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Athletics At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 Metres
The men's 800 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 31 July and 4 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. In total 48 athletes were to start, but only 47 (from 29 nations) actually did. Emmanuel Korir of Kenya won the event, with his countryman Ferguson Rotich taking silver. It was the fourth consecutive victory in the men's 800 metres for Kenya. Patryk Dobek earned bronze, giving Poland its first medal in the event. Summary The 800 metres was far less predictable than other events. World record holder and double Olympic Champion, David Rudisha was not back to defend the title. Silver medalist Taoufik Makhloufi also did not make it to Tokyo, though bronze medalist Clayton Murphy did. 2019 World Champion Donavan Brazier failed to qualify at the US Trials. Brazier had also been number 1 ranked in 2020, with his teammate Bryce Hoppel number two. 2012 silver medalist Nijel Amos had the world leading time while beating Emmanuel Korir in Monaco. World Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan National Stadium
The Japan National Stadium, officially named and formerly known as or , is a multi-purpose stadium used mostly for association football in Kasumigaoka, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The facility served as the main stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as the venue for track and field athletics events at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics in 2021. Demolition of the old National Stadium was completed in May 2015, allowing for the construction of the new stadium to begin on 11 December 2016. The original plans for the new stadium were scrapped in July 2015 by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who announced a rebid after a public outcry prompted by increased building costs. As a result, the new design was not ready for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, as originally intended. A new design created by architect Kengo Kuma was chosen in December 2015 to replace the original design, which was completed on 30 November 2019. History After Tokyo submitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bol (runner)
Nagmeldin "Peter" Bol (born 22 February 1994) is an Australian middle-distance runner who specialises in the 800 metres. He placed fourth at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and won the silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Bol represented Australia in the men's 800 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He is the Oceanian record holder for the event. In January 2023, it was announced that he had been provisionally suspended by Athletics Australia after failed out-of-competition doping test, with the test showing signs of synthetic EPO. On 14 February, it was reported that his suspension had been lifted as his B sample returned an atypical finding (ATF) for EPO, but Sport Integrity Australia would continue investigation. Early life and education Bol was born on 22 February 1994 in Khartoum, Sudan. His mother is Sudanese, and his father from the region that is now South Sudan. His family fled the civil war in Sudan when he was four. In 2016, it was falsely reported that they live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Giles
Elliot Giles (born 26 May 1994) is an English middle-distance runner from Birmingham, specialising in the 800 metres. He is best known for winning the bronze at the 2016 European Championships. Career In August 2014, he had a serious motorcycle accident which prevented him from competing for two years. His breakthrough year was 2016 when he became British champion over the distance, and was selected for the senior GB team for the first time at the European Athletics Championships where he won a surprise bronze medal. His new personal best of 1:45.54, set in the final, qualified him for the 2016 Summer Olympics. In Rio de Janeiro, however, he only managed seventh place in his heat which was not good enough for a place in the semifinals. In February 2021, he set a new British record for the 800 metres indoors, at the World Indoor Tour event in Torun, Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Dustin
Oliver Dustin (born 29 November 2000) is a British middle-distance runner. Dustin is a native of Workington and attends Birmingham University. On 12 June 2021 in Nice, Dustin ran the 800 metres in a time of 1.43.82. With this he broke Seb Coe’s under 23 British record and was the 5th fastest all-time by a British runner. It was also temporarily the world-leading time for the year. On the 27 June, 2021 at the British Championship and Olympic Trials event in Manchester, Dustin finished second in the 800 metres to Elliot Giles, which qualified him for the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 .... References External links * * * * 2000 births Living people British male middle-distance runners Sportspeople from Workington Olympic athlete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Tual
Gabriel Tual (born 9 April 1998) is a French middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres. His personal best time is 1:44.28, which he ran in Tokyo Japan on 1 August 2021, which qualified him to compete in the 800 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where he made it to the finals. Personal bests Outdoor *800 metres – 1:44.23 (Paris 2022) *1500 metres – 3:52.12 (Lormont 2019) Indoor *800 metres – 1:47.54 (Miramas 2021) *1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athle ... – 3:56.23 (Bordeaux 2018) References 1998 births Living people French male middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for France {{France-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Robert
Benjamin Robert (born 4 January 1998) is a French middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres. He won the silver medal at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. Robert took six French national titles (800 m indoors and out). Statistics International competitions 1Disqualified in the final Personal bests * 400 metres – 47.94 (Toulouse 2017) ** 400 metres indoor – 48.53 ( Aubiére 2018) * 800 metres – 1:43.48 (Paris 2023) ** 800 metres indoor – 1:46.06 (Miramas 2021) * 1000 metres – 2:17.11 (Monaco 2022) ** 1000 metres indoor – 2:19.59 (Val-de-Reuil 2022) * 1500 metres – 3:50.97 (Toulouse 2018) ** 1500 metres indoor – 3:44.72 (Miramas 2022) National titles * French Athletics Championships ** 800 metres The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Riseley
Jeffrey "Jeff" Riseley (born 11 November 1986 in Dandenong) is an Australian middle-distance athlete. Riseley competed in the 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. Early years Riseley was seven when he began to participate in athletics. His family encouraged him as it would enable him to meet other children after the family had moved house. Riseley joined the under 8's at Dandenong Little Athletics and competed until he was 12. He lost interest but then returned to athletics in Year 11 in High School. Just before he turned 19, Riseley ran 1:52.7 for the 800m and in 2006 he clocked times of 1:49.0 for 800m and 3:48.91 for 1500m. Within 12 months, he ran times of 1:46.35 (800m) and 3:38.56 (1500m). Riseley's first major competition was the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, competing in the Men's 800 metres and finishing in 40th place with a time of 1:48.33. In the same year he also competed at the Summer Universiade competition. Achievements Riseley competed at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Hunter (runner)
Charlie Hunter (born 20 July 1996) is an Australian middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres. Hunter competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He came fourth in his Men's 800m heat with a time of 1:45:91. He qualified for the semi-final where he finished seventh and therefore was eliminated. Early years Hunter grew up on the NSW Central Coast. From an early age he enjoyed swimming and surfing rather than running. He played football and rugby at school and then joined Little Athletics as an under-9. Hunter graduated from high school in 2014 and concentrated on his running. He won the national U20 1500m during his gap year. In 2017, as a 21-year-old, Hunter applied for a scholarship at the University of Oregon in the USA. As he was now a mature student the process took a long time. Finally after 18 months he got the scholarship and made the NCAA 1500m final in his first season (2019). Collegiate career In 2021, Hunter won the NCAA DI 800m Championships, running ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Athletics
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, race walking, mountain running, and ultra running. Included in its charge are the standardization of rules and regulations for the sports, certification of athletic facilities, recognition and management of world records, and the organisation and sanctioning of athletics competitions, including the World Athletics Championships. The organisation's president is Sebastian Coe of the United Kingdom, who was elected in 2015 and re-elected unopposed in 2019 for a further four years. World Athletics suspended the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) from World Athletics starting in 2015, for eight years, due to doping violations, making it ineligible to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused more than cases and confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely in elderly patients and those with certain underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as ''Match of the Day'', ''Test Match Special'', '' Ski Sunday'', '' Today at Wimbledon'' and previously '' Grandstand''. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the BBC Sport website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service. History The BBC has broadcast sport for several decades under individual programme names and coverage titles. '' Grandstand'' was one of the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, by introducing the programme with a short animation of a globe circumnavigated by four coloured rings. This practice continued throughout th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IAAF
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, race walking, mountain running, and ultra running. Included in its charge are the standardization of rules and regulations for the sports, certification of athletic facilities, recognition and management of world records, and the organisation and sanctioning of athletics competitions, including the World Athletics Championships. The organisation's president is Sebastian Coe of the United Kingdom, who was elected in 2015 and re-elected unopposed in 2019 for a further four years. World Athletics suspended the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) from World Athletics starting in 2015, for eight years, due to doping violations, making it ineligible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
