Athletics at the 2008 Olympics | |||||
Events |
Olympic Champions |
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100 m W | JAM | Shelly-Ann Fraser | |||
100 m M | JAM | Usain Bolt | |||
200 m W | JAM | Veronica Campbell-Brown | |||
200 m M | JAM | Usain Bolt | |||
400 m W | GBR | Christine Ohuruogu | |||
400 m M | USA | LaShawn Merritt | |||
800 m W | KEN | Pamela Jelimo | |||
800 m M | KEN | Wilfred Bungei | |||
1500 m W | KEN | Nancy Jebet Langat | |||
1500 m M | KEN | Asbel Kipruto Kiprop | |||
5000 m W | ETH | Tirunesh Dibaba | |||
5000 m M | ETH | Kenenisa Bekele | |||
10000 m W | ETH | Tirunesh Dibaba | |||
10000 m M | ETH | Kenenisa Bekele | |||
Marathon W | ROU | Constantina Tomescu | |||
Marathon M | KEN | Samuel Kamau Wansiro | |||
100 m hurdles W | USA | Dawn Harper | |||
110 m hurdles M | CUB | Dayron Robles | |||
400 m hurdles W | JAM | Melanie Walker | |||
400 m hurdles M | USA | Angelo Taylor | |||
3000 m steeplechase W | RUS | Gulnara Galkina-Samitova | |||
3000 m steeplechase M | KEN | Brimin Kiprop Kipruto | |||
20 km walk W | RUS | Olga Kaniskina | |||
20 km walk M | RUS | Valeriy Borchin | |||
50 km walk M | ITA | Alex Schwazer | |||
High jump W | BEL | Tia Hellebaut | |||
High jump M | RUS | Andrey Silnov | |||
Long jump W | BRA | Maurren Higa Maggi | |||
Long jump M | PAN | Irving Saladino | |||
Triple jump W | CMR | Francoise Mbango Etone | |||
Triple jump M | POR | Nelson Évora | |||
Pole vault W | RUS | Yelena Isinbayeva | |||
Pole vault M | AUS | Steven Hooker | |||
Javelin throw W | CZE | Barbora Spotakova | |||
Javelin throw M | NOR | Andreas Thorkildsen | |||
Discus throw W | USA | Stephanie Brown Trafton | |||
Discus throw M | EST | Gerd Kanter | |||
Hammer throw W | CUB | Yipsi Moreno | |||
Hammer throw M | SLO | Primoz Kozmus | |||
Shot put W | NZL | Valerie Vili | |||
Shot put M | POL | Tomasz Majewski | |||
Heptathlon W | UKR | Nataliia Dobrynska | |||
Decathlon M | USA | Bryan Clay | |||
4x100 m W | BEL | Kim Gevaert | |||
Elodie Ouédraogo | |||||
Hanna Marien | |||||
Olivia Borlee | |||||
4x100 m M | TTO | Marc Burns | |||
Richard Thompson | |||||
Emmanuel Callender | |||||
Keston Bledman | |||||
Aaron Armstrong | |||||
4x400 m W | USA | Mary Weinberg | |||
Natasha Hastings | |||||
Monique Henderson | |||||
Sanya Richards | |||||
Allyson Felix | |||||
4x400 m M | USA | Jeremy Wariner | |||
Regi Witherspoon | |||||
LaShawn Merritt | |||||
Kerron Clement | |||||
Angelo Taylor | |||||
David Neville | |||||
These facts about olympic Athletics and the Beijing 2008 Athletics events are based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database | |||||