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Track and field Racing in her first Olympics after being ruled ineligible for the Tokyo Games, USA’s Sha'Carri Richardson won silver in the women’s 100-meter finals Saturday.
In 1984 and thenceforth, the pentathlon (five events over two days) was replaced by the heptathlon (seven events over two days), so "discontinued" is not precisely correct. The heptathlon consists of the 200 meter and 800 meter runs, the 100 meter hurdles, the shot put , the javelin throw , the high jump , and the long jump in track and field ...
U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky won the women’s 800-meter freestyle in the 2024 Paris Games, earning her ninth Olympic gold medal. Also, U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson finished second in the ...
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 ...
A fter nine days of racing at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the U.S. swim team managed to top both the medals count and gold tally in the pool. But the crucial golds didn’t come until the very last day.
Fanny Blankers-Koen made history at the 1948 London Olympics by winning four gold medals in track and field (100m, 200m, 80m hurdles, and 4 × 100 m relay). In combined events at the Olympics, women compete in the seven-event heptathlon but men compete in three more events in the decathlon. [120]
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.
Medals are up for grabs on Day 6 in the women’s 200-meter butterfly and the men’s 200-meter backstroke. The women will also compete in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay final.