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The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France, from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 24 July. [1] Athletes representing 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the games. [2]
The athletics competitions at the 2024 BRICS Games took place between 15 and 18 June at the Central Stadium in Kazan, Russia. It was the first time that athletics was contested at the BRICS Games . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The mascot of the games is the leopard Bricsic. The logo of the games is a rectangle with the text BRICS (letters in blue, red, orange, green and yellow) at the top, the words GAMES (in red) and a stylized tulip with the Kazan Syuyumbike tower (in green) in the middle and the numbers 2024 (in red) with the text "RUSSIA•KAZAN" (in black) below ...
For the men's 200 metres event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. [11] 48 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by running the entry standard of 20.16 seconds or faster or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event. [11]
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The 2024 World Athletics Rankings document the best-performing athletes in the sport of athletics, according to World Athletics' individual athlete ranking system. Individual athletes are assigned a points score best on an average of their best recent competition performances.
Rank Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank Tia Clayton: 100 m: 11.00 2 Q — 10.89 1 Q: 11.04 7 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce: 10.92 2 Q: DNS: Did not advance Shashalee Forbes: 11.19 2 Q: 11.20 6 Did not advance Niesha Burgher: 200 m: 22.54 2 Q: Bye 22.64 5 Did not advance Shericka Jackson: DNS: Did not advance Lanae-Tava Thomas: 22.70 2 Q: Bye 22.77 5 ...
This was the thirtieth time that the men's 100 metres was contested at the Summer Olympics.Interestingly the final contained 6 men who had recorded top-25 all-time records in the 100m, making this final one of the most tightly contested in history, as the difference between the fastest man in the field Fred Kerley (9.76) and the slowest Kenny Bednarek (9.87) was only 0.11 seconds.