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The world's top Athletics athletes will gather at the Paris 2024 Olympics (Jul 26-Aug 11, 2024). Get the latest Olympic Athletics updates here.
- Tokyo 2020 Athletics - Olympic Results by Discipline
Official Athletics results from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics....
- Olympics Athletics Schedule | Paris 2024
Official Paris 2024 Olympics schedule for Athletics. View...
- Tokyo 2020 Athletics - Olympic Results by Discipline
Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient Greek Olympics. The modern program includes track and field events, road running events, and race walking events.
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]
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Track and field events will be staged at the Stade de France, with the race walks contested at Pont d'Iena. The marathon races begin at the Hôtel de Ville (city hall) and will end in Les Invalides, witnessing the runners traverse many of the city's most iconic sites and Olympic venues throughout the route. This traditional marathon course also sets...
Road events (marathons and racewalks) will hold the races in the morning session of the athletics program schedule, with all track, field, and combined events staging their finals in the evening session for the first time since London 2012. In its four-decade-long Olympic history, the women's marathon will occur on the last day of the athletics pro...
Athletics – individual events
At the end of the 2022 season, World Athletics established a qualification system for athletics competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Similar to the previous edition, the qualification system is set on a dual pathway, where the initial half of the total quota (about fifty percent) will likely be distributed to the athletes through entry standards approved by the World Athletics council, with the remainder relying on the world ranking list within the qualifying period.Each country can enter...
Athletics – relay teams
Each relay event features sixteen teams from their respective NOCs, composed of the following: 1. 14: top fourteen teams based on their results achieved at the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas 2. 2: top two teams outside the key qualifier according to the World Athletics performance list for relays within the qualification period (31 December 2022 to 30 June 2024)
Athletics – Marathon race walking mixed teams
The Marathon Race Walking Mixed Relay event, covering a distance of marathon(42.195 km), features twenty-five pairs from their respective NOCs, composed of the following: 1. 22: top twenty-two teams based on their results achieved at the 2024 World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships 2. 3: top three teams outside the key qualifier through the World Athletics Race Walk rankings based on the aggregate scores of both a male and a female athlete within the qualification period (31 December...
Medal table
* Host nation (France)
Men's events
* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.
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