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Wyomia Tyus's 1968 Olympic gold medal performance and Renate Stecher's 1972 Olympic championship win, both in 11.07, were the fastest recorded fully electronic 100-metre races to that time and were ratified as world records. However, Tyus's 11.07 was later adjusted to 11.08. [1]
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 ...
Ben Johnson's time of 9.79 was annulled before it was ratified as either an Olympic or world record. [114] Since the initial women's Olympic record of 13.0 seconds was set by Anni Holdmann in 1928, it has been broken 18 times and equalled 17 further times. The standing women's 100 m world record has been improved five times during Olympic ...
Women's 100 metres world record progression List of sports-related pages with the same or similar names This article includes a list of sports-related pages with the same or similar names.
Men's 100 meters, Aug. 4: ... Tara Davis-Woodhall leaped to a gold medal in women's long jump by ... The U.S. 4x400 mixed relay team broke the world record in the opening round. Women's 100 ...
The current women's world record of 10.49 s was set by Florence Griffith-Joyner of the US, at the 1988 United States Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, Indiana, on 16 July 1988 [19] breaking Evelyn Ashford's four-year-old world record by 0.27 seconds. The extraordinary nature of this result and those of several other sprinters in this race raised ...
[4] Tim Montgomery became the 100 m second medalist to be disqualified, losing his silver medal from the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. From the same event, Marion Jones later lost her silver medal for doping infractions, becoming the first female medalist to be stripped of a 100 m medal.
The women's 5,000 meters saw Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay claim gold (14:46.29) after running to the silver medal in the 1500 on Monday night. And the men's 800 meters was won by Kenya's Emmanuel Korir ...