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Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient Greek Olympics. The modern program includes track and field events, road running events, and race walking events.
After winning Olympic gold, then setting the world decathlon best in the high jump, defending champion Derek Drouin (CAN) could not return due to a nagging injury. Olympic silver medalist Mutaz Essa Barshim (BHR) was perfect through the automatic qualifier in the preliminaries and up to 2.29 m in the final.
On 6 September 2011, London unveiled its bid for the 2017 championships with the slogan "Ready to break records." This was London's fourth bid in less than 15 years to host the event. [7] [8] The London bid team said that if their bid was successful they would introduce the "Women in World Athletics" programme. [9]
July 12–16: 2017 World U18 Championships in Athletics in Nairobi [12] South Africa, China, and Cuba won 5 gold medals each. Kenya won the overall medal tally. July 14–23: 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London [13] China won both the gold and overall medal tallies. August 4–13: 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London [14]
2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships; 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships; 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships; 2017 European 10,000m Cup; 2017 European Combined Events Team Championships; 2017 European Masters Athletics Championships; 2017 European Race Walking Cup; Athletics at the 2017 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival
Men's 400 metres at the 2017 World Championships Venue Olympic Stadium Dates 5 August (heats) 6 August (semifinal) 8 August (final) Competitors 51 from 33 nations Winning time 43.98 Medalists Wayde van Niekerk South Africa Steven Gardiner Bahamas Abdalelah Haroun Qatar ← 2015 2019 → Video on YouTube Official Video Events at the 2017 World Championships Track events 100 m men women 200 m ...
August 10–14: Part of the 2014 African Championships in Athletics in Marrakesh. Winners: Lebogang Shange (m) / Grace Wanjiru (f) August 12–17: Part of the 2014 European Athletics Championships (final) Men's 20 km race winner: Miguel Ángel López; Women's 20 km race winner: Elmira Alembekova; Men's 50 km race winner: Yohann Diniz
The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques) [a] [1] are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition ...