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Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics were held during the last ten days of the Games. They were due to be held from 31 July – 9 August 2020, at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo , Japan. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the games were postponed to 2021, with the track and field events set for 30 July – 8 August. [ 1 ]
The men's 800 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place from 31 July to 4 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. [1] In total 48 athletes were to start, but only 47 (from 29 nations) actually did. [2] Emmanuel Korir of Kenya won the event by 0.17 seconds, with his countryman Ferguson Rotich taking silver. It was the fourth ...
4–5 August 2021 Olympic decathlon best – 100 metres (tied WDB) Damian Warner (CAN) 10.12: Tokyo, Japan: 4 August 2021 Olympic decathlon best – Long jump Damian Warner (CAN) 8.24: Tokyo, Japan: 4 August 2021 Olympic decathlon best – 110 metres hurdles Damian Warner (CAN) 13.46: Tokyo, Japan: 5 August 2021 Oceanic record Ashley Moloney ...
This was the 20th appearance of the event: except for 1976, [3] it has appeared at every Olympics since 1932. The reigning champion is Matej Tóth of Slovakia.. Due to the Olympics' movement towards gender equality (the 50 kilometres walk was the only men's event on the 2020 athletics programme with no women's equivalent) [4] and declining fan attendance and TV ratings for the event, the men's ...
This was the 10th appearance of the event, having appeared at every Olympics since 1984. Eighty-eight athletes competed. A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to three athletes in the women's marathon if all athletes met the entry standard or qualify by ranking during the qualifying period (the qualification period for "Entry Standard" (2:29:30) was from 1 January 2019 to 31 May ...
The men's marathon event at the 2020 Summer Olympics started at 07:00 on 8 August 2021 in Sapporo, Japan. [1] 106 athletes from 46 nations competed.The previous Olympic champion, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, successfully defended his title, with Dutch and Belgian athletes Abdi Nageeye and Bashir Abdi gaining silver and bronze, respectively.
The men's 1500 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 3 and 7 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. [1] Approximately fifty athletes were expected to compete; the exact number depended on how many nations used universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 45 qualifying through time or ranking (1 universality place was used in 2016).
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the period was suspended from 6 April 2020 to 30 November 2020, with the end date extended to 29 June 2021. The qualifying time standards could be obtained in various meets during the given period that have the approval of the IAAF .