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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.
Apr. 13—The 2024 track-and-field season is well underway, and the showcase of area talent is already on full display. Here is a list of some of the top female athletes to keep an eye on this season.
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
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 the women's pole vault event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. 32 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by jumping the entry standard of 4.73 m (15 ft 6 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) or higher or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event. [7]
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
The women's 200 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in four rounds at the Stade de France in Paris, France, between 4 and 6 August 2024. This was the twentieth time that the women's 200 metres was contested at the Summer Olympics. A total of 48 athletes were able to qualify for the event by entry standard or ranking.
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. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 ...