Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The qualification period for athletics was 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the men's marathon, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had run the race in 2:15:00 or faster during the qualification period. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.
The marathon course was run on the route used for the 1896 Summer Olympics, though the 1896 race was 40 km (25 mi) long while the 2004 race was 42.195 km (26.2 mi) long. [50] For the first time since 369 AD, an athletic event took place at the Stadium at Olympia. with American Kristin Heaston making the first in the shot put event.
The men's marathon world record has been improved several times at the Olympics: in 1908, 1920, and then at successive Olympics by Abebe Bikila in 1960 and 1964. [11] Abebe Bikila, Waldemar Cierpinski, and Eliud Kipchoge are the only athletes to have won two Olympic gold medals in the marathon. No athlete has won more than two medals of any colour.
The marathon was held on the same route as the 1896 Games, beginning in the site of the Battle of Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. [ 31 ] Australia became the first country in Olympic history to win more gold medals (17) immediately after hosting the Olympics in Sydney 2000 where they won 16 gold medals.
Best marathon: 2:07:56 (Amsterdam, 2019) Paris is Korir's second Olympics; in Rio 2016, he placed 14th in the 10,000m. He missed qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics in the marathon by just three ...
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
At the 2004 Summer Olympics, the athletics events were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 18 to August 29, except for the marathons (run from Marathonas to the Kallimarmaro Stadium), the race walks (on the streets of Athens), and the shot put (held at the Ancient Olympia Stadium). A total of 46 events were contested, of which 24 by ...
Marathon swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics starts and ends at the Pont Alexandre III in the iconic Seine River, where athletes cover 10 kilometers (or approximately 10.6 miles) in its open ...