Who won 10000m Olympics?
No problem for Sifan Hassan who won the long-distance track double and 1500m bronze at Tokyo 2020. How about 24,500 metres of Olympic racing in the matter of eight days? Sifan Hassan has done it and ended with victory in the 10,000m on Saturday (7 August) to take her Tokyo 2020 medal haul to two golds and a bronze.
Who holds the 10000m world record?
Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei
The official world records in the 10,000 metres are held by Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei with 26:11.00 minutes for men and Almaz Ayana from Ethiopia with 29:17.45 for women. Letesenbet Gidey ran 29:01.03 on 8 June 2021, but this record is pending ratification.
Who won the men’s 10000m?
BEIJING, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Sweden’s Nils van der Poel shaved more than two seconds off his own world record time to win the men’s 10,000 race at the Beijing Olympics and claim his second gold of the Games in a breathtaking finish on Friday.
Who is the 100m Olympic champion?
Olympic 100m winners list
| Games | Gold | Silver |
|---|---|---|
| Beijing 2008 | Usain Bolt (Jamaica) | Richard Thompson (Trinidad and Tobago) |
| London 2012 | Usain Bolt (Jamaica) | Yohan Blake (Jamaica) |
| Rio de Janeiro 2016 | Usain Bolt (Jamaica) | Justin Gatlin (USA) |
| Tokyo 2020 | Marcell Jacobs (Italy) | Fred Kerley (USA) |
Who won 5000m?
Hallgeir Engebraaten, a 22-year-old skater from Norway, won the bronze medal with a time of 6:09.88. Van der Poel is the first Swedish athlete to win the men’s 5000m Olympic gold since Tomas Gustafson in 1988.
Who won women’s 5000m?
Make that two gold medals and two broken records at the 2022 Winter Games for Irene Schouten. The Dutch speed skater won the women’s 5000m event on Thursday with a time of 6:43.51, shattering the previous Olympic record of 6:46.91 set by Germany’s Claudia Pechstein in 2002.
What is the longest run in the Olympics?
The longest race on the Olympic programme, athletes run a distance of 26 miles and 385 yards (42.195km). The event takes place on the road and the finishing order of the race is determined by time. Refuelling stations appear every 5km on a marathon course for the athletes.
Who won the 5000 and 10,000m running event at 1976 Olympics?
Lasse Virén, (born July 22, 1949, Myrskylä, Finland), Finnish distance runner who was the first athlete to win gold medals in both the 5,000- and 10,000-metre races at consecutive Olympic Games: at Munich, West Germany, in 1972 and at Montreal in 1976.