Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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] The sport of athletics at these Games was split into three distinct sets of events: track and field events, remaining in Tokyo, and road running events and racewalking events, moved to Sapporo. A total of 48 events were held, one more than in 2016, with the addition of a mixed relay event.[2]

Athletics
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
(track and field events)
Odori Park (Sapporo)
(marathon and race walk)
Dates30 July – 8 August 2021
No. of events48
← 2016
2024 →

Olympic stadium and venues

Olympic Stadium

Road events (marathons and racewalks) took place at Odori Park in Sapporo, but the National Stadium, which was known as the Olympic Stadium during the games, completely rebuilt and inaugurated on 21 December 2019, was the venue of all the track and field events.[3][4]

Italian company Mondo equipped the stadium with a new track, a Mondotrack WS surface which was given a seal of approval with a World Athletics "Class 1 certificate" in December 2019. The Mondotrack WS surface in Tokyo's National Stadium is an better and updated version of the track that was provided and installed for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil.[5]

Due to the risk of a heat wave during the period of the Games, the IOC, Organizing Committee and IAAF decided in October 2019 that the Race Walking and Marathon events would be moved toSapporo, which hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics.The north island lies 800 km from Tokyo. The chosen route started and arrived at theOdori Park is the traditional venue of Hokkaido Marathon until 2012. This decision, taken before COVID-19 pandemic, was made due to fears about high Its route features a large loop which is about the length of a half-marathon (21,095 km), followed by a second smaller loop (10,540 km) which was completed twice.[6]

Schedule

Apart from the race walks and marathon, nine track and field events will hold finals in the morning session to ensure that they receive maximum visibility for the sport across all time zones.[7][8] On 16 October 2019, the IOC announced that there were plans to re-locate the marathon and racewalking events to Sapporo due to heat concerns.[9] The plans were made official on 1 November 2019 after Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike accepted the IOC's decision, despite her belief that the events should have remained in Tokyo.[10]

Legend
PPreliminary roundQQualificationHHeats½SemifinalsFFinal
Ref[8][11]
Men's
DateJul 30Jul 31Aug 1Aug 2Aug 3Aug 4Aug 5Aug 6Aug 7Aug 8
EventMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEME
100 mPH½F
200 mH½F
400 mH½F
800 mH½F
1500 mH½F
5000 mHF
10,000 mF
110 m hurdlesH½F
400 m hurdlesH½F
3000 m steeplechaseHF
4 × 100 m relayHF
4 × 400 m relayHF
MarathonF
20 km walkF
50 km walkF
Long jumpQF
Triple jumpQF
High jumpQF
Pole vaultQF
Shot putQF
Discus throwQF
Javelin throwQF
Hammer throwQF
DecathlonF
Women's
DateJul 30Jul 31Aug 1Aug 2Aug 3Aug 4Aug 5Aug 6Aug 7Aug 8
EventMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEME
100 mH½F
200 mH½F
400 mH½F
800 mH½F
1500 mH½F
5000 mHF
10,000 mF
100 m hurdlesH½F
400 m hurdlesH½F
3000 m steeplechaseHF
4 × 100 m relayHF
4 × 400 m relayHF
MarathonF
20 km walkF
Long jumpQF
Triple jumpQF
High jumpQF
Pole vaultQF
Shot putQF
Discus throwQF
Javelin throwQF
Hammer throwQF
HeptathlonF
Mixed
DateJul 30Jul 31
EventMEME
4 × 400 m relayHF

Qualification

The 2020 athletics qualifying system for individual events was fundamentally different from previous versions. Instead of being only based on set qualifying standards, the new qualifying system is also based on IAAF World Rankings. Qualifying standards provided an alternate pathway, but are to be set high enough that only exceptional performances will meet them. Maximum entries per event were set (unlike previous years where entries were based on how many athletes met the qualifying standard), with the world rankings being used to fill the quota after the standards-based entrants and universality entrants are set.[12][13][14]

On 2 June 2021, Sebastian Coe, president of World Athletics, declared that "our tracking suggests that about 70 percent of athletes in most events will qualify by entry standard. This is above the 50 percent rate we aimed for in devising the system, but we believe this is due to the extended qualifying period created after the postponement of the Olympic Games from 2020 to 2021."[15]

For relays, the qualification is somewhat similar to previous years. Eight teams will be selected through the results at the 2019 World Championships in Athletics, then adding the finalists of 2021 World Athletics Relays if different ones and some more selected through top lists' rankings, up to 16 teams by event.[12][13]

Record figures

3 world records and 12 Olympic records were set. 28 continental (area) records were set along with 151 national ones.

According to the international governing body for the sport of athletics, World Athletics, their performance ranking system concludes that the 2020 Olympic Games were the "highest quality major event in history".[16]

Medal summary

Sydney McLaughlin set a world record in women's 400 m hurdles.
Yulimar Rojas (left) and Karsten Warholm (right) set world records in the women's triple jump and men's 400 m hurdles respectively.

Medal table

Key

  *   Host nation (Japan)

RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  United States712726
2  Italy5005
3  Kenya44210
4  Poland4239
5  Jamaica4149
6  Netherlands2338
7  Canada2226
 China2226
9  Uganda2114
10  Norway2103
 Sweden2103
12  Bahamas2002
13  Germany1203
14  Ethiopia1124
15  Portugal1102
 ROC1102
17  Belgium1012
18  Greece1001
 India1001
 Morocco1001
 Puerto Rico1001
 Qatar1001
 Venezuela1001
24  Great Britain0235
25  Colombia0202
 Dominican Republic0202
27  Australia0123
 Cuba0123
29  Czech Republic0112
 Japan*0112
31  Bahrain0101
 France0101
 Namibia0101
34  Brazil0022
 New Zealand0022
36  Austria0011
 Belarus0011
 Botswana0011
 Burkina Faso0011
 Grenada0011
 Nigeria0011
 Spain0011
 Ukraine0011
Totals (43 entries)494748144

Men

EventGoldSilverBronze
100 metres
details
Marcell Jacobs
 Italy
9.80 ARFred Kerley
 United States
9.84 PBAndre De Grasse
 Canada
9.89 PB
200 metres
details
Andre De Grasse
 Canada
19.62 NRKenny Bednarek
 United States
19.68 PBNoah Lyles
 United States
19.74 =SB
400 metres
details
Steven Gardiner
 Bahamas
43.85 SBAnthony Zambrano
 Colombia
44.08Kirani James
 Grenada
44.19
800 metres
details
Emmanuel Korir
 Kenya
1:45.06Ferguson Rotich
 Kenya
1:45.23Patryk Dobek
 Poland
1:45.39
1500 metres
details
Jakob Ingebrigtsen
 Norway
3:28.32 OR, ARTimothy Cheruiyot
 Kenya
3:29.01Josh Kerr
 Great Britain
3:29.05 PB
5000 metres
details
Joshua Cheptegei
 Uganda
12:58.15Mohammed Ahmed
 Canada
12:58.61Paul Chelimo
 United States
12:59.05 SB
10,000 metres
details
Selemon Barega
 Ethiopia
27:43.22Joshua Cheptegei
 Uganda
27:43.63Jacob Kiplimo
 Uganda
27:43.88
110 metres hurdles
details
Hansle Parchment
 Jamaica
13.04 SBGrant Holloway
 United States
13.09Ronald Levy
 Jamaica
13.10
400 metres hurdles
details
Karsten Warholm
 Norway
45.94 WRRai Benjamin
 United States
46.17 ARAlison dos Santos
 Brazil
46.72 AR
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Soufiane El Bakkali
 Morocco
8:08.90Lamecha Girma
 Ethiopia
8:10.38Benjamin Kigen
 Kenya
8:11.45
4 × 100 metres relay
details [a]
 Italy
Lorenzo Patta
Marcell Jacobs
Fausto Desalu
Filippo Tortu
37.50 NR  Canada

Aaron Brown
Jerome Blake
Brendon Rodney
Andre De Grasse

37.70
SB
 China
Tang Xingqiang
Xie Zhenye
Su Bingtian
Wu Zhiqiang
37.79 NR
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 United States
Michael Cherry
Michael Norman
Bryce Deadmon
Rai Benjamin
Vernon Norwood*
Randolph Ross*
Trevor Stewart*
2:55.70 SB  Netherlands
Liemarvin Bonevacia
Terrence Agard
Tony van Diepen
Ramsey Angela
Jochem Dobber*
2:57.18 NR  Botswana
Isaac Makwala
Baboloki Thebe
Zibane Ngozi
Bayapo Ndori
2:57.27 AR
Marathon
details
Eliud Kipchoge
 Kenya
2:08:38Abdi Nageeye
 Netherlands
2:09:58Bashir Abdi
 Belgium
2:10:00
20 kilometres walk
details
Massimo Stano
 Italy
1:21:05Koki Ikeda
 Japan
1:21:14Toshikazu Yamanishi
 Japan
1:21:28
50 kilometres walk
details
Dawid Tomala
 Poland
3:50:08Jonathan Hilbert
 Germany
3:50:44Evan Dunfee
 Canada
3:50:59 SB
High jump
details
Gianmarco Tamberi
 Italy
2.37 m SBNot awardedMaksim Nedasekau
 Belarus
2.37 m =NR[17]
Mutaz Essa Barshim
 Qatar
Pole vault
details
Armand Duplantis
 Sweden
6.02 mChris Nilsen
 United States
5.97 m PBThiago Braz
 Brazil
5.87 m SB
Long jump
details
Miltiadis Tentoglou
 Greece
8.41 mJuan Miguel Echevarría
 Cuba
8.41 mMaykel Massó
 Cuba
8.21 m
Triple jump
details
Pedro Pichardo
 Portugal
17.98 m NRZhu Yaming
 China
17.57 m PBHugues Fabrice Zango
 Burkina Faso
17.47 m
Shot put
details
Ryan Crouser
 United States
23.30 m ORJoe Kovacs
 United States
22.65 mTom Walsh
 New Zealand
22.47 m SB
Discus throw
details
Daniel Ståhl
 Sweden
68.90 mSimon Pettersson
 Sweden
67.39 mLukas Weißhaidinger
 Austria
67.07 m
Hammer throw
details
Wojciech Nowicki
 Poland
82.52 m PBEivind Henriksen
 Norway
81.58 m NRPaweł Fajdek
 Poland
81.53 m
Javelin throw
details
Neeraj Chopra
 India
87.58 mJakub Vadlejch
 Czech Republic
86.67 m SBVítězslav Veselý
 Czech Republic
85.44 m SB
Decathlon
details
Damian Warner
 Canada
9018 pts OR NRKevin Mayer
 France
8726 pts SBAshley Moloney
 Australia
8649 pts AR

* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

  • Men's 4 × 100 On 18 February 2022 team of Great Britain was disqualified for doping use and officially stripped of the silver medal.[18] The medals were reallocated on 19 May 2022.[19]

Women

EventGoldSilverBronze
100 metres
details
Elaine Thompson-Herah
 Jamaica
10.61 ORShelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
 Jamaica
10.74Shericka Jackson
 Jamaica
10.76 PB
200 metres
details
Elaine Thompson-Herah
 Jamaica
21.53 NRChristine Mboma
 Namibia
21.81 WJRGabrielle Thomas
 United States
21.87
400 metres
details
Shaunae Miller-Uibo
 Bahamas
48.36 ARMarileidy Paulino
 Dominican Republic
49.20 NRAllyson Felix
 United States
49.46 SB MWR
800 metres
details
Athing Mu
 United States
1:55.21 NRKeely Hodgkinson
 Great Britain
1:55.88 NRRaevyn Rogers
 United States
1:56.81 PB
1500 metres
details
Faith Kipyegon
 Kenya
3:53.11 ORLaura Muir
 Great Britain
3:54.50 NRSifan Hassan
 Netherlands
3:55.86
5000 metres
details
Sifan Hassan
 Netherlands
14:36.79Hellen Obiri
 Kenya
14:38.36Gudaf Tsegay
 Ethiopia
14:38.87
10,000 metres
details
Sifan Hassan
 Netherlands
29:55.32Kalkidan Gezahegne
 Bahrain
29:56.18Letesenbet Gidey
 Ethiopia
30:01.72
100 metres hurdles
details
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn
 Puerto Rico
12.37Kendra Harrison
 United States
12.52Megan Tapper
 Jamaica
12.55
400 metres hurdles
details
Sydney McLaughlin
 United States
51.46 WRDalilah Muhammad
 United States
51.58 PBFemke Bol
 Netherlands
52.03 AR
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Peruth Chemutai
 Uganda
9:01.45 NRCourtney Frerichs
 United States
9:04.79 SBHyvin Jepkemoi
 Kenya
9:05.39
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 Jamaica
Briana Williams
Elaine Thompson-Herah
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Shericka Jackson
Natasha Morrison*
Remona Burchell*
41.02 NR  United States
Javianne Oliver
Teahna Daniels
Jenna Prandini
Gabrielle Thomas
English Gardner*
Aleia Hobbs*
41.45 SB  Great Britain
Asha Philip
Imani Lansiquot
Dina Asher-Smith
Daryll Neita
41.88
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 United States
Sydney McLaughlin
Allyson Felix
Dalilah Muhammad
Athing Mu
Kendall Ellis*
Lynna Irby*
Wadeline Jonathas*
Kaylin Whitney*
3:16.85 SB  Poland
Natalia Kaczmarek
Iga Baumgart-Witan
Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik
Justyna Święty-Ersetic
Anna Kiełbasińska*
3:20.53 NR  Jamaica
Roneisha McGregor
Janieve Russell
Shericka Jackson
Candice McLeod
Junelle Bromfield*
Stacey-Ann Williams*
3:21.24 SB
Marathon
details
Peres Jepchirchir
 Kenya
2:27:20 SBBrigid Kosgei
 Kenya
2:27:36 SBMolly Seidel
 United States
2:27:46 SB
20 kilometres walk
details
Antonella Palmisano
 Italy
1:29:12Sandra Arenas
 Colombia
1:29:37Liu Hong
 China
1:29:57
High jump
details
Mariya Lasitskene
 ROC
2.04 m SBNicola McDermott
 Australia
2.02 m ARYaroslava Mahuchikh
 Ukraine
2.00 m
Pole vault
details
Katie Nageotte
 United States
4.90 mAnzhelika Sidorova
 ROC
4.85 mHolly Bradshaw
 Great Britain
4.85 m
Long jump
details
Malaika Mihambo
 Germany
7.00 m SBBrittney Reese
 United States
6.97 mEse Brume
 Nigeria
6.97 m
Triple jump
details
Yulimar Rojas
 Venezuela
15.67 m WRPatrícia Mamona
 Portugal
15.01 m NRAna Peleteiro
 Spain
14.87 m NR
Shot put
details
Gong Lijiao
 China
20.58 m PBRaven Saunders
 United States
19.79 mValerie Adams
 New Zealand
19.62 m
Discus throw
details
Valarie Allman
 United States
68.98 mKristin Pudenz
 Germany
66.86 m PBYaime Pérez
 Cuba
65.72 m
Hammer throw
details
Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland
78.48 m SB MWRWang Zheng
 China
77.03 SBMalwina Kopron
 Poland
75.49 m SB
Javelin throw
details
Liu Shiying
 China
66.34 m SBMaria Andrejczyk
 Poland
64.61 mKelsey-Lee Barber
 Australia
64.56 m SB
Heptathlon
details
Nafissatou Thiam
 Belgium
6791 pts SBAnouk Vetter
 Netherlands
6689 pts NREmma Oosterwegel
 Netherlands
6590 pts PB

* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Mixed

EventGoldSilverBronze
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 Poland
Kajetan Duszyński
Natalia Kaczmarek
Justyna Święty-Ersetic
Karol Zalewski
Dariusz Kowaluk*
Iga Baumgart-Witan*
Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik*
3:09.87 OR, AR  Dominican Republic
Lidio Andrés Feliz
Anabel Medina
Alexander Ogando
Marileidy Paulino
Luguelín Santos*
3:10.21 NR  United States
Kendall Ellis
Vernon Norwood
Trevor Stewart
Kaylin Whitney
Elija Godwin*
Lynna Irby*
Taylor Manson*
Bryce Deadmon*
3:10.22

* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.


Competitors

Placing table

The Placing table assigns points to the top eight athletes in the final, with eight points to first place, seven to second place, and so on until one point for eighth place. Teams or athletes that did not finish or were disqualified do not receive points.[20]

RankTeam 45678Pts
1  United States (USA)712765573264
2  Jamaica (JAM)41442233106
3  Kenya (KEN)44250120104
4  Poland (POL)4230111174
5  Canada (CAN)2221331170
6  China (CHN)2220323369
7  Netherlands (NED)2331110168
8  Ethiopia (ETH)1125120264
9  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)0231133258
10  Australia (AUS)0122232252
11  Germany (GER)1201321350
12  Italy (ITA)5000102250
13  Spain (ESP)0014320145
14  Uganda (UGA)2110101035
15  Ukraine (UKR)0012310131
16  Belgium (BEL)1012101030
17  Portugal (POR)1101200028
18  Japan (JPN)0110032228
18  Sweden (SWE)2100002027
19  France (FRA)0101202226
21  Cuba (CUB)0120100224
22  Norway (NOR)2100000023
23  Bahamas (BAH)2000010120
24  Russia (RUS)1100010220
25  Greece (GRE)1002000219
26  Brazil (BRA)0021000017
27  Colombia (COL)0200001016
28  New Zealand (NZL)0020010015
29  Dominican Republic (DOM)0200000014
30  Switzerland (SUI)0001111014
31  Belarus (BLR)0010110113
32  Czech Republic (CZE)0110000013
33  Bahrain (BHR)0100011012
34  Turkey (TUR)0001020112
35  Qatar (QAT)1000100012
36  India (IND)1000010011
37  Nigeria (NGR)0011000011
38  Namibia (NAM)0100010010
39  Slovenia (SLO)0000210010
40  Botswana (BOT)001000119
41  Ivory Coast (CIV)000110009
42  Venezuela (VEN)100000018
43  Morocco (MAR)100000008
43  Puerto Rico (PUR)100000008
45  Grenada (GRN)001000108
46  South Africa (RSA)000101008
47  Austria (AUT)001000017
48  Serbia (SRB)000100107
49  Burkina Faso (BUR)001000006
50  Croatia (CRO)000100005
50  British Virgin Islands (IVB)000100005
50  South Korea (KOR)000100005
53  Finland (FIN)000010025
54  Lithuania (LTU)000001105
55  Algeria (ALG)000010004
55  Burundi (BDI)000010004
55  Eritrea (ERI)000010004
55  Liberia (LBR)000010004
55  Mexico (MEX)000010004
55  Pakistan (PAK)000010004
61  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)000001003
61  Israel (ISR)000001003
61  Romania (ROM)000001003
64  Uzbekistan (UZB)000001002
65  Estonia (EST)000000102
65  Moldova (MDA)000000102
65  Panama (PAN)000000102
68  Tanzania (TAN)000000102
69  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)000000022
70  Egypt (EGY)000000011
70  Ireland (IRL)000000011

See also

References

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