Athletics At The 2020 Summer Olympics

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. 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.

Athletics at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium (track and field events) Odori Park (Sapporo) (marathon and race walk)
Dates	30 July – 8 August 2021
No. of events	48
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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.

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 a better and updated version of the track that was provided and installed for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil.

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 to Sapporo, which hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics.The north island lies 800 km from Tokyo. The chosen route started and arrived at the Odori 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.

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. 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. 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.

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.

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."

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.

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".

 

 

Medal table

Key

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	7	12	7	26
2	Italy	5	0	0	5
3	Kenya	4	4	2	10
4	Poland	4	2	3	9
5	Jamaica	4	1	4	9
6	Netherlands	2	3	3	8
7	Canada	2	2	2	6
	China	2	2	2	6
9	Uganda	2	1	1	4
10	Norway	2	1	0	3
	Sweden	2	1	0	3
12	Bahamas	2	0	0	2
13	Germany	1	2	0	3
14	Ethiopia	1	1	2	4
15	Portugal	1	1	0	2
	ROC	1	1	0	2
17	Belgium	1	0	1	2
18	Greece	1	0	0	1
	India	1	0	0	1
	Morocco	1	0	0	1
	Puerto Rico	1	0	0	1
	Qatar	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
24	Great Britain	0	2	3	5
25	Colombia	0	2	0	2
	Dominican Republic	0	2	0	2
27	Australia	0	1	2	3
	Cuba	0	1	2	3
29	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
	Japan*	0	1	1	2
31	Bahrain	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Namibia	0	1	0	1
34	Brazil	0	0	2	2
	New Zealand	0	0	2	2
36	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Botswana	0	0	1	1
	Burkina Faso	0	0	1	1
	Grenada	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (43 entries)		49	47	48	144

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Marcell Jacobs   Italy	9.80 AR	Fred Kerley   United States	9.84 PB	Andre De Grasse   Canada	9.89 PB
200 metres details	Andre De Grasse   Canada	19.62 NR	Kenny Bednarek   United States	19.68 PB	Noah Lyles   United States	19.74 =SB
400 metres details	Steven Gardiner   Bahamas	43.85 SB	Anthony Zambrano   Colombia	44.08	Kirani James   Grenada	44.19
800 metres details	Emmanuel Korir   Kenya	1:45.06	Ferguson Rotich   Kenya	1:45.23	Patryk Dobek   Poland	1:45.39
1500 metres details	Jakob Ingebrigtsen   Norway	3:28.32 OR, AR	Timothy Cheruiyot   Kenya	3:29.01	Josh Kerr   Great Britain	3:29.05 PB
5000 metres details	Joshua Cheptegei   Uganda	12:58.15	Mohammed Ahmed   Canada	12:58.61	Paul Chelimo   United States	12:59.05 SB
10,000 metres details	Selemon Barega   Ethiopia	27:43.22	Joshua Cheptegei   Uganda	27:43.63	Jacob Kiplimo   Uganda	27:43.88
110 metres hurdles details	Hansle Parchment   Jamaica	13.04 SB	Grant Holloway   United States	13.09	Ronald Levy   Jamaica	13.10
400 metres hurdles details	Karsten Warholm   Norway	45.94 WR	Rai Benjamin   United States	46.17 AR	Alison dos Santos   Brazil	46.72 AR
3000 metres steeplechase details	Soufiane El Bakkali   Morocco	8:08.90	Lamecha Girma   Ethiopia	8:10.38	Benjamin 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	2:08:38	Abdi Nageeye   Netherlands	2:09:58	Bashir Abdi   Belgium	2:10:00
20 kilometres walk details	Massimo Stano   Italy	1:21:05	Koki Ikeda   Japan	1:21:14	Toshikazu Yamanishi   Japan	1:21:28
50 kilometres walk details	Dawid Tomala   Poland	3:50:08	Jonathan Hilbert   Germany	3:50:44	Evan Dunfee   Canada	3:50:59 SB
High jump details	Gianmarco Tamberi   Italy	2.37 m SB	Not awarded		Maksim Nedasekau   Belarus	2.37 m =NR
	Mutaz Essa Barshim   Qatar
Pole vault details	Armand Duplantis   Sweden	6.02 m	Chris Nilsen   United States	5.97 m PB	Thiago Braz   Brazil	5.87 m SB
Long jump details	Miltiadis Tentoglou   Greece	8.41 m	Juan Miguel Echevarría   Cuba	8.41 m	Maykel Massó   Cuba	8.21 m
Triple jump details	Pedro Pichardo   Portugal	17.98 m NR	Zhu Yaming   China	17.57 m PB	Hugues Fabrice Zango   Burkina Faso	17.47 m
Shot put details	Ryan Crouser   United States	23.30 m OR	Joe Kovacs   United States	22.65 m	Tom Walsh   New Zealand	22.47 m SB
Discus throw details	Daniel Ståhl   Sweden	68.90 m	Simon Pettersson   Sweden	67.39 m	Lukas Weißhaidinger   Austria	67.07 m
Hammer throw details	Wojciech Nowicki   Poland	82.52 m PB	Eivind Henriksen   Norway	81.58 m NR	Paweł Fajdek   Poland	81.53 m
Javelin throw details	Neeraj Chopra   India	87.58 m	Jakub Vadlejch   Czech Republic	86.67 m SB	Vítězslav Veselý   Czech Republic	85.44 m SB
Decathlon details	Damian Warner   Canada	9018 pts OR NR	Kevin Mayer   France	8726 pts SB	Ashley 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. The medals were reallocated on 19 May 2022.

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Elaine Thompson-Herah   Jamaica	10.61 OR	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce   Jamaica	10.74	Shericka Jackson   Jamaica	10.76 PB
200 metres details	Elaine Thompson-Herah   Jamaica	21.53 NR	Christine Mboma   Namibia	21.81 WJR	Gabrielle Thomas   United States	21.87
400 metres details	Shaunae Miller-Uibo   Bahamas	48.36 AR	Marileidy Paulino   Dominican Republic	49.20 NR	Allyson Felix   United States	49.46 SB MWR
800 metres details	Athing Mu   United States	1:55.21 NR	Keely Hodgkinson   Great Britain	1:55.88 NR	Raevyn Rogers   United States	1:56.81 PB
1500 metres details	Faith Kipyegon   Kenya	3:53.11 OR	Laura Muir   Great Britain	3:54.50 NR	Sifan Hassan   Netherlands	3:55.86
5000 metres details	Sifan Hassan   Netherlands	14:36.79	Hellen Obiri   Kenya	14:38.36	Gudaf Tsegay   Ethiopia	14:38.87
10,000 metres details	Sifan Hassan   Netherlands	29:55.32	Kalkidan Gezahegne   Bahrain	29:56.18	Letesenbet Gidey   Ethiopia	30:01.72
100 metres hurdles details	Jasmine Camacho-Quinn   Puerto Rico	12.37	Kendra Harrison   United States	12.52	Megan Tapper   Jamaica	12.55
400 metres hurdles details	Sydney McLaughlin   United States	51.46 WR	Dalilah Muhammad   United States	51.58 PB	Femke Bol   Netherlands	52.03 AR
3000 metres steeplechase details	Peruth Chemutai   Uganda	9:01.45 NR	Courtney Frerichs   United States	9:04.79 SB	Hyvin 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 SB	Brigid Kosgei   Kenya	2:27:36 SB	Molly Seidel   United States	2:27:46 SB
20 kilometres walk details	Antonella Palmisano   Italy	1:29:12	Sandra Arenas   Colombia	1:29:37	Liu Hong   China	1:29:57
High jump details	Mariya Lasitskene   ROC	2.04 m SB	Nicola McDermott   Australia	2.02 m AR	Yaroslava Mahuchikh   Ukraine	2.00 m
Pole vault details	Katie Nageotte   United States	4.90 m	Anzhelika Sidorova   ROC	4.85 m	Holly Bradshaw   Great Britain	4.85 m
Long jump details	Malaika Mihambo   Germany	7.00 m SB	Brittney Reese   United States	6.97 m	Ese Brume   Nigeria	6.97 m
Triple jump details	Yulimar Rojas   Venezuela	15.67 m WR	Patrícia Mamona   Portugal	15.01 m NR	Ana Peleteiro   Spain	14.87 m NR
Shot put details	Gong Lijiao   China	20.58 m PB	Raven Saunders   United States	19.79 m	Valerie Adams   New Zealand	19.62 m
Discus throw details	Valarie Allman   United States	68.98 m	Kristin Pudenz   Germany	66.86 m PB	Yaime Pérez   Cuba	65.72 m
Hammer throw details	Anita Włodarczyk   Poland	78.48 m SB MWR	Wang Zheng   China	77.03 SB	Malwina Kopron   Poland	75.49 m SB
Javelin throw details	Liu Shiying   China	66.34 m SB	Maria Andrejczyk   Poland	64.61 m	Kelsey-Lee Barber   Australia	64.56 m SB
Heptathlon details	Nafissatou Thiam   Belgium	6791 pts SB	Anouk Vetter   Netherlands	6689 pts NR	Emma Oosterwegel   Netherlands	6590 pts PB

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

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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.

Rank	Team				4	5	6	7	8	Pts
1	United States (USA)	7	12	7	6	5	5	7	3	264
2	Jamaica (JAM)	4	1	4	4	2	2	3	3	106
3	Kenya (KEN)	4	4	2	5	0	1	2	0	104
4	Poland (POL)	4	2	3	0	1	1	1	1	74
5	Canada (CAN)	2	2	2	1	3	3	1	1	70
6	China (CHN)	2	2	2	0	3	2	3	3	69
7	Netherlands (NED)	2	3	3	1	1	1	0	1	68
8	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	1	2	5	1	2	0	2	64
9	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	0	2	3	1	1	3	3	2	58
10	Australia (AUS)	0	1	2	2	2	3	2	2	52
11	Germany (GER)	1	2	0	1	3	2	1	3	50
12	Italy (ITA)	5	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	50
13	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	4	3	2	0	1	45
14	Uganda (UGA)	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	35
15	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	2	3	1	0	1	31
16	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	1	2	1	0	1	0	30
17	Portugal (POR)	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	28
18	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	0	0	3	2	2	28
18	Sweden (SWE)	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	27
19	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1	2	0	2	2	26
21	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	2	0	1	0	0	2	24
22	Norway (NOR)	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	23
23	Bahamas (BAH)	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	20
24	Russia (RUS)	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	20
25	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	19
26	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	17
27	Colombia (COL)	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	16
28	New Zealand (NZL)	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	15
29	Dominican Republic (DOM)	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	14
30	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	14
31	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	13
32	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	13
33	Bahrain (BHR)	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	12
34	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	12
35	Qatar (QAT)	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	12
36	India (IND)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	11
37	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	11
38	Namibia (NAM)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	10
39	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	10
40	Botswana (BOT)	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	9
41	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	9
42	Venezuela (VEN)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8
43	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
43	Puerto Rico (PUR)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
45	Grenada (GRN)	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	8
46	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	8
47	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	7
48	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	7
49	Burkina Faso (BUR)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
50	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
50	British Virgin Islands (IVB)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
50	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
53	Finland (FIN)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	5
54	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	5
55	Algeria (ALG)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
55	Burundi (BDI)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
55	Eritrea (ERI)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
55	Liberia (LBR)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
55	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
55	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
61	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
61	Israel (ISR)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
61	Romania (ROM)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3
64	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2
65	Estonia (EST)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
65	Moldova (MDA)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
65	Panama (PAN)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
68	Tanzania (TAN)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
69	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
70	Egypt (EGY)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
70	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1

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