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The 2024 World Athletics Rankings document the best-performing athletes in the sport of athletics, according to World Athletics' individual athlete ranking system. Individual athletes are assigned a points score best on an average of their best recent competition performances.
Global records before the 2024 Summer Olympics Record Athlete (nation) Time Location Date World record Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.49 [11] Indianapolis, United States 16 July 1988 Olympic record Elaine Thompson-Herah (JAM) 10.61 Tokyo, Japan 31 July 2021 World leading Sha'Carri Richardson (USA) 10.71 [12] Eugene, United States
Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals. nb Note : Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova , Aleksandra Fedoriva , Yulia Gushchina , and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals.
The 2024 Paris Olympics reached a landmark as the first Olympics with total gender parity, where 50% of the athletes present were women. But it was also a big Olympics for American women, who took ...
For several years, Forbes magazine has published a list of the top 10 earning female athletes, supplementing a similar list of the top 100 earners among athletes regardless of sex or gender. The 2021 list was the first to be based on earnings during the named calendar year; previous lists were based on a fiscal year that ended on June 30 of the ...
American gymnast Simone Biles has added another title to her resume. The 11-time Olympic medalist was named Thursday by Sports Illustrated as its 2024 Sportsperson of the Year. The Sportsperson of ...
2020 Tokyo details: ... List of top Olympic gold medalists in swimming; ... This page was last edited on 27 November 2024, at 18:06 (UTC).
Her time of 12.87 s was a personal best. Additionally, Kälin was the only athlete to record a time under 13 seconds. The top 3 was rounded out by American Taliyah Brooks and Noor Vidts, the latter also running a personal best. Johnson-Thompson, finishing in eight, recorded a season's best.