Full list of winners and latest medal table. He has side-stepped the European circuit in recent years and has only twice represented Great Britain at senior level. The postponement of the Games was manna from heaven for some athletes.
Katerina Johnson-Thompson is not one of their number. Her perfect two days to become world champion in Doha must have been a distant memory when the year-old ruptured her Achilles in December. KJT is made of steel and the resilience generated by injury and performance setbacks at the Olympics and World Championships will serve her well.
There would be few Team GB medals more richly deserved than if Bradshaw got on the pole vault podium on 5 August. The Lancastrian soared over the bar at 4. This event had one of the wildest endings at the world championships, when Olympic silver medalist Joe Kovacs threw In , Crouser took things up a notch when he broke the world indoor shot put record in January and then took down the outdoor world record of Crouser has recorded more than throws farther than 22 meters in his career.
In a strange development at the Jamaican Olympic Trials, reigning meter hurdles Olympic champion Omar McLeod dealt with cramps and finished last in the final. He pleaded for a medical exemption in a Hail Mary effort to get named to the national team for Tokyo but was left off despite being the second-fastest man in the world since the Rio Olympics.
McLeod could have been the biggest challenger for U. Holloway is the only man to go under 13 seconds on the year. What's left to accomplish in the sport when you have two Olympic gold medals and the world record? At just 29 years old, he announced his retirement in January and the sport sought its next decathlon star.
A year after that, he took the world record by posting a score of 9, points. Mayer had to pull out of the world championships during the pole vault due to an injury. He has recovered and a win in Japan could take him to the Olympics in Paris as the reigning Olympic champion.
Norman won at the U. Olympic Trials in Van Niekerk benefited from the pandemic postponement as he continues to try to find his old form since tearing his ACL and meniscus during a celebrity rugby match in He has not broken 44 seconds since She took gold a year later at the world championships before settling for bronze in Russian Anzhelika Sidorova won gold at the world championships and has the second-highest vault of with a 4.
Sandi Morris, the Olympic silver medalist and and '19 world championship silver medalist, looks to become just the second U. Johnson-Thompson suffered a ruptured Achilles injury in that has kept her from competing in a heptathlon but she told Reuters that she has made a full recovery. Annie Kunz won at the U. Kosgei has also won the last two London Marathon but how she fares in a championship-style race without pacemakers is the biggest question around her.
Her compatriot Ruth Chepngetich has proven herself on that stage with a win at the world championships under brutally hot conditions. She owns a personal best of No. Tuliamuk is racing in her first marathon since giving birth to her daughter in January.
This is another event where the gold medal will be handed to a new champion since Mo Farah took this race at the last two Games. The American contingent all hold personal bests faster than but this could be one of the fastest 5, meter races in history with such a talented field, which includes world record holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda All-time great Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia won the Olympic title in Jamaica has won the last three Olympic gold medals in the 4x meters with Usain Bolt on each team.
However, the gold medal-winning squad had to forfeit their win after lead-off leg Nesta Carter tested positive for a banned substance upon a re-testing of drug samples from those Games. This race is wide open but Team USA will be fielding a much different squad from its group that won gold at the world championships so the question marks persist.
At 25 years old, she has yet to medal at any global championship. A Polish woman has not medaled in this event since the Summer Games.
Many broadcasts will fixate on Allyson Felix competing in her fifth Olympics and seeking her 10th Olympic medal to tie Carl Lewis for the most all-time by a U. She has a shot at the medals because many of the fastest women in this event have opted not to contest it in Tokyo.
Salwa Eid Naser, the world champ, cannot compete since after missing three drug tests within a month span. Reigning champion Faith Kipyegon of Kenya can become the first woman to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the 1, meters since Tatyana Kazankina won in and '80 for the Soviet Union.
She set a Kenyan national record of Bartoletta and Felix returned four years later to join English Gardner and Tori Bowie to the second-fastest performance in history en route to gold in Last October, he suffered his first marathon loss in seven years but he returned to his winning ways with a marathon held at an airport in The Netherlands in April.
Kipchoge can become just the third man to win back-to-back gold medals at the Summer Games. It has also been that long since the host nation boasted a medal in the Olympics.
Yuma Hattori , Shogo Nakamura , Suguro Osako comprise the strongest contingent Japan could assemble. It looked like the reigning world champion would miss the Olympics but he replaced Kamar Etyang the Kenyan trials runner-up on the team because the year-old had not met the minimum requirement of out-of-competition drug tests for Olympic selection.
Officially on the team, Cheruiyot is the favorite after winning the Monaco Diamond League in a personal best of Matthew Centrowitz , whose gold medal run in ended a year drought for Team USA, returns and recently ran a The United States has won seven of the last eight world championship gold medals in this event and will also look to defend its Olympic gold from Rio. She asserted her dominance again in with another world championship gold but has struggled with injuries and has been absent from competition since Now, her world record is also absent from the top of the all-time list as Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands ran a Tokyo will be just their second clash at 10, meters.
At the world championships, Hassan took the win in Originally, the Stadium was to be rebuilt to the specifications of a design by the late architect Zaha Hadid. That plan was scrapped due to cost concerns. The ultimate design is one by a Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma, at about half the price. The decision on a host city for the Summer Olympics was determined back in in Argentina.
The three final contenders during the bid process were Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo; Tokyo ended up ahead with 60 votes to 36 once the field had been narrowed down to Istanbul or Tokyo. Hosting the Olympics is a complex proposition for any city: while it offers potential economic upsides, thanks to increased construction, investment and tourism, many cities also struggle to make later use of the expansive facilities and housing that the Games require. In , Tokyo was the first Asian city to host the games.
They had initially been scheduled as host for , but the geopolitics of the era necessitated a shift. The games were ultimately cancelled entirely. The Summer Olympics will award medals across events, representing 33 different sports. Nothing has been dropped since , which also saw the return of golf and rugby.
Simone Biles. Katie Ledecky. Sydney McLaughlin. Serena Williams. Other sports, like many of the team events and the marathon, choose their qualified athletes based on performance in international competitions over the course of and early As for individual athletes set to take the Olympic stage?
But Simone Manuel, who made waves with her gold-medal tie in , is a possible Olympian, and Nathan Adrian, who is currently battling testicular cancer, might be back for round three. On the track and field side, recognizable names like Justin Gatlin may be in contention for a spot in the competition; the former m-medalist from is posting top times lately. Sydney McLaughlin was the U. And sprinter Noah Lyles has been considered an heir to the Usain Bolt throne.
Caster Semenya , meanwhile, has been a dominant force in the field — but it remains to be seen whether the m champion will be allowed to compete. Basketball, always a Team U.
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