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2024 In Athletics (track And Field)
2024 in athletics is a year of track and field, highlighted by the main event of 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. World records Indoor Summer Olympics * August 1–11: 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris World Championships * March 1–3: 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow **60 metres: Christian Coleman (m) / Julien Alfred (f) **400 metres: Alexander Doom (m) / Femke Bol (f) **800 metres: Bryce Hoppel (m) / Tsige Duguma (f) **1500 metres: Geordie Beamish (m) / Freweyni Hailu (f) **3000 metres: Josh Kerr (m) / Elle St. Pierre (f) **60 metres hurdles: Grant Holloway (m) / Devynne Charlton (f) **4 × 400 metres relay: (m) / (f) **High jump: Hamish Kerr (m) / Nicola Olyslagers (f) **Pole vault: Armand Duplantis (m) / Molly Caudery (f) **Long jump: Miltiadis Tentoglou (m) / Tara Davis-Woodhall (f) **Triple jump: Hugues Fabrice Zango (m) / Thea Lafond (f) **Shot put: Ryan Crouser (m) / Sarah Mitton (f) **Heptathlon: Simon Ehammer (m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Track And Field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events. Track and field is categorized under the umbrella sport of athletics, which also includes road running, cross country running and racewalking. The foot racing events, which include sprints, middle- and long-distance events, racewalking, and hurdling, are won by the athlete who completes it in the least time. The jumping and throwing events are won by those who achieve the greatest distance or height. Regular jumping events include long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole vault, while the most common throwing events are shot put, javelin, discus, and hammer. There are also "combined events" or "multi events", such as the pentathlon consisting of five events, heptathlon consisting of seven events, and decathlon consisting of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 60 Metres Hurdles
The women's 60 metres hurdles at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships took place on 3 March 2024. Results Heats Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advance to the Semi-Finals The heats were started at 10:25. Semifinals First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final. Final The final was started on 3 March at 21:01. References {{DEFAULTSORT:2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships - Women's 60 metres hurdles 60 metres hurdles 60 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor hurdle race. The current women's and men's world records are 7.68 seconds ( Susanna K ... 60 metres hurdles at the World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024 in women's athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamish Kerr
Hamish Kerr (born 17 August 1996) is a New Zealand high jumper. He won the gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. Kerr is the Oceanian indoor record holder in the high jump and holds the New Zealand outdoor record. Career In June 2019, Kerr equalled the national record with a jump of 2.30 m, winning the gold medal at the Oceania Athletics Championships in Townsville. He went on to compete at the Universiade in Naples, Italy in July and then the World Athletics Championships in October in Doha, Qatar. In February 2021, he improved the national record with 2.31 m at the Newtown Park Stadium, Wellington. Later the same year at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he finished 10th in the men's high jump final with a clearance of 2.30 m. Kerr competed at the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia in March, where he surpassed the 39-year-old New Zealand indoor record of Roger Te Puni (of 2.16 m) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Holloway
Stanley Grant Holloway (born November 19, 1997) is an American hurdler and sprinter. He is the 2019 and 2022 world champion in the 110 meters hurdles, 2020 Olympic silver medalist in the same event, and current world record holder in the indoor 60 m hurdles, with a time of 7.29 seconds which he set on February 24, 2021. He is also the second fastest man in the 110 meters hurdles in history with a personal best of 12.81 seconds, set at the U.S. Olympic Trials on June 26, 2021. Despite being a hurdler, Holloway showed incredible versatility whilst competing for the University of Florida, by also doing the long jump, flat races and relays. His incredible range was a driving force in Florida's team performances at the NCAA Championships. In the 6 NCAA Championships Holloway competed in between 2017 and 2018, Florida won 3 and finished 2nd in the other 3. Early life Stanley Grant Holloway was born November 19, 1997 in Chesapeake, Virginia to mother Latasha and father Stan. Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elle St
''Elle'' (stylized ''ELLE'') is a worldwide women's magazine of French origin that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, together with culture, society and lifestyle. The title means "she" or "her" in French. ''Elle'' is considered the world's largest fashion magazine, with 45 editions around the world and 46 local websites. It now counts 21 million readers and 100 million unique visitors per month, with an audience of mostly women. It was founded in Paris in 1945 by Hélène Gordon-Lazareff and her husband, the writer Pierre Lazareff. The magazine's readership has continuously grown since its founding, increasing to 800,000 across France by the 1960s. ''Elle'' editions have since multiplied, creating a global network of publications and readers. ''Elles Japanese publication was launched in 1969, beginning an international expansion. Its first issues in English (US and UK) were launched in 1985. Previous editors of the magazine include Jean-Dominique Bauby, well known for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Kerr (runner)
Josh Kerr (born 8 October 1997) is a Scottish middle-distance runner who competes primarily in the 1500 metres. He is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist in the event. At the World Athletics Championships, Kerr placed sixth in 2019 and fifth in 2022. He won the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships, and represented Great Britain at the 2017 World Championships but did not reach the semifinals. Career During the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Kerr claimed the bronze medal in his specialist event after posting a personal best time of 3m 29.05s, narrowly missing out on silver. On 27 February 2022, he set an unofficial European mile indoor record (the third fastest mark of all time in the world at the time), and 1500 m & mile British and Scottish indoor records to claim victory at the Boston University Last Chance Meet. With his time of 3:48.87 and 1500 m split of 3:32.86 en route, he broke Eamonn Coghlan's European mile record dating back t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freweyni Hailu
Freweyni Hailu (born 12 February 2001) is an Ethiopian middle-distance runner. She won the gold medal at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships over 1500 metres. She placed fourth in the 1500 metres at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2022, Hailu became the World Indoor silver medallist at the 800 metres in Belgrade. Career Freweyni Hailu gained her first international experience in 2018 at the World Junior Championships in Tampere, Finland, where she placed fifth in the women's 800m event. The next year, she was fourth in the under-20 800m race at the African U18–U20 Championships in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Hailu competed in the women's 800 metres at the 2019 African Games, where she was eliminated in the semi-finals. In June 2021, at the Ethiopian Olympic trials, she ran a personal best in the women's 1500 metres to make the Olympic standard qualifying time for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She, Lemlem Hailu, and Diribe Welteji were named to the Ethiopian team. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geordie Beamish
George "Geordie" Beamish (born 24 October 1996) is a New Zealand long-distance runner. He won the 3000m at the 2022 Millrose Games in a time of 7:39.50, also setting a national record. He also holds the New Zealand indoor 5000m record, in a time of 13:12.53 which he ran on 4 December 2021. College career In 2016 George Beamish debuted for Northern Arizona University ending his cross-country season with a ninth-place at Big Sky Championships, finished 97th at NCAA Nationals. Competing in four indoor meets, setting a personal best in the mile in 4:07.59 at the Iowa State classic. He competed in five outdoor events, opening the outdoor season with PR in the 5K (13:53.59), competing in Big Sky Championships (5000m) and NCAA West Prelims (1500m) setting career-best in the 1500m event at Bryan Clay (3:41.87). In 2017 he competed in cross country, earning All American honors in the national meet. Competing in three indoor events, setting career-best time in the 3000-meter event a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsige Duguma
Tsige Duguma Gemechu (born 23 February 2001) is an Ethiopian track and field athlete who won gold at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships over 800 metres. She is also an Ethiopian national champion over 400 metres. Career She was a silver medalist over 200 metres at the 2017 African U20 Championships in Athletics in Algeria. In March 2022, she won the Ethiopian national indoor championships over 400 metres in Hawassa. In July 2023, she set a new personal best over 800 metres, breaking the 2-minute barrier for the first time as she record 1:59.40 in Belgium. In February 2024, she completed a front-running victory over 800 metres in Belgrade in a time of 1:59.66. She won gold at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow in the women's 800 metres. She had previously won her qualifying heat in a time of 2:00.50, and won her semi-final in a personal best time 1:58.35. She became Ethiopia’s first women’s world indoor champion in the discipline. In Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryce Hoppel
Bryce Hoppel (born September 5, 1997) is an American middle-distance runner, who is a member of the 2020 U.S. Olympic track team for the 800 meters. He holds the American indoor record in the 1000 meters. Hoppel attended the University of Kansas. Hoppel had a breakout junior year at Kansas, where he won 21 consecutive races between the indoor and outdoor season, including two NCAA Individual Championships in the 800 meters. Hoppel's 21 race streak came to an end when Hoppel finished 3rd at the 2019 USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships, qualifying for the 2019 World Championships in Athletics. Running career High school Hoppel competed for Midland High School in Midland, Texas. At Midland High School, Hoppel won the 2016 Texas 6A State Track & Field Championship with a time of 1:49.67, included an undefeated season in the 800 meters. Hoppel broke school records in the 800 meters (1:49.67), 1,600 meters (4:10.51) and 3 miles (14:54.00) while at Midland, while graduating in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Femke Bol
Femke Bol (; born 23 February 2000) is a Dutch track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles and 400 metres. In the 400 metres hurdles, Bol's personal best is 51.45 seconds, which is a European record and makes her the second-fastest women of all-time in the event. In the 400 metres, her personal bests are 49.26 seconds indoor, which is a world record, and 49.44 seconds outdoor, which is a Dutch record. In the 4 × 400 metres relay, Bol's personal best is 48.52 seconds for the anchor leg and she shares the Dutch records for women's outdoor, women's indoor, and mixed outdoor. She also has world best performances in the 300 metres hurdles and 500 metres indoor and she holds the Dutch record in the 200 metres indoor. She was the bronze medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and she is a four-time silver medalist at the world championships (outdoor and indoor combined), a seven-time gold medalist at the European championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Doom
Alexander Doom (born 25 April 1997) is a Belgian sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He represented his country at the 2021 European Indoor Championships finishing fourth in the 4 × 400 metres relay. International competitions 1Disqualified in the semifinals 2Did not finish in the final Personal bests Outdoor *200 metres – 21.10 (+0.6 m/s, Sint-Niklaas 2022) *400 metres – 45.34 (Brussels 2021) Indoor *200 metres – 22.10 (Ghent 2017) *400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics (sport), athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor runn ... – 46.86 (Ghent 2022) References External links * * * 1997 births Living people Belgian male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Belgium European Athletics Championships medalists {{Belgium-athletics-bio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
