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The performance of "America the Beautiful" was introduced for the race's 75th anniversary running in 1991, in part due to Operation Desert Storm. Henderson switched to the national anthem for 1993–1997, then resumed "America the Beautiful" in 1999.
The following are the subregional records in athletics in Northern America. This list includes the best marks set in an event by an athlete who competes for the World Athletics member federations Athletics Canada or USA Track & Field. All bests shown on this list are tracked by statisticians not officially sanctioned by a governing body.
The United States is the nation that has won the most medals in athletics at the Olympic Games, around 855, of which 353 are gold. [2] The United States men's and women's teams have participated in all editions of the games except for the Moscow 1980 games due to boycott.
100 km (track) 6:39:09+ Zach Bitter: Altra December 14, 2019 Desert Solstice Track Invitational Phoenix, United States [30] 100 miles (track) 11:40:55 Zach Bitter: Altra December 19, 2015 Desert Solstice Track Invitational Phoenix, United States [29] 12 hours (track) 163.785 km Zach Bitter: Altra 14 December 2013 Desert Solstice Track Invitational
The selection meet for these championships was the 2023 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Team members were announced on August 7. Team members were announced on August 7. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The United States of America (USA), the previous host of the 1996 Olympics at Atlanta, competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 586 competitors, 333 men and 253 women, took part in 265 events in 31 sports. [1]
It has been the most successful nation at the global competition for track and field. By the end of the 2023 World Championships, its athletes had won a total of 443 medals, 195 of them gold – more than double that of the next most successful nation Kenya, as well as more than the combined total of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states.
Allyson Felix became the most successful U.S. track-and-field athlete at the event, winning three gold medals. Swimmer Michael Phelps emerged as the most decorated athlete in Olympic history, with a total of 22 medals won (including four gold and two silver medals in London) – 18 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals – surpassing Larisa ...