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Every nation that has competed at the Olympics has entered the athletics competition. The numbers below represent how many athletes each nation sent that year, starting with 1896. [4] NOTE: This table is a work in progress. The empty boxes in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 columns do not necessarily mean that the country did not send athletes that year.
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 ...
This is a category of Olympic competitors in the sport of athletics (including track and field, cross country running, racewalking and marathon athletes). All other Olympic competitors should be categorized into an appropriate subcategory of the Category:Olympic competitors by sport .
The Olympic athletics programme has played a significant role in shaping the most common events in the sport. The World Athletics Championships is the foremost World Championship event, holding the vast majority of World Championship-level events within the competition.
Games Gold Silver Bronze 100 metres details: Maurice Greene United States: 9.87 Ato Boldon Trinidad and Tobago: 9.99 Obadele Thompson Barbados: 10.04 200 metres details: Konstantinos Kenteris Greece: 20.09 Darren Campbell Great Britain: 20.14 Ato Boldon Trinidad and Tobago: 20.20 400 metres details: Michael Johnson United States: 43.84 Alvin ...
All of these factors make track and "football 40" performances essentially impossible to compare. The world best time for a "football 40" is 4.17 by Deion Sanders, while the extrapolated best for an Olympic-level athlete (including reacting to a starting gun) is 4.24 by Maurice Greene at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics.
He ran on to the 2022 AGR Boys Cross Country, 2022-23 Boys Indoor Track and 2023 Boys Outdoor Track and Field Teams. He scores for the Titans at middle and distances, plus relays. Ella Manelis
The athletics competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held during the last 10 days of the Games, on 3–12 August. Track and field events took place at the Olympic Stadium in east London. The road events, however, started and finished on The Mall in central London. [3]