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A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified athletes in the men's 10,000 metres event if all athletes meet the entry standard or qualify by ranking during the qualifying period. (The limit of 3 has been in place since the 1930 Olympic Congress.) The qualifying standard is 27:28.00.
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 10,000-metre track race is usually distinguished from its road running counterpart, the 10K run, by referring to the distance in metres rather than kilometres. The 10,000 metres is the longest standard track event, approximately equivalent to 6 miles 376 yards or 32,808 feet 5 inches.
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark. In 2020 ...
Record Athlete Nationality Date Meet Place Ref. Video 100 m: 10.49 (±0.0 m/s) Florence Griffith Joyner United States 16 July 1988 US Olympic Trials: Indianapolis, United States 150 m (bend) 16.10+ (+1.3 m/s) Florence Griffith Joyner United States 29 September 1988 Olympic Games: Seoul, South Korea 16.41 (+1.1 m/s) Brianna Rollins-McNeal
Berihu finished fourth on his Olympic debut in the 10,000 metres race behind Barega who won gold. [5] On 31 December 2021, Berihu set a world record in the 5 km run at the Cursa dels Nassos 5K in Barcelona in a time of 12 minutes 49 seconds, improving previous mark of Joshua Cheptegei by 2 seconds. He had 38 second margin of victory. [6]
While Jiang Ranxin and Wei Meng did not break the qualification world records for the women's 10m air pistol or the women's skeet respectively, they did set Olympic records since they were not previously established in those events. ^ Sjöström broke the Olympic record for the women's 100 m freestyle in the women's 4x100 m freestyle relay final.
The 2020 Summer Olympics, [c] officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad [d] and officially branded as Tokyo 2020, [e] were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021.