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The women's 10,000 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held at the Stade de France in Paris, France, on 9 August 2024. This was the tenth time that the women's 10,000 metres was contested at the Summer Olympics. A total of 27 athletes were able to qualify for the event by entry standard or ranking.
It was the first time four women broke 30 minutes in a single race. At the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris Joshua Cheptegei won gold in the 10,000 metres final, in a new Olympic Record of 26:43.14. [2] Ethiopia is the most successful nation in the event, with ten gold medals among its total of 24.
According to Tony Estanguet, a triple Olympic slalom canoeing champion and president of the Paris 2024 organising committee, "We wanted to reverse the order in an ambition to more gender equality and bring women to the fore for the first time so the women's marathon will enjoy major visibility on 11 August to cap off the athletics program." [4]
Standing records prior to the 2024 European Athletics Championships World record Beatrice Chebet (KEN) 28:54.14 [2]: Eugene,United States: 25 May 2024 European record Sifan Hassan (NED)
Athletes compete in the marathon swimming women's 10k race on day 13 of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Marathon swimming is a fairly new discipline added to the Summer Olympics.
Olympic silver medalist Katie Grimes isn’t interested in a repeat performance of the women’s 10km marathon swimming final. Grimes came 15th in the August 8 race in Paris’ River Seine, amid ...
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.
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.