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The distance of the marathon at the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 40,260 m (25.02 mi) 1904: 40,000 m (24.85 mi) 1912: 40,200 m (24.98 mi) 1920: 40,750 m (25.32 mi)
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 ...
Canadian Ian Millar in a 2007 picture. At London 2012 he participated in a record 10th Olympics. Only a small fraction of the world's population ever competes at the Olympic Games; an even smaller fraction competes in multiple Games. 949 athletes [1] (648 men [2] and 301 women [3]) have participated in at least five Olympics from Athens 1896 to Paris 2024, but excluding the 1906 Intercalated ...
Toggle Summer Olympics subsection. 1.1 1992 Barcelona. 1.2 ... This is a list of the United States athletes who won an Olympic medal since 1992. Summer Olympics. 1992 ...
This is a list of the men's athletics champions at the Olympics and World Championships in the sprint events since the introduction of the World Championships in 1983. Combining the lists of global champions into a single timeline allows patterns of success and dominance to be demonstrated, as well as highlighting the occasional shock results.
Cameron Spencer/Getty Images During the 2024 Paris Olympics, Grant Fisher became the first American man in more than a decade to win a medal in the 10,000-meter race, the longest race of the Olympics.
Distance runner Mo Farah trains in Flagstaff, Ariz., ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. Farah was one of more than 240 Olympians and Paralympians who trained there before the Summer Games.
Holds current Olympic record Mamo Wolde Ethiopia: 1968 1972 Dimitrion Yordanidis Greece: Oldest man to complete a marathon, at age 98 [7] Emil Zátopek Czechoslovakia: 1952 (6) 1956 Won Olympic gold in his first marathon in Olympic record time Sondre Nordstad Moen Norway: 2:05:48 First european runner to finish under 2:06:00 (Fukuoka, 2017).