省更是相差甚远。1918年,甘肃省立一中为纪念5周年校庆而举行的运动会,在甘肃历史上尚属首次。其后,1933年甘肃派出运动员参加了西北运动会和民国第五届运动会,后又参加了1935年的 The sports in old China is very backward, while the sports in Gansu Province, which is located in the northwest, is even more distant than the provinces in north China and southeast China. In 1918, Gansu Provincial First National Games to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Games held in Gansu for the first time in history. Later, in 1933, Gansu dispatched athletes to participate in the Northwest Games and the Fifth National Games of the Republic of China, and later joined the 1935