World Athletics announces track and field schedule for Paris Olympics
The Paris Olympic track and field competition will start on August 1, 2024. On the first competition day, only men's and women's 20-kilometer race walking competitions will be held. On the last competition day of August 11, the women's marathon gold medal will be determined. A total of 5 gold medals in the race walking and marathon events were all produced in the morning local time, and the remaining 43 on-site events all produced gold medals in the evening competition period. It is also worth mentioning that in addition to the 20 kilometers for men and women, race walking also includes a 35 kilometers mixed team event for men and women. This will be the first time this event has appeared in the Olympic Games.
The World Athletics Federation announced in July 2022 that at the Paris Olympics, all track individual events with a distance between 200 meters and 1,500 meters will add a round of "resurrection". In the preliminaries, players who did not directly advance to the semi-finals by virtue of their group rankings will compete for promotion places through the "resurrection match", instead of following the previous method-the fastest rankings determine the remaining promotion places. The Paris Olympic Games will be the first time that the "resurrection" competition system of track and field events has been applied in the Olympic Games.
Last month, the World Athletics Federation announced the performance standards for the various track and field events of the Paris Olympics, which has been further improved compared with the standards for the various events of the Tokyo Olympics. In addition to qualifying for the Olympics by meeting the performance standards, athletes can also accumulate points by participating in various competitions under the World Athletics Federation, and obtain corresponding Olympic qualifications by improving their world rankings.
Sources of information: Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Olympic Committee