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This article details the qualifying phase for athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics.More than 1,800 athletes, with an equal split between men and women, competed across forty-eight medal events (twenty-five in track, five in the road: marathon and racewalking, sixteen in the field, and two in combined) at the Games.
For the women's 400 metres event, the qualification period is between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. [ 8 ] 48 athletes are able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by running the entry standard of 50.95 seconds or faster or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event.
Four venues were used: Pont d'Iéna for race walking, Hôtel de Ville and Les Invalides for the start and end points of the marathon races, and Stade de France for the track and field events. The competition featured an identical number of medal events for men and women, the first instance in Olympic history.
Women's 4x100 Metres Relay Olympic Qualifying Round 1 - Heat Place Athlete Country Time Heat 1: Tamari Davis Gabrielle Thomas Celera Barnes Melissa Jefferson United States: 42.21: 1 2: Asha Philip Imani-Lara Lansiquot Bianca Williams Amy Hunt Great Britain: 42.33: 4 3: Louise Wieland Lisa Mayer Gina Lückenkemper Rebekka Haase Germany: 42.72: 3 ...
A year before the Paris Olympics, and nearly a year-and-a-half since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, officials governing many of the sports on the 2024 program are still split on how to treat ...
The women's 100 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in four rounds at the Stade de France in Paris, France, on 2 and 3 August 2024. This was the twenty-third time that the women's 100 metres has been contested at the Summer Olympics. A total of 40 athletes qualified for the event by entry standard or ranking.
Juliette Whitaker earned a spot on the United States Olympic team by finishing third in the women's 800 meters at the national trials on June 23, 2024, in Eugene, Oregon, with a time of 1:58.45. [9] At the Olympics, she ran a personal best of 1:57.76 in her semi-final. She went on place 7th in the final. [10]
The 2024 British Athletics Championships (sponsored by Microplus Timing) [1] is the national championships in outdoor track and field for athletes in the United Kingdom, which also served as a qualifying event for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [2] The event was held on the 29 and 30 June 2024 at the Manchester Regional Arena.