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This was the thirtieth time that the men's 100 metres was contested at the Summer Olympics.Interestingly the final contained 6 men who had recorded top-25 all-time records in the 100m, making this final one of the most tightly contested in history, as the difference between the fastest man in the field Fred Kerley (9.76) and the slowest Kenny Bednarek (9.87) was only 0.11 seconds.
PHOTO: Noah Lyles of the U.S crosses the finish line to win the men's 100m final at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, Aug. 4, 2024. (Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images) Lyles was the defending world ...
USA's Noah Lyles celebrates after winning the men's 100m final of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 4, 2024.
Noah Lyles, of the United States, in lane seven, wins the men's 100-meter final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (ASSOCIATED ...
[119] [120] [121] National records and personal bests are frequently improved at the event by sprinters from large and small nations alike, as most elite athletes aim to reach peak race fitness for the Olympics. [122] [123] The 2024 men's final was the fastest 100-meter race in history, collectively: all eight men ran under 9.91 seconds.
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
For the 10,000 metres, combined events (men's decathlon and women's heptathlon) and racewalking, the qualification period ran from 31 December 2022 to 30 June 2024. [ 8 ] In the marathon races, any runner ranked higher than the sixty-fifth-place athlete on the filtered Quota Place "Road to Paris" list on 30 January 2024, was deemed eligible for ...
2024 is nearly complete, and with it goes a year of some of the most incredible sports moments in recent memory. From the Olympics to championship droughts ending to unforgettable upsets across ...