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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. South African middle-distance runner (born 1991) Caster Semenya OIB Caster Semenya in 2018 Personal information Nationality South African Born (1991-01-07) 7 January 1991 (age 34) Pietersburg, South Africa Alma mater North-West University Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Weight 70 kg (154 lb ...
nb1 Marion Jones was stripped of her Olympic medal in 2000. nb2 Crystal Cox was stripped of her Olympic medal in 2004. nb3 Dominique Blake was accidentally given her Olympic medal and she returned it in 2017. [8] a Original silver medalists, Russia, and 4th place finishers, Belarus, were stripped of their results for doping offenses. Following ...
2018: Canada's Snowboarding Team. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, the Canadian snowboarding team showed off their tricks in style. Designed by B.C. artist Corrine Hunt, she drew inspiration from her ...
Official Olympic Video on YouTube Wyomia Tyus ( pronunciation : why-o-mi ; born August 29, 1945) is a retired American track and field sprinter , and the first person to retain the Olympic title in the 100 m (a feat since duplicated by Carl Lewis , Gail Devers , Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce , Usain Bolt , and Elaine Thompson-Herah ).
On the final night of Olympic athletics, Felix ran a 48.2-second leg on the U.S. women's 4 × 400 meters relay team that included DeeDee Trotter, Francena McCorory, and Richards-Ross, winning in a time of 3:16.87, the third-fastest time in Olympic history behind the Soviet Union and the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics, and the fifth ...
Letesenbet is the first athlete ever, male or female, to hold the 5000m, 10000m, and half marathon world records, simultaneously. Letesenbet holds the current world record in the half marathon, which she set in October of 2021. Remarkably, this was Letesenbet's first ever half marathon. Her record broke the previous mark by more than a minute.
Cameron Spencer/Getty Images During the 2024 Paris Olympics, Grant Fisher became the first American man in more than a decade to win a medal in the 10,000-meter race, the longest race of the Olympics.
Canadian Ian Millar in a 2007 picture. At London 2012 he participated in a record 10th Olympics. Only a small fraction of the world's population ever competes at the Olympic Games; an even smaller fraction competes in multiple Games. 950 athletes [1] (648 men [2] and 302 women [3]) have participated in at least five Olympics from Athens 1896 to Paris 2024, but excluding the 1906 Intercalated ...