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The 2024 United States Olympic trials for track and field were held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.Organized by USA Track and Field, the ten-day competition lasted from June 21 to 30 and served as the national championships in track and field for the United States. 44 events were held, 22 for men and 22 for women.
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.
Lopez Lomong and Andy McClary at the 2008 Olympic trials in Eugene. The United States Olympic trials for the sport of track and field is the quadrennial meet to select the United States representatives at the Olympic Games. Since 1992, the meet has also served as the year's USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Because of the depth of ...
USA Track and Field announced their Olympic roster based on these guidelines on July 6, 2021. [8] The trials for the men's and women's marathon were held on February 29, 2020 in Atlanta [9] and the trials for the men's 50 km race walk were held on January 25, 2020 at San Diego Christian College and the Santee Town Center station in Santee ...
For women, 158 achieved the marathon standard and only 15 hit the half marathon mark. The total number of female qualifiers dropped from 512 in the 2020 United States Olympic Trials (marathon) to 173 in 2024, due mainly to the marathon entry standard dropping 8 minutes. On the men's side, the 227 qualifiers was a decrease of only 33 relative to ...
When Richardson covered 100 meters at U.S. Trials in a blistering 10.71 seconds, Shericka Jackson responded with her two fastest races of the season to win Jamaica’s 100- and 200-meter national ...
In 2024, the wide, wide world of sports saw repeat champions, first-time titlists, a grand Paris summer and some epic fails. The winners and losers:
The event is overseen by the United States Olympic Committee and run by USA Gymnastics. The first Olympic trials were held in 1960 in West Point, New York, to select athletes for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. [1] The men's and women's trials have been held both separately and then as one event. [2]