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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 ...
2024 in athletics is a year of track and field and road and country and mountain, highlighted by the main event of 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. World records [ edit ]
The route, specially designed for the Paris 2024 Games and approved by World Athletics, was unique, demanding, and technical. Paris 2024 unveiled the routes for the Olympic marathon and the two races – a 42.195 km course and a 10 km course – open to the general public as part of the mass event running. [5]
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 ...
In one of the bigge st upsets at the Paris Olympics, Hocker dug deep and ran past Ingebrigtsen and Kerr to win and set a new Olympic record with a time of 3:27.65. "With 100 meters to go, I knew I ...
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.
Global records before the 2024 Summer Olympics Record Athlete (Nation) Time Location Date World record Tigst Assefa (ETH) 2:11:53 [9] Berlin, Germany 24 September 2023: Olympic record Tiki Gelana (ETH) 2:23:07: London, Great Britain 5 August 2012: World leading Sutume Kebede (ETH) 2:15:55 [10] Tokyo, Japan 3 March 2024