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nb1 Marion Jones was stripped of her Olympic medal in 2000. nb2 Crystal Cox was stripped of her Olympic medal in 2004. nb3 Dominique Blake was accidentally given her Olympic medal and she returned it in 2017. [8] a Original silver medalists, Russia, and 4th place finishers, Belarus, were stripped of their results for doping offenses. Following ...
The Women's Decathlon World Championships is an international decathlon combined track and field events championship for women. It was the first women's world championships in the discipline. The inaugural edition was staged at the Olympic training center in Geneva, Ohio at the same time as the 2024 Summer Olympics as a protest against the ...
At major championships, the women's equivalent of the decathlon is the seven-event heptathlon; before 1981 it was the five-event pentathlon. [8] However, in 2001, the IAAF (now World Athletics ) approved scoring tables for a women's decathlon; the current world record holder is Austra Skujytė of Lithuania , with 8,358. [ 9 ]
Combined events at the Summer Olympics have been contested in several formats at the multi-sport event.There are two combined track and field events in the current Olympic athletics programme: a men's decathlon (100 metres, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 metres, 110 metres hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, and 1500 metres) and a women's heptathlon (100 metres hurdles, high ...
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 ...
The first world record in the decathlon was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1922. [1] As of 23 June 2012, 36 men's world records have been ratified by the IAAF in the event. [1] The current world record holder is French national Kevin Mayer with 9126 points. Over the years, athletes have become bigger ...
Alison Sydor – Cycling, Women's cross-country Guivi Sissaouri – Wrestling , Men's freestyle 57 kg Lisa Alexander , Janice Bremner , Karen Clark , Karen Fonteyne , Sylvie Fréchette , Valerie Hould-Marchand , Kasia Kulesza , Christine Larsen , Cari Read , Erin Woodley – Synchronized swimming , Women's Team
The British decathlon champions and the British heptathlon champions covers three competitions; the current British Athletics Championships which was founded in 2007, the preceding AAA Championships (1928-2006) and the UK Athletics Championships which existed from 1977 until 1997 and ran concurrently with the AAA Championships.