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  2. List of Olympic records in athletics - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of world records in athletics - Wikipedia

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    Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark. In 2020 ...

  4. Which Olympic Sport Is Hardest on the Body?

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    According to the IOC, at the last Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the sport with the highest injury rate was boxing, with nearly 14% of boxers requiring medical care during the Games, followed by 12.5% ...

  5. 400 metres hurdles at the Olympics - Wikipedia

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    The 400 metres hurdles at the Summer Olympics is the longest hurdling event held at the multi-sport event. The men's 400 m hurdles has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900, with a sole gap at the 1912 Summer Olympics. The women's event was added to the programme over eighty years later, at the 1984 Olympics. It is the most ...

  6. The worst pressure ever: Welcome to the Olympic 100-meter ...

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    When an elite group of athletes crouch into starting blocks at Paris’ Stade de France this weekend, their bodies tense with adrenaline and anticipation, it’s hard to ignore that the next 10 ...

  7. How American sprinter impaled by javelin came back to make ...

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    More from Yahoo Sports: Wetzel: Aging USWNT will need guile to win gold in ‘Last Dance’ USA’s Dressel sets world record in gold-medal 100 fly. U.S. anti-doping chief rips IOC over Russia ...

  8. Portal:Sport of athletics - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Carlton Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver medal, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. Lewis was a dominant sprinter and long jumper whose career spanned from 1979 to 1996, when he last won the Olympic long jump.

  9. World and Olympic records set at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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    Set a world record time of 32.447 in the qualification. Set a world record time of 32.422 in the first round. [11] 2 August 2012: Cycling – Men's team pursuit: Ed Clancy Geraint Thomas Steven Burke Peter Kennaugh Great Britain: Set a world record time of 3:52.499 in the qualification. Set a world record time of 3:51.659 in the final. [12] 2 ...