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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.
Olympics Sports Note Bertinetti 4 / 6 ... Wife: 1980 Moscow, 1988 Seoul: Athletics - Women's 100m (1980), 4 x 100m relay (1988) Sedykh / Lisovskaya 3 / 4
Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics were held during the last ten days of the Games. They were due to be held from 31 July – 9 August 2020, at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo , Japan. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the games were postponed to 2021, with the track and field events set for 30 July – 8 August. [ 1 ]
2:26:21 1992 Barcelona details: Valentina Yegorova Unified Team: 2:32:41 Yuko Arimori Japan: 2:32:49 Lorraine Moller New Zealand: 2:33:59 1996 Atlanta details: Fatuma Roba Ethiopia: 2:26:05 Valentina Yegorova Russia: 2:28:05 Yuko Arimori Japan: 2:28:39 2000 Sydney details: Naoko Takahashi Japan: 2:23:14 Lidia Șimon Romania: 2:23:22 Joyce ...
At the Olympics, she won the gold medal in the 200 meter race in 21.83. [33] Along with her teammates, she also won gold medals in the 4 × 100 m relay and 4 × 400 m relay . On September 26, she competed at the Athlos track meet, a women-only track and field meeting at Icahn Stadium in New York City , finishing second in the 200 m.
This is the complete list of men's medalists in athletics at the Summer Olympics. It does not include the medalists from the Athletics at the 1906 Intercalated Games – these are no longer regarded as an official part of the Olympic chronology by the IOC .
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."
Of the athletes who participated in two or more Summer Olympics in two different sports, 49 are Swedish and 23 of them participated in the home Olympics in Stockholm 1912. Gwynne Evans , [ 2 ] Leo Goodwin , Frank Kugler [ 1 ] and Joe Lydon [ 2 ] are the only athletes to win medals in three different sports.