Athletics at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

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Athletics at the Summer Olympic Games 2016

 

 

 

Competition Details
City	Rio de Janeiro
Dates	August 12th - August 21st, 2016
Venue	Olympic Stadium Sambódromo Pontal
Website	Official Website

 

 

Official Schedule
Day 7	Friday, August 12th, 2016	Day 7
Time (GMT -3)	Event	Stage
09:30	Men's Discus Throw	Qualification - Group A
09:35	Women's Heptathlon	100m Hurdles (Event 1/7)
10:05	Women's Shot Put	Qualification, Groups A & B
10:10	Men's 800m	Heats
10:50	Women's Heptathlon	High Jump (Event 2/7)
10:55	Men's Discus Throw	Qualification, Group B
11:10	Women's 10000m	Final
11:55	Women's 100m	Preliminary Round
14:30	Men's 20km Race Walk	Final
20:30	Women's 1500m	Heats
20:35	Women's Heptathlon	Shot Put (Event 3/7)
20:40	Women's Hammer Throw	Qualification, Group A
21:05	Men's 400m	Heats
21:20	Men's Long Jump	Qualification, Groups A & B
22:00	Women's Shot Put	Final
22:05	Women's Heptathlon	200m (Event 4/7)
22:10	Women's Hammer Throw	Qualification, Group B
22:40	Women's 100m	Heats
Day 8	Saturday, August 13th, 2016	Day 8
Time (GMT -3)	Event	Stage
09:30	Men's 100m	Preliminary Round
09:40	Women's Triple Jump	Qualification, Groups A & B
10:05	Women's 3000m Steeplechase	Heats
10:50	Men's Discus Throw	Final
11:00	Women's 400m	Heats
11:45	Women's Heptathlon	Long Jump (Event 5/7)
12:00	Men's 100m	Heats
20:00	Women's Heptathlon	Javelin Throw, Group A (Event 6/7)
20:20	Men's Pole Vault	Qualification, Groups A & B
20:30	Men's 400m	Semifinals
20:53	Men's Long Jump	Final
21:00	Women's 100m	Semifinals
21:18	Women's Heptathlon	Javelin Throw, Group B (Event 6/7)
21:27	Men's 10000m	Final
22:08	Men's 800m	Semifinals
22:37	Women's 100m	Final
22:50	Women's Heptathlon	800m (Event 7/7)
Day 9	Sunday, August 14th, 2016	Day 9
Time (GMT -3)	Event	Stage
09:30	Women's Marathon	Final
20:30	Men's High Jump	Qualification, Groups A & B
20:35	Women's 400m	Semifinals
20:55	Women's Triple Jump	Final
21:00	Men's 100m	Semifinals
21:30	Women's 1500m	Semifinals
22:00	Men's 400m	Final
22:25	Men's 100m	Final
Day 10	Monday, August 15th, 2016	Day 10
Time (GMT -3)	Event	Stage
09:30	Men's Triple Jump	Qualification, Groups A & B
09:35	Women's 200m	Heats
10:25	Men's 3000m Steeplechase	Heats
10:40	Women's Hammer Throw	Final
11:15	Women's 3000m Steeplechase	Final
11:35	Men's 400m Hurdles	Heats
20:30	Women's Discus Throw	Qualification, Group A
20:35	Men's Pole Vault	Final
20:40	Men's 110m Hurdles	Heats
21:30	Women's 400m Hurdles	Heats
21:50	Women's Discus Throw	Qualification, Group B
22:25	Men's 800m	Final
22:45	Women's 400m	Final
Day 11	Tuesday, August 16th, 2016	Day 11
Time (GMT -3)	Event	Stage
09:30	Women's 5000m	Heats
09:45	Women's Pole Vault	Qualification, Groups A & B
09:50	Men's Triple Jump	Final
10:30	Men's 1500m	Heats
11:05	Women's 100m Hurdles	Heats
11:20	Men's Discus Throw	Final
11:50	Men's 200m	Heats
20:30	Men's High Jump	Final
20:35	Women's Javelin	Qualification, Group A
20:40	Men's 110m Hurdles	Semifinals
21:05	Women's Long Jump	Qualification, Groups A & B
21:10	Women's 400m Hurdles	Semifinals
21:35	Men's 400m Hurdles	Semifinals
21:50	Women's Javelin	Qualification, Group B
22:00	Women's 200m	Semifinals
22:30	Women's 1500m	Final
22:45	Men's 110m Hurdles	Final
Day 12	Wednesday, August 17th, 2016	Day 12
Time (GMT -3)	Event	Stage
09:30	Men's Decathlon	100m (Event 1/10)
09:40	Men's Hammer Throw	Qualification, Group A
10:05	Men's 5000m	Heats
10:35	Men's Decathlon	Long Jump (Event 2/10)
10:55	Women's 800m	Heats
11:05	Men's Hammer Throw	Qualification, Group B
11:50	Men's 3000m Steeplechase	Final
12:15	Men's Decathlon	Shot Put (Event 3/10)
17:45	Men's Decathlon	High Jump (Event 4/10)
20:30	Men's Javelin Throw	Qualification, Group A
20:45	Women's 100m Hurdles	Semifinals
21:15	Women's Long Jump	Final
21:20	Men's Decathlon	400m (Event 5/10)
21:55	Men's Javelin Throw	Qualification, Group B
22:00	Men's 200m	Semifinals
22:30	Women's 200m	Final
22:55	Women's 100m Hurdles	Final
Day 13	Thursday, August 18th, 2016	Day 13
Time (GMT -3)	Event	Stage
09:30	Men's Decathlon	110m Hurdles (Event 6/10)
09:55	Men's Shot Put	Qualification, Groups A & B
10:00	Women's High Jump	Qualification, Groups A & B
10:25	Men's Decathlon	Discus Throw, Group A (Event 7/10)
11:20	Women's 4x100m Relay	Heats
11:40	Men's 4x100m Relay	Heats
11:40	Men's Decathlon	Discus Throw, Group B (Event 7/10)
12:00	Men's 400m Hurdles	Final
13:25	Men's Decathlon	Pole Vault (Event 8/10)
18:35	Men's Decathlon	Javelin Throw, Group A (Event 9/10)
19:45	Men's Decathlon	Javelin Throw, Group B (Event 9/10)
20:30	Men's Shot Put	Final
20:45	Men's 1500m	Semifinals
21:10	Women's Javelin Throw	Final
21:15	Women's 800m	Semifinals
21:45	Men's Decathlon	1500m (Event 10/10)
22:15	Women's 400m Hurdles	Final
22:30	Men's 200m	Final
Day 14	Friday, August 19th, 2016	Day 14
Time (GMT -3)	Event	Stage
08:00	Men's 50km Race Walk	Final
14:30	Women's 20km Race Walk	Final
20:30	Women's Pole Vault	Final
20:40	Women's 4x400m Relay	Heats
21:05	Men's Hammer Throw	Final
21:10	Men's 4x400m Relay	Heats
21:40	Women's 5000m	Final
22:15	Women's 4x100m Relay	Final
22:35	Men's 4x100m Relay	Final
Day 15	Saturday, August 20th, 2016	Day 15
Time (GMT -3)	Event	Stage
20:30	Women's High Jump	Final
20:55	Men's Javelin Throw	Final
21:00	Men's 1500m	Final
21:15	Women's 800m	Final
21:30	Men's 5000m	Final
22:00	Women's 4x400m Relay	Final
22:35	Men's 4x400m Relay	Final
Day 16	Sunday, August 21st, 2016	Day 16
Time (GMT -3)	Event	Stage
09:30	Men's Marathon	Final

 

[heywoodu 15,353]

Sally Pearson is apparently injured again (hamstring) and will miss the Olympics  

http://www.supersport.com/athletics/article.aspx?Id=3593814

[heywoodu 15,353]

Oops, got drawn to the wrong thread, but here goes, Kenyan Olympic trials are over:

 

 

Main things are of course in the middle-to-long distances:

 

Women's 800m: Wambui beats Sum and will likely battle it out with Semenya and Niyonsaba for the medals in Rio. 

Women's 5k: Apparently Obiri has really made the move from 1500m to 5k now, with success.

Women's 10k: Aprot didn't run in the trials, but got a wild card thanks to her solo 30:26 in Durban last week.

 

Men's 800m: Kipketer ( ) for basically the first time ever showed a good tactical race and won ahead of Rotich, while Rudisha surprisingly had to give it everything in the last meters to get the third and final spot... (while in the semi's he was still clearly the best)

Men's 1500m: No Silas Kiplagat, did I miss him falling back in form or something?

Men's 3000m steeple: Birech surprisingly didn't even finish the race, while Kemboi will go for his umpteenth major gold joined by the two Kipruto's. 

[heywoodu 15,353]

Markus Rehm won't compete at the Olympics, which is now finally certain:

http://www.iaaf.org/news/press-release/gracia-rehm

 

Probably for the best. I hope he defends his Paralympic gold

[Dragon 1,898]

Anybody know why Asli Cakir Alptekin is back competing again despite there being another 4 years until her doping ban ends?

Ran a 1500m last night in Istanbul.

There has been no announcement on her return

[hukbrazil 18]

Someone have the full list of USA Team? 

[dareza 911]

Riste Pandev (100m) and Drita Islami (400) will represent in Rio.

[hukbrazil 18]

  On 7/11/2016 at 2:52 PM, hukbrazil said:

Someone have the full list of USA Team? 

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I have  http://www.usatf.org/News/Five-individual-gold-medalists,-84-first-time-Olym.aspx

[dcro 10,210]

  On 7/11/2016 at 3:40 PM, dareza said:

Riste Pandev (100m) and Drita Islami (400) will represent in Rio.

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They really don't have a better female athlete than 400m runner whose PB is 59 seconds?

Looks like nobody cares about sport there. Their Olympic team is on par with Andorra, the difference being that Andorra has 85 000 people while Macedonia has 2 million...

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 7/12/2016 at 11:08 AM, dcro said:

 

They really don't have a better female athlete than 400m runner whose PB is 59 seconds?

Looks like nobody cares about sport there. Their Olympic team is on par with Andorra, the difference being that Andorra has 85 000 people while Macedonia has 2 million...

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Which, I think, is not that much worse than a 100m runner who would even have trouble reaching the women's final judging on this year's results.