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Olympic Games of the Year Men's Athletics. Athletics competition calendar

13.10.2021

The final action on the main arena of Brazil was accompanied by a downpour, which slightly spoiled the mood of the participants in the "parade of heroes", spectators in the stands and the organizers of the ceremony. Although for those who leave Rio in good spirits, with a sense of accomplishment and a won medal, such a trifle as rain hardly spoiled the experience of the first Olympic Games in South America.

Medal credit

Sputnik, Maria Tsimintia

Few doubted that the US team would win the team event. In 1992, during the Games in Barcelona, the Americans took the second place, losing to the united CIS team. Since then, they have invariably been among the leaders of the overall team classification. The only "misfire" happened in Beijing in 2008, where they ceded leadership to the Chinese.

The British, who did not even get into the top ten at the Games in Barcelona (1992) and Atlanta (1996), and finished it in Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004), became the second.

Until the penultimate day of the competition, Russia waged a desperate struggle with Germany for the fourth line and was ultimately able to outstrip its competitors, winning two more golds. The final medal of the highest dignity was brought to the collection of the Russian national team by the freestyle wrestler Soslan Ramonov.

The Georgian national team at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro won seven medals and, in terms of the total number of awards won, repeated the result of the London Games. However, it surpassed them in a qualitative ratio. Four years ago, Georgians only once rose to the highest step of the podium. This time the Georgian anthem was played twice in Rio de Janeiro.

Georgian medalists of the XXXI Summer Olympic Games

Lasha Talakhadze (weightlifting, +105 kg)

Vladimir Khinchegashvili (freestyle wrestling, -57 kg)

Varlam Liparteliani (judo, -90 kg)

Lasha Shavdatuashvili (judo, -73 kg)

Irakli Turmanidze (weightlifting, +105 kg)

Shmagi Bolkvadze (Greco-Roman wrestling, -66 kg)

Geno Petriashvili (freestyle wrestling, -125 kg)

One cannot fail to note the amazing progress of the Azerbaijani Olympians, who won 18 medals at the Games in Brazil (1-7-10). They exceeded the London figure by eight awards.

Heroes of the Olympics ...

Swimmer Michael Phelps, who, for a moment, is already 31 years old, again "came, saw, won." At the Games in Rio, the American won five gold medals and became the 23 (!) Multiple Olympic Champion. It is even difficult to assume that someone will at least be able to approach such indicators in the near future.

Michael Phelps (USA), winner gold medal in swimming on the 200 m complex among men, at the award ceremony of the XXXI summer Olympic Games.

American Katie Ledecky (swimming) and Simone Biles ( gymnastics) fell slightly behind Phelps, winning four golds each.

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt again won three gold medals: 100 meters, 200 meters and a 4x100 relay, becoming a nine-time Olympic champion. In the last three Olympics, Bolt has consistently won these disciplines.

Usain Bolt (Jamaica) after finishing in the final race of the 200 m during the men's competition. athletics at the XXXI Summer Olympics.

... and the "heroes of the Olympics"

Athletes of the US women's national team in the semifinals of the 4x100 meter relay dropped the baton and could not qualify for the decisive race. The American women filed an appeal, claiming that they were prevented by Brazilian athletes. The appeal was upheld. The USA national team was allowed to run the semifinals in splendid isolation. In the re-run, they showed better time than their opponents from China, and the latter were "asked" from the final. The appeal of the Asian athletes was not granted, and the American women became Olympic Champions.

Georgian heroes of Rio

If you do not take into account the Georgian athletes who won medals at the Games in Rio, then there are other heroes in Georgia who won the hearts of fans not only in their homeland, but also in the world.

Canoeist Zaza Nadiradze was incredibly happy when he was able to qualify for the Olympics. You couldn't even dream of more. But Nadiradze successfully performed in qualification and reached the semifinals of the single canoe competition at a distance of 200 meters. In the semifinals, he finished first, leaving behind the reigning Olympic Champion Ukrainian Yuriy Cheban and four-time World and European Champion Valentin Demyanenko. But in the final, nervousness and lack of experience in participating in competitions of this rank affected. As a result, Nadiradze finished fifth, but won the hearts of thousands of fans.

Seoul Olympic Champion (1988) in Shooting sports pistol Nino Salukvadze came to Rio for her eighth Games of her career. A unique achievement among women in this sport. Salukvadze was able to reach the final of the competition, but in the end she was left without a medal. After the completion of the speeches, she said that most likely she would be preparing for the Tokyo Olympics - the ninth in a row.

David Kharazishvili became the first marathon runner in the history of Georgia who won a license for the Olympic Games. The Georgian athlete had a good start, but at the 25th kilometer he felt a sharp pain in his side. He did not run for almost two kilometers, but simply walked and even thought to withdraw from the distance. However, he found the courage and crossed the finish line. As a result, he finished 72nd, but ended up in the first half of the finishers and left 93 athletes behind.

40 Georgian athletes went to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which is a record figure. For the first time in the history of independent Georgia, the country was represented in such sports as: women's weightlifting (Anastasia Gottfried), women's judo (Esther Stam), shot put for men (Benik Abrahamyan), high jumping for women (Valentina Lyashenko).

Rio green water

The water in the swimming pool of the Rio de Janeiro Aquatics Center, where the diving competition was to be held, suddenly turned green, which baffled even the technical staff. It was later revealed that this was due to 160 liters of hydrogen peroxide accidentally poured into the pool. The substance neutralized chlorine, which promoted the growth of "organic compounds", including, possibly, algae. Despite the fact that the water did not pose a threat to the health of the athletes, it still had to be replaced.

RIO-2016 Athletics

At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, 47 sets of awards will be played - 24 for men and 23 for women. The participation of our athletes in these competitions is still in question, since All-Russian Federation Athletics (ARAF) due to an anti-doping rule violation has been temporarily suspended from membership in the International Association of Athletics (IAAF).

The initial lists of candidates for participation in the Games included the following St. Petersburg athletes: Lyukman Adams, Alexey Dmitrik, Sergey Kucheryanu, Valentin Smirnov, Alexey Kharitonov, Dmitry Chizhikov, Ivan Shablyuev, Natalia Antyukh, Ekaterina Galitskaya, Elizaveta Demirova (Savlinis), Ksenia Zadorina, Yulia Kondakova, Victoria Prokopenko (Dolgacheva), Irina Reshetkina, Victoria Sudarushkina, Olga Kharitonova, Anastasia Savchenko, Elena Chernyaeva.

The very first champion

On April 6, 1896, the American track and field athlete James Connolly became the first winner of the modern Olympic Games. At the Panathenaeus (also called the Marble) stadium in Athens, the 27-year-old Boston-based athlete excelled in the triple jump (13.71 meters), beating six rivals from four countries. Moreover, the second prize-winner - Alexander Tuffer, representing France, was almost a meter behind. Connolly jumped in the so-called Irish style - jump, leap, jump (later another technique took root - jump, step, jump). The triple jumpers' competition took place after the preliminary races of the 100m runners, this was the first final of the day, so that its winner was the first Olympic champion in modern history. After the last ancient Olympics, a millennium and a half passed, the countdown of new Olympians began, and Connolly became the very first of them.

Born in Boston in 1868, he was one of twelve children to an Irish immigrant family. He was fond of athletics and cycling, played American football. He went to the Games in Athens as a student at Harvard, where he entered, already having several years of work experience in an engineering position. He was denied academic leave, and James applied for exclusion - his priority at that time was to participate in the revived Olympic Games. Large group US athletes, among whom was Connolly, arrived in Europe, in Naples, Italy, on a German dry cargo ship, and then reached Athens by train. The champion entered into a dispute over awards in other jumping disciplines. On April 7, he became the third in the long jump (6.11 m), on April 10 he shared with his compatriot Robert Garrett the 2nd - 3rd places in the high jump (1.65 m). James also competed at the 1900 Games in Paris and won the silver medal in the triple jump. At the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, America, Connolly was already working as a journalist. By that time, he had published several of his works, later the famous athlete became a writer, the author of 25 novels and two hundred stories, mainly on the topic of the sea.

More than fifty years after his expulsion from Harvard University, he was invited to speak there in front of students and teachers and, as one of the celebrities of this educational institution, was presented with a personalized sports sweater. A year later, in 1949, he was offered an honorary doctorate from Harvard as a writer, but he turned it down. James Brendan Connolly died in January 1957 in Brooklyn, a suburb of Boston, he was 89 years old. Thirty years later, in one of the parks in Boston, a monument to the first champion was unveiled - Connolly is depicted at the time of landing after a jump.

Victory disc

At the Games in Helsinki in 1952, the first gold medal was won Olympic medal Soviet athletes. On July 20, all the prizes in the discus throwers' competition were taken by the representatives of our country, and Nina Romashkova (later Ponomareva) became the champion.

20 participants from 16 countries took part in the discourse dispute. The qualification standard - 36 meters - was fulfilled by 18 athletes who made it to the final. The 23-year-old Muscovite Nina Romashkova was in the lead with the result of 45.05 m. In the first final attempt, she threw the projectile 11 cm further and was second only to her older teammate Nina Dumbadze. In the second attempt, Romashkova's disk flew over 50 meters, and this line, except for her, in Helsinki did not submit to anyone. The third attempt brought the champion result - 51.42 m. In the remaining three exits to the throwing circle, when the top six competed, the results of all athletes did not exceed the 50-meter mark. At the same time, Romashkova was ahead of her rivals in each of these attempts.

The Olympic champion was born in April 1929 in the Sverdlovsk region - repressed parents worked in a taiga village while serving time. Since 1936, the family settled in a village near Yessentuki, in the Stavropol Territory, Nina and began to seriously engage in athletics. Since 1949, she represented the Central Sports Club of the Army (Moscow) at competitions, after her success in Helsinki in 1956 she became the bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in discus throwing, in 1960 in Rome she won her second highest Olympic award.

At the end of her sports career, Nina Apollonovna Ponomareva worked for thirty years as a coach at the Kiev school of the Olympic reserve, since 1998 she has lived in Moscow again.

The core beyond the cherished line

Following Nina Romashkova-Ponomareva, Galina Zybina won the gold medal at the 1952 Games in Helsinki. On July 26, at the Olympic Stadium, she won the shot put with a world record of 15.28 m. The 21-year-old athlete, a representative of the Zenit society (Leningrad), a student of the famous coach Viktor Alekseev, became the first Olympic champion among the athletes of the city on the Neva in athletics.

Two days before that, Zybina took part in the javelin throwing competition, taking fourth place. And in the struggle of the shot putters she performed brilliantly. She fulfilled the qualification norm without taking off her tracksuit. In the second half of the day, in the final part, in the first attempt, she pushed the shell exactly 15 meters and seized the lead. Zybin could even refuse the last, sixth, throw, no one could get ahead of her. But it was in this attempt that the Leningrad athlete set a world record. She was awarded a gold medal, and immediately from the podium, she went to the microphone of radio commentator Vadim Sinyavsky and said hello to her hometown, where she was born and survived the hardships of the blockade.

Galina Ivanovna Zybina joined the Olympic medals at the subsequent Games. In shot put, she won silver in 1956 and bronze in 1964. Honored veteran, the author of the book "The Treasured Trait" and now does not remain aloof from significant sporting events in our city, she was a torchbearer at the Olympic torch relay.

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A sport that shows strength, agility and general fitness, which often does not require special equipment, but which does not become less difficult from this, is Athletics... Track and field traditionally has a wide variety of disciplines. In total, 47 sets of medals will be played in the competition, 24 of which are in men's nominations, and 23 in women's. Athletics is the sport with the highest number of medals in the Olympics.

Athletics Games Participants

About two thousand athletes from almost all countries of the world will come to the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 to compete in athletics disciplines. In each discipline from one country, no more than three participants can be represented. If we are talking about a relay team, then no more than one team.

Unfortunately, due to the doping scandal, the admission Russian athletes involved in athletics is questionable. The most likely outcome: the Russian Summer Olympics participants will not be able to compete.

The selection is based on the compliance of the athletes' performance with the established standards. Qualifying events include all Olympic disciplines.

The qualifying tournament does not give nominal quotas for competitions in this sport. Each country itself can choose whom to send to participate in the Games.

Running and road disciplines:

races of 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, 5000, 10000 meters;
hurdle races of 100 m (for women), 110 m (for men), 400 m;
an obstacle race of 3000 m (it is also called a steeple chase);
relay races 4x100, 4x400 meters;
marathon;
walking 20 km and 50 km (men only).

Technical disciplines:

jumping: long, triple, high, with a pole;
shot put;
throwing: disc, spear, hammer;
all-around;
women: heptathlon;
men: decathlon.

Athletics competition calendar

The Olympics involve many different distances and competitions in athletics, but for men, disciplines have not changed for decades, and in women's sports, changes occur at almost every Games. Distances increase, new ones are added, and today there are almost no differences between men's and women's competitions. The only difference is in 50 km race walking: women do not have it.

Almost every day in athletics, the finals of competitions in one or more disciplines are held.

Summer Olympic Games in Athletics, Schedule:

Men:

Discus throw: 12;
long jump: 12;
high jump: 14, 16;
triple jump: 15, 16;
800 m race: 12, 13, 15;
400 m race: 12, 13, 14;
100 m race: 13, 14;
race for 10 thousand meters: 13;
pole vaulting: 13, 15;
race on 110 m hurdles: 15, 16;
400 m hurdle race: 15, 16, 18;
3000 m steeplechase: 15;
race for 1000 m, 16;
race for 200 m, 16, 17, 18;
decathlon: 17, 18;
hammer throw: 17, 19;
run at 5000m: 17, 20;
javelin throw: 17, 20;
shot put: 18;
relay race 4x100: 18.19;
race for 1500 m: 18, 20;
walking 50 km: 19;
relay race 4x400: 20;
marathon: 21;

Women:

Heptathlon: 12.13;
shot put: 12;
100 m race: 12, 14;
race for 200 m: 15, 16, 17;
400 m race: 13, 14, 15;
race for 1500 m: 12, 14, 16;
5,000 m race: 16;
hammer throw: 12, 15;
triple jump: 13, 14;
3000 m steeplechase: 13, 15;
marathon: 14;
400m hurdle race: 15, 16, 18;
discus throw: 15, 16;
100m hurdle race: 16, 17;
javelin throw: 16;
long jump and pole vault: 16;
race at 800: 17, 18;
high jump: 18;
relay race 4x100: 18, 19;
javelin throw: 18;
walking 20 km: 19;
pole vaulting: 19;
5,000 m race: 19;
high jump: 20;
800 m race: 20;
relay race 4x400: 20.

100m, men. Final on August 15. Unlike the women's sprint, here everything revolves around two athletes, the current record holder for 100 and 200 meters, Usain Bolt, and the leader for the last three seasons, Justin Gatlin. Bolt has already managed to declare that this Olympics will be the last for him and for sure he will make every effort to leave undefeated, the same can be said about Justin Gatlin, who is already 34 years old, that these Olympic Games will be the last for him, if not for participation, then for that would finally overtake Bolt for sure.

“First, you can applaud louder,” said Bolt, appearing at a press conference. - Yes, these are mine recent Games... I did my best and proved everything. A lot of people won't be happy about that. "

“Hundred meters are not a problem for me. I would like to set a world record at 200 meters. I've always wanted this. It should be something like 19 seconds. "

Usain Bolt won six gold medals at the Olympics.
Bolt is also an 11-time world champion.

It is likely that Bolt is trying to put pressure on Gatlin with such statements, since at last year's World Cup he managed to beat Justin by only 0.01 seconds, or maybe even less, but the official results read as follows: Usain Bolt 9.79, Justin Gatlin 9.80 ... By the way, in the semifinals then Gatlin ran for 9.77.

Answering the question at what distance Bolt can lose, the American replied that most likely this will happen at the hundred-meter race.

“He does not own best time in the season. V Lately not everything is going smoothly with him. But, on the other hand, it is not worth making early statements. He's not the guy to be discounted. "

If Usain Bolt gets a lot of attention in Rio, he can afford to relax trying to dance samba with Brazilian women, then Justin is trying to bother with talk about doping here too. G lava International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Sebastian Coe announced his desire for American sprinter Justin Gatlin to be disqualified for life and the Olympics in Rio to be his last. Coe made similar statements after the 2015 World Cup, to which Gatlin replied that he had set himself the goal of winning every competition where Coe was present in order to look him in the eye and shake his hand.

34-year-old American sprinter Justin Gatlin, the last 100-meter Olympic champion before the start of the Usain Bolt era, is not nervous ahead of a duel with a Jamaican track and field athlete at the 2016 Olympics.

“I’ll just go out on the track and do what I have to do - run, have fun, make my way first to the finals, and then to the top of the podium.

I don’t think that this could be our last battles with Usain. The Olympics are in any case a special event, where everyone is trying to jump over their heads. I just have to be ready to do it. "

By the way, Justin is the leader of the season with a result of 9.80, while Bolt this season has the best result of 9.88, but as you know, before the last World Championship, the Jamaican sprinter had a result of 9.87, and Gatlin's 9.74.

As for the rest of the participants, it is worth paying attention to the bronze medalist of the 2015 World Cup American Trayvon Bromell, who is 13 years younger than Gatlin. It is also worth noting that in June he suffered a sprain of the Achilles tendon, but in July at the competition in Eugene he set the second result of the season at 9.84. The 21-year-old Bromell ran out of 10 seconds for the first time in 2014 (9.97), and in 2015 set the junior world record of 9.84 - 10 in history. Then he received recognition among eminent athletes.

Frenchman Jimmy Vico has the third result of the season 9.86. 2012 Olympic silver medalist and 2011 World Cup gold medalist Johan Blake won the Olympic sprint selection in Jamaica, but failed to run out of 9.9 this season, his best result of the season being 9.94.

Usain Bolt is the clear favorite, but play his win with CF. I would not do 1.5 per 100m, remembering how difficult it was for him to win at the last year's World Championship. It looks much more preferable to win Bromell in comparison with Blake, or that the American will be among the prize-winners.