Athletics- “queen of sports.” We are talking about one of the first sports to be included in the Olympic Games program. This is the most multifaceted and one of the most difficult sports, including a lot of disciplines, including running, jumping, and all-around. Moreover, each type sports disciplines is divided into separate competitions. For example, running: sprint, marathon, middle distance, hurdles, etc. Jumps: regular jump, running jump, pole vault, triple vault, etc. We propose to consider the most striking records in athletics, which confirm that a person has no limit to development.
10 Most Outstanding Records in Athletics
Usain Bolt
- 100 meters - 9.58 seconds. (16.08.2009)
The current world record was registered in Germany. At the World Championships in 2009, it was staged by the six-time champion olympic games Usain Bolt. The sprinter, originally from Germany, beat his own record by one tenth with a tailwind of 2 meters per second. The Jamaican set the 100m record three times. At the same time, for the last time he traditionally slowed down at the finish line. Probably, in this way, the outstanding athlete decided to leave room for future achievement. Not at all, he was no longer able to shine on the treadmill. However, he still performs. It is worth adding that each world record in athletics significantly replenishes the “treasury” of athletes!
Yelena Isinbayeva
- Elena Isinbaeva - 5.06 m. (08/28/2009)
13 world records! If you look at the chronology, then in recent years Elena Isinbaeva had only one opponent - Elena Isinbaeva! The girl broke her own records 13 times in a row. The last one is 5.06 meters, which the athlete set in Germany. Many experts are confident that the record set by Elena in Zurich will be difficult for girls to break for many years to come. The pride of Russia never said goodbye to her fans after leaving her career. Recently, at the Paris Hilton show, Ivan Urgant provided her with such an opportunity...
Sergey Bubka
- Sergey Bubka - 6.14 m. (07/31/1994)
For 21 years no one has been able to break Sergei Bubka’s record. Experts are confident that for several more decades in the history of athletics his merit will not be relegated to second place. The mark of 6 meters 15 centimeters is the pride of Ukraine, where the talented athlete comes from. Today in Donetsk the athletics school is one of the best in all of Europe. There are rumors that the French athlete was able to unofficially break Sergei’s record by jumping 3 cm higher. But this is false information and there is no evidence to support it.
David Rudisha
- David Rudisha - 1:40.91 (08/09/2012)
A Kenyan 800m record was registered in London. 1:40.91 seconds is the official record in athletics, set by the middle athlete in 2012. For 4 years now, no one has been able to come close to his result. However, David continues to impress with his stride, navigating turns better than sprinters. His technique is a subject of study by many trainers. The secret lies in a long step and swing, which significantly saves strength over one of the most difficult distances in athletics.
Dennis Kimetto
- Dennis Kimetto - 2:02.57 (09/28/2014)
42 kilometers and 195 meters is a distance called a marathon. Many people mistakenly mean any long mark by this concept. But no, and Dennis Kimetto knows this firsthand. The world record holder is from Kenya. In 2014, in Germany, he covered the specified distance in 2 hours, 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Just imagine 40 kilometers in 2 hours. It turns out that in an hour he runs twenty kilometers. 1 kilometer in 3 minutes at a distance of 40 km. Tritium professional category in the 1000 meter run 3 minutes plus. He ran 40 at that pace!
Mike Powell
- Mike Powell - 8.95 m (08/30/1991)
1991, Japan. Mike Powell - the legendary athlete from America is accelerating...
At that time, the World Championships had no empty seats on the stands. The entire audience looks with delight at the jumper, who soars in the air. 8.95 meters is an unthinkable result. Only rubber, studs and amazing technique bring the American the coveted victory and the world record, which has stood since 91 to this day. Today's jumpers don't even get close to 7 meters. He jumped to almost 9. A noticeable difference, right?
As you know, the main Olympic motto is “faster, higher, stronger!” First uttered by the French priest Henri Didon and taken up by the founder of modern Olympic movement Pierre de Coubertin, he became a reflection of the main goal of all athletes in the world.
Perhaps these three words are perfectly applicable to athletics. Judge for yourself: faster - about running, higher - about jumping, stronger - about throwing (and pushing). And there is a category of people in this sport that corresponds to this motto to the maximum. We are talking about world record holders. And although the IAAF may deprive some of them of this status (), their names are forever inscribed in history.
On the eve of the World Championships in London, XSPORT decided to recall the most famous world records in athletics. Since it is not possible to talk about everyone due to the huge number of disciplines in the “queen of sports”, we decided to highlight the records, so we created several nominations. The only note is that our competition program included achievements only in those events that are included in the program of the Olympic Games and World Cups (in London, for the first time in the history of the World Championships, a 50 km walking competition among women will be held, so we are also considering this record).
YOUNGEST RECORD
Anita Wlodarczyk Here our prize goes to the Polish hammer thrower Anita Wlodarczyk. In total, she broke the world record 6 times, and her last achievement dates back to August 28, 2016. A week after the closing of the Olympic Games in Rio, at which the athlete, by the way, also Wlodarczyk in her native Warsaw at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial. The Polish woman remains the only girl who managed to clear the 80-meter mark. And what’s most interesting is that at the same Games in Rio, her result was 4 meters further than that of Dilshod Nazarov, the Olympic champion among men.
The youngest also had every chance of becoming a record Ruth Jebet. On August 27, at the Diamond League stage in Paris, an athlete from Bahrain surpassed the achievement of Gulnara Galkina in steeplechase. However, just two days later, Wlodarczyk set her next record. At the World Championships in London, Jebet has a chance to get even with Anita, since her final will be 4 days later.
OLDEST RECORD
Jarmila Kratokhvilova (in first position) Jarmila Kratokhvilova reached the peak of her career only at the age of 32. An athlete from the now defunct country of Czechoslovakia remained for a long time in the shadow of her rivals from the GDR at her favorite distance of 400 meters. In 1983, she came to a tournament in Munich, where she entered the 800-meter race. Jarmila ran two laps around the stadium in a record 1:53:28.
Two weeks later, Kratokhvilova competed at the first ever World Athletics Championships, which was hosted by Helsinki. In Finland, the Czech, despite an incredibly busy schedule, won gold in both the 400-meter and 800-meter events. Moreover, in the first event she again broke the world record, becoming the first athlete to run under 48 seconds (47.99). And although Marita Koch surpassed that achievement two years later (47.60 seconds), the 800-meter record has not been surpassed by anyone for 34 years, making it the longest standing.
FASTEST RECORD
Usain Bolt At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin Usain Bolt ran the 100-meter dash in 9.58 seconds. The very next day, experts published data on the speed that Lightning developed. He covered the 60-80 meter section in 1.61 seconds, accelerating in this segment to 44.72 km/h. No one has ever run faster.
SLOWEST RECORD
Ines Enriquez (foreground) As we have already said, the women's 50 km walk will make its debut at the world championships. This view will be the longest in London. Judge for yourself - the world record for a distance that approximately corresponds to the length of Kyiv from north to south is 4 hours 08 minutes 26 seconds. Its author is Ines Enriquez from Portugal. She established her achievement in the village of Porto de Mos in her homeland. Its average speed was 12 km/h.
HIGHEST RECORD
Sergey Bubka and Renaud Lavillenie Since we agreed to consider only Olympic disciplines, then the championship in this nomination goes to our Sergey Bubka. Exactly 23 years ago, in the Italian highlands, a Ukrainian set his last world record in the pole vault - 6 m 14 cm. A year earlier in Donetsk, the Olympic champion of Seoul cleared the bar at a height of 6 m 15 cm. However, the Pole Stars tournament, which, as is known , always took place at the Druzhba Sports Palace, that is, indoors, but at the Games and World Championships they compete outdoors.
Bubka's Donetsk record was broken in 2014 Renault Lavillenie. At the same “Pole Stars” tournament and in front of Sergei Nazarovich himself, the Frenchman conquered 6.16 m. But let’s make a reservation once again, it was indoors. But Lavillenie’s personal best in stadiums is only 6.05 m.
Well, one last thing about this nomination. In 1991, Bubka won last gold World Championships as part of the USSR national team (the athlete won the world championships three more times for Ukraine). In Tokyo, he won with a modest result of 5.95 m. But thanks to computers, it was possible to establish that in his winning attempt he jumped with such a margin that he would have conquered the bar at a height of 6.37 m.
LONGEST RECORD
Uwe Hohn and Jan Zelezny Here we immediately need to tell the background story. In the mid-1980s, the IAAF had to redesign the men's javelin. The center of gravity was shifted forward, causing the projectile to descend earlier than the older version with a center of gravity in the middle. The culprit of such changes was Uwe Hohn. In 1984, an athlete from the GDR threw the javelin 104.80 m, just two meters from the edge of the field. Such long-distance attempts endangered the safety of other athletes who were on the treadmill.
The projectile was changed, but several years passed, and the IAAF again began to think about the safety of this discipline. On May 25, 1996, at a competition in the German city of Jena, an outstanding Czech Jan Zelezny threw the javelin at 98.48 m. It is this achievement that is listed as the official world record, however, with the note “according to the new rules.” The farthest is Uwe Hohn's attempt at 104.80 meters.
THE MOST SENSATIONAL RECORD
This is certainly the most subjective nomination in our ranking. And the championship here goes to the record set at the Olympic Games in Rio. The men's 400m final had no clear favorite. Before the start Kirani James, Lashawn Merritt And Weide van Niekerk were equally considered as contenders for gold. However, what the latter did became a real sensation. The South African produced a phenomenal run that lasted 17 years. Moreover, van Niekerk immediately took 15 hundredths from the result of the famous American. And in general, he almost ran out of 43 seconds - the chronometers recorded a result of 43.03 seconds.
Vaide is generally a unique athlete. He is the only athlete in history to run under 10 seconds in the 100m (9.98 seconds), under 20 seconds in the 200m (19.84 seconds) and under 44 seconds in the 400m. It’s funny that the athlete himself doesn’t really like the last distance. He once stated that...
Weide van Niekerk in front of his achievement THE MOST AFFECTING RECORD
Kendra Harrison failed to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio in the 100m hurdles. At the national qualifying tournament in the USA, the American showed only the fourth result. There were only three trips to Brazil. This was a real blow for the athlete. She was able to take out all her anger at the Diamond League stage in London, which took place a month before the 2016 Games. Harrison not only outperformed her teammates, but also. Kendra covered the distance in 12.20 seconds. But I still didn’t go to Brazil.
THE MOST TRAGIC RECORD
It's not often that world records are set at small local tournaments. But the achievement of the American Florence Griffith-Joyner just one of those. On one July day in 1988, at the Olympic qualifying competitions held in Indianapolis, she ran 100 meters in 10.49 seconds and broke the world record. And she did it at the 1/4 final stage. On the same day, but a little earlier, Florence covered the same distance in 10.60 seconds. But that time, which at that time was the fastest in history, was not counted as a record due to a strong tailwind. Interestingly, already in the quarterfinals, Griffith-Joyner was running in almost still air.
At the 1988 Games in Seoul, for which the athlete successfully qualified, she won three gold medals - in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 4x100-meter relay. Moreover, she covered 200 meters with a world record, which also holds to this day (21.34 seconds).
What made Griffith-Joyner's achievements tragic was her subsequent fate. Already in 1989, the athlete left professional sports at the peak of her fame. Even before this event, many colleagues and experts said that Florence was taking doping, and after the sudden end of her career, these conversations became more frequent. In 1990, the athlete began to have health problems and suffered heart attacks. Griffith-Joyner's sudden death at age 38 only added to the suspicion. However, her name is still on the list of world record holders. Moreover, in those sports that are considered elite in athletics.
Florence Griffith-Joyner after success at the Seoul OlympicsRECORD BREAKER
Another nomination in which the palm goes to Sergey Bubka. The Ukrainian pole vaulter became the first to clear the 6-meter bar. In total, the current NOC president has broken world records 35 times. And of course you can complain that each time he added one centimeter to the previous achievement. But just think about this number. For comparison, Elena Isinbaeva, who also pole vaulted, stopped at 20 world records.
OUR RECORD BREAKERS
Sergey Bubka, Inessa Kravets, Yuri Sedykh Another nomination for Sergei Bubka. But here he must share the prize with two more colleagues. We talked a lot about the achievement of a pole vaulter above, but about Inessa Kravets haven't spoken yet. The athlete, born in Dnepr, specialized in the triple jump - the event that brought our country three Olympic awards (1 gold and 2 bronze). Kravets set her world record at the World Championships in Gothenburg in 1995. In the third attempt of the final, she landed at 15.50 meters with a tailwind of 0.9 m/s. A year later, Inessa became the first woman to win Olympic gold in the triple jump.
Partly ours can be considered Yuri Sedykh. A native of the city of Novocherkassk, Rostov region, he is a graduate of the Kyiv hammer throwing school. In 1986, at the European Championships, he sent the projectile to 86.74 m, and since then no one has surpassed the achievement of the two-time world champion.
BONUS RECORD
Here we just want to tell a beautiful story associated with the name Bob Beamon. His record in the long jump ceased to be relevant in 1991. However, at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968, he shocked the whole world. The American took a run and landed at 8.90 meters (Mike Powell's current highest achievement is only 5 cm further). He broke the previous world record by as much as 55 cm. Lynn Davis, who was defending his Olympic title, approached Beamon and said: “You have destroyed this discipline.”
Bob Beamon at the Mexico City Olympics When the stadium announcer announced the numbers, the culprit himself fell to his knees, covered his face with his hands and could not get up without help. It is interesting that the automatic range meters that existed at that time were not designed for such a result, and the distance had to be measured manually. After that event, a new adjective beamonesque appeared in the English language, which means some unthinkable feat.
Scientists have found explanations for Beamon's record. Firstly, the competition took place at a significant altitude above sea level, which, due to the characteristics of the air, contributed to long jumps. After that, elite level tournaments were not held at such a high level. Secondly, Bob was helped by a strong tailwind, and its strength was the maximum permissible - about 2 m/s. Well, after the American’s jump there was a heavy downpour, which created not the most favorable conditions for the rest of the participants. However, all these factors do not make Binom’s record any less legendary.
In recent years, breaking world records has become commonplace. For example, in 2016 this was done five times. Often the highest achievements are celebrated at major tournaments. At the Olympic Games of different years, nine current world records were set, and at the World Championships - eight. Therefore, at the upcoming World Cup in London, we may well see the WR mark next to some result. Moreover, 13 world record holders will perform in London.
Current record holders who will compete at the 2017 World Championships:
- Usain Bolt, Jamaica (100 m – 9.58 s, 200 m – 19.19 s),
- Weide van Niekerk, South Africa (400 m – 43.03),
- Aris Merritt, USA (110 m/b – 12.80),
- Yoann Dini, France (50 km walk – 3:32.33),
- Kendra Harrison, USA (100m s/b – 12.20s),
- Genzebe Dibaba, Ethiopia (1500m - 3:50.07),
- Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopia (5000 m – 14:11.15),
- Almaz Ayana, Ethiopia (10,000 m – 29:17.45),
- Ruth Jebet, Bahrain (3000m steeplechase – 8:52.78),
- Liu Hong, China (20 km walk – 1:24.38),
- Ines Henriques, Portugal (50 km walk – 4:08.26),
- Anita Wlodarczyk, Poland (hammer throw – 82.98 m),
- Barbora Spotakova, Czech Republic (javelin throw - 72.28 m).
World biathlon legend
Photo: © RIA Novosti/Alexey Filippov
Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen is a true legend of modern sports. He is the most decorated athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics. He has 13 medals, eight of which are gold. The Norwegian also shares the record for the most Winter Olympics champion titles with skier Björn Deli.
In addition, the husband of Belarusian biathlete Daria Domracheva, after the Games in Salt Lake City, became the world's only absolute Olympic champion in biathlon.
By the way, Bjoerndalen has every chance to go to Pyeongchang. His participation will be announced soon.
Record holder from Russia
Russian luger Albert Demchenko holds the record for the number of participations in the Olympics. He competed at seven Games in a row (1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014). However, he shares this achievement with the Japanese ski jumper Noriaki Kasai, who also repeated this record in Sochi.
But not everything worked out so perfectly in Demchenko’s career. The luger was involved in a big doping scandal that broke out last year. As a result, the International Olympic Committee found him guilty of violating anti-doping rules and stripped the Russian of two silver medals at the Sochi Games. He was also banned for life from participating in the Olympic Games.
Tikhonov's record
Soviet biathlete, four-time Olympic champion, Olympic silver medalist, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Alexander Tikhonov is also a record holder. He won gold medals at four Olympics in a row. It was even included in the Guinness Book of Records.
Until 2002, no one managed to break another of his records. He was the only one in biathlon who managed to win the most gold.
Oldest Olympic medalist
Back in 1924 (this is the date that is considered the start of the Winter Olympic Games), Swedish curler Carl August Kronlund went down in history as the oldest medalist. He was 59 years and 155 days old when he won silver with the team.
Youngest Olympic medalist
The youngest medalist in the history of the White Olympics was an athlete from South Korea Yoon Mi Kim. In 1994, at the Olympic Games in the Norwegian city of Lillihammer, the short speed skater won Olympic gold. At that time she was only 13 years and 83 days old.
Longest Olympic torch relay
The Olympic torch relay before the Games in Sochi broke all records and became the longest in the history of the competition. The Olympic flame traveled a total of 65 thousand kilometers, and about 14 thousand people became honorary torchbearers.
True, another record was recorded, which one can hardly be proud of. For the first time in history, the flame went out more than 100 times during the entire relay...
TV presenter Vladimir Pozner.
Record number of Olympic participants
In 1994, sports delegations from 67 countries took part in the Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer (Norway). 1,737 athletes submitted applications. This became a record in the entire history of the Games.
The Olympic Games are the main start in the life of any athlete. Participants approach it at the peak of their form and capabilities. And if you add a good dose of adrenaline and the Olympic spirit to one hundred percent physical readiness, you can get a recipe for a successful performance that will be entered into the book of records.
All 70 arrows in the top ten
The first world record at the Olympics was set even before the official opening ceremony of the Games. In the preliminary archery competition, where participants simply allocated places in the playoff bracket of an individual tournament, the representative of South Korea, Kim Woo-jin, accomplished the seemingly impossible - all of his 70 arrows flew into the top ten. This is an absolute result that can only be repeated, but cannot be beaten. Kim Woo-jin improved by one point the previous world achievement of his compatriot Lim Dong-hyun, who also set his record at the Olympic competitions - four years ago in London 2012. So the records of archers in the pre-start olympic days are already becoming a tradition.
As for Kim Woo-jin, in Rio de Janeiro he won a gold medal in team tournament as part of his national team, but in individual competitions, where he was naturally seeded number one, the South Korean sensationally lost to the little-known Indonesian Riau Ega Agatu in the 1/16 finals. It’s one thing to hit targets in an abstract competition with all participants in the qualifications, and quite another to wage a head-to-head fight with a specific opponent.
The pool seemed to get shorter
After the abolition of high-tech overalls in 2009, in which swimmers literally began to beat the stopwatch, few believed in the further progress of swimming. Before each new start, bets were made on who would be able to break the world record and at what distance. And each time the record holders surprised with their results. In Rio, they began the race for records in the qualifying swims of the first day of the competition. True, even here there were skeptics who believe that the organizers of the Games are again to blame for everything. They allegedly built a swimming pool with lanes 2cm shorter than the 50m Olympic standard.
Nevertheless, all seven records have been ratified. Two belonged to the British Adam Peaty in the 100m breaststroke (57.55 in the preliminary heat and 57.13 in the final). The rest of the heroines are women: the Australian relay team (4x100 freestyle, 3:30.65), Sweden's Sarah Sjoström (100 and butterfly, 55.48), American Katie Ledecky (400 and 800 m freestyle, 3:56.46 and 8:04.79, respectively) , Hungarian Katinka Hosshu (400m individual medley, 4.26.36). Most of all I want to be happy for the “Iron Lady” from Hungary. She chased this record for seven years. And for Olympic gold - 12, from the 2004 Games in Athens.
Grandma won't teach you anything bad
In athletics, Polish athlete Anita Wlodarczyk is improving her results with enviable consistency. In Rio, she threw the hammer at 82.29 m, beating her own achievement of 2015 (81.08 m). Although we are not talking about seconds at all, this was the “fastest” record. The rest had to wait much longer.
Ethiopian Almaz Ayana won the gold medal in the 10,000 meters, finishing in 29 minutes 17.45 seconds. The previous record holder, Chinese Wang Junxia, was photographed in front of a scoreboard with the letters WR back in 1993 (29:31.78).
But the most unexpected champion and record holder was the South African athlete Wayde van Niekerk. He ran in lane eight, which was considered awkward. But this circumstance did not prevent him from winning the 400 m race with a result of 43.03 seconds. The record for this distance has stood since 1999 and belonged to the American Michael Johnson (43.18). It’s funny, but van Niekerk is trained by his own grandmother, who is already 74 years old. And it seems that the old lady knows a lot about running.
Pentacampions in swimsuits
Natalya Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina won two gold medals each in Rio - in a duet and in a group, thus becoming five-time gold medalists Olympic champions. For synchronized swimmers, this is a repeat of the record of Anastasia Davydova, who retired after London. Considering that only two sets of awards are awarded at the Olympics, it is very difficult to assemble such a collection. For example, at the world championships, girls compete for seven sets. So Natasha is a 19-time champion, Sveta is an 18-time champion. Will Ishchenko and Romashina be able to surpass their Rio Olympic achievement? At least so far the girls have not announced their retirement. But anyway the story synchronized swimming they have already rewritten.
And Asya Davydova, and Natasha Ishchenko, and Sveta Romashina are completely different. Each of them had their own path to achieving success, each of them developed it in their own way,” said Tatyana Danchenko, coach of the Ishchenko-Romashina duet. - This era of fivefold for each of them requires a separate volume of biography; it certainly cannot be covered in one volume.
Karelin in a skirt
In swimming you can win several medals in one Olympics. But to become a multiple champion, for example, in wrestling, you need to remain a hegemon for many years. Even two “golds” for an individual wrestler is very cool. Triple Olympic champions in wrestling you can count on your fingers. In addition to our Alexander Karelin and Buvaysar Saitiev, there are six more people, including the Cuban Mihan Lopez, who has joined the cohort of greats already here in Rio.
So the achievement of Japanese Kaori Ityo, who became a four-time winner of Olympic gold in Brazil, can be called transcendental. Just think: Ityo won the Olympics for the first time back in 2004 in Athens! In her weight, up to 63 kg, she had no equal in Beijing 2008 and London 2012. Starting from the 2014 World Championships in Tashkent, Kaori changed her weight (up to 58 kg), but this did not affect her success in any way. By the time she arrived in Rio, the Japanese woman had not lost at the World Championships and Olympics for 14 years.
Our Valeria Koblova was close to breaking this fantastic streak, but, leading in the score, the Russian woman missed out on the victory in the last seconds. And thus contributed to Ityo’s great record.
Golden Rugby
It doesn't often happen that the first olympic medal in the history of the country it turns out to be golden. This happened in Rio de Janeiro.
Fiji athletes have been taking part in the Games since 1976. During this time, the state, located on an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, represented 72 people in nine sports at the Olympics. Boxing, cycling, judo, Athletics, sailing, archery, weightlifting - as it turned out, this list was missing rugby sevens, in which the Fijians are the dockers. Suffice it to say that they were the ones who won the most prestigious World Series of Rugby Sevens in the last two seasons.
In Rio de Janeiro, rugby sevens was included in Olympic program for the first time, and the islanders made the most of the chance. From six matches in the men's tournament, Fiji recorded six wins to claim historic honours.
Among Olympic medalists, who won the first gold for their country, Singaporean swimmer Joseph Schooling deserves special mention. If only because the 21-year-old guy defeated the great and terrible Michael Phelps, and at the American’s favorite distance - the 100 butterfly.
The British sped off
“The velodrome in Rio is very fast for a new track. Therefore, there will be a lot of records here,” our silver medalist in the team sprint Anastasia Voinova looked at the water. During the Olympics, seven world achievements were broken here: more often, records were updated only in weightlifting and swimming (eight each).
The authorship of five out of seven records belongs to British racers, which is not surprising. The British team competed here at the 2012 London Home Games, winning six top medals. It is interesting that three world achievements were consistently renewed by the British in the team pursuit. In fact, they did this in every race they entered.
Among those who diluted the sovereignty of the United Kingdom are Chinese women Qinjie Gong and Tianshi Zhong. In one of the preliminary races in the team sprint, they established olympic record, and in the semi-finals - the world one. The duet of our girls Nastya Voinova and Daria Shmeleva indirectly contributed to these achievements. After all, the Chinese competed in absentia or in person with them.
The Winter Olympic Games have been held since 1924. Since then, over the 90 years of their holding, with a break for the Second World War, 22 such forums have already been organized. During this time, many records have accumulated that are associated with the Zoo.
There are record holders of the Winter Olympic Games in a variety of categories.
These are the countries that have won the largest number of medals, and the athletes who have set various records. For example, at the recently concluded Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi, several records were set at once.
Thus, luger Albert Demchenko took part in his seventh Winter Olympics. This became an absolute record for the number of participations. It must be said that Demchenko not only participated, but was able to win two silver medals in his forties. Another age record holder was Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen.
He won two medals at the games. Now he has 13 of them, which is one more than his compatriot, skier Bjorn Daly. It is interesting that both veterans who set records in Sochi have not yet announced their retirement. However, if we talk about the age of Olympic medalists, we should note such a record holder as Swedish curler Karl-August Kronlund, who won his medal in 1924 at the age of 59 years and 155 days.
And the youngest medalist was South Korean short speed skater Kim Yun Mi at the Lillihammer Games in 1994. He was then 13 years and 83 days old. Soviet biathlete Alexander Tikhonov also set a very interesting record - he won 4 times in a row in one discipline - the relay race (1968-80).
There are also countries that hold the Winter Olympic Games record for medals. There are certain difficulties with calculations here. The fact is that the eventful history of the last century divided and united some countries. This especially applies to Germany and the USSR.
Russia became the legal successor of the Soviet Union. And if you add up all the medals won by Russia and the USSR at the OWG, then our country will be the world leader.
And if you divide them, then Norway takes first place by a wide margin, and the United States comes in second.
We can also mention such interesting records as the largest number of medals won by one country at the Winter Olympics. This record was set on home soil by US athletes. They won 37 medals of various denominations at the forum in Salt Lake City. But at the same 2010 Olympics, the Canadian team won 14 gold medals, which is also a record. Just one gold was not enough for the Russian team to repeat this record in Sochi.
