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men. v. t. e. The men's 100 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 16. The two main contenders for the event were the reigning World Champion Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt, the reigning Olympic champion and world record holder. Gay entered the competition with a season's best of 9 ...
Men's 200 metres at the 2017 World Championships Venue Olympic Stadium Dates 7 August (heats) 9 August (semifinal) 10 August (final) Competitors 49 from 38 nations Winning time 20.09 Medalists Ramil Guliyev Turkey Wayde van Niekerk South Africa Jereem Richards Trinidad and Tobago ← 2015 2019 → Video on YouTube Official Video Events at the 2017 World Championships Track events 100 m men ...
Florence Griffith Joyner. Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner[ 4] (born Florence Delorez Griffith; [ 2] December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete and the fastest woman ever recorded. She set world records in 1988 for the 100 m and 200 m. During the late 1980s, she became a popular ...
The World Athletics Championships, known as the IAAF World Championships in Athletics until 2019, are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics, formerly International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Alongside Olympic Games, they represent the highest level championships of senior international outdoor athletics ...
Men's 400 metres at the 2017 World Championships Venue Olympic Stadium Dates 5 August (heats) 6 August (semifinal) 8 August (final) Competitors 51 from 33 nations Winning time 43.98 Medalists Wayde van Niekerk South Africa Steven Gardiner Bahamas Abdalelah Haroun Qatar ← 2015 2019 → Video on YouTube Official Video Events at the 2017 World Championships Track events 100 m men women 200 m ...
For track and combined events, the term "indoor world records" were changed to "short track world records". In some field events, including long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault, and shot put, indoor world records were eliminated. These changes came into effect on 1 November 2023.
The USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships is an annual track and field competition organized by USA Track & Field, which serves as the American national championships for the sport. Since the year 1992, in the years which feature a Summer Olympics, World Athletics Championships, Pan American Games, NACAC Championships, or an IAAF Continental ...
Heptathlon. women. Decathlon. men. v. t. e. The 2017 IAAF World Championships, the sixteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 4 to 13 August at London Stadium in London, United Kingdom. London was officially awarded the championships on 11 November 2011.