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Numerous world records and Olympic records were set in various events at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.Some events, such as rowing, occur under variable weather conditions that can unfairly benefit an athlete's performance through no fault of their own.
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 ...
In 2020, Duplantis surpassed Bubka's outdoor world best (the old 6.14 m record), with a 6.15 m vault and continued to improve the world record thereafter, most recently in 2024 with a 6.26 m mark. As new events are advanced to world record status, World Athletics might delay declaring initial performances as the official world record until ...
It was the first world record to be broken in the pool at these Paris Olympic Games. The first-time Olympian posted a 46.40, shaving .40 seconds off the previous world record 46.80 he set earlier ...
Sam Watson climbed the 49-foot overhanging wall in 4.74 seconds, a new world record, but had to settle for bronze. Paris Olympics: He climbed a wall in world-record time, but didn’t win gold ...
A world record holder in the event and a silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, Girma was in the middle of a crowded pack as runners started the last of 7.5 laps. Girma started to pull away from ...
In the Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, both men and women competed in eighteen events in the pool. Of the 35 pool-based events, swimmers from the United States hold fifteen records, Australia five, France four, China, Canada and South Africa two each, and one each to Ireland, Great Britain, Russian Olympic Committee , Hungary ...
World records have fallen at the Diamond League meeting in Paris on Sunday – less than a month before the Olympics start in the French capital.