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The women's marathon has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1984. In its four-decade-long Olympic history since the 1984 Los Angeles Games, the women's marathon occurred on the last day of the athletics program for the first time, with the men's race scheduled a day before.
According to Tony Estanguet, a triple Olympic slalom canoeing champion and president of the Paris 2024 organising committee, "We wanted to reverse the order in an ambition to more gender equality and bring women to the fore for the first time so the women's marathon will enjoy major visibility on 11 August to cap off the athletics program." [4]
The marathon at the Summer Olympics is the only road running event held at the multi-sport event. The men's marathon has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first modern Olympics in 1896. Nearly ninety years later, the women's event was added to the programme at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
The men’s race will get underway at 10:10 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) and the women’s at 10:20 a.m. ET – earlier start times than initially scheduled due to the anticipated hot weather in Orlando.
Fiona O’Keeffe smashed the women’s U.S. Olympic marathon trials record in her debut at the distance on a warm Saturday to secure her spot in the Paris Games. O’Keeffe finished in a time 2 ...
The marathon will start at 9.10am local time (12.10am GMT), five minutes after the wheelchair athletes get underway. A cut-off time of seven hours has been set by the race organisers. How can I ...
In total, 220 men qualified via a marathon time, while only 7 gained entry with a half marathon time. For women, 158 achieved the marathon standard and only 15 hit the half marathon mark. The total number of female qualifiers dropped from 512 in the 2020 United States Olympic Trials (marathon) to 173 in 2024, due mainly to the marathon entry ...
Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who was the first women's Olympic Games marathon champion, winning the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. [2] She held the fastest time for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon for 32 years after winning the race in 1985.