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The marathon at the Summer Olympics is the only road running event held at the multi-sport event. The men's marathon has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first modern Olympics in 1896. Nearly ninety years later, the women's event was added to the programme at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
The distance of the marathon at the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 40,260 m (25.02 mi) 1904: 40,000 m (24.85 mi) 1912: 40,200 m (24.98 mi) 1920: 40,750 m (25.32 mi)
Olympics 2024 - Men's Marathon results. Rank - Athlete Bib - Name - NOC Code - Date of Birth - Result - Time Behind. 1 622 TOLA Tamirat ETH 11 AUG 1991 2:06:26 OR,SB.
A. Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon; Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon; Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon
The Tokyo Marathon is one of six World Marathon Majors and has been contested annually since 2007, except in 2020 when it was an elite-only race due to the COVID-19 pandemic and in 2021, when the marathon was postponed to 2022 due to the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This was the third time in Olympic history that an American had won the marathon, after Thomas Hicks in 1904 and Johnny Hayes in 1908, and in none of those three instances did the winner enter the stadium first: Hicks, like Shorter, was preceded by a hoaxer, whereas Hayes was declared the winner after Dorando Pietri of Italy was disqualified ...
This was the 24th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Returning runners from the 1996 marathon included all three medalists (gold medalist Josia Thugwane of South Africa, silver medalist Lee Bong-Ju of South Korea, and bronze medalist Erick Wainaina of Kenya) along with fourth-place finisher Martín Fiz of Spain, seventh ...