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Men's Indoor 35lb Weight Throw and Women's Indoor 20lb Weight Throw. Octathlon, combined track and field event featured at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics. Throws pentathlon, a championship combined track and field event at the World Masters Athletics Championships. Fierljeppen, Frisian sport of pole vaulting for distance.
200 metres. Usain Bolt. 19.19 (2009) Florence Griffith Joyner. 21.34 (1988) 400 metres. Wayde van Niekerk. 43.03 (2016) Marita Koch.
In road events, the course must be accurately measured, by a certified measurer. Except in road events (road running and race walking), the performance must be set in a single-sex race, [2] with the sole exception of the mixed-sex 4 × 400 m relay, introduced by World Athletics in 2017. [3] All team members in a relay race must be of the same ...
Athletics records in the Summer Olympic Games have been recorded since 1896. The modern Summer Olympic Games have been held every four years since the first Games in 1896 (except 1916 due to the First World War, 1940 and 1944 due to the Second World War, and 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) and Olympic records are recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in each event.
On 16 October 2023, the IOC approved the addition of five optional sports for the 2028 Summer Olympics: baseball / softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash, while breakdancing was dropped. [ 40] Cricket's only previous Olympic appearance was in 1900, while lacrosse was last on the Olympic program in 1908.
e. The modern Olympic Games ( OG; or Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques, JO) [ a][ 1] are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports ...
The last women's event added to the roster was the 3000 metres steeplechase in 2008. A total of 52 different events have been held in the men's competition. The current list comprises 23 events. Many of the discontinued events were similar to modern ones but at different lengths, especially in the steeplechasing, hurdling, and racewalking ...
World records have become less common as the history of the event has expanded, with no world records set in the 1997, 2001, 2007 or 2013 editions. American athletes have been the most successful with fifteen world records, followed by Jamaica and Great Britain on four each.