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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.
The women's 5000 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in two rounds at the Stade de France in Paris, France, on 2 and 5 August 2024. This was the eighth time that the women's 5000 metres is contested at the Summer Olympics. A total of 43 athletes were to qualify for the event by entry standard or ranking.
The competition featured an identical number of medal events for men and women, the first instance in Olympic history. The marathon race walk mixed relay through a marathon course was contested for the first time at these Games, replacing the men's 50 kilometres race walk in the quest for gender equality. [2]
The top U.S. runner in the 5,000-meter at the 2024 Olympic games was a Mizzou Hall of Famer. Former Missouri track and field and cross country star Karissa Schweizer placed 10th in the 5,000-meter ...
However, this remains the only time that the 5000 metres world record has been broken in Olympic competition. The best time recorded for the women's Olympic 3000 m was 8:26.53 minutes by Tetyana Dorovskikh (then Samolenko) at the 1988 Seoul Olympics ; the world record for that event was not improved during an Olympic race.
The 2024 United States Olympic trials for track and field were held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.Organized by USA Track and Field, the ten-day competition lasted from June 21 to 30 and served as the national championships in track and field for the United States. 44 events were held, 22 for men and 22 for women.
Kenyan runner Peres Jepchirchir took home gold in the women's marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a time of 2:27:20. ... four marathons and Boston-qualifying in three of them," MK said ...
Road events; Half marathon: men: women: Half Marathon Cup: men: women: ... The women's 5000 metres at the 2024 European Athletics Championships took place at the ...