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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 ...
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."
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 ...
Olympics 2024 - Men's Marathon results Rank - Athlete Bib - Name - NOC Code - Date of Birth - Result - Time Behind 1 622 TOLA Tamirat ETH 11 AUG 1991 2:06:26 OR,SB
Global records before the 2024 Summer Olympics Record Athlete (Nation) Time Location Date World record Kelvin Kiptum (KEN) 2:00:35 [7] Chicago, United States 8 October 2023: Olympic record Samuel Wanjiru (KEN) 2:06:32: Beijing, China 24 August 2008: World leading Benson Kipruto (KEN) 2:02:16 [8] Tokyo, Japan 3 March 2024
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 February 3, 2024, O'Keeffe won the 2024 United States Olympic trials marathon in Orlando, Florida in 2:22:10, qualifying her to represent the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [9] It was her first marathon, having qualified for the trials with a 1:09:34 at the 2023 Raleigh Holiday Half Marathon. [1] She competed in the 2024 Paris ...
United States: Nyjah Huston United States [57] Swimming: Men's 100 m backstroke: Thomas Ceccon Italy: Xu Jiayu China: Ryan Murphy United States [58] Men's 200 m freestyle: David Popovici Romania: Matt Richards Great Britain: Luke Hobson United States [59] Women's 100 m breaststroke: Tatjana Smith South Africa: Tang Qianting China: Mona McSharry ...