Paris 2024 Games delivered three world records

Athletics
Eleven days of glory and tears
Tielman Van Lill
  • 1 Month Ago - 2024-08-12 00:00:00
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games concluded yesterday morning with the women’s marathon, where Namibia’s Helalia Johannes ended 68th in 2 hourd 38 minutes 36 seconds.
Thirteen Olympic records and three world records were broken during the track and field athletics program from 1 to 11 August in and around the Stade de France Stadium.
In the mixed 4x400 metres relay heats, the USA set a new Olympic and world record in 3 minutes 07.41 seconds. However, the Netherlands won the gold medal in the final.
Here is a recap of the athletics medals placings and new Olympic records (marked *):

MEN
* Discus throw: 1 Roje Stona (Jamaica, new Olympic record 70.00m), 2 Mykolas Alekna (Lithuania), 3 Matthew Denny (Australia).
* Pole vault: 1 Armand Duplantis (Sweden, new Olympic and world record 6.25 metre), 2 Sam Kendricks (USA), 3 Emmanouil Karalis (Greece).
* Marathon: 1 Tamirat Tola (Ethiopia, new Olympic record in 2:06:26), 2 Bashir Abdi (Belgium), 3 Benson Kipruto (Kenya).
* 10 000 metres: 1 Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda, new Olympic record in 26 minutes 43.14 seconds), 2 Berihu Aregawi (Ethiopia), 3 Grant Fisher (USA).
* 1500m: 1 Cole Hocker (USA, new Olympic record in 3:27.65 ), 2 Josh Kerr (Britain), 3 Yared Nuguse (USA).
* 4x400m relay: 1 USA (new Olympic record in 2:54.43), Botswana, 3 Britain.
* Javelin throw: 1 Arshad Nadeem (Pakistan, new Olympic record 92.97m), 2 Neeraj Chopra (India), 3 Anderson Peters (Grenada).
400m: 1 Quincy Hall (USA), 2 Matthew Hudson-Smith (Britain), 3 Muzala Samukonga (Zambia).
3000m steeplechase: 1 Soufiane El Bakkali (Morocco), 2 Kenneth Rooks (USA), 3 Abraham Kibiwot (Kenya).
20 km race walk: 1 Gold, Brian Daniel Pintado (Equador), 2 silver, Caio Bonfim (Brazil), bronze Alvaro Martin (Spain).
Shot put: 1 Ryan Crouser (USA), 2 Joe Kovacs (USA), 3 Rajindra Campbell (Jamaica).
Long jump: 1 Miltiadis Tentoglou (Greece), 2 Wayne Pinnock (Jamaica), 3 Mattia Furlani (Italy).
100m: 1 Noah Lyles (USA), 2 Kishane Thompson (Jamaica), 3 Fred Kerley (USA).
Hammer throw: 1 Ethan Katzberg (Canada), 2 Bence Halasz (Hungary), 3 Mykhaylo Kokhan (Ukraine).
200 metres: 1 Letsile Tebogo (Botswana), 2 Kenneth Bednarek (USA), 3 Noah Lyles (USA).
5000m: 1 Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Norway), 2 Ronald Kwemoi (Kenya), 3 Grant Fisher (USA).
800m: 1 Emmanuel Wanyonyi (Kenya), 2 Marco Arop (Canada), 3 Djamel Sedjati (Algeria).
High jump: 1 Hamish Kerr (New Zealand), 2 Shelby McEwen (USA), 3 Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar).
400m hurdles: 1 Rai Benjamin (USA), 2 Karsten Warholm (Sweden), 3 Alison dos Santos (Brazil).
110m hurdles: 1 Grant Holloway (USA), 2 Daniel Roberts (USA), 3 Rasheed Broadbell (Jamaica).
Triple jump: 1 Jordan Alejandro Diaz Fortun (Spain), 2 Pedro Pichardo (Portugal), 3 Andy Diaz Hernandez (Italy).
4x100m relay: 1 Canada, 2 South Africa, 3 Britain.

WOMEN
* 400m: 1 Marileidy Paulino (Dominica, Olympic record in 48.17s), 2 Salwa Eid Naser (Bahrain), 3 Natalia Kaczmarek (Poland).
* 400m hurdles: 1 Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA, Olympic and world record in 50.37 seconds), 2 Anna Cockrell (USA), 3 Femke Bol (Netherlands).
* 3000m steeplechase: 1 Winfred Yavi (Bahrain, Olympic record 8:52.76), 2 Peruth Chemutai (Uganda), 3 Faith Cherotich (Kenya).
* 1500m: Faith Kipyegon (Kenya, Olympic record in 3:51.29), 2 Jessica Hull (Australia), 3 Georgia Bell (Britain).
* Marathon: Sifan Hassan (Netherlands, Olympic record in 2:22:55), 2 Tigst Assefa (Ethiopia), 3 Hellen Obiri (Kenya).
Triple jump: 1 Thea Lafond (Dominica), 2 Shanieka Ricketts (Jamaica), 3 Jasmine Moore (USA).
100m: 1 Julien Alfred (Saint Lucia), 2 Sha'carri Richardson (USA), 3 Melissa Jefferson (USA).
High jump: 1 Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Ukraine), 2 Nicola Olyslagers (Australia), 3 Iryna Gerashchenko (Ukraine) and Eleanor Patterson (Australia).
Discus throw: 1 Valarie Allman (USA), 2 Bin Feng (China), 3 Sandra Elkasevi (Croatia).
5000m: 1 Beatrice Chebet (Kenya), 2 Faith Kipyegon (Kenya), 3 Sifan Hassan (Netherlands).
800m: 1 Keely Hodgkinson (Britain), 2 Tsige Duguma (Ethiopia), 3 Mary Moraa (Kenya).
Hammer throw: 1 Camryn Rogers (USA), 2 Annette Nneka Echikunwoke (USA), 3 Jie Zhao (China).
200m: 1 Gabrielle Thomas (USA), 2 Julien Alfred (Saint Lucia), 3 Brittany Brown (USA).
20km race walk: 1 Yang Jiayu (China), 2 Maria Perez (Spain), 3 Jemima Montag (Australia).
Pole vault: 1 Nina Kennedy (Australia), 2 Katie Moon (USA), 3 Alysha Newman (Canada).
Long jump: 1 Tara Davis-Woodhall (USA), 2 Malaika Mihambo (Germany), 3 Jasmine Moore (USA).
Shot put: 1 Yemisi Ogunleye (Germany), 2 Maddison-Lee Wesche (New Zealand), 3 Jiayuan Song (China).
10 000m: 1 Beatrice Chebet (Kenya), 2 Nadia Battocletti (Italy), 3 Sifan Hassan (Netherlands).
Javelin throw: 1 Haruka Kitaguchi (Japan), 2 Jo-Ané van Dyk (South Africa), 3 Nikola Ogrodnikova (Czechia).
100m hurdles: 1 Masai Russel (USA), 2 Cyrena Samba-Mayela (France), 3 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (Puerto Rico).
4x100m relay: 1 USA, 2 Great Britain, 3 Germany.
4x400m relay: 1 USA, 2 Netherlands, 3 Britain.

MIXED EVENTS
Mixed 4x400m relay: 1 Netherlands, 2 United States, 3 Britain.
Marathon walk mixed relay: 1 Spain, 2 Ecuador, 3 Australia.
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