Paris Olympics statistical review – AW

Surely Paris rivals London and Sydney as one of the best Olympics ever and the big and enthusiastic crowds in the Stade de France enjoyed some thrilling athletics.

Paris Olympics

It was a brilliant championship for athletics and a good one for the Brits.

I do feel the timetable could be tweaked here and there, though. Why have women’s 4x400m heats on the same day as the 400m final, for example?

The repechage was an interesting idea but surely should have been trialled elsewhere.

It was fun to watch and gave athletes two chances but predictably if you weren’t good enough to get through the first round then while the better athletes got a day of rest, those who did survive the repechage had to then take on the better and rested athletes while they have an extra race in their legs. It certainly didn’t work for 1500m runners which was the longest event that had it. It might work for sprinters or hurdlers who have a niggle!

Had they not had repechage then more athletes would have gone through the first time.

Also, why were there only two 5000m heats? Why not have three races?

It was clearly too many and because so many fell and they had the ridiculous policy of giving most of those who do fall a second chance, we ended up with far too many in the final.

Here is my round-up of the statistical data.

Multiple medallists in Paris

3 golds: Gabrielle Thomas

2 golds: Beatrice Chebet, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Rai Benjamin

1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze: Femke Bol

1 gold, 2 bronze: Sifan Hassan

1 gold and 1 silver: Julien Alfred, Kaylyn Brown, Faith Kipyegon, Lieke Klaver, Shamier Little, Cathelijn Peeters, María Pérez, Sha’Carri Richardson, Bryce Deadmon, Vernon Norwood, Brian Pintado, Letsile Tebogo

1 gold, 1 bronze: Melissa Jefferson, Álvaro Martín and Noah Lyles

1 silver, 1 bronze: Alex Haydock-Wilson, Matthew Hudson-Smith, Samuel Reardon

2 bronzes: Amber Anning, Jemima Montag, Jasmine Moore, Laviai Nielsen, Nicole Yeargin and Grant Fisher

Medal table

A record 27 different countries took gold but not South Africa, Italy, France and Poland.

1 USA 14-11-9
2 KEN 4-2-5
3 CAN 3-1-1
4 NED 2-1-3
5 ESP 2-1-1
6 NOR 2-1-0
7 GBR 1-4-5
8 JAM 1-3-2
9 ETH 1-3-0
10 AUS 1-2-4

Most medals

43 different countries won medals. The leading nation in the placing table not to win a medal was Switzerland in 22^nd and other leading nations to miss out were Portugal, Cuba, Colombia, Nigeria, Finland and Ireland.

1 USA 34
2 KEN 11
3 GBR 10
4 AUS 7
Eq 5 JAM/NED 6
7 CAN 5
Eq 8 ESP/GER/CHN/ETH 4

Placings Table

75 countries placed an athlete in the top 8

1 USA 322
2 KEN 112
3 GBR 100
4 ETH 78
5 JAM 70
Eq 6 ITA, NED 65
8 CAN 54
9 GER 51
10 AUS 50

Defending champions

Only 10 athletes defended from Tokyo three years earlier.

Shot: Crouser
Discus: Allman
Pole Vault: Duplantis
Long Jump: Tentoglou
Steeplechase: El Bakkali
400H: McLaughlin-Levrone
Heptathlon: Thiam
1500m: Kipyegon
M4x400: USA
W4x400: USA

World records

3:07.41 mixed 4x400m USA

6.25m pole vault Duplantis

50.37 400m hurdles McLaughlin-Levrone

World best: 2:50:31 marathon race walk mixed relay ESP

Olympic records (4 above plus)

26:43.14 10,000m Cheptegei

3:27.65 1500m Hocker

8:52.76 steeple Yavi

70.00m discus Stona

92.97m javelin Nadeem

48.17 400m Paulino

2:06:26 marathon Tola

3:51.29 1500m Kipyegon

2:54.43 4x400m USA

2:22:55 marathon Hassan

MEN

100m

For the first time all eight finalists were sub-10 seconds and the times from fourth to eighth were the fastest in that position.

Noah Lyles was seventh at 50m in 5.61 to leader Kishane Thompson’s 5.56 and ran his fastest 10m between 60m to 70m with 0.82.

Thompson’s 9.80 is the fastest-ever Olympic semi while Richardson’s 9.95 is the fastest-ever non-qualifying time.

200m

Letsile Tebogo’s 50m splits were 5.70, 4.42, 4,53 and 4.81. He took the lead at 120m.

Kenny Bednarek led at 100m in 10.10.

Even with Covid, Lyles’ 19.70 was the fastest third-place time in history and not just the Olympics.

Bednarek’s 19.96 was the fastest-ever Olympic first-round heat.

400m

Quincy Hall’s time was the second fastest ever Olympic time and Matthew Hudson-Smith’s the third best (and quickest non-winning time at any meeting) as best marks for places two to fifth were set and a record five athletes broke 44 in the same race.

Hall ran 100m splits of 11.01, 9.99, 10.81 and 11.59 to the Brit’s 10.81, 9.81, 10.73 and 12.09. Jereem Richards led at 200m in 20.46.

A record eight athletes chose not to take up their repechage places.

The 44.43 by Botswana’s Busang Kebinatshipi and Bapayo Ndori became the quickest-ever non-qualifying marks in the semi-final.

Michael Norman clocked the fastest-ever Olympic first-round mark of 44.10.

800m

Best marks for place for 2nd to 7th were set in the final and 0.01 of a second is the smallest winning margin replacing Dave Wottle’s 0.03 1972 win.

Emmanuel Wanyonyi’s 200m splits were 24.4, 25.9, 25.2 and 25.7. Marco Arop ran a faster second lap with 50.1.

Wanyonyi’s 1:43.32 is the fastest-ever Olympic semi-final time while Crestan’s 1:43.72 is the fastest ever time not to qualify.

1500m

Nuguse’s 3:27.80 and Ingebrigtsen’s 3:28.24  are the fastest for that position in any race.

Hocker ran laps of 55.6, 56.6, 55.8 and covered his last 400m in 53.3 and his last 1200m in 2:45.7. Kerr ran 53.9 for his last 400m.

Ingebrigtsen ran his fastest 200m of 27.1 between both 100m and 300m and 1200m and 1400m but Hocker and Nuguse ran theirs in the last 200m with both 26.3 to Kerr’s 26.6.

With that win USA (5-7-5) has overhauled GBR (5-7-4) as the most successful ever nation.

Essayi’s 3:32.49 became the fastest-ever non-qualifying mark for a final.

Riva’s 3:32.84 in the repechage was quicker than the previous first-round best.

5000m

It was Norway’s first-ever gold at 5000m. Ingebrigtsen ran the last 1000m in 2:21.1, his last 3000m in 7:35.4 and his final 400m in 53.3 though his fastest 100m split of 13.1 was up to the bell as Hagos Gebrhiwet ran a 26.4 200m up to the bell.

Grant Fisher’s 39.8 was the fastest closing 300 metres but it was 19^th-placer Dawit Seare who ran the quickest last 100m of 12.7!

10,000m

The first 13 finishers broke the previous Olympic record and the 0.32 spread for medals is the smallest ever. The marks for places six to 13 were the fastest in any 10,000m in history.

Joshua Cheptegei ran a 55.0 last 400m and a 2:25.9 final kilometre. His second half was 13:17.2.

3000m steeplechase

Soufiane El Bakkali became the third steeplechaser to retain his Olympic title and the 0.42 difference between the medallists was a record closest Olympic finish.

El Bakkali’s final 400m was 57.5.

Marathon

Best Olympic places first to eighth and the last finisher Mongolia’s Ser-Od Bat-Ochir, a former member of Morpeth Harriers when he was based in the UK, became the first athlete in history to compete in six Olympic marathons.

Tamirat Tola put his fastest 5km split in from 30km to 35km with 14:02 but even faster in that section was bronze medallist Benson Kipruto’s 13:56.

110m hurdles

Grant Holloway was headed at the first hurdle by Daniel Roberts but thereafter was first at every hurdle.

He was 0.24 clear at the eighth hurdle but lost 0.14 over the closing two hurdles where he was the slowest of the eight finalists.

Rasheed Broadbell’s 13.09 made him the fastest-ever Olympic bronze medallist.

Holloway clocked the fastest-ever Olympic first-round time of 13.01.

400m hurdles

The three 2021 medallists returned but in a different order.

Karsten Warholm led up to hurdle seven but Rai Benjamin ran 0.74 quicker over the last five hurdles.

Benjamins’s differentials still slowed between every hurdle as he ran 3.59, 3.61, 3.68, 3.82, 3.83, 3.87, 4.00, 4.37 and 4.57 up to the last hurdle.

Warholm’s 47.57 was the fastest ever first-round time.

High Jump

Hamish Kerr’s area record equalling 2.36m won him gold in a jump-off despite two earlier failures at 2.31m. Mutaz Essa Barshim won a record fourth medal.

Pole Vault

Mondo Duplantis became the second to defend his title but surprisingly his winning margin of 30cm is not a record as the 1920 title was won by 39cm!

Long Jump

Miltiadis Tentoglou became the first athlete to defend this century and his winning jump was timed at 41.5kmh as he had just 0.8cm on the board. Furlani’s 8.34m tied the third best ever Olympic mark.

Triple Jump

Jordan Diaz became first the triple jumper to win the Olympics, world under-20 world under-18 and European championships as Cuban-born athletes took all three medals but Cuba won no medals!

His phases were 6.44m, 5.33m and 6.09m. The hop was the worst of his five jumps.

Shot

Ryan Crouser became the most successful ever Olympic putter as he won his third consecutive title as he and Joe Kovacs finished one-two also for the third time.

Discus

This event saw one of the biggest surprises of the Games as Jamaica won their first medal in the event and the 3cm winning margin for Roje Stona tied the lowest margin from 1904. The best Olympic marks were set from places one to six.

Hammer

Ethan Katzberg’s 84.12m is the second longest Olympic mark as for the first time since 2013, Poland failed to win an Olympics or World Championships hammer medal.

Javelin

It was Pakistan’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in any individual sport.

Fourth-placer Jakub Vadlejch’s 4cm margin from a medal is the closest ever and the fifth to seventh marks (87.72m to 86.16m) were the greatest in any competition.

Roderick Dean’s 82.48m became the longest-ever Olympic non-qualifying mark.

Decathlon

Markus Rooth was another shock winner with a previous global best of eighth in Budapest having been seventh overnight.

Lindon Victor’s 53.91m discus and Niklas Kaul’s 77.78m javelin were both Olympic decathlon records. Kaul moved up from 20^th overnight to eighth with a 4404 second day

20km Walk

Best marks for places three to eight were set and the difference between the third and fourth of one second was the smallest ever.

Pintado covered his last kilometre in 3:31.

Callum Wilkinson achieved 5km splits of 20:21, 20:02, 20:02 and 20:06.

4x100m

The 0.11 difference between the three medallists is surprisingly the smallest ever at the Olympics.

Canada’s splits were Aaron Brown 10.43, Jerome Blake 8.98, Brendon Rodney  9.20 and Andre De Grasse 8.89 compared to GB’s Jeremiah Azu 10.51, Louie Hinchliffe 9.03, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake 9.29 and Zharnel Hughes 8.78 – Hughes’ split was the equal fastest of the entire race.

4x400m

Best all-time marks for places for 2nd to 6th were recorded – overall not just Olympics.

USA’s splits were Chris Bailey 44.45, Vernon Norwood 43.26, Bryce Deadmon 43.54 and 43.18 for Rai Benjamin compared to Botswana’s 44.30 by Ndori, 43.39 for Kebinatshipi, 43.80 for Pesala and 43.04 by Tebogo.

Britain’s were 44.51 by Haydock-Wilson, 43.09 by Hudson-Smith, 44.90 by late replacement Lewis Davey and 43.33 for Dobson. In the heats they ran Reardon 45.68, Hudson-Smith 43.87, Toby Harries 45.02 and 44.31 for Dobson.

Botswana’s 2:57.76 is the fastest-ever heat time at the Olympics led off by Tebogo’s 44.33.

WOMEN

100m

Julien Alfred’s 10.72 is the fourth fastest Olympic time. She led all the way – 50m in 5.96 and 60m in 6.89 and in none of the 10 100m splits did Sha’Carri Richardson close the gap.

Daryll Neita was third at 50m in 6.07.

Jamaica, who swept the medals in Tokyo, failed to get on the podium for the first time since 1988.

Gemima Joseph’s 11.13 is the fastest-ever non-qualifier from the heat.

200m

Gabby Thomas won USA’s seventh gold in this event with 50m splits of 6.18, 4.92, 5.18 and 5.55.

She took the lead at 80m. Dina Asher-Smith was leading at 60m and third at 180m and ran splits of 6.16, 4.99, 5.31 and 5.76 to Neita’s 6.27, 4.97, 5.26 and 5.73.

400m

Paulino went fourth all-time with her 48.17 as for the first time all eight finishers went sub-50.

Her 100m splits were 11.87, 10.94, 11.97 and 13.39.

Amber Anning ran 11.95, 11.44, 12.58 and 13.32 and her last 50m of 6.79 was easily the quickest of anyone in the race and much faster than Paulino’s 7.02.

Salwa Eid Naser’s 49.08 was the fastest Olympic semi-final time and Paulino’s 49.42 was the fastest ever first round.

800m

Keely Hodgkinson’s 200m splits were 27.1, 31.3, 30.0 and 28.4.

Only the Soviet Union have now won more golds than Britain’s three.

Jemma Reekie’s 1:58.01 became the fastest-ever non-qualifying time in her semi.

Tsige Duguma’s 1:57.90 was the fastest-ever heat.

1500m

Faith Kipyegon became the first athlete to win three golds as best Olympic marks were set from first to eighth and best all-time in any race for 3rd, 4th and 5^th.

Kipyegon’s laps were 59.8, 63.7 and 63.6 and she produced a final 400m of 59.3.

Georgia Bell ran 60.4, 63.6 and 63.4 and ran a 60.4 last circuit.

Laura Muir ran 61.7, 63.9 and 62.7 and ran a 60.5 last lap and 2:04.0 for her final 800m to Bell’s 2:05.0.

Gudaf Tsegay’s 3:55.10 was the fastest ever Olympic semi-final time while Lizakowska’s 3:57.31 was the fastest time to miss qualifying.

Tsegay’s 3:58.84 was also the fastest ever first-round heat.

5000m

Beatrice Chebet’s 14:28.56 is the second fastest ever Olympic time (behind Cheruiyot’s 14:26.17 from 2016) as best Olympic marks were set from second to eighth.

Chebet’s 2:33.5 is the fastest ever known last kilometre and she also ran 8:22.4 for her last 3000m and sub-four minutes for her last 1500m.

10,000m

Chebet ran a 57.5 last 400m but even quicker was runner-up Nadia Battocletti’s 57.4.

Less than two seconds covered the top six with 10 athletes contesting the final lap.

Marathon

Sifan Hassan became the first woman to win a medal in the 5000m, 10,000m and marathon and it was the closest ever Olympic marathon with a three-second winning gap and the best places were set from first to seventh.

She covered the last 2195m in 6:45 which was quicker than four of the men’s top 10.

Namibia’s Helalia Johannes became the first woman to complete five Olympic marathons when finishing 68th in 2:38:36.

3000m steeplechase

The first four broke the Olympic record as best marks were set in any race ever for places four to ten.

Winfred Yavi covered her kilometres in 2:56.1, 3:02.1 and 2:54.6 and the final 400m in 65.6.

Lizzie Bird’s British record consisted of splits of 2:58.4, 3:06.3 and 2:59.7.

In the same heat, Chemutai’s 9:10.51 became the fastest qualifying time while Bouzayani’s 9:10.91 became the fastest non-qualifying mark.

100m hurdles

The 12.33 and 12.34 first two times are the second and third fastest time in the Olympics and 0.01 of a second tied the smallest winning margin of 1976 and 1996.

Winner Masai Russell was fifth at hurdle five in 6.38, fourth at hurdle nine and still third over hurdle ten.

Her hurdle differentials were unusually consistent with 1.04, 1.01, 0.97, 0.96. 0.94. 0.95, 0.95, 0.96 and 0.96.

The 12.50s by Tobi Amusan and Pia Skrzyszowska were the fastest-ever non-qualifying Olympic times.

400m hurdles

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone became the first to defend in the event with a record winning margin of 1.50 seconds and her 50.37 is according to the all-event scoring tables the best-ever women’s performance in history with 1322 points bettering Florence Griffith Joyner’s 10.49 for 100m which scored 1314 points.

The Americans led all the way with hurdle differentials of 3.88, 4.02, 4.05, 4.16, 4.27, 4.43, 4.52, 4.65 and 4.82. She was 22.02 at hurdle five.

Interestingly, after a slow start, Femke Bol covered the first hurdle to the sixth hurdle marginally quicker than the winner but paid for it in the second half.

McLaughlin-Levrone’s 52.13 is the fastest-ever Olympic semi time while 53.90 by Zeney Geldenhuys became the fastest-ever non-qualifier.

Bol’s 53.38 was the fastest-ever Olympic first-round time.

High Jump

Unusually, due to the shared bronze, two nations Ukraine and Australia won two medals in the same event.

Pole Vault

Nina Kennedy won Australia’s first gold at this event as only 11 vaulters cleared 4.55m, nine athletes who cleared 4.40m first time also advanced meaning a 20-woman final.

Long Jump

Tara Davis-Woodhall’s winning jump was achieved with a 38.3 km take-off speed and she had four jumps at 6.93m or better. Jasmine Moore achieved a double jumps bronze after earlier winning a medal in the triple jump.

Triple Jump

Thea Lafond achieved a 15.02m national record for Dominica with phases of 5.43m, 4.64m and 4.95m with runner-up Shanieka Ricketts producing a longer hop (5.72m) and step (5.28m) but losing considerable ground on the step.

Shot

The 20.00m final throw of Yemisi Ogunleye is the shortest winning distance since 2004 but conditions were affected by an earlier rain storm.

Discuss

Valarie Allman successfully defended as Sandra Elkasevic added a bronze to her two golds and is now the most successful female Olympic discus thrower in history.

Allman’s 69.59m is the longest-ever qualification throw, whereas 62.54m by Veronica Fraley is the longest non-qualifier.

Hammer

Camryn Rogers ensured a first-ever Canadian hammer double. The difference between third and fourth of 4cm is the smallest ever as the world’s greatest hammer thrower Anita Włodarczyk just missed out.

Javelin

Haruka Kitaguchi’s 65.80m is the shortest winning distance since 1980 but she won easily though well under a metre covered the next four.

Heptathlon

Nafi Thiam became the first-ever three-time winner but Britain, with three golds, three silvers and three bronzes, remains the most successful nation.

Event to event it was 3-3 with a tie in the high jump between the top two with Thiam only a centimetre up in the long jump but gaining a crucial 166-point gap in the javelin despite KJT’s PB.

20km Walk

Jiayu Yang’s time is second fastest ever in the Olympics as best marks were set for for places four to six. She produced her fastest kilometre at the end with a 4:07.

4x100m

USA won with splits of 11.46, 9.98, 10.25 and 10.09 compared to GB’s 11.02, 10.13, 10.37 and 10.33 with the latter not helped by two disappointing final changeovers.

Nigeria’s 42.70 equalled the best-ever Olympic non-qualifying time.

4x400m

USA won the Olympic title in the second fastest time ever of 3:15.27, only 0.10 behind the 1988 Soviet’s world record and with a record margin of 4.23 seconds.

Their splits were 49.48 by Shamier Little, 47.71 by McLaughlin-Levrone, 49.30 for Thomas and 48.78 for Alexis Holmes.

Britain had splits of 51.43 by Victoria Ohuruogu, 49.40 by Laviai Nielsen, 49.9 for Nicole Yeargin and 49.01 for Anning as they broke the British mark in third. Bol ran 48.62 on the anchor leg to secure Netherlands second.

In the heats Britain uniquely ran a totally different team to the final with legs from Yemi Mary John (51.62), Hannah Kelly (50.52). Jodie Williams (51.38) and Lina Nielsen (51.20).

Mixed 4×400 Relay

The times in the final from second to fourth were the fastest in any competition and the winning time fell 0.01 short of USA’s time in the heats of 3:07.41 by Vernon Norwood (44.47), Shamier Little (49.32), Bryce Deadmon (44.17) and Kaylyn Brown (49.45). In the final, the quartet ran 44.46. 49.39, 44.66 and 49.23 and were narrowly beaten by Netherlands.

The Dutch quartet was Eugene Omalla (45.26), Lieke Klaver (49.26), Isaya Klein Ikkink (44.91) and Femke Bol (48.00).

Britain was a clear third in another UK record thanks to the legs of Sam Reardon (44.98), Laviai Nielsen (49.81), Alex Haydock-Wilson (44.36) and Amber Anning (48.86). In the heats, it was Reardon (45.61), Nielsen (49.72), Haydock-Wilson (44.73) and Yeargin (50.55).

Mixed Walks Relay

The first-ever Olympic event with two athletes each doing 10km was not particularly exciting but Spain only sixth at halfway eventually won by almost a minute.

British placings

Britain’s 10 medals were the most since the boycott-affected 1984 Games and was a highly successful performance boosted by some outstanding British records although Hodgkinson’s 800m gold was the highlight.

However, the stunning runs from Kerr and Hudson-Smith, both denied gold by late American rushes, are surely the match of most British gold medals from the past given the all-time ranking of both performances.

Half the medals are relays as Britain uniquely won medals in all five events.

Yes, with only one team per nation, medals are easier to win than in individual events where you can be up against three Americans but it was still an exceptional effort. Should the mixed 4x400m relay be given more prominence? While Britain did field eventual finalist Amber Anning in the final, the team didn’t risk Charlie Dobson who did not ultimately make a loaded final but had he run Britain would have probably won gold.

And there were a few near misses although the only real disappointment was Molly Caudery in the pole vault not making the final after taking her opening height at 4.55m when 4.40m would have made the final.

UKA will say the hard selection policy paid off and their policy of targetting the top eight is justified.

However, well over half the team did not make the top 12 in individual events and never were going to based on their 2024 bests but I’m glad they were selected. However, that doesn’t mean those who were offered places by World Athletics and refused by UKA should not have gone.

Jake Norris, a former world under-20 champion, made the European final in Rome and while the Olympics were taking place he threw 76.71m – a distance that would have easily made the Paris final.

Phil Norman missed the 3000m steeplechase qualifying standard by a fraction on a windy day in Manchester and ran the fastest time by a Briton since 1992 but his invite was turned down. Kenneth Rooks, who only got into the Olympics via a world rankings spot, ended up finishing second for the United States.

UKA say their tough standards raise performances but many think it is penalising British athletes, demoralising athletes and killing off several events ensuring they are getting a lower media profile and putting off prospective participants as well as disappointing UK supporters and viewers. There were 18 events in Paris with no British participants.

Jacob Fincham-Dukes aside, British field eventers did not have successful championships and it’s probably not going to get better unless they give more encouragement to these events.

1^st Hodgkinson 800m 1:56.72

2^nd Thompson-Johnson Heptathlon 6844 pts

2^nd Hudson-Smith 400m 43.44 (European/UK rec)

2^nd Kerr 3:27.79 1500m (UK rec)

2^nd Women’s 4x100m 41.85

3^rd Bell 3:52.61 1500m (UK rec)

3^rd Women’s 4x400m 3:19.72 (UK rec)

3^rd Men’s 4x100m 37.61

3^rd Men’s 4x400m 2:55.83 (European rec)

3^rd Mixed 4x400m 3:08.01 (UK rec)

4^th Neita 10.96 100m (10.92 ht)

4^th Asher-Smith 200m 22.22

4^th Cairess Marathon 2:07:29

5^th Neita 200m 22.23

5^th Anning 400m 49.29 (UK rec)

5^th Muir 1500m 3:53.37 (PB)

5^th Fincham-Dukes Long Jump 8.14m

7^th Bird 3000m steeplechase 9:04.35 (UK rec)

8^th Burgin 800m 1:43.84 (1:43.50 sf PB)

9^th Reekie 800m 1:58.01 sf

10^th Williams 200m 22.58 sf

10^th O’Dowda Heptathlon 6280

10^th Gourley 1500m 3:30.88

11^th Asher-Smith 100m 11.10 sf (11.01 ht)

11^th Hinchliffe 100m 9.97 sf

11^th Dobson 400m 44.48 sf

12^th Laviai Nielsen 400m 50.69 sf (50.36 ht)

13^th Gill 800m 1:58.47 sf

14^th Hughes 100m 10.01 sf

15^th Walcott-Nolan 1500m 3:58.08 SF (PB)

15^th McColgan 10,000m 31:20.51

15^th Knight 400m hurdles 54.90

15^th Lake High Jump 1.88m

15^th Giles 800m 1:45.46 sf

16^th Pattison 800m 1:45.57 sf (1:45.56 ht)

16^th Wilkinson 20km Walk 1:20:31

17^th Lansiquot 100m 11.21 sf (11.10 ht)

18^th Ohuruogu 400m 51.14 sf (50.59 repechage)

20^th Percy Discus 61.81m qualifying

21^st Mills 5000m 13:32.32

21^st Ojora 110m hurdles 13.47 (13.35 ht)

21^st Lincoln Shot 19.69m qualifying

23^rd Keith 10,000m 33:19.92

23^rd Sember 100m hurdles DNF (12.72 ht – ranked 10^th)

23^rd Mills 1500m 3:37.12 sf (3:33.56 rep)

24^th Chalmers 400mH 56.52 (48.98 ht – ranked 18^th)

24^th Okoye Discus 61.17m qualifying

25^th Lina Nielsen 400m hurdles 91.22 (54.65 ht – ranked 8^th)

26^th Pratt 3000m steeplechase 9:27.26 ht

28^th Bradshaw Pole Vault 4.20m qualifying

31^st Atkin 5000m 14:02.46 ht

35^th Dever 5000m 14:13.48 ht

46^th Evans Marathon 2:33:01

46^th Sesemann Marathon 2:13:08

57^th Mahamed Marathon 2:15:19

78^th Harvey Marathon 2:51:03

• Caudery Pole Vault no height qualifying
• Azu 100m DQ ht
• Hauger-Thackery Marathon DNF

No Brits were in the men’s 200m, 10,000m, 3000m steeplechase, High Jump, Pole Vault, Triple Jump, Hammer, Javelin, Decathlon, and the women’s 5000m, long jump, triple jump, shot, discus, hammer, javelin, 20km walk and mixed walks relay.

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