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Nafissatou " Nafi " Thiam (French pronunciation: [tʃam]; born 19 August 1994 [5]) is a Belgian athlete specialising in multi-event competition. She is the first athlete with three multi-event gold medals at the Olympic Games, winning the heptathlon at the 2016 Rio, 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Olympics. [6] Her three individual Olympic golds in a ...
Noah Lyles OLY [ 9 ] (born July 18, 1997) is an American track and field sprinter who competes in the 60 meters, 100 meters and 200 meters events. His personal best of 19.31 seconds in the 200m is the American record, and makes him the third fastest of all-time. He is an Olympic champion and six-time World champion.
The 800 metres at the Summer Olympics has been contested since the first edition of the multi-sport event. The men's 800 m has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1896. The women's event was first held in 1928, making it the first distance running event for women. However it was not held again until 1960, since when it has ...
Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson (born 9 January 1993) [1] is an English athlete. A multi-eventer, she is primarily known as both a heptathlete and an indoor pentathlete. In heptathlon she is a double world champion, double Commonwealth Games champion and an Olympic silver medallist. In indoor pentathlon, she is a world and double European champion.
1500 m. Ciara Mageean (/ ˈkɪərə məˈɡiːən / KEER-ə mə-GHEE-ən; [2] born 12 March 1992) [3] is a middle-distance runner from Portaferry in Northern Ireland who specialises in the 1500 metres. She is the 2024 European Athletics Championships gold medalist at the distance, the first individual Irish European champion since Sonia O'Sullivan.
800 m. 2015 Edmonton. 4x400 m. Raevyn Rogers (born September 7, 1996) [ 1 ] is an American middle-distance athlete. She won a bronze medal in the 800 meters at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the fourth fastest woman in U.S. history in the event. [ 2 ]
Women's 800 metresat the 2013 World Championships. The women's 800 metres at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 15–18 August. [2] The first woman to break 2:00 was Hildegard Falck in 1971. At this meet, it almost took 2:00 to get into the semi-final.
2014 Marrakech. 3000 m s'chase. Emma Jane Coburn (born October 19, 1990) [ 1 ] is an American middle-distance runner who specializes in the 3000-meters steeplechase. She holds the distinction of being a world champion, world silver medalist, Olympic bronze medalist, three-time Olympian and 10-time US National Champion in the steeplechase.