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Men's Half Marathon: 1:03:00 Women's Marathon 2:37:00 Women's Half Marathon: 1:12:00 Qualifying performances must have occurred between January 1, 2022 and December 5, 2023 on a USATF-certified course. In total, 220 men qualified via a marathon time, while only 7 gained entry with a half marathon time.
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."
For the women's marathon event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. 95 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by running the entry standard of 2:26.50 seconds or faster or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event.
The 33-year-old cut four minutes off her PR to place 17th overall with a time of 2:36.41 at Grandma's Marathon on June 18 in Duluth, Minnesota to qualify for the Olympic Trials.
The United States of America (USA), represented by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from July 26 to August 11, 2024. U.S. athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, except for the 1980 edition in Moscow , when America led a sixty-six-nation ...
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.
On June 17, 2023, McClain earned a qualifying position for the [2024 United States Olympic trials by running 2:29:25 at Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota. On February 3, 2024, McClain placed fourth in the Olympic Marathon Trials held in Orlando, Florida, with a 2:25:46, a personal best by nearly four minutes. She was the alternate for the ...
This article details the qualifying phase for athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics.More than 1,800 athletes, with an equal split between men and women, competed across forty-eight medal events (twenty-five in track, five in the road: marathon and racewalking, sixteen in the field, and two in combined) at the Games.