Paris 2024 Olympic Games - athletics events by day
Day-by-day summary of the disciplines being contested in Paris
Day 1 | day 2 | day 3 | day 4 | day 5 | day 6 | day 7 | day 8 | day 9 | day 10 | day 11
Day 1 - Thursday 1 August
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07:30 |
Men's 20km race walk |
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World record: 1:16:36 Yusuke Suzuki (JPN) Nomi, 2015 |
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FUN FACT: The world record, 1:16:36, is sub-1:21 pace for the half marathon distance. |
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09:20 |
Women's 20km race walk |
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World record: 1:23:49 Yang Jiayu (CHN) Huangshan, 2021 |
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FUN FACT: At the 2015 World Championships, just a quarter of a second separated the gold and silver medallists, Liu Hong and Chinese teammate Lu Xiuzhi. |
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Day 2 - Friday 2 August
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21:20 |
Men's 10,000m |
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World record: 26:11.00 Joshua Cheptegei (UGA) Valencia, 2020 |
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FUN FACT: Despite their distance-running prowess, Kenya has won just one Olympic title in this event with Neftali Temu winning the gold medal back in 1968. |
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Day 3 - Saturday 3 August
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19:35 |
Men's shot put |
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World record: 23.56m Ryan Crouser (USA) Los Angeles, 2023 |
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FUN FACT: The men's shot weighs 7.26kg, which is roughly the same as 80 croissants.
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20:20 |
Women's triple jump |
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World record: 15.74m (i) Yulimar Rojas (VEN) Belgrade, 2022 |
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FUN FACT: Caterine Ibarguen made her Olympic debut in 2004 at the age of 20, competing in the high jump. She came close to qualifying for the 2008 Games in the long jump, but narrowly missed out. At the 2012 Games she contested the triple jump and earned the silver medal. Then in 2016, at the age of 32, she won triple jump gold. She reached the Olympic final in 2021 and retired soon after. |
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20:55 |
Mixed 4x400m |
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World record: 3:08.80 United States (USA) Budapest, 2023 |
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FUN FACT: When the mixed 4x400m was first introduced, teams were allowed to run their male and female athletes in any order. But the rules changed a few years ago to stipulate that the order must be: man, woman, man, woman. |
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21:20 |
Women's 100m |
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World record: 10.49 Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) Indianapolis, 1988 |
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FUN FACT: USA's Betty Robinson ran her first ever race in March 1928 at the age of 16. In her second race, she qualified to represent the USA at that year's Olympic Games. Then at the Olympics, in what was just the third competition of her career, she won the Olympic title and equalled the world record. In June 1931 she was heavily injured in a plane crash, but she returned to athletics and went on to win Olympic gold in the 4x100m in 1936. |
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21:45 |
Men's decathlon |
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World record: 9126 Kevin Mayer (FRA) Talence, 2018 |
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FUN FACT: When Paris last hosted the Olympics in 1924, there was both a decathlon and pentathlon. In the pentathlon, USA's Robert LeGendre broke the world record for the long jump with a leap of 7.765m, but ended up with 'just' the bronze medal overall in the pentathlon standings. |
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Day 4 - Sunday 4 August
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19:50 |
Women's high jump |
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World record: 2.09m Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) Rome, 1987 |
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FUN FACT: The difference between the world record and the Olympic record is four centimetres - that's roughly the width of a macaron.
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20:30 |
Men's hammer |
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World record: 86.74m Yuriy Sedykh (URS) Stuttgart, 1986 |
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FUN FACT: USA's John Flanagan won the Olympic titles in 1900, 1904 and 1908, the last of those when he was aged 40. After retiring from competitive athletics, he went on to coach Ireland's Pat O'Callaghan, who went on to win two Olympic titles of his own (1928 and 1932). |
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20:50 |
Men's 100m |
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World record: 9.58 Usain Bolt (JAM) Berlin, 2009 |
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FUN FACT: At the 1972 Olympics, pre-event favourites and world record-holders Eddie Hart and Rey Robinson missed their quarterfinals because the US team coach was given the wrong starting time. |
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Day 5 - Monday 5 August
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19:00 |
Men's pole vault |
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World record: 6.24m Mondo Duplantis (SWE) Xiamen, 2024 |
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FUN FACT: Heading into the Paris Olympics, Mondo Duplantis has a total of 83 six-metre clearances to his name. That's 38% of all the six-metre vaults in history. |
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20:30 |
Women's discus |
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World record: 76.80m Gabriele Reinsch (GDR) Neubrandenburg, 1988 |
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FUN FACT: French discus thrower Melina Robert-Michon will be competing at her seventh Olympic Games, tying the record number of appearances for a woman in track and field. |
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21:10 |
Women's 5000m |
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World record: 14:00.21 Gudaf Tsegay (ETH) Eugene, 2023 |
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FUN FACT: At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Meseret Defar was initially named as a reserve for Ethiopia. Five days before the heats, she was drafted on to the team. She then went on to win gold. She won again eight years later, becoming the only woman to win two Olympic titles over 5000m. |
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21:45 |
Women's 800m |
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World record: 1:53.28 Jarmila Kratochvilova (TCH) Munich, 1983 |
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FUN FACT: After the women's 800m at the 1928 Olympics, some journalists reported innacurately and misleadingly that many of the competitors were exhausted or failed to finish. In truth, the athletes were as tired as any athlete would be after a race. But the reports contributed to the IOC's decision to drop the event from the Olympic programme. It was reintroduced in 1960. |
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Day 6 - Tuesday 6 August
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19:55 |
Women's hammer |
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World record: 82.98m Anita Wlodarczyk (POL) Warsaw, 2016 |
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FUN FACT: There have been 19 throws beyond 80 metres in history. 17 of those belong to Anita Wlodarczyk. |
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20:15 |
Men's long jump |
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World record: 8.95m Mike Powell (USA) Tokyo, 1991 |
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FUN FACT: The long jump world record, 8.95m, is the length of 14 baguettes in a line.
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20:50 |
Men's 1500m |
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World record: 3:26.00 Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) Rome, 1998 |
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FUN FACT: Sebastian Coe remains the only man to win more than one Olympic title over 1500m. |
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21:10 |
Women's 3000m steeplechase |
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World record: 8:44.32 Beatrice Chepkoech (KEN) Monaco, 2018 |
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FUN FACT: The women's 3000m steeplechase is the 'newest' individual discipline on the Olympic athletics programme, having been added in 2008. |
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21:40 |
Women's 200m |
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World record: 21.34 Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) Seoul, 1988 |
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FUN FACT: French sprinter – and Paris 2024 Olympic cauldron lighter – Marie-Jose Perec completed the 400m/200m double at the 1996 Olympics. Back then, there were four rounds of each sprint event. Despite the 200m final being her eighth race of the Games, Perec struck gold. |
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Day 7 - Wednesday 7 August
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07:30 |
Marathon race walk mixed relay |
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Fastest time: 2:56:45 Francesco Fortunato & Valentina Trapletti (ITA) Antalya, 2024 |
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FUN FACT: This is the newest athletics event on the Olympic programme. Teams of two athletes - one man and one woman - take it in turns to complete two legs of a relay, making up the full marathon distance. Five countries (Spain, China, Colombia, Australia and Japan) have managed to qualify two teams. |
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19:00 |
Women's pole vault |
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World record: 5.06m Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS) Zurich, 2009 |
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FUN FACT: The first Olympic final in the women's pole vault, back in 2000, was won with 4.60m. Fast forward 24 years, and there are 34 women in the world this year who have cleared that height. The qualifying standard for this year's Games was 4.73m. |
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20:25 |
Men's discus |
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World record: 74.35m Mykolas Alekna (LTU) Ramona, 2024 |
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FUN FACT: Discus legend Al Oerter won four consecutive titles - a record in a single athletics discipline at the Olympic Games - between 1956 and 1968. He won his first title just a few weeks after turning 20, then won his fourth gold at the age of 32. He set his personal best of 69.46m in 1980 at the age of 43 and continued competing at a high level until 1986, throwing 62.40m just a few months shy of his 50th birthday. |
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21:20 |
Men's 400m |
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World record: 43.03 Wayde van Niekerk (RSA) Rio, 2016 |
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FUN FACT: At the 1908 Olympics, there was just one medallist in the men's 400m. USA's John Carpenter initially crossed the line in first place, but he was disqualified after the umpires ruled that he had made an illegal maneuver, preventing Britain's Wyndham Halswelle from passing him. The race was re-run but, as a mark of solidarity to their teammate, the two other US finalists refused to run. It left Halswelle to win in what was the only walkover in Olympic track and field history. |
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21:40 |
Men's 3000m steeplechase |
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World record: 7:52.11 Lamecha Girma (ETH) Paris, 2023 |
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FUN FACT: Apart from the 1976 and 1980 Games which they boycotted, Kenya won every Olympic title in the men's steeplechase from 1968 to 2016. Their winning streak came to an end three years ago in Tokyo when Morocco's Soufiane El Bakkali took the title. |
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Day 8 - Thursday 8 August
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20:00 |
Women's long jump |
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World record: 7.52m Galina Chistyakova (URS) Leningrad, 1988 |
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FUN FACT: Jackie Joyner-Kersee broke the Olympic long jump record in 1988 - while competing in the heptathlon. Her leap of 7.27m in the heptathlon added 21cm to the previous mark. A few days later, she won the individual long jump title with another Olympic record, 7.40m. |
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20:25 |
Men's javelin |
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World record: 98.48m Jan Zelezny (CZE) Jena, 1996 |
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FUN FACT: At the 1908 Olympics, there was a 'freestyle' javelin event, alongside the regular javelin event. It was won by Sweden's Eric Lemming, who adopted a standard throwing style. Needless to say, the event didn't feature again at future Games. |
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20:30 |
Men's 200m |
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World record: 19.19 Usain Bolt (JAM) Berlin, 2009 |
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FUN FACT: North American athletes won every Olympic title in the men's 200m from 1900 to 1956. Italy's Livio Berruti ended that streak in 1960, winning gold on home soil in Rome. But Berruti's Olympic dreams were almost dashed - by a pigeon. The bird made its way on to the track during Berruti's semifinal and was just inches away from a collision with the Italian sprinter. |
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21:25 |
Women's 400m hurdles |
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World record: 50.65 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA) Eugene, 2024 |
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FUN FACT: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone's world record clocking of 50.65 earlier this year would have been fast enough to qualify for the Olympics in the 400m flat. |
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21:45 |
Men's 110m hurdles |
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World record: 12.80 Aries Merritt (USA) Brussels, 2012 |
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FUN FACT: USA's Harrison Dillard is the only man to have won Olympic gold medals in the 100m flat and 110m hurdles. He won the 100m in 1948, then took the sprint hurdles title four years later. He also won the 4x100m at both Games. |
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Day 9 - Friday 9 August
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19:30 |
Women's 4x100m |
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World record: 40.82 United States (USA) London, 2012 |
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FUN FACT: At the Rio 2016 Olympics, the US team missed their second exchange in their 4x100m heat after being obstructed by a runner from another team. After an appeal, they were granted a solo rerun, and produced a time of 41.77 - the fastest of the round. They were given lane one in the final, but went on to win gold in 41.01. |
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19:40 |
Women's shot put |
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World record: 22.63m Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) Moscow, 1987 |
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FUN FACT: France's Michelle Ostermeyer was the inaugural Olympic champion in the women's shot put, winning gold in 1948. She also won the discus at those Games and took bronze in the high jump. A great niece of Victor Hugo, Ostermeyer was also a concert pianist. On the day she won the Olympic shot put title, she went on to perform an impromptu concert at the Royal Albert Hall. |
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19:45 |
Men's 4x100m |
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World record: 36.84 Jamaica (JAM) London, 2012 |
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FUN FACT: At the 1912 Olympics, just two teams earned medals in the men's 4x100m. Three teams advanced to the final – Great Britain, Sweden and Germany – but Germany was disqualified for an illegal baton exchange, leaving just Great Britain and Sweden on the podium. |
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20:00 |
Women's 400m |
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World record: 47.60 Marita Koch (GDR) Canberra, 1985 |
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FUN FACT: When the women's 400m was introduced to the Olympic programme in 1964, Betty Cuthbert won the gold medal. The Australian sprinter had won the 100m and 200m double eight years prior at the 1956 Games in Melbourne. She remains the only athlete in history to have won Olympic gold medals at all three sprint disciplines. |
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20:10 |
Men's triple jump |
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World record: 18.29m Jonathan Edwards (GBR) Gothenburg, 1995 |
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FUN FACT: Australia's Nick Winter won the 1924 Olympic triple jump title barefoot. Argentina's Luis Brunetto had led from the first round with an Olympic record of 15.425m. Winter had bruised his heel in the earlier rounds and so took off his spikes for the final round. He sailed out to a world record of 15.525m to take the gold. |
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20:15 |
Women's heptathlon |
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World record: 7291 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) Seoul, 1988 |
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FUN FACT: In the heptathlon high jump at the Rio 2016 Games, Nafi Thiam and Katarina Johnson-Thompson both cleared 1.98m - higher than the gold-medal-winning jump in the individual event (1.97m). |
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20:55 |
Women's 10,000m |
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World record: 29:01.03 Letesenbet Gidey (ETH) Hengelo 2021 |
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FUN FACT: At the 2004 Olympics, Ethiopia's Ejegayehu Dibaba was in a prime position for gold. On the final straight, she allowed China's Xing Huina to come past her, mistakenly believing her to be a lapped runner. Xing claimed the gold medal while Dibaba had to settle for silver. |
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21:45 |
Men's 400m hurdles |
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World record: 45.94 Karsten Warholm (NOR) Tokyo, 2021 |
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FUN FACT: Bob Tisdall won the 1932 Olympic title in 51.7, which was not recognised as a world record because he had hit a hurdle, which went against the ratification rules at that time. Because of the notoriety of this incident, the rules were later changed and Tisdall's world record was retroactively recognised. Former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch presented Tisdall with a crystal rose bowl with the image of him knocking over the last hurdle etched into the glass. |
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Day 10 - Saturday 10 August
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08:00 |
Men's marathon |
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World record: 2:00:35 Kelvin Kiptum (KEN) Chicago, 2023 |
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FUN FACT: The 1904 Olympic marathon was one of the most bizarre events in sporting history. Held in 32C heat, the race took place on dusty roads with minimal water stops. Fred Lorz crossed the line in first place, but just before he was about to be given the gold medal, it was revealed he'd hitched a lift in a car for 10 miles of the race. The rightful winner, Thomas Hicks, was hallucinating and near collapse at the end of the race, having been administered brandy, raw eggs and strychnine (rat poison) throughout the race. Cuban postman Andarin Carvajal was a last-minute entrant, having hitched a lift to St Louis after losing all of his money gambling in Louisianna. He took a nap during the race after eating some rotten apples. He woke up from his nap and went on to finish fourth. |
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19:10 |
Men's high jump |
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World record: 2.45m Javier Sotomayor (CUB) Salamanca, 1993 |
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FUN FACT: There have been three occasions when an Olympic high jump medal has been shared between three men. There was a three-way tie for silver at the 1908 Games, a three-way tie for bronze in 1992, and a a trio of silver medallists at the 2012 edition. |
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19:25 |
Men's 800m |
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World record: 1:40.91 David Rudisha (KEN) London, 2012 |
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FUN FACT: It wasn't until 1988 that Kenya, thanks to Paul Ereng, won its first Olympic title in the men's 800m. Since then, the nation has won six of the past nine Olympic gold medals in the men's 800m. |
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19:40 |
Women's javelin |
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World record: 72.28m Barbora Spotakova (CZE) Stuttgart, 2008 |
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FUN FACT: At the 1952 Olympic Games, Dana Zatopkova won gold in the women's javelin just an hour after her husband Emil Zatopek won gold in the men's 5000m. |
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19:45 |
Women's 100m hurdles |
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World record: 12.12 Tobi Amusan (NGR) Eugene, 2022 |
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FUN FACT: The first Olympic title in the women's sprint hurdles, held over 80m, was won by Babe Didrikson of the USA. Didrikson later became a professional golf player, winning 10 LPGA major championships, and she also excelled at basketball, baseball, softball, diving, roller-skating and ten-pin bowling. |
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20:00 |
Men's 5000m |
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World record: 12:35.36 Joshua Cheptegei (UGA) Monaco, 2020 |
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FUN FACT:The 5000m is the closest distance to the 'dolichos' ('long race' in Greek) that was part of the ancient Olympic Games. Back then, the race was more akin to a marathon; it would start and end in a stadium, but the majority of the course would be held on the Olympic grounds. |
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20:25 |
Women's 1500m |
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World record: 3:49.04 Faith Kipyegon (KEN) Paris, 2024 |
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FUN FACT: If Faith Kipyegon successfully defends her 1500m title, she will become the first woman in Olympic history to win three gold medals in a single track event. |
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21:12 |
Men's 4x400m |
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World record: 2:54.29 United States (USA) Stuttgart, 1995 |
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FUN FACT: There were no relay events at the first three Olympic Games (1896, 1900 and 1904). A medley relay was part of the programme for 1908, then the 4x100m and 4x400m were added in 2012 and have been part of the programme ever since. |
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21:22 |
Women's 4x400m |
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World record: 3:15.17 Soviet Union (URS) Seoul, 1988 |
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FUN FACT: USA has won seven consecutive gold medals in this event, from 1996 to 2021. Jamaica has also made it on to the podium in this event at the past six Games. |
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Day 11 - Sunday 11 August
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08:00 |
Women's marathon |
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World record: 2:11:53 Tigist Assefa (ETH) Berlin, 2023 |
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FUN FACT: This is will be the first time that the women's marathon ends the athletics programme at an Olympic Games. Usually the men's event concludes the programme. |
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