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Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
As an exception, according to rule 36.2, specific event organizers may choose to ignore wind velocity readings exclusively for their specific event records (e.g. a performance in a 100 m race at a meeting with a wind reading of +2.4 m/s may be considered that specific meeting record, but will not be considered as a world record). [1]
Bolt followed up his 100 m win with a gold medal in the 200 m, which also makes him the first athlete to win the 200 m three times at the Olympic Games. [237] Bolt ran the anchor leg for the finals of the 4 × 100 m relay and secured his third consecutive and last Olympic gold medal in the event. [ 238 ]
For nine years, nine months and nine days Moses was unbeaten in races, winning 122 in a row. No other athlete has come close to breaking that record. While the sports world was consumed with his ...
Fraser-Pryce's time was 10.74 seconds, and Jackson's 10.76. This is the second time in the last four Olympics Jamaica swept the women's 100 — the first was in 2008, when Fraser-Pryce won her ...
Billy Mills, the last American to win the Olympic 10,000 meters in 1964, believes distance star Grant Fisher is capable of winning the race in Paris. Last U.S. Olympic 10,000-meter winner believes ...
After an impressive season in 2021, Thompson-Herah open her Season in the 100 at the Continental Tour Gold winning the race in 10.89 s. She then won at the Prefontaine Classic in a time 10.79 s. She followed that race with a win at the Rabat Diamond League in a meet record 10.89 s. At the Jamaican Championship in June she placed 3rd and 2nd in ...
Of note, Jack ran a 5,000 Meter race on the University of Florida track in 1970, winning in a time of 13:41.4 which remains the track record in Gainesville (as of April 2015). [10] He received his Ph.D. in Entomology 1972, and worked as a post doc in the Entomology Department at North Carolina State University until 1976 when he became an ...